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  Global battery electric vehicle sales to surge in 2020s

  • 10 2月 2020

  The second half of the 2010s saw the rebirth of the battery electric vehicle (BEV).

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  Brazil’s consumers ‘pay price’ for power costs problems

  • 12 2月 2020

  New research from global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie indicates the fuel pricing mechanism used by Brazil’s Energy Planning Agency (EPE) in the country’s power auctions does not align with the New Gas Market programme – and Brazilian electricity consumers may pay the price for this.

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  OPEC+ ‘no deal’ a blow to the market

  • 06 3月 2020

  The OPEC+ meeting broke up without a deal, what does it mean for the markets?

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  US storage market sets power capacity record with Q4 2019 deployments

  • 10 3月 2020

  The United States energy storage sector set a power capacity record in Q4 2019, deploying 186.4 megawatts (MW) and 364.2 megawatt-hours (MWh) of storage.

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  Oil price rout may trigger major industry shake-up

  • 10 3月 2020

  As global markets reel in the wake of the oil price crash, Wood Mackenzie’ corporate analysis team believes the price collapse could be the trigger for a new phase of deep industry restructuring - one that rivals the changes seen in the late-1990s.

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  Oil price crash dents timeline of Australia’s second wave of FIDs

  • 26 3月 2020

  Wood Mackenzie’s latest analysis reveals that Australia’s next wave of LNG projects are likely to be delayed.

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  Global wind power capacity to grow by 112% over next 10 years

  • 26 3月 2020

  Global wind power capacity additions are expected to sit at an annual average of 77GW from 2020 to 2029, according to Wood Mackenzie.

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  Oil price rout: which supply is most at risk of shut-in?

  • 27 3月 2020

  The coronavirus pandemic is reducing oil demand. The OPEC+ production restraint agreement fell apart on 6 March and Saudi Arabia is rapidly increasing supply. The result: Brent crude has plunged to less than US$30/bbl. This will have a significant impact on currently producing fields and future supply. How low can the price go before different sources of production become uneconomic? Where are production shut-ins most likely? Can governments influence the result?

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  African upstream capex ‘may be slashed by 33%’

  • 31 3月 2020

  Faced with the double whammy of the oil price crash and the coronavirus pandemic, Africa’s upstream sector looks set to slash capital spending by around 33% in 2020. Similar cuts to operating costs are also targeted by producers to stay cash-flow neutral. Unlike the 2015-16 price crash, this time nothing is sacrosanct: some operators will even wield the axe on committed spend, as well as the discretionary expenditure.

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  Coronavirus restrictions set to hit US utility-scale solar projects

  • 01 4月 2020

  The coronavirus pandemic is likely to have a material impact on utility-scale solar installations in the US this year, and perhaps even into 2021. In its Coronavirus: US Solar PV Supply Chain and Utility-Scale Market Risk report, Wood Mackenzie says that, in a best-case scenario, the market could see up to four weeks of supply delays affecting a few hundred MWs of modules and inverters. This, combined with construction disruptions, could translate into as much as 2 GWdc of project development delays in 2020.

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  India’s bulks supply chain takes a hit during lockdown

  • 08 4月 2020

  India is under a three-week lockdown from 25 March to contain the spread of the coronavirus outbreak. Businesses are shut, and the supply chain is disrupted. Industries are either closed or operating at sub-optimal utilisation.

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  Latin America’s natural gas deficit to grow as new resource production remains a challenge

  • 03 5月 2023

  With several challenges facing new gas developments in Latin America, supply will be unable to keep up with demand, driving the need for expanded imports to the region over the next decade, according to a new report from Wood Mackenzie.

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  With $9B BM-C-33 FID in Brazil, Equinor to increase its deepwater production outside of Norway to 400,000 boe/d by end of the decade

  • 09 5月 2023

  Addressing Equinor’s announced final investment decision (FID) for Brazil’s $9 billion BM-C-33 project, Luiz Hayum, senior research analyst, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa Upstream Oil and Gas, said “The BM-C-33 is Equinor’s second FID in a long list of justified for development deepwater projects outside Norway. Once sanctioned, these projects will increase Equinor’s operated deepwater production outside Norway from near zero to 400,000 boe/d by the end of the decade.”

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  Industry leaders to speak at Wood Mackenzie’s Solar & Energy Storage Summit 2023

  • 09 5月 2023

  The solar and energy storage industries in North America continue to be catapulted forward by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the transition to a clean energy future.

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  Rosebank and Cambo fields barometer for the future of the North Sea

  • 26 6月 2023

  The development of the Rosebank and Cambo oil fields in the North Sea would save 17 million tonnes of CO2 emissions over their projected lifetimes compared to the equivalent amount of imported oil and gas according to Malcolm Forbes-Cable, Vice President of Energy Consulting (Upstream, EMEA) at Wood Mackenzie.

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  U.S. and Japan will struggle to hit ambitious hydrogen targets

  • 27 6月 2023

  U.S. Hydrogen producers will struggle to hit the National Clean Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap (the Strategy) that was released by the Department of Energy on June 5 according to according to analysts Wood Mackenzie, the leading provider of decision intelligence for the world’s natural resources sector.

