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Ahmed Jameel Abdullah

Research Analyst, European Power

Ahmed monitors power market trends across Europe.

Latest articles by Ahmed Jameel

• Opinion 8 March 2023

  Renewable energy costs continue to fall across Europe

• Opinion 4 August 2022

  Heat pumps: primed and ready to support Europe’s net zero and energy security goals

Greig Aitken

Corporate Research

With over 12 years of experience, Greig brings a holistic view of corporate activity to the upstream M&A research team.

Latest articles by Greig

• Featured 17 January 2023

  Will we see an upstream M&A revival in 2023?

• Opinion 16 February 2022

  Is private equity the buyer the upstream M&A market has been looking for?

• Featured 11 January 2022

  Will 2022 be a buoyant year for upstream M&A activity? | 2022 Outlook

• Featured 25 January 2021

  How far will upstream M&A activity rebound in 2021? | 2021 Outlook

Elham Akhavan

Senior Microgrid Research Analyst

Elham leads our microgrid and distribution automation research under the Grid Edge team

Krystal Alvarez

Senior Research Analyst, Upstream Supply Chain

Krystal focuses on our portfolio of subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines (SURF) and marine construction products

Latest articles by Krystal

• Opinion 27 April 2022

  Cost inflation is coming to the offshore installation market

• Opinion 2 March 2022

  Cost inflation is coming to the offshore installation market

Gail Anderson

Research Director, Sub-Saharan Africa Upstream

Gail focuses on the Nigerian upstream industry and its gas and power sector.

Latest articles by Gail

• Opinion 18 April 2023

  Can Africa help solve Europe’s gas supply crunch?

• Opinion 16 August 2021

  Shell to divest its entire Nigeria joint venture portfolio

Bruna Angel

Principal Analyst, Fibres

Latest articles by Bruna

• Opinion 16 November 2022

  Bottle battle: the fight for recycled plastic supply is on

• Opinion 25 April 2022

  Tackling the textile industry’s carbon footprint

• Opinion 1 July 2020

  Has Covid-19 left the apparel industry hanging by a thread?

Henrique Anjos

Gas & LNG Research Analyst, Latin America

Henrique leads gas market research for the Latin America region.

Alexandre Araman

Principal Analyst, Middle East Upstream

Alexandre has global experience in commercial research, upstream valuations and supply and demand analysis.

Latest articles by Alexandre

• Opinion 4 May 2023

  The Middle East steps on the gas

• Opinion 5 July 2021

  What lies beneath: why Middle East upstream resources are so advantaged

Nikhil Babu

Research Associate, Asia Pacific Power & Renewables

Guy Bailey

Head of Intermediates and Applications

Guy leads a team of analysts focused on plastics, fibres and sustainability in the chemicals value chain.

Latest articles by Guy

• Opinion 12 October 2022

  Can legislation unlock a circular plastics economy?

• Opinion 29 September 2021

  COP26: Can petrochemicals square the circle?

• Opinion 16 November 2020

  Can chemical recycling make plastic more sustainable?

• Opinion 15 October 2020

  Can bioplastics make the chemicals industry greener?

• Opinion 12 October 2020

  What can the materials transition learn from the energy transition?

• Case Study 24 August 2020

  Making materially better choices

Amanda Bandeira

Research Associate, Latin America Upstream

Amanda is an expert in valuing individual upstream onshore and offshore assets in the Latin America region.

Latest articles by Amanda

• Opinion 23 May 2023

  Petrobras kicks off Marlim revitalisation project in Brazil

Aaron Barr

Global Head, Onshore Wind Energy Research

Latest articles by Aaron

• Featured 10 January 2023

  Onshore wind: will profitability improve in 2023?

• Opinion 9 August 2022

  Wind industry faces a perfect storm of profit pressures

Alex Beeker

Principal Analyst, Corporate Research

Alex is a principal analyst on our Corporate Research team, focused on US tight oil.

Latest articles by Alex

• Opinion 3 June 2020

  Lower 48 midstream not immune to oil price volatility

Elena Belletti

Head of Carbon Research

Elena works to provide clients with intelligence on recent developments in the carbon landscape.

Latest articles by Elena

• Opinion 30 January 2023

  Debut of the first EU carbon border tax

• Opinion 7 March 2022

  How are oil and gas companies using carbon offsets to decarbonise?

• Opinion 8 February 2022

  Voluntary carbon markets: here to stay?

Sam Berman

Principal Analyst, Power & Renewables

Sam has extensive experience in production cost modelling and energy market analysis.

Natalie Biggs

Global Head, Thermal Coal Markets

Natalie is the global head of our thermal coal markets research for the Metals and Mining group.

Latest articles by Natalie

• Opinion 26 March 2021

  Is there light at the end of a dark tunnel for US coal markets?

Neivan Boroujerdi

Director, Research, Upstream Oil and Gas

Neivan is a principal analyst with expertise in North Sea upstream oil and gas.

Latest articles by Neivan

• Opinion 22 February 2023

  Has Norway’s oil and gas tax stimulus been a success?

• Opinion 17 November 2022

  Last dance for UK upstream exploration?

• Opinion 13 October 2022

  Can Norway move from oil and gas supplier of choice to energy super basin?

• Opinion 23 September 2022

  UK energy exports and fracking: aspiration or pipe dream?

• Opinion 1 September 2022

  Five key lessons for North Sea project delivery

• Opinion 18 August 2022

  Europe upstream: the pressure is on

Matthew Boyda

Senior Vice President, Global Power & Renewables

Matthew brings more than two decades of power industry experience to his role.

Latest articles by Matthew

• Opinion 6 September 2021

  Trading further-out futures: tackling renewable-fuelled congestion

Colette Breshears

Senior Research Manager, NA Infrastructure, Short-term Analytics, Natural Gas

Colette brings eight years of experience to their research on natural gas in North America.

Latest articles by Colette

• Opinion 21 February 2022

  US natural gas infrastructure gets ready to go green

Jessica Brewer

Principal Analyst, North Sea Upstream Oil and Gas

Jessica brings experience in both field and research roles to her analysis of the North Sea upstream industry.

Latest articles by Jessica

• Opinion 12 December 2022

  Rising to the North Sea emissions challenge

• Opinion 14 July 2021

  Decarbonising the upstream industry

• Opinion 22 July 2020

  What obstacles do North Sea operators face on the path to net zero?

• Opinion 15 April 2019

  Middle East leads the pack in 2018 FID bonanza

• Opinion 21 January 2019

  5 things you need to know about MENA upstream oil and gas

Mark Broadbent

Research Director, North America Oils

Mark leads our North America oils team in analysing crude and product markets.

Latest articles by Mark

• Opinion 14 June 2021

  How hard would global refiners be hit by a sharp drop in US gasoline demand?

Anna Brocklebank

Senior Research Analyst, Short-term Gas & LNG

Anna models LNG demand, assesses balances and forecasts price dynamics.

Latest articles by Anna

• Opinion 20 March 2023

  Will lower gas prices spark switching in Europe and Asia?

Andrew Brown

Head of Plastics and Recycling

Andrew is responsible for integrating our sustainability and recycling views across chemical value chains.

Latest articles by Andrew

• Opinion 9 February 2023

  Can imports solve the plastic recycling challenge?

• Opinion 16 November 2022

  Bottle battle: the fight for recycled plastic supply is on

• Opinion 21 February 2022

  Closing the loop on plastic packaging

• Opinion 19 July 2021

  Can the plastics industry decarbonise?

• Opinion 20 May 2020

  Will coronavirus change the course of plastic circularity?

David Brown

Director, Energy Transition Practice

David is a key author of our Energy Transition Outlook and Accelerated Energy Transition Scenarios.

Latest articles by David

• Opinion 23 May 2023

  How Colombia could lead Latin America through the energy transition

• Opinion 20 March 2023

  Maximising the Inflation Reduction Act: four things to watch

• Opinion 8 February 2023

  Introducing our Global Net Zero Pledges Scenario

• Opinion 18 July 2022

  Seeing red?

• Opinion 29 August 2019

  What factors could influence the pace of the energy transition?

• Featured 26 November 2018

  A zero-carbon world: how fast will we get there?

David Buckby

Senior Analyst, Films & Flexible Packaging

David has almost a decade of experience in strategic market research and consultancy.

Latest articles by David

• Opinion 22 March 2022

  Five pieces of the circular packaging puzzle

Matthew Campbell

Research Analyst, European Power Markets

Matthew is a research analyst with our Energy Transition Practice, focused on power market trends across Europe.

Latest articles by Matthew

• Opinion 6 April 2023

  How effective were EU emergency power demand reduction measures?

• Opinion 22 July 2022

  Global power markets outlook: the energy transition gathers pace

Leandro Caputo

Director, Gas & Power, Latin America

Leandro is a skilled leader with extensive professional experience across the Latin American energy space.

Fraser Carson

Senior Research Analyst, Global LNG

Fraser has extensive research and project management experience across the LNG value chain.

Latest articles by Fraser

• Opinion 18 April 2023

  Can Africa help solve Europe’s gas supply crunch?

Ixchel Castro

Americas Market Lead - Downstream

Ixchel leads our research on downstream markets in North and Latin America.

Matthew Chadwick

Senior Vice President, Head of Oils and Chemicals

Matthew is an expert in analysing strategic and commercial issues for petchems and related businesses.

Ram Chandrasekaran

Head of Road Transport

Ram is the global lead for transportation and mobility, based in Houston.

Steve Chappell

Vice President, Head of Subsurface Research

With more than 30 years' of global experience, Steve leads the delivery of world-class exploration research.

