Teaming up with CWC for the LNG and Gas Summit

• 12 March 2018

Reactions from the CWC LNG and Gas Summit held this year in Tokyo.

Extreme weather and fast LNG dominate US natural gas news

• 06 September 2024

A summary of news of what’s been happening in the US market

Can the energy industry rise to the challenge of climate change?

• 02 August 2019

Our energy transition experts take on some of the trickiest questions about how to meet the world’s future energy needs while managing climate change.

Oils & chemicals: 5 things to watch for in 2024

• 11 January 2024

Calmer waters are expected for the oils, refining and chemicals industries in 2024 – but that doesn’t mean it’s plain sailing. What are the top trends to track for the year ahead?

Innovative financing is needed to mobilise clean energy capital in developing countries. What could it look like?

• 10 September 2024

By 2030, nearly a billion people could still lack energy access. How can we change that? Listen to Damilola Ogunbiyi, CEO of Sustainable Energy for All, on The Interchange Recharged as she discusses innovative financing models for a just energy transition.

What's Wood Mackenzie's forecast for the annual average oil price in 2019?

• 22 January 2019

Find out what oil price we think is justified by the fundamentals. And what macroeconomic factors could dampen the oil price further.

3 ways produced water could hamper Permian production

• 17 July 2019

The entire Permian production cost curve is shifting as produced water volumes expand, posing a risk to production growth in the most prolific shale play.

Lift off as Sputnik partners hit oil

• 20 August 2019

Commenting on Equinor, OMV and Petoro’s Sputnik discovery, Jamie Thompson, an analyst with Wood Mackenzie’s North Sea upstream team, said: “Despite being small and remote – it lies more than 300 kilometres from shore in the northern Hoop area of the Barents Sea - Sputnik has a high chance of commerciality. The aptly-named field could be a satellite of the pre-FID 440 million-barrel Wisting development, which is just 30 kilometres from Sputnik.

Refinery-chemicals integration: how to benchmark success

• 17 September 2020

The growing trend of integrated refinery-chemical facilities is intensifying. Standalone oil refineries, focused only on fuel, are looking increasingly outdated as the energy transition takes hold.

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• 13 May 2026

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Tackling the textile industry’s carbon footprint

• 25 April 2022

Textile and apparel reuse strategies will play a role in cutting greenhouse gas emissions – how will that impact virgin fibre demand?

North American power markets: navigating a trickier path to decarbonisation

• 15 February 2024

North America’s energy transition could be longer, more expensive and more politically contentious than previously predicted

What will a fresh output cap at Groningen mean for the gas market?

• 01 February 2018

A new cap on production from the Netherlands' giant Groningen gas field may have an impact on the security of Europe's gas supply, hurt Dutch treasury receipts and prompt a reassessment of the field's remaining value.

OPEC+ agrees to increase output after tense negotiations

• 07 December 2020

Tense negotiations and rumours of a rift between Saudi Arabia and UAE ended with a compromise deal for OPEC+ on 3 December 2020. Despite concerns on oversupply for Q1 2021, the group agreed to increase output by 500,000 b/d in January. Production restraint is set at minus 7.2 million b/d instead of the Q4 2020 level of minus 7.7 million b/d.

Abadi LNG gets greenlight for revised Plan of Development

• 15 July 2019

The Government of Indonesia has approved the revised Plan of Development for the Abadi LNG project. INPEX (operator, 65%) and Shell (35%) will develop Abadi via an offshore production facility and a 9.5 million tonnes per annum (mmpta) onshore LNG plant, at an estimated cost of US$20 billion.

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• 27 February 2025

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Nuclear: 5 things to look for in 2026

• 14 January 2026

Will data centre-driven power demand keep nuclear in the spotlight in 2026? Read our analysis of how regulatory and permitting reform and new project FIDs could put momentum behind a nuclear renaissance.

Can America build new energy projects faster? Should it?

• 20 August 2024

Proposed permitting reforms could accelerate both renewable energy projects and new fossil fuel infrastructure. Is that a good deal for the climate? Ed Crooks is joined by Melissa Lott and Emily Grubert to unpack what the proposal could mean for the future of energy in America.

Ascend Performance Materials declares force majeure on HMD

• 08 January 2019

Following Ascend Performance Materials' decision to declare a force majeure on hexamethylene diamine (HMD), Wood Mackenzie Chemicals Head of Thermoplastics, Quentin de Carvalho, commented:

Decommissioning – will the time ever be right?

• 12 December 2017

The North Sea faces a decommissioning bill of US$32 billion between 2018 and 2022, but does the supply chain have an appetite to make the investment needed?

Deepwater rising: The state of the global deepwater industry

• 05 December 2019

Deepwater is becoming increasingly important in the global upstream investment space. Research Director Ian Thom sat down with the upstream team to take a closer look at the trends shaping the industry.

Emissions rules for US power pose some difficult questions

• 06 May 2024

New EPA regulations for coal plants hit an industry in decline. Emissions curbs for gas plants would affect a sector that is still growing.

The future of gas investment

• 12 November 2020

Capital is the lifeblood of the global gas industry. But with investment criteria changing fast, companies must respond.

Can LNG save China from winter gas shortages?

• 30 November 2017

With new restrictions on the use of coal for heating in ‘2+26’ cities and the industrial sector, China’s gas demand is set to hit record highs this winter — growing by 23 bcm.

China’s war on waste means more than just clean plates

• 24 March 2021

In re-launching the ‘Clean Plate’ campaign in August last year, President Xi Jinping urged all of China to “maintain a sense of crisis about food security”. This is of course an important message in and of itself, given the huge amounts of energy, water and land involved in food production in China.

Dividends or growth – Big Oil’s dilemma

• 27 July 2017

The industry is adapting to low oil prices. But can upstream grow in this environment? The question is a profound one, the answer in reality more about sustaining the business and maximising returns rather than pursuing growth.

ExxonMobil farewells Norway with US$4.5bn Vår Energi deal

• 27 September 2019

ExxonMobil is selling its Norwegian business to Eni/HitecVision-owned Vår Energi for US$4.5 billion, Norway’s biggest deal since the Statoil-Norsk Hydro merger in 2006.