• Opinion

  Setback or shock: when will plastics demand bounce back from coronavirus?

  • 08 4月 2020

  The coronavirus outbreak has stunted economic growth, but what is the impact on polymer value chains?

• Opinion

  Electric vehicles: coronavirus wreaks havoc across the supply chain

  • 08 4月 2020

  Global EV sales could see a 43% drop, while battery raw materials markets face major disruption in 2020.

• Editorial

  Coronavirus hits global gas and LNG markets at worst possible time

  • 07 4月 2020

  The coronavirus pandemic is a black swan event hitting global gas and LNG markets at the worst possible time. While the collapse of LNG prices towards US production breakevens was foreseeable, the rest of 2020 could not be more unpredictable.

• Editorial

  How has coronavirus changed power demand in America’s Northeast?

  • 03 4月 2020

  Our team of power market experts tackles the industry’s burning questions in this 35-minute webinar. Get the answers to the three most frequently asked questions here; listen to the webinar for more questions and answers.

• Opinion

  Lessons from the first 100 percent battery-electric bus fleet in the US

  • 02 4月 2020

  The Antelope Valley Transit Authority in Southern California plans to be the first public transit agency in the United States to operate a 100 percent battery-electric bus fleet.

• The Edge

  Coronavirus pushes oil towards the abyss

  • 06 4月 2020

  As demand collapses, how will the market deal with oversupply? Find out in this week's Edge.

• Opinion

  The coronavirus crisis: assessing the impact on energy

  • 27 3月 2020

  Demand for oil, gas and power is recovering in China, but falling sharply in the rest of the world. The coronavirus pandemic has already had a profound impact on energy, with oil prices plunging and companies taking an axe to their capital spending plans. But the implications of the crisis are only just starting to emerge.

• Opinion

  Why upstream operators must accelerate cost reduction measures

  • 01 4月 2020

  It’s time for the rapier as well as the broadsword. Better visibility of third party spend may be vital

• The Edge

  The oil industry’s rapid response to the crisis

  • 31 3月 2020

  The oil industry has moved fast in response to the dual crisis that's undermining the crude market and price. But this may be just the beginning.

• Opinion

  Could clean energy be the winner in the oil price war?

  • 24 3月 2020

  How will the oil price crash affect the embryonic energy transition efforts of oil and gas companies? Renewable energy economics suddenly look far more attractive.

• Featured

  How will the oil price crash hit the upstream sector?

  • 20 3月 2020

  How will the oil price crash hit upstream spending? What supply might be shut in? Where does this leave the upstream service sector? Our experts share their analysis.

• Opinion

  Tight oil in turmoil

  • 18 3月 2020

  Tight oil producers are dealing with prices half of what the sector was founded on. The worst positioned won’t survive this downturn.

• Opinion

  Five ways the coronavirus changed the world of energy this week

  • 20 3月 2020

  The US government is starting to buy crude and facing calls for it to manage the oil market, as demand continues to weaken. In this week's Energy Pulse by Ed Crooks.

• Opinion

  How Italy’s lockdown is affecting power demand

  • 18 3月 2020

  Italy is the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic. This has led to a sudden and significant drop in power demand. What does that tell us about what’s to come in other markets?

• Featured

  Are Japan’s E&Ps facing an existential crisis?

  • 12 3月 2020

  The energy transition has forced Japan’s upstream companies to review their strategies. Explorers and producers face a tough choice: to grow or to exit the sector entirely?

• Opinion

  Market oversupply and new LNG FID progress

  • 06 3月 2020

  In this episode of The LNG Big Chill podcast, we discuss how Covid-19 is hitting an already oversupplied LNG market, whether we will see more cancellations of US LNG cargoes and what this uncertainty means for LNG project FIDs.

• Opinion

  Why 2020 is the crunch year for climate risk reporting

  • 06 3月 2020

  How the taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures is changing the way corporations communicate with investors

• Opinion

  Middle East boosts its unconventional gas resources

  • 04 3月 2020

  In this month's episode of the MENA in Brief podcast, Ian Thom and his guests discuss unconventional gas project announcements in Saudi Arabia and UAE.

• Opinion

  Climate change, indoor farming and implications for electricity demand

  • 03 3月 2020

  In addition to high capital and operating costs and a lack of crop diversity, a major issue is energy intensity and associated carbon emissions.

• Editorial

  WoodMac and WisdomTree launch new battery ETF on London Stock Exchange

  • 03 3月 2020

  Wood Mackenzie and WisdomTree have launched a battery solutions exchange traded fund (ETF). VOLT offers intelligent access to a high-growth, emerging sector.

• The Edge

  Future energy – carbon capture and storage

  • 03 3月 2020

  Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is central to decarbonisation strategies. How does it work? What are the hurdles to commerciality? How much capacity do we need? Find out more in this week's Edge.

• Opinion

  Why offshore wind will attract more than US$211 billion between 2020 and 2025

  • 03 3月 2020

  While the oil and gas sector remains the largest for the offshore supply chain, we expect the offshore wind market to grow more attractive for traditional oil and gas players. Here are three things offshore supply chain investors need to know.

• Opinion

  How the coronavirus highlights the perils of the US-China trade war

  • 25 2月 2020

  The risks to supply chains posed by the COVID-19 outbreak do not present a strong case for economic decoupling.

• Opinion

  Where next for exploration in Asia Pacific?

  • 18 2月 2020

  Reports of the death of exploration have been greatly exaggerated. Since the 2014 oil price downturn, the industry has re-imagined exploration. Spend has halved since its peak, and only the boldest exploration teams now take difficult wells in tough locations to their investment committees.

• Opinion

  Coronavirus to disrupt China’s chemicals sector more than SARS

  • 20 2月 2020

  A less favourable economic backdrop means Covid-19 looks set to have a bigger impact than the 2003 SARS outbreak did.

• The Edge

  Refining set for a challenging 2020

  • 11 2月 2020

  Buoyed by steady growth in oil demand and a culture of capital discipline, refining has been a rock for Big Oil in recent years. Suddenly, there are challenges – not least the threat from coronavirus to oil demand. Where does that leave the outlook for refining in 2020?

• Opinion

  The legacy of Australia’s bushfires

  • 11 2月 2020

  It’s impossible not to be moved by the human and environmental disaster wreaked by recent fires across so much of eastern and southern Australia. For those of us outside the country, the harrowing images on television and the internet of course tell only a fraction of the story. Through the incredible dedication of Australia’s firefighters – both professionals and volunteers – and recent rainfall, the bushfires mercifully now appear be coming under control.

• Opinion

  UK North Sea decommissioning: the £17 billion challenge

  • 24 2月 2020

  Over the next decade, the UK’s decommissioning bill will be the largest of any country in the world. We explore the three of the biggest issues facing operators as they prepare to decommission UK assets.

• Opinion

  The all-electric movement goes to war against gas

  • 07 2月 2020

  The all-electric movement threatens future gas demand, OPEC+ oil producers consider an output cut, and the warm winter is hitting gas prices.

• Featured

  What will 2020 look like for Mexico gas and power?

  • 18 12月 2019

  While political and regulatory uncertainty remains a major question going forward, what can we expect in the year ahead? Newer energy policy could potentially lower gas-to-power demand, pipeline debottlenecking could boost regional gas markets.