Isha Chaudhary

Principal Analyst, Steel and Raw Material Markets

Isha brings 14 years of experience in metals and mining to her research and analysis.

Akif Chaudhry

Principal Analyst, Corporate Research

Akif focuses on strategy, benchmarking and valuation analysis of offshore wind and carbon within company portfolios.

Latest articles by Akif

• Featured 16 January 2023

  Mixed signals for power and renewables in 2023

• Featured 24 August 2022

  Why the Majors need to consider margins in weighing up offshore wind

• Opinion 11 August 2022

  Big Oil set to cash in on the trillion-dollar offshore wind prize

• Featured 17 January 2022

  Power and renewables companies face merging headwinds in 2022 | 2022 Outlook

• Opinion 24 July 2020

  Natural gas: friend or foe in Europe’s 2030 emissions target?

• Opinion 5 December 2019

  Could the Majors take a fast-track route to lower emissions intensity?

Mauro Chavez

Research Director, European Gas and LNG markets

Mauro has more than 14 years of experience and is a recognised specialist in the natural gas and LNG industry.

Sagar Chopra

Research Analyst, Solar

Sagar focuses on PV system pricing for US and LATAM regions.

Latest articles by Sagar

• Featured 23 January 2023

  Brighter skies for US solar in 2023? | 2023 outlook

• Opinion 28 September 2022

  Floating solar: still niche or ready for the mainstream?

• Opinion 13 April 2022

  Is the end of high US solar system prices in sight?

Jessalyn Chuang

Lead Analyst, Power Market Intelligence

Jessalyn is a wholesale power industry analyst with a focus on the Midwestern US region.

Latest articles by Jessalyn

• Opinion 13 March 2023

  Power rush in the Wild West: tracking the progress of US regional power market pioneers

David Clark

Vice President, Corporate Research

Latest articles by David

• Editorial 28 October 2021

  US Independents: cash is king in “stay flat” mode

Finlay Clark

Research Analyst, Global Offshore Wind

Latest articles by Finlay

• Opinion 1 November 2022

  Offshore wind: policy frameworks decide who wins – but not when

• Opinion 15 August 2022

  Change is coming to the offshore wind towers sector

Robert Clarke

Vice President, Upstream Research

Robert leads our US onshore research, with a particular focus on the evolution of the tight oil sector.

Latest articles by Robert

• Opinion 1 September 2022

  Could a return to shale exploration be part of the solution to Europe’s gas supply problem?

• Opinion 12 July 2022

  US LNG exports: upping the upstream ante

• Opinion 21 July 2021

  Three lessons the renewables boom can learn from the shale bust

• Opinion 22 March 2021

  What a 40-year-old shale well can tell us about the future of the Lower 48

• Editorial 15 July 2019

  Tight oil M&A: after Anadarko, remember small deals too

• Opinion 21 February 2017

  Will deals walk the optimistic talk of NAPE?

John Coleman

Principal Analyst, North American Crude Markets

John leads our North American Crude Markets Service, delivering regular market outlooks and analysis

Latest articles by John

• Opinion 22 March 2023

  A tale of two cities: comparing the Houston and Corpus Christi crude hubs

Caitlin Connelly

Research Associate, Distributed Solar

Latest articles by Caitlin

• Opinion 27 March 2023

  Shake-up on the US distributed solar leaderboard

• Opinion 29 March 2022

  Competition heats up for the top three US residential solar installers

• Opinion 2 November 2021

  US residential solar: why is customer acquisition still so costly?

Leslie Cook

Principal Analyst, Upstream Supply Chain

Leslie is a principal analyst and project manager for Wood Mackenzie's portfolio of drilling and rig products.

Maria Cortez

Senior Research Manager

Maria is a senior research manager focused on Latin America's upstream sector.

Ed Crooks

Vice-Chair, Americas

Ed examines the forces shaping the energy industry globally

Latest articles by Ed

• Opinion 26 May 2023

  US oil and gas companies learn to live with higher standards

• Opinion 19 May 2023

  The Biden administration aims to accelerate the decarbonisation of US power

• Opinion 12 May 2023

  The limits to resource nationalism for lithium

• Opinion 5 May 2023

  Washington tariff dispute creates uncertainty for US solar

• Opinion 28 April 2023

  GHG accounting reform could change energy investment

• Opinion 21 April 2023

  Slow going for US power transmission

Rebekah Crouch

Head of Market Intelligence, Power Markets Research

Rebekah oversees our Short-term Market Intelligence Team for North America.

Kelly Cui

Principal Analyst, Petrochemicals

Kelly is an expert in the coal-to-olefins (CTO) and methanol-to-olefins (MTO) sector.

Latest articles by Kelly

• Opinion 27 April 2020

  Why crude-to-chemicals is the obvious way forward

• Opinion 20 February 2020

  Coronavirus to disrupt China’s chemicals sector more than SARS

• Opinion 6 September 2019

  Can China’s CTO and MTO industries survive the threat of massive steam cracker investment?

• Editorial 14 November 2017

  Why is China the early adopter of CTO/MTO

• Editorial 7 November 2017

  The opportunities and challenges of CTO/MTO development

• Editorial 1 November 2017

  How are olefins made from CTO/MTO?

Lucy Cullen

Research Director, APAC Gas & LNG Research

Lucy is primarily focused on supply, demand, contract and price analysis for the Northeast Asian markets

Latest articles by Lucy

• Opinion 1 September 2022

  Demand response in Asia is the key to balancing the global gas market

• Opinion 26 May 2022

  Green LNG: can Australia prioritise decarbonisation in a high-priced world?

• Editorial 29 July 2019

  Japan is the world’s largest LNG importer

• Editorial 16 July 2019

  Power sector drives LNG demand in Asia's mature economies

• Opinion 24 June 2019

  What does the US-China trade war mean for US LNG projects?

• Editorial 6 April 2017

  Europe, heart of the global gas market

Chris DaCosta

Research Manager, CAISO Desk, Short-term Analytics

Chris is a power industry expert with a focus on the dynamic western US region.

Ying Dai

Principal Consultant, Metals & Mining

Ying specialises in zinc research, with a particular focus on the Chinese market and smelter costing analysis.

Latest articles by Ying

• Opinion 21 June 2022

  Sustainable smelting: how green can it go?

Anna Darmani

Lead Analyst, Energy Storage

Anna is a lead analyst focused on the European, Middle East and African storage markets.

Latest articles by Anna

• Opinion 28 July 2022

  Global energy storage: staggering growth continues – despite bumps in the road

• Opinion 11 April 2022

  Europe’s grid-scale energy storage capacity will expand 20-fold by 2031

• Opinion 20 December 2021

  Charging stations: investing in Europe’s nascent battery industry

• Opinion 27 October 2021

  Europe’s residential energy storage market to expand nearly tenfold this decade

Michelle Davis

Principal Analyst, Solar

Michelle Davis is a principal analyst with a focus on the downstream US distributed solar market

Latest articles by Michelle

• The Edge 1 June 2023

  Cutting dependence on China’s renewables supply chain

• Opinion 9 March 2023

  The US solar industry looks ahead after a volatile year

• Featured 23 January 2023

  Brighter skies for US solar in 2023? | 2023 outlook

• Opinion 13 December 2022

  The US solar industry waits

• Opinion 28 June 2022

  US solar: Biden’s Executive Order brings (some) relief

• Opinion 8 June 2022

  Anticircumvention investigation paralyses US solar

Brandon Davis

Research Director, Head of Corporate Analytics

Brandon leads the development and use of advanced analytics across the Corporate Research platform.

Latest articles by Brandon

• Opinion 6 May 2020

  Distressed lower 48 operators face a credit crisis

Marcelo de Assis

Upstream Research Director, Latin America

Marcelo joined the Upstream Research team in March 2019, based in Rio de Janeiro.

Latest articles by Marcelo

• Opinion 3 May 2023

  Gas resources in Latin America: the challenges to development

Quentin De Carvalho

Head of Nylon / Polyamide

Quentin has over 30 years’ experience in the chemical industry with a focus on polyamide nylon.

Latest articles by Quentin

• Opinion 17 December 2018

  The calm before the storm for the nylon industry?

Flor Lucia De la Cruz

Principal Analyst, Hydrogen and Emerging Technologies

Flor is a subject matter expert in hydrogen and emerging technologies, working for our Energy Transition Practice.

Latest articles by Flor Lucia

• Opinion 23 February 2023

  Tracking the hydrogen market: from policy to project pipeline

• Opinion 4 July 2022

  Decoding the hydrogen rainbow

• Opinion 6 April 2022

  Hydrogen: the US$600 billion investment opportunity

• Featured 31 January 2022

  Will CCUS and hydrogen live up to the hype in 2022? | 2022 Outlook

• Featured 31 January 2022

  Will CCUS and hydrogen live up to the hype in 2022? | 2022 Outlook

• Opinion 24 August 2021

  Why hydrogen needs to take centre stage at COP26

Massimo Di Odoardo

Vice President, Gas and LNG Research

Massimo brings extensive knowledge of the entire gas industry value chain to his role leading gas and LNG consulting.

Latest articles by Massimo

• Opinion 20 March 2023

  Will lower gas prices spark switching in Europe and Asia?

• Featured 12 January 2023

  Gas and LNG: predictions for 2023 | 2023 outlook

• Featured 13 January 2022

  Gas and LNG: predictions for 2022 | 2022 Outlook

• Opinion 8 October 2021

  Does Europe have enough gas to meet demand?