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  Woodside announces Trion field FID, Mexico’s first deepwater oilfield development

  • 22 6月 2023

  Addressing Woodside’s announced final investment decision (FID) of Trion field, Diego Alviso Becerril, Senior Research Analyst, Upstream Research LATAM, said “This will be Woodside’s first incursion into Mexican waters and Mexico’s first deepwater oil field development. With first oil scheduled for 2028, the development concept considers a US$7.2 billion investment to recover 479 million barrels of equivalent (mmboe).”

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  Keir Starmer softens stance on UK oil and gas

  • 20 6月 2023

  The recent announcement by Keir Starmer, the leader of the UK’s Labour Party, that he will ban new oil and gas exploration licences if he gains power at the next election will be viewed as a largely symbolic gesture according to analysts Wood Mackenzie, the leading provider of decision intelligence for the world’s natural resources sector.

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  TotalEnergies discovery in shallow water Nigeria largest in a decade

  • 16 6月 2023

  Addressing TotalEnergies discovery at Ntokon in the shallow water Niger Delta, Gail Anderson, director of upstream research at Wood Mackenzie, said “Ntokon is likely to be Nigeria's biggest shallow water discovery in a decade. Despite the lack of exploration in recent times, this discovery shows that there is still plenty of running room in the shallow water Niger Delta.”

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  US Distributed Energy Resource market to almost double by 2027

  • 20 6月 2023

  The US Distributed Energy Resource (DER) market is expected to nearly double in capacity from 2022 to 2027, with capital expenditure reaching US $68 billion per year, according to Wood Mackenzie’s ‘2023 US Distributed Energy Resource Outlook’ report released today.

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  US solar market registers best first quarter in industry history as supply chains stabilize and Inflation Reduction Act takes hold

  • 08 6月 2023

  The US solar industry installed 6.1 gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity and had its best first quarter in history, according to the US Solar Market Insight Q2 2023 report released today by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie.

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  Australian operators need to collaborate to create super basins

  • 16 5月 2023

  Australia’s oil and gas industry needs to urgently fast-track the creation of energy “super basins” to provide a pathway to greater sustainability and cut emissions, according to Anne Forbes, Upstream Research Analyst at Wood Mackenzie.

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  Brent-linked long-term LNG contracts are back in vogue

  • 17 5月 2023

  Long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) contracting activity is off to a strong start in 2023, with around 13 million metric tonnes per annum (mmtpa) of signed in just over four months. Speaking on the sidelines of the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) Conference in Adelaide, Daniel Toleman, Principal Analyst for Global LNG at Wood Mackenzie said that the bullish conditions in the market have continued.

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  North American gas market to expand by 25 percent over the next decade, despite headwinds

  • 17 5月 2023

  Near-term gas market expansion continues to be driven by global demand for US LNG exports, which will largely be supplied through continued growth in Permian associated gas and Haynesville production, according to a recent report from Wood Mackenzie.

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  Nuclear needs to be cost competitive with alternative power generation to enable net zero

  • 18 5月 2023

  Despite policy support and market growth, the biggest economic hurdle to the uptake of the latest nuclear and small modular reactors (SMRs) is cost, according to Wood Mackenzie report.

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  Australian E&P companies need resilient and sustainable plans to weather future energy shocks

  • 19 5月 2023

  Strong commodity prices have improved short-term resilience for Australia’s largest exploration and production (E&P) companies, but long-term uncertainties remain according to Andrew Harwood, Research Director of Corporate and Upstream Research at Wood Mackenzie. Speaking at the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) Conference in Adelaide, Mr Harwood told delegates that operators must adapt their strategies to be robust enough to handle future bumps on the road to decarbonisation.

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  President Tinubu’s radical reforms signal new economic era in Nigeria

  • 06 7月 2023

  The new president of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu, has started to roll out radical reforms in a move that could turbo-charge investment in the West African state according to Gail Anderson, Director of Research for Upstream Sub-Saharan Africa at Wood Mackenzie, a global insight business for renewables, energy and natural resources.

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  Australia leads global market for battery energy storage systems

  • 17 7月 2023

  Australia leads the global market for battery energy storage systems (BESS), with the total pipeline of announced projects now exceeding 40 gigawatts (GW), according to latest Wood Mackenzie analysis launched at the Australian Clean Energy Summit in Sydney.

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  Neptun Deep FID signals Romania’s arrival as major EU gas player

  • 20 7月 2023

  The final investment decision to approve the US$4.4 billion (EUR4 billion) Neptun Deep gas development in the Black Sea is a defining moment for Romania’s energy sector and will make it the EU’s largest gas producer according to a report by Wood Mackenzie, a global insight business for renewables, energy and natural resources.

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  A revitalised oil and gas sector can play a key role in Indonesia’s energy transition

  • 27 7月 2023

  Indonesia’s oil and gas sector must undergo a major overhaul in the way it operates if it is to realise the full potential of the country’s natural resources and support a successful energy transition, according to a new white paper by Wood Mackenzie, a global insight business for renewables, energy and natural resources.