• Opinion 29 July 2021

  Prices, FIDs and the energy transition: three key factors for global LNG

• Featured 14 January 2021

  Gas and LNG – why 2021 will be a defining year | 2021 Outlook

Chenyuan Diao

Managing Consultant, Power and Renewables Research

Chenyuan is an expert in wind data analysis covering Asia Pacific excluding China

Latest articles by Chenyuan

• Opinion 7 February 2023

  Expansion opportunities beckon for China’s wind companies

Malcolm Dickson

Research Director, Europe Upstream Oil and Gas

Malcolm leads our research coverage of the European Upstream sector.

Latest articles by Malcolm

• Editorial 2 April 2019

  10 investment plays to watch

• Opinion 12 January 2017

  Norway’s upstream sector will prosper — but can the UK rally?

Murray Douglas

Head of Hydrogen Research

Murray is responsible for Wood Mackenzie’s Global coverage across the hydrogen value chain.

Latest articles by Murray

• Opinion 5 October 2022

  What will REPowerEU and the Inflation Reduction Act mean for hydrogen?

• Opinion 15 July 2022

  What are today’s most transformative energy transition technologies?

• Opinion 20 May 2020

  Coronavirus pushes UK gas market to deadlock

• Opinion 28 April 2020

  European gas markets feel the pressure – but there are signs of recovery

• Featured 18 December 2019

  What’s ahead for European gas? | Foresight 2020

• Opinion 3 September 2019

  Do European utilities still have an appetite for LNG?

Gabriel Dufflis

Power Analyst – South America

Gabriel leads the power markets research at Wood Mackenzie’s Southern Cone Gas & Power Service.

Ryan Duman

Principal Analyst, Lower 48 Upstream

Ryan specialises in basin characterisation, decline curve analysis, economic modelling, and competitor intelligence.

Angela Durrant

Principal Analyst, Nickel

Angela is a principal analyst with almost 20 years' experience in metals research.

Latest articles by Angela

• Opinion 19 April 2023

  Battery raw materials: tracking key market dynamics

• Opinion 4 April 2023

  The rise and rise of Indonesian HPAL – can it continue?

• Opinion 21 June 2022

  Sustainable smelting: how green can it go?

• Opinion 10 December 2019

  Indonesian nickel ore ban: who will fill the supply gap?

Dan Eager

Principal Analyst, Europe Power

Dan is a specialist in power market investment and dispatch modelling.

Tom Ellacott

Senior Vice President, Corporate Research

Tom leads our corporate thought leadership, drawing on more than 20 years' industry knowledge.

Latest articles by Tom

• Featured 14 December 2022

  Oil and gas companies will recalibrate strategies | 2023 outlook

• Opinion 27 October 2022

  How will oil and gas companies get to Scope 3 net zero?

• Featured 24 August 2022

  Why the Majors need to consider margins in weighing up offshore wind

• Featured 8 December 2021

  Will 2022 be a year of radical change for oil and gas companies?

• Opinion 25 February 2021

  Could oil Majors and Independents generate record free cash flow this year?

• Featured 19 January 2021

  What will oil and gas companies focus on in 2021? | 2021 Outlook

Timothy Ennis

Market Analyst, PJM

Timothy is an analyst on our North America Short-Term Power team, with a particular focus on the PJM market.

Nick Esch

Research Analyst, Grid Edge

Nick is an analyst on the Grid Edge team who focuses on transportation electrification

Latest articles by Nick

• Opinion 1 March 2023

  US grid edge deal flow surges

Mhairidh Evans

Head of CCUS Research

Mhairidh leads our global research on carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS).

Latest articles by Mhairidh

• Opinion 26 May 2022

  Green LNG: can Australia prioritise decarbonisation in a high-priced world?

• Featured 31 January 2022

  Will CCUS and hydrogen live up to the hype in 2022? | 2022 Outlook

• Featured 31 January 2022

  Will CCUS and hydrogen live up to the hype in 2022? | 2022 Outlook

• Opinion 28 September 2021

  Carbon capture and storage: how far can costs fall?

• Opinion 22 September 2021

  COP26: Carbon capture & storage and low-carbon hydrogen

• Featured 25 January 2021

  Tough calls for the upstream supply chain in 2021 | 2021 outlook

Amanda Fairfax

Senior Analyst, Downstream Oil, Short-term Analytics

Giles Farrer

Head of Gas and LNG Asset Research

Giles heads our LNG and gas asset research and manages our market-leading LNG Service & Tool and LNG Corporate Service.

Latest articles by Giles

• Opinion 22 February 2023

  Third wave US LNG: a $100 billion opportunity

• Opinion 22 August 2022

  LNG: seismic shifts as Russia/Ukraine conflict makes waves

• Opinion 8 September 2020

  LNG regasification: why there’s still plenty of gas in the tank

• Opinion 22 April 2020

  How coronavirus is driving down LNG demand in Asia and Europe – and hitting supply

• Opinion 6 March 2020

  Market oversupply and new LNG FID progress

• Featured 10 February 2020

  How will global gas and LNG markets respond to oversupply in 2020? | Foresight 2020

Kateryna Filippenko

Principal Analyst, Global Gas Markets

Principal Analyst with a focus on the European gas market and the development of alternative scenarios.

Latest articles by Kateryna

• Opinion 21 September 2022

  What will the gas market look like in a net zero world?

• Opinion 1 September 2022

  Could a return to shale exploration be part of the solution to Europe’s gas supply problem?

• Opinion 25 July 2022

  Can Europe get through winter?

• Opinion 19 May 2022

  Europe pivots away from Russian gas: how will the global market rebalance?

• Opinion 8 September 2021

  COP26: The global gas industry’s path to a sustainable future

• Editorial 20 December 2019

  A timeline of major events in Ukraine-Russia gas relations

Peter Findlay

Principal Analyst, CCUS

Peter leads the economics and project valuation function for CCUS projects globally.

Latest articles by Peter

• Opinion 2 May 2023

  What’s shaping CCUS project costs?

Patrick Finn

Senior Analyst, North America Power Markets

Patrick focuses primarily on the PJM market, as well as short-term analysis and transmission.

Latest articles by Patrick

• Opinion 4 October 2022

  Can Maryland make net zero work?

Joshua Firestone

Principal Petroleum Economist

Joshua is a principal economist with our Fiscal Service.

Latest articles by Joshua

• Featured 25 January 2023

  Conflicting ambitions will shape the upstream fiscal landscape in 2023 | 2023 outlook

Carl Firman

Principal Analyst for Bauxite and Alumina and Aluminium Costs

Carl is a natural resources expert with 25 years’ experience in the energy and metals and mining sectors.

Latest articles by Carl

• Opinion 21 June 2019

  Three reasons why bauxite seaborne trade is set to grow sharply over the next decade

Simon Flowers

Chairman, Chief Analyst and author of The Edge

Simon is our Chief Analyst; he provides thought leadership on the trends and innovations shaping the energy industry.

Latest articles by Simon

• The Edge 1 June 2023

  Cutting dependence on China’s renewables supply chain

• The Edge 25 May 2023

  Refining’s perfect storm passes

• The Edge 12 May 2023

  How renewables are changing power markets

• The Edge 28 April 2023

  Should IOCs invest more in upstream?

• The Edge 13 April 2023

  Is there more upside for oil prices in 2023?

• The Edge 23 March 2023

  How commercial is low-carbon hydrogen?

Anne Forbes

Upstream Research Analyst

Anne focuses on upstream assets updates at the intersection of our upstream and geology research

Graham Freedman

Principal Analyst, European Gas

As a principal analyst, Graham develops our view on natural gas supply, demand and pricing across Europe.

Latest articles by Graham

• Opinion 23 September 2020

  Can biomethane decarbonise Europe’s gas market?

Kaitlin Fung

Research Analyst, North America Power Service

Kaitlin is a Research Analyst on Wood Mackenzie’s North America Power Service team.

Leila Garcia da Fonseca

Senior Manager, Wind and Solar O&M

Leila is responsible for our wind and solar Operations & Maintenance market research for the Americas region.

Latest articles by Leila

• Opinion 1 February 2022

  The solar aftermarket is growing fast – but new entrants could be left in the cold

• Featured 21 January 2022

  Why 2022 will be a record year for Latin American power and renewables | 2022 outloo

Adrian Gardner

Principal Analyst, Nickel Markets

Adrian is a principal research analyst with our Nickel Metal Service, providing a global view of the industry.

Latest articles by Adrian

• Opinion 29 September 2020

  How long can nickel prices defy market fundamentals?

Zoë Gaston

Principal Analyst, US Distributed Solar

Zoë Gaston is a Principal Analyst on the US Distributed Solar team.

Latest articles by Zoë

• Opinion 26 April 2023

  A new era for US residential solar finance

• Opinion 26 October 2022

  Will rising interest rates curb the dominance of the US residential solar loan market?

Brian Gaylord

Principal Analyst, Global Power & Renewables

Brian produces analysis across power and renewables technologies and regions.

Alan Gelder

VP Refining, Chemicals & Oil Markets

Alan is responsible for formulating our research outlook and cross-sector perspectives on the global downstream sector.

Latest articles by Alan

• The Edge 25 May 2023

  Refining’s perfect storm passes

• Opinion 25 April 2023

  Refinery-petrochemical integration disrupts gas-based cracker feedstock advantage

• Opinion 13 February 2023

  What do ExxonMobil exits mean for the oil Majors?

• Featured 10 January 2023

  Global oil markets: another tumultuous year lies ahead

• Opinion 2 November 2022

  From high energy costs to the materials transition: five themes shaping the future of petrochemicals

• Featured 19 January 2022

  What lies ahead for the oil markets in 2022? | 2022 Outlook

Edgardo Gelsomino

Head of Aluminium Research

Wood Mackenzie's head of aluminium research has over 23 years' experience along the value chain.

Latest articles by Edgardo

• Featured 13 November 2018

  Investment in new aluminium capacity needed to avoid supply crunch

John Gibb

Research Director, Australasia Upstream

John brings more than 25 years of international oil and gas industry experience to his role.

Rob Gilfillan

Head of Polymer & Fibres

Rob leads our research into regional and global markets for fibres, films and flexible packaging.

Latest articles by Rob

• Featured 18 January 2023

  Global challenges weigh on downstream chemical markets in 2023

• Opinion 3 August 2021

  Tracking the source of the single-use plastics crisis

• Opinion 22 May 2020

  PPE is giving the fibres industry some protection from coronavirus

• Opinion 16 April 2020

  Flexible packaging sees demand boost as coronavirus changes consumer patterns

• Editorial 23 January 2018

  India’s flexible packaging enjoys continuing growth despite a stuttering economy

Parag Goyal

Research Associate, APAC Upstream

Parag covers the upstream market in APAC primarily focused on Indonesia, Myanmar, China and the Philippines.

Lindsay Grant

VP, Head of M&M Assets Research

Lindsay has deep expertise in Upstream Oil & Gas and has covered the sector since joining us in 2008.

Robin Griffin

Vice President, Metals and Mining Research

An integral part of the research team since 2007, Robin leads our analysis across metals and mining markets.

Latest articles by Robin

• Opinion 4 May 2023

  Future-facing commodities: your questions answered

• Opinion 19 April 2023

  Battery raw materials: tracking key market dynamics

• Opinion 28 February 2023

  The role of African mining in the energy transition

• Featured 25 January 2022

  Metals and mining: will 2022 be the year of rebalance? | 2022 Outlook

• Opinion 28 February 2020

  Coronavirus: a wildcard for bulks demand

• Opinion 15 October 2019

  What’s behind the metallurgical coal price plunge – and what lies ahead?

Alex Griffiths

Principal Analyst

Alex draws on his experience as a Resource Geologist to analyse and forecast global steel and iron ore markets.

Latest articles by Alex

• Opinion 3 August 2020

  Green steel gets a boost from European economic recovery plans

• Opinion 21 May 2018

  Tighter at the top: taking a look at the premium end of iron ore's two-tier market

Sushant Gupta

Research Director – Asia Pacific, Refining and oils market

Sushant has over 15 years of experience with strong focus on refining, crude oil and chemicals industry.

Latest articles by Sushant

• The Edge 25 May 2023

  Refining’s perfect storm passes

• Opinion 9 June 2022

  From grey and brown to green and blue: low-carbon hydrogen in refining

• Opinion 13 January 2022

  Refinery emissions: implications of carbon tax and mitigation options

Nuomin Han

Managing Consultant, Carbon Research

Latest articles by Nuomin

• Opinion 30 January 2023

  Debut of the first EU carbon border tax

Zheng Han

Consultant, Power & Renewables Research

Zheng provides analysis covering China’s wind market

Sean Harrison

Research Analyst, Gas & LNG

Sean specialises in North America LNG research, focusing on assets analysis, project economics and LNG contracting.

Latest articles by Sean

• Opinion 22 February 2023

  Third wave US LNG: a $100 billion opportunity

Andrew Harwood

Research Director, Corporate and Upstream Research

Andrew is responsible for Wood Mackenzie’s corporate coverage in Asia Pacific.

Latest articles by Andrew

• Opinion 22 June 2022

  Will COP27 be a turning point for oil and gas funding?

• Opinion 19 March 2020

  How hard will the oil price crash hit APAC upstream investment?

• Editorial 14 January 2019

  Will Asia-Pacific's O&G sector join the global recovery in 2019?

Luiz Hayum

Upstream Research Senior Analyst, Latin America

Luiz's expertise lies in valuing upstream assets in Latin America.

Latest articles by Luiz

• Opinion 8 March 2022

  Can Brazil’s mature pre-salt oil fields continue stellar performances?

• Opinion 16 April 2019

  Deepwater's Latin America comeback

Dale Hazelton

Head of Steel Alloys

Dale is responsible for our Bulk Steel Alloys, Noble Steel Alloys, Stainless Steel and Nickel Market Services.

Latest articles by Dale

• Opinion 24 May 2022

  Steel alloys: a defining moment

• Opinion 15 September 2021

  Coal: COP26's dirty secret

• Opinion 6 May 2020

  Coronavirus puts more than a third of seaborne coal supply at risk

Ian Heming

Research Analyst, Short-term US LNG

Ian’s work currently focuses on LNG facility maintenance and shipping patterns.

Ben Hertz-Shargel

Global Head of Grid Edge

Ben leads research across electrification and grid technologies, drawing on a decade of executive experience.

Latest articles by Ben

• Opinion 18 October 2022

  The grid edge of the future: delivering distributed energy and electrification at scale

• Opinion 6 September 2022

  Distributed energy resources have yet to achieve the full value stack in PJM

• Opinion 15 November 2021

  From electric vehicle investment to virtual power plants: key themes shaping the US grid edge

• Opinion 11 October 2021

  The disappointment and ambition of the US Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act

• Editorial 3 August 2021

  Energy reliability, resilience, extreme weather and other updates from the grid edge in Q3

• Opinion 20 July 2021

  Electrification: essential to decarbonisation but with major challenges ahead

Richard Hewston

Global Content Lead, Environment and Climate Change, Verisk Maplecroft

Richard leads the development of Verisk Maplecroft’s environment and climate change research.

Ann-Louise Hittle

Vice President, Oil Markets

Ann-Louise directs our Macro Oils Service and is a frequent contributor to numerous industry publications.

Latest articles by Ann-Louise

• Featured 10 January 2023

  Global oil markets: another tumultuous year lies ahead

• Featured 19 January 2022

  What lies ahead for the oil markets in 2022? | 2022 Outlook

• Opinion 18 August 2021

  COP26 oil demand: in the cross hairs of emissions reduction

• Opinion 21 September 2020

  US tight oil and the global oil market

• Opinion 3 December 2018

  December '18 OPEC meeting: production cuts expected

Daphne Ho

Senior Research Analyst, Oils and Refining

Daphne currently covers the short-term oils and refining research in Asia.

Tra Ho

Senior Research Analyst, Upstream Service, Southeast Asia

Tra Ho is a Senior Analyst covering Southeast Asia upstream research, based in Singapore.

Latest articles by Tra

• Opinion 7 July 2022

  How NOCs’ exploration strategies are evolving

Benjamin Hoog

Market Analyst, PJM

Benji focuses on power price forecasting, congestion analysis and consulting.

Rui Hou

Consultant, Asia Pacific Refining

Rui Hou specialises in oil products supply for Asia Pacific region.

Latest articles by Rui

• Opinion 15 March 2019

  China's refining sector to slowdown and reconfigure for energy transition

Sam Howe

Research Analyst, Building Decarbonisation

Sam is an analyst on the Grid Edge team and focuses on building decarbonisation.

Linda Htein

Senior Research Manager, US Lower 48 Upstream Research

Linda's work focuses on forecasting and analysing Lower 48 oil and gas supply.

Yuqi Hu

Senior Consultant, Corporate Research

Yuqi is a Senior Consultant on the Corporate Research team. She has worked at Sinopec, Aramco and Clariant.

Miaoru Huang

Research Director, Asia Pacific Gas and LNG

Miaoru leads our Northeast Asia gas research.

Latest articles by Miaoru

• Opinion 5 October 2021

  The future of China’s gas demand

• Editorial 19 September 2019

  China’s growing role in the LNG industry

• Editorial 26 June 2019

  China’s evolving gas market

Patrick Huang

Research Analyst, North America Power Service

Patrick is a Research Analyst on Wood Mackenzie’s North America Power Service team.

Adebimpe Isafiade

Lead Analyst, Power Market Intelligence

Adebimpe is a wholesale power industry analyst with a focus on the western US region.

Latest articles by Adebimpe

• Opinion 13 March 2023

  Power rush in the Wild West: tracking the progress of US regional power market pioneers

Max Issokson

Research Analyst, US Distributed Solar

Max supports research and data collection for our US Distributed Solar practice.

Cameron Jack

Head of Platform Transformation

Cameron works with the consulting leadership team, supports collaboration and manages the group's internal reporting.

Eleni Joannides

Research Director, Copper

Eleni brings more than 30 years' experience in the metals and mining sector to her role on our copper team.

Adam Jordan

Product Director – Power Analytics, Short-term Analytics

Adam is product director for PowerIQ and PowerBuyer Analytics, delivering daily insight and analysis.

Sagar Kalra

Senior Analyst, Gold

Sagar has more than a decade of experience analysing companies across a breadth of commodities within metals and mining.

Harshul Kanwar

Research Associate, Asia Pacific Solar

Kamal Kaushal

Head of Oils and NGLs Fundamentals Research

Kamal brings over 25 years experience advising and operating the industry's top multinationals.

Yamato Kawamata

Senior Power Market Analyst, Asia Pacific Power & Renewables Research

Yamato is an expert in power and renewables in Asia Pacific with a focus on Japan

Latest articles by Yamato

• Opinion 22 September 2022

  Risk and reward for renewables developers in Asia’s booming power market

Fahimeh Kazempour

Head, Grid Modernization

Fahimeh heads our grid modernization research under the Grid Edge team.

Latest articles by Fahimeh

• Opinion 18 April 2023

  Supercharging the US grid: utility investments and initiatives

• Featured 26 January 2023

  Grid edge: predictions for 2023

• Opinion 26 October 2022

  Inflation Reduction Act tailwinds – and other tales from the grid edge

Graham Kellas

Senior Vice President, Global Fiscal Research

Over 30 years, Graham has advised on taxation matters and supported complex fiscal negotiations.

Latest articles by Graham

• Featured 25 January 2023

  Conflicting ambitions will shape the upstream fiscal landscape in 2023 | 2023 outlook

• Opinion 20 April 2022

  Fair share: why a new approach to mined energy transition resources is needed

• Featured 15 December 2021

  Stage set for tougher fiscal terms for upstream operators in 2022 | 2022 outlook

• Opinion 31 March 2021

  How carbon pricing could reshape upstream oil and gas economics

• Featured 20 January 2021

  Should upstream investors prepare for bolder fiscal policies in 2021? | 2021 outlook

• Featured 27 January 2020

  Tight oil vs. deepwater: comparing fiscal terms

Ben Kellison

Director of Grid Edge Research

Ben is an expert on grid edge policy evolution, technology innovation, competition and project economics.

Latest articles by Ben

• Editorial 23 June 2020

  The next five years will see massive distributed energy resource growth

• Opinion 7 November 2019

  Electric vehicles: is workplace charging good for business?

• Opinion 18 September 2019

  China is driving e-bus demand – will the US and EU get on board?

Martin Kelly

Global Head, Curated Service, Energy & Natural Resources Research

Martin oversees our Curated Service offering, working across our energy and natural resource coverage

Latest articles by Martin

• Opinion 17 June 2020

  What investors want to know about energy and natural resources

• Featured 28 October 2019

  Digitalisation: upstream's silver bullet?

• Opinion 12 April 2018

  What is the current state of the upstream industry?

Julian Kettle

Senior Vice President, Vice Chair Metals and Mining

Latest articles by Julian

• Featured 12 July 2022

  Have miners missed the boat to invest and get ahead of the energy transition?

• Featured 7 June 2022

  Why the energy transition will be powered by metals

• Featured 23 May 2022

  Could Big Energy and miners join forces to deliver a faster transition?

• Featured 19 April 2022

  Will a recession stall or just pause the great energy transition gold rush?

• Featured 29 March 2022

  Is it time for metals to get the decarbonisation credit(s) they deserve?

• Featured 15 March 2022

  Will conflict and energy security concerns spur accelerated decarbonisation?

Amaiya Khardenavis

Analyst, EV Charging Infrastructure

Amaiya focuses on electric vehicle charging infrastructure for the Grid Edge practice

Prashant Khorana

Director, Power & Renewables Consulting

Prashant is Director, Data Product Owner – Asset Valuations within Wood Mackenzie's research and data organisation.

Latest articles by Prashant

• Opinion 4 August 2021

  Who will foot the bill for the energy transition in Asia-Pacific?

• Opinion 25 May 2021

  How will Europe’s Green Deal shape renewable energy project finance?

• Opinion 21 April 2021

  Investing in the energy transition

• Opinion 19 April 2021

  Investing in the energy transition

• Opinion 15 December 2020

  Power purchase agreements: how will they support renewables growth?

• Opinion 20 March 2019

  Is the electric vehicle revolution more hype than reality?

Eugene Kim

Research Director, Americas Gas

Eugene Kim is a Research Director on Wood Mackenzie’s Americas Gas Research team.

Latest articles by Eugene

• Opinion 1 July 2020

  What does Chesapeake's bankruptcy mean for US natural gas?

• Opinion 1 July 2020

  What does Chesapeake's bankruptcy mean for US natural gas?

• Opinion 1 July 2020

  What does Chesapeake's bankruptcy mean for US natural gas?

• Opinion 8 August 2019

  How low-cost US natural gas spurs global LNG opportunities

• Editorial 9 July 2019

  Permian basin GOR: recalibrating US gas production models

Lucy King

Senior Research Analyst, CCUS

Lucy provides insight and strategic analysis of the CCUS landscape.

Latest articles by Lucy

• Opinion 30 March 2023

  The future of CCUS: five key questions

• Opinion 1 September 2022

  Five key lessons for North Sea project delivery

• Opinion 3 May 2022

  The global CCUS pipeline is growing fast – but not fast enough

Anthony Knutson

Metals & Mining Emissions Research Lead

Anthony is a principal analyst with more than 20 years of experience across mining and power generation industries.

Latest articles by Anthony

• Opinion 19 April 2023

  Battery raw materials: tracking key market dynamics

• Opinion 11 May 2020

  Is green hydrogen metallurgical coal’s kryptonite?

Kuy Koh

Senior Research Analyst, Latin America Upstream

Kuy is a senior research analyst on our Latin America Upstream team, based in Mexico City.

Latest articles by Kuy

• Opinion 13 September 2022

  Colombia upstream: digging into multi-level intelligence

• Opinion 8 March 2022

  Can Brazil’s mature pre-salt oil fields continue stellar performances?

Kristy Kramer

Vice President, Gas & LNG Research

Kristy leads our gas market research team, delivering fundamental supply, demand and pricing analysis.

Latest articles by Kristy

• Opinion 6 September 2019

  Who will make money on the second wave of US LNG?

Siddhi Kulkarni

Lead Analyst, ERCOT Short Term Market

Siddhi leads the ERCOT short term market intelligence desk.

Adrian Lara

Principal Analyst, Upstream Latin America

Latest articles by Adrian

• Opinion 3 May 2023

  Gas resources in Latin America: the challenges to development

Søren Lassen

Head of Offshore Wind Research

Søren tracks, analyses and forecasts value chain dynamics, technological advancements and the market outlook.

Latest articles by Søren

• Opinion 22 December 2021

  Revenue/MWh for offshore wind projects will decline 66% between 2014 and 2025

• Opinion 1 June 2021

  The future of offshore wind: size matters  

• Opinion 4 February 2021

  Offshore wind: long-term promise after short-term decline

Andrew Latham

Vice President, Energy Research

With his extensive exploration expertise Andrew shapes portfolio development for international oil and gas companies.

Latest articles by Andrew

• Opinion 5 May 2022

  What is the future of oil and gas exploration?

• Featured 12 January 2021

  Proceed with caution: exploration’s watchword for 2021

• Featured 1 September 2019

  What happens to returns when explorers move to gas?

• Editorial 1 July 2019

  How oil and gas explorers are preparing for a low-carbon future

• Featured 17 June 2019

  Why explorers are in the grip of an existential crisis

• Opinion 19 December 2018

  Can exploration stay profitable in 2019?

Bhavya Laul

Principal Analyst, Copper

Bhavya monitors and forecasts both short- and long-term demand fundamentals, trends and indicators.

Victor Laurent

Head of Power Solutions

Victor brings a decade of experience in European power and renewables markets to his role.

Latest articles by Victor

• Opinion 27 April 2021

  The rise of renewables and real-time trading decisions

Kyeongho (Ken) Lee

Principal Analyst, Asia Pacific Power & Renewables

Ken is a principal analyst in our Power & Renewables group.

Latest articles by Kyeongho (Ken)

• Opinion 8 November 2022

  The power of the PPA: corporate renewable procurement sets a new record in Asia Pacific

• Opinion 8 March 2021

  South Korea’s 9th Basic Plan for electricity – a step closer to carbon neutrality?

Salmon Aidan Lee

Global Head of Polyesters

Salmon watches the Asian polyester chain from paraxylene to downstream markets in the Chinese- speaking world.

Latest articles by Salmon Aidan

• Opinion 16 November 2022

  Bottle battle: the fight for recycled plastic supply is on

• Opinion 25 April 2022

  Tackling the textile industry’s carbon footprint

• Opinion 3 February 2022

  The polyester chain in 2022 and beyond

• Opinion 9 December 2020

  Six trends that will shape the polyester industry to 2030

• Featured 21 January 2020

  What lies ahead for the polyester chain in 2020? | FORESIGHT 2020

• Opinion 30 January 2019

  How Chinese PTA and MEG futures impact the polyester industry?

Jonathan Leng

Principal Analyst, Zinc Markets

Jonathan brings an in-depth perspective to his analysis of zinc markets.

Luke Lewandowski

Director, Power & Renewables – Americas

Luke manages our research practice in the Americas, across power, wind, solar, and the grid edge.

Latest articles by Luke

• Opinion 24 April 2023

  The power of the sun: supporting energy security in Puerto Rico

• Opinion 3 October 2022

  Inflation Reduction Act propels the global wind outlook

• Opinion 25 April 2022

  China remains the global wind powerhouse

• Editorial 1 April 2022

  Let's Share the Sun: broadening energy access

• Opinion 15 December 2021

  China’s power ambitions boost global wind growth outlook

Sylvia Leyva Martinez

Senior Analyst, North America Utility-scale Solar

Sylvia specialises in utility-scale solar PV projects as a Senior Analyst in our Americas Power and Renewables team.

Latest articles by Sylvia

• The Edge 1 June 2023

  Cutting dependence on China’s renewables supply chain

• Opinion 25 May 2023

  US solar: the long and winding road to domestic module procurement

• Featured 23 January 2023

  Brighter skies for US solar in 2023? | 2023 outlook

• Opinion 28 June 2022

  US solar: Biden’s Executive Order brings (some) relief

Xiaoyang Li

Principal Analyst, Power & Renewables Research

Xiaoyang focuses on analysis of China’s wind power market

Latest articles by Xiaoyang

• Opinion 7 February 2023

  Expansion opportunities beckon for China’s wind companies

• Opinion 30 September 2021

  Wind power to play a key role in achieving China's carbon neutral goal

• Opinion 20 November 2019

  Supply chain bottlenecks limit China’s offshore wind growth to 2021

Endri Lico

Senior Analyst, Global Wind Supply Chain and Technology

Latest articles by Endri

• Opinion 8 May 2023

  Goldwind captures the top spot for global wind turbine supply

• Opinion 2 March 2023

  The wind energy industry paradox: short-term headwinds and long-term optimism

• Opinion 9 August 2022

  Wind industry faces a perfect storm of profit pressures

Robert Liew

Principal Analyst, Power and Renewables Research

Market specialist with over 15 years of power and renewables research experience.

Latest articles by Robert

• Opinion 8 July 2021

  Can wind power become truly carbon neutral?

• Opinion 20 November 2019

  Offshore wind pipeline in APAC excluding China exceeds 5 GW

Clay Lightfoot

Senior Manager, Americas Gas Research

Clay has more than a decade of energy industry experience and a particular expertise in political and regulatory issues.

Jia Liang Lim

Research Associate, Asia Pacific Power & Renewables

Jia Liang Lim works on Asia Pacific power modelling and market analysis including covering Southeast Asian markets.

Daniel Liu

Head of Asset Commercial Performance

Daniel's knowledge of technical, operational and financial aspects of wind and solar power informs his research.

Latest articles by Daniel

• The Edge 1 June 2023

  Cutting dependence on China’s renewables supply chain

• Opinion 28 September 2021

  Solar: a two-headed dragon looms on the horizon

• Opinion 16 June 2021

  Onshore wind: tackling cost escalation in operations and maintenance

• Opinion 16 March 2021

  Six ways the onshore wind O&M market will transform this decade

Emma Liu

Senior Consultant and Research Analyst, Fibres

Emma focuses on the Asian fibres market, where she closely follows prices and dynamics. 

Latest articles by Emma

• Opinion 25 April 2022

  Tackling the textile industry’s carbon footprint

• Opinion 21 December 2020

  How the delayed Olympic Games disrupts Japan’s recycled fibre sector

Olivia Loa

Research Analyst, Global Chemicals

Olivia has experience across the energy value chain, from upstream oil and gas to chemicals and renewables.

Latest articles by Olivia

• Opinion 14 June 2022

  Can chemical recycling close the plastic loop?

Anthony Logan

Senior Wind Analyst

Anthony focuses on the wind power value chain in North America, Central America and the Caribbean.

Adele Long

Senior Research Manager, Australasia Upstream

Latest articles by Adele

• Opinion 13 June 2019

  Renewables, market intervention and exploration – three themes weighing on Australia upstream players' minds

Ying Lu

Senior Research Analyst, Cobalt

Ying is Wood Mackenzie’s cobalt analyst based in London.

Latest articles by Ying

• Opinion 18 July 2022

  Energy transition metals: the ESG dilemma

Arthur Luo

Consultant, Chemicals

Arthur joined our Shanghai office in 2017 as an analyst covering the polyester chain in East Asia.

Derryn Maade

Head of Metals and Mining Markets

Derryn leads a team of analysts providing insight into steel, iron ore, metallurgical and thermal coal.

Cicero Machado

Manager of Bulks Assets

Cicero leads our global asset coverage of coal, iron ore and steel.

Latest articles by Cicero

• Opinion 28 April 2017

  Royalty increases in Brazil: a renewed burden for iron ore miners or a threat to their international competitiveness?

Jom Madan

Senior Research Analyst, Scenarios & Technologies

Jom works on scenario modelling for country and global-level energy mixes across all major energy commodities

Latest articles by Jom

• Opinion 1 May 2023

  Could energy recovery solve the mounting problem of global waste?

Sohaib Malik

Principal Analyst, Energy Transition Practice

Latest articles by Sohaib

• Opinion 9 December 2021

  Germany's ‘traffic light’ coalition greenlights a faster energy transition

• Opinion 26 July 2021

  Sustaining the onshore wind boom in the Nordics

• Opinion 11 March 2019

  Russian onshore wind market reaches crossroads

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Aaron Marks

Senior Research Analyst, North American Energy Storage Technology

Aaron is a Senior Research Analyst on the Energy Storage team, focusing on Asset Strategy.

Latest articles by Aaron

• Featured 14 December 2022

  Energy storage: the market force tug-of-war continues in 2023

Peter Martin

Director, Macroeconomics

Peter is responsible for producing our macroeconomic outlook to 2050.

Latest articles by Peter

• Opinion 27 October 2021

  COP26: The economics of the energy transition

• Opinion 2 April 2020

  Three signs that a global recession is imminent

• Opinion 12 March 2020

  5 factors that will determine the economic impact of coronavirus

• Featured 4 November 2019

  Three forces weakening US dollar’s grip on commodity pricing

Rory McCarthy

Senior Research Manager, European Power

Rory supports our research and consulting functions as a subject matter expert in energy storage and system flexibility.

Latest articles by Rory

• Opinion 24 March 2021

  Will renewable auctions underpin Europe’s net zero ambitions?

• Featured 7 January 2021

  Will 2021 be a record-breaking year for renewables auctions in Europe?

• Opinion 9 November 2020

  Three reasons why Europe is set to lose the energy storage race

• Opinion 18 June 2020

  Power system flexibility key to Europe's net zero targets

• Opinion 6 April 2020

  What’s behind the energy storage boom?

• Editorial 8 January 2020

  System Flexibility – Europe’s key to energy transition?

Michael McDermott

Senior Research Analyst, Polyolefins

Michael is responsible for research and analysis of the polyolefins market in EMEA and global.

Latest articles by Michael

• Opinion 11 August 2022

  Overcapacity puts pressure on polypropylene markets

Brian McIntosh

Research Director, Power and Renewables

Brian brings more than fifteen years of power industry experience to his role.

Latest articles by Brian

• Opinion 4 October 2022

  Can Maryland make net zero work?

• Opinion 22 July 2022

  Global power markets outlook: the energy transition gathers pace

Fraser McKay

Vice President, Head of Upstream Analysis

As head of upstream research, Fraser maximises the quality and impact of our analysis of key global upstream themes.

Latest articles by Fraser

• Opinion 12 April 2023

  Benchmarking 2023’s upstream FIDs

• Opinion 28 March 2023

  Global upstream: four big themes to watch

• Featured 12 January 2023

  Upstream oil and gas: region-by-region predictions for 2023

• Opinion 24 November 2022

  Global deepwater production to increase 60%

• Opinion 13 October 2022

  Can Norway move from oil and gas supplier of choice to energy super basin?

• Opinion 23 September 2022

  UK energy exports and fracking: aspiration or pipe dream?

Craig McMahon

Senior Vice President, Head of Upstream Research & President of Wood Mackenzie Americas

Craig's remit is to grow the Wood Mackenzie brand in the US and Canada and support clients across the region.

Gordon McManus

Research Director, EMEARC Oils and Refining

Gordon is responsible for leading our global coverage of the long term oil products markets.

Prachi Mehta

Principal Analyst

Prachi leads our short-term and long-term NGL service.

Latest articles by Prachi

• Opinion 11 May 2022

  Can the US make the switch to electric heavy-duty trucks?

• Editorial 1 April 2022

  Let's Share the Sun: broadening energy access

• Opinion 11 August 2021

  The global electric vehicle race is heating up

Evgeniya Mezentseva

Research Analyst, EMEARC Gas & LNG

Evgeniya is an analyst for the Global Gas Model team and focuses on EMEARC gas demand, pipelines, supply and storage.

Joe Midgley

Executive Vice President, Head of Upstream, Corporate and Carbon Solutions

Joe helps clients by bringing together Wood Mackenzie's deep industry knowledge and world class advice.

Erik Mielke

Senior Vice President, Corporate Research

Erik manages our corporate service, leading data-driven analysis and insight into strategies, performance and outlook.

Latest articles by Erik

• Featured 24 August 2022

  Why the Majors need to consider margins in weighing up offshore wind

Susan Miles

Senior Research Analyst, Global Exploration

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Latest articles by Susan

• Featured 7 December 2022

  Will 2023 bring revitalised opportunities for oil & gas exploration? | 2023 outlook

Andrew Mitchell

Director, Nickel Research

Specialising in nickel for over 20 years, Andrew has a deep understanding of the metals and mining industry.

Latest articles by Andrew

• Opinion 4 April 2022

  Nickel and copper: building blocks for a greener future

• Opinion 8 June 2020

  How electric vehicles are driving the nickel sulphate market

Juma Mlawa

Upstream Analyst, Sub-Saharan Africa Oil and Gas

Juma provides Wood Mackenzie’s upstream coverage of East and Southern Africa.

Erin Moffat

Principal Analyst, Upstream Supply Chain

Erin brings 15 years of industry experience to her role in our Upstream Supply Chain team.

Latest articles by Erin

• Featured 10 January 2022

  A new roadmap for the upstream supply chain in 2022? | 2022 Outlook

• Opinion 8 November 2021

  Can the supply chain cope with Norway’s upstream investment surge?

Juan Monge

Principal Analyst, Distributed Solar, Europe

Juan covers distributed solar market developments across Europe.

Vinicius Moraes

Research Associate, Latin America Upstream

Vinicius specialises in coverage of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Trinidad & Tobago.

Latest articles by Vinicius

• Opinion 13 September 2022

  Colombia upstream: digging into multi-level intelligence

Mariana Santos Moreira

Principal Research Analyst, Chemicals of the Energy Transition

Mariana's research focuses on regional and global markets for ammonia and methanol.

Latest articles by Mariana Santos

• Opinion 8 February 2021

  How will the EU plastics levy change the flexible packaging market?

• Opinion 27 October 2020

  How flexible packaging demand has given BOPP film a boost

• Opinion 25 August 2020

  Paper or plastic: what’s the most sustainable flexible packaging?

Glenn Morrall

Research Analyst, North Sea Upstream

Glenn's research focuses particularly on the UK upstream sector.

Latest articles by Glenn

• Opinion 17 November 2022

  Last dance for UK upstream exploration?

• Opinion 4 June 2019

  A tantalising year for North Sea exploration

Iain Mowat

Principal Analyst, EMEARC Refining and Oil Product Markets

Iain brings extensive knowledge of global energy markets to his analysis of energy and petroleum demand.

Latest articles by Iain

• Opinion 2 May 2022

  Decarbonising global shipping

• Opinion 26 February 2021

  Could alternative marine fuels decarbonise shipping?

Michael Moynihan

Research Director, Russia Upstream Oil and Gas

As a research director in our upstream team, Michael analyses developments in the upstream industry in Russia.

Sean Mulshaw

Research Director, Nickel Markets

Sean is an expert in global nickel, stainless steel and molybdenum markets.

Latest articles by Sean

• Opinion 24 May 2022

  Steel alloys: a defining moment

Martijn Murphy

Principal Analyst, North Africa Upstream

Yuliya Nam-Wright

Principal Analyst, Polymer Sustainability

Yuliya's focus is on recycled markets, as well as wider sustainability challenges affecting the plastics industry.

Latest articles by Yuliya

• Opinion 9 February 2023

  Can imports solve the plastic recycling challenge?

Sooraj Narayan

Senior Research Analyst, APAC Power & Renewables

Sooraj specialises in power and renewables modelling and analytical research, focusing on the Indian power market.

Nathan Nemeth

Principal Analyst, Global Unconventional Plays

Nathan is focused on Canadian and Lower 48 unconventional plays research.

Latest articles by Nathan

• Opinion 27 April 2023

  Will a supply response help avoid US gas storage containment this summer?

Scott Norlin

Research Analyst, Canada Upstream

Scott provides financial asset valuation and objective commercial analysis on company and play activity across Canada.

Latest articles by Scott

• Featured 5 January 2023

  CCUS 2023 outlook

Ken Norris

Research Analyst, Grid Edge

Ken brings economic analysis of demand-side participation to Wood Mackenzie’s Grid Edge practice.

Asti Nuraini Asra

Principal Analyst - APAC Gas & LNG Research

Asti provides commercial insight into market dynamics in the APAC region

Latest articles by Asti

• Editorial 15 July 2019

  Unlocking opportunities for small scale LNG in Indonesia

Mark Oberstoetter

Head of Americas (non-L48) Upstream Research

Mark has extensively covered the North Slope, deepwater, oil sands and unconventional sectors.

Latest articles by Mark

• Opinion 12 April 2021

  Could restricting oil production in the US Gulf of Mexico lead to carbon leakage?

Eunji Oh

Research Analyst, North America Gas

Eunji’s research focuses on gas demand forecasting and regional market analysis.

Peter Osbaldstone

Research Director, Europe Power

Peter is a research director with more than a decade’s experience in European power and renewables markets.

Latest articles by Peter

• Opinion 27 October 2022

  European power: why reliance on gas is a hard habit to break

• Opinion 27 October 2021

  This is not a drill: key lessons from GB power price spikes

• Opinion 18 March 2020

  How Italy’s lockdown is affecting power demand

Femi Oso

Research Director, Middle East & Africa Upstream

Femi leads a team of 30 analysts covering energy markets and corporate activity in Africa.

Luke Parker

Vice President, Corporate Research

Luke is Vice President of Corporate Research with a specific focus on the Supermajors.

Latest articles by Luke

• Featured 28 August 2019

  How can Big Oil stay investible through the energy transition?

Uday Patel

Senior Research Manager, Global Aluminium Markets

Uday is a senior research manager focused on global aluminium markets.

Latest articles by Uday

• Featured 3 September 2019

  Aluminium vs plastic: who’ll win the water bottle war?

Harry Paton

Senior Research Analyst, Oil Supply

Harry is a member of four oil supply research team. His focus is developing oil price models and benchmarking assets.

Latest articles by Harry

• Opinion 14 March 2018

  Can conventional oil projects compete with L48 oil?

Andrew Pearson

Global Head, Gas & LNG Fundamentals Research

Allan Pedersen

Principal Analyst, Lithium

Latest articles by Allan

• Opinion 31 May 2023

  Six factors shaping the lithium market

• Opinion 19 April 2023

  Battery raw materials: tracking key market dynamics

Allyson Pellicci

Senior Research Manager, Global Gas Modelling

Allyson brings 15 years of industry experience to her role on our Global Gas Modelling team

Nick Pickens

Research Director, Global Mining

Nick has over 20 years of experience in the metals and mining sector across base, bulk and precious metals.

Latest articles by Nick

• Opinion 28 February 2023

  The role of African mining in the energy transition

• Opinion 4 April 2022

  Nickel and copper: building blocks for a greener future

Robert Polk

Principal Analyst, Corporate Research

Robert is a principal analyst with our US Corporate Research team, covering Lower 48 independents.

Latest articles by Robert

• Opinion 8 November 2021

  Continental off the shelf with Permian Basin purchase from Pioneer

Raphael Portela

Principal Research Analyst, Corporate Analysis

Raphael focuses on Latin America and its national oil companies as a senior analyst on our Corporate Research team.

Latest articles by Raphael

• Opinion 26 April 2023

  Are NOCs rising to the energy transition challenge?

• Opinion 29 March 2022

  How are global NOCs tackling the energy transition?

Kárys Prado

Research Analyst, LATAM Wind

Kárys leads Wood Mackenzie’s wind power analysis for Latin America.

Egor Prokhodtsev

Senior Research Analyst, Transportation & Mobility

Egor is a senior research analyst responsible for battery raw materials demand modelling.

Latest articles by Egor

• Featured 18 January 2023

  Electric vehicles and battery supply chain: bumpy road ahead in 2023?

Mark Pyman

Research Associate, EMEA Power & Renewables

Mark monitors power market trends across Europe.

Latest articles by Mark

• Opinion 6 April 2023

  How effective were EU emergency power demand reduction measures?

Jodi Quinnell

Manager, Crude Oil Analytics and Forecasting, Short-term Analytics

Jodi has over a decade of energy market experience and in-depth understanding of the North American crude oil market.

Annie Rabi Bernard

Research Analyst, Solar

Annie's research focuses on PV systems and technology, specifically PV inverter and tracker technologies.

Błażej Radomski

Principal Analyst, Europe and Japan Power Markets

Latest articles by Błażej

• Opinion 12 September 2022

  Changing price patterns in the European power markets

• Opinion 22 February 2022

  Why real-time data could be the key to successful power trading strategies

April Read

Senior Analyst, Subsurface Research

April manages our Global Unconventional Play Service.

Latest articles by April

• Opinion 1 September 2022

  Could a return to shale exploration be part of the solution to Europe’s gas supply problem?

Max Reid

Senior Research Analyst, Electric Vehicles & Battery Supply Chain Service

Max tracks supply chain developments, technological innovations and progressions in battery demand sectors.

Latest articles by Max

• Opinion 21 February 2023

  Sodium-ion batteries: disrupt and conquer?

• Featured 18 January 2023

  Electric vehicles and battery supply chain: bumpy road ahead in 2023?

• Opinion 27 July 2022

  Will semi-solid battery technology render solid-state batteries redundant?

• Opinion 23 June 2022

  Can recycling fill the battery raw material supply gap?

• Opinion 8 December 2021

  False dawn for lithium-ion battery recycling?

• Opinion 7 December 2021

  False dawn for lithium-ion battery recycling?

Amir Rejvani

Senior Research Analyst, LNG and Intrastate Storage

Latest articles by Amir

• Opinion 1 June 2023

  US LNG: maintenance forecast

Yuan Ren

Senior Consultant, Asia Pacific Power & Renewables Research

Yuan provides analysis covering China’s wind market

Latest articles by Yuan

• Opinion 7 February 2023

  Expansion opportunities beckon for China’s wind companies

Greg Roddick

Principal Analyst, Upstream

Greg has almost 15 years of industry experience, focused on corporate strategy, fiscal modelling and economic analysis.

Latest articles by Greg

• Opinion 12 April 2023

  Benchmarking 2023’s upstream FIDs

• Opinion 22 February 2023

  Has Norway’s oil and gas tax stimulus been a success?

• Opinion 23 September 2022

  UK energy exports and fracking: aspiration or pipe dream?

Angus Rodger

Research Director, Asia Pacific

Angus leads our benchmark analysis of global Pre-FID delays, and deep water developments.

Latest articles by Angus

• Opinion 12 April 2023

  Japan pulls no punches on risks to Australian LNG exports

• Opinion 24 November 2022

  Global deepwater production to increase 60%

• Opinion 23 November 2021

  Can Asia avert a gas supply crisis?

• Opinion 25 August 2021

  COP26: the future of upstream is in governments' hands

• Opinion 11 August 2021

  Catch, don’t release: the dawn of the CCS era

• Opinion 16 September 2020

  Which Supermajors’ portfolios are most resilient?

Daniel Rogers

Senior Oil and Gas Analyst

Daniel Rogers is a Senior Oil and Gas Analyst at Wood Mackenzie

Rodrigo Rosas

Senior Analyst, Americas Gas Research

Rodrigo has a strong background in oil and gas market analysis, appraisal projects and scenario modelling.

Justin Rostant

Principal Analyst – US Gulf of Mexico Upstream

Justin is a principal analyst with more than 15 years of energy industry experience.

Latest articles by Justin

• Opinion 29 July 2020

  What would a Joe Biden win mean for oil and gas?

Dalia Salem

Research Analyst, Middle East Upstream

Dalia is responsible for upstream research with a focus on UAE and Oman.

Latest articles by Dalia

• Opinion 17 May 2023

  Drilling down into the UAE’s exploration renaissance

Srinivasan Santhakumar

Senior Research Analyst, Offshore Wind

Srinivasan is a senior analyst with a particular focus on asset valuation, LCOE forecasts and market research.

Latest articles by Srinivasan

• Opinion 1 November 2022

  Offshore wind: policy frameworks decide who wins – but not when

Rachel Schelble

Head of Corporate Carbon Management and Infrastructure, Corporate Service

Rachel leads the development of our corporate midstream research service.

Latest articles by Rachel

• Opinion 1 May 2023

  Oil and gas Majors: venture capital strategies for the energy transition

• Opinion 20 September 2022

  The unique role that oil and gas companies have in the energy transition

• Opinion 16 September 2022

  Oil (and gas) change: game-changing corporate energy transition strategies

• Opinion 22 June 2022

  Will COP27 be a turning point for oil and gas funding?

• Opinion 14 March 2022

  Three ways midstream operators can fuel the energy transition

• Opinion 7 March 2022

  How are oil and gas companies using carbon offsets to decarbonise?

Lucas Schmitt

Principal Analyst, Short-Term LNG

Lucas provides clients with data and insight on short-term gas and LNG markets.

Latest articles by Lucas

• Opinion 20 March 2023

  Will lower gas prices spark switching in Europe and Asia?

• Editorial 11 October 2022

  Satellite tracking, remote sensing: how we monitor the LNG market

Stephanie Scollard

Product Analyst, Subsurface

Stephanie is a subsurface product analyst focused on Lower 48 well and production data.

Teboho Sebetlela

Research Manager, Steel Alloy Markets

Teboho manages our steel alloy markets team, which encompasses bulk and noble steel alloys.

Latest articles by Teboho

• Opinion 24 May 2022

  Steel alloys: a defining moment

Hazel Seftor

Senior Research Analyst, Global Oil Supply

Hazel is a senior research analyst with our oil supply team, covering the Middle East and North Africa.

Latest articles by Hazel

• Opinion 10 February 2020

  How will geopolitics influence global oil supply in 2020?

Chris Seiple

Vice Chairman, Energy Transition and Power & Renewables

Chris brings more than 25 years of global power industry experience to work across our team of over 150 researchers.

Latest articles by Chris

• Opinion 14 March 2023

  Green hydrogen: what the Inflation Reduction Act means for production economics and carbon intensity

• Opinion 19 August 2022

  US Inflation Reduction Act set to make climate history

• Opinion 1 September 2021

  COP26: A smooth transfer of power in electricity generation?

Kashish Shah

Senior Research Analyst, Energy Storage APAC

Kashish focuses on market developments, future scenarios and supply chain dynamics across the value chain.

Kevin Shang

Senior Research Analyst, Energy Storage Technology and Supply Chain

Kevin Shang is a senior analyst on our Global Energy Storage team.

Latest articles by Kevin

• Opinion 25 April 2023

  Energy storage technology: three trends to watch

• Opinion 21 June 2022

  Sustainable smelting: how green can it go?

• Opinion 12 April 2022

  Quantifying battery raw material demand

Prakash Sharma

Vice President, Multi-Commodity Research

Latest articles by Prakash

• The Edge 1 June 2023

  Cutting dependence on China’s renewables supply chain

• Opinion 8 February 2023

  Introducing our Global Net Zero Pledges Scenario

• Opinion 24 August 2021

  What role will nuclear power play in the energy transition?

• Opinion 16 August 2021

  What would it take to reach net zero emissions before 2050?

• Opinion 4 August 2021

  COP26: how the energy and natural resources industries are responding to climate change challenges

• Opinion 20 July 2021

  Green or blue? The colour of Australia’s hydrogen money

Jake Sharp

Lead Product Specialist

Jake is a lead product specialist in the Customer Organization team.

Benjamin Shattuck

Research Director, Americas Upstream Oil & Gas

Benjamin leads our US upstream analysis and specialises in the Lower 48.

Latest articles by Benjamin

• Opinion 2 June 2021

  A focused Lens on Permian private players

• Opinion 1 June 2021

  A focused Lens on Permian private players

• Editorial 27 October 2020

  Pioneer plus Parsley: What’s our Permian prognosis?

Caitlin Shaw

Research Director, Upstream Supply Chain

Caitlin Shaw is a research director of upstream supply chain.

Suzanne Shaw

Head of Energy Transition & Battery Raw Materials

Suzanne specialises in commodities including cathode and precursor, lithium, cobalt, graphite, rare earths and lead.

Latest articles by Suzanne

• Opinion 19 April 2023

  Battery raw materials: tracking key market dynamics

• Opinion 18 July 2022

  Energy transition metals: the ESG dilemma

Ashley Sherman

Research Director, Upstream Oil and Gas

Ashley leads our analysis of the Caspian Upstream sector.

Latest articles by Ashley

• Opinion 18 August 2022

  Europe upstream: the pressure is on

• Opinion 19 January 2022

  Kazakhstan’s upstream sector takes stock after nationwide unrest

• Opinion 28 June 2021

  Can the Caspian region still compete for upstream capital?

• Opinion 30 September 2019

  Kazakhstan gas stretched by commitments to China

• Opinion 6 September 2019

  Revisiting the landmark Caspian Sea agreement

Scott Sherwood

Director of Engineering

Scott works closely with our product and engineering teams to deliver well designed, commercially relevant products.

Ami Shivkar

Principal Analyst, Aluminium

Ami has more than a decade of experience in the metals industry, specialising in aluminium and alumina markets.

Rishab Shrestha

Senior Research Analyst, Europe Power

Rishab is a senior analyst at Wood Mackenzie, focusing on European power and renewables markets.

Latest articles by Rishab

• Opinion 8 March 2023

  Renewable energy costs continue to fall across Europe

• Opinion 17 December 2019

  Sluggish solar installations seen in China throughout 2019

Rory Simington

Principal Analyst, Asia Pacific Thermal Coal Research

Rory Simington is a research analyst with over twenty years' experience in the Australian mining industry.

Latest articles by Rory

• Opinion 4 March 2021

  Australian coal exports bounce back from China’s ban

• Opinion 26 March 2019

  China's thermal coal import restriction could mean a game of musical chairs for producers

Luke Simpson

Research Analyst, Australasia Upstream

Luke focuses on analysis of upstream project economics and greenhouse gas emissions across Australasia.

James Sinclair

Senior Analyst, Asia Pacific Power & Renewables

James leads our Australia and New Zealand power markets and renewables research

Harry Singh

Chief Product Officer

Matt Slutzker

Senior Analyst, PET/RPET

Matt covers PET and RPET in the Americas, analysing dynamic regional markets.

Latest articles by Matt

• Opinion 9 February 2023

  Can imports solve the plastic recycling challenge?

Sofia Solis

Research Analyst, Latin America Power & Renewables

Sofia’s research focuses on wind, energy storage and solar technologies for Latin America.

Vidhya Sreelalan

Principal Analyst, Gold

Vidhya has over 10 years’ experience analysing the metals markets from both research and equities perspectives.

Lucas Stavole

Senior Analyst – North America Wind

Lucas is responsible for wind market research and analysis in North America

Latest articles by Lucas

• Opinion 3 August 2021

  Can the US offshore wind industry reach Biden’s 30 GW target?

Johnny Stewart

Principal Analyst, Downstream, Midstream and Chemicals

Johnny focuses on refinery supply, infrastructure and investments across the Middle East, Europe and Africa.

Latest articles by Johnny

• Opinion 10 November 2021

  Will carbon costs destroy the added value from refinery-petrochemical integration?​

• Opinion 23 August 2021

  Onsan refinery case study: how much value will greater refinery-petrochemical integration add for S-Oil?

Mike Stinebaugh

Analyst, Corporate Research

Mike performs upstream natural gas asset valuations, with a focus on the Marcellus and Utica shales.

Latest articles by Mike

• Opinion 12 July 2022

  US LNG exports: upping the upstream ante

Jonathan Sultoon

Head of Markets & Transitions, Energy Transition Practice

Jonathan has over 18 years’ experience leading analysis for global energy markets

Latest articles by Jonathan

• Opinion 10 May 2021

  Which technologies will drive the energy transition?

• Featured 4 March 2021

  What would it take to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees?

Zoë Sutherland

Principal Analyst

Zoë is a principal analyst with more than 15 years of industry experience.

Latest articles by Zoë

• Opinion 4 May 2021

  Can carbon capture help Big Oil reach its net zero targets?

Kevin Swann

Senior Research analyst

Kevin is an expert in UK upstream research and has extensive experience working across the sector.

Latest articles by Kevin

• Opinion 1 March 2022

  The importance of Ukraine's upstream and midstream

• Opinion 1 December 2021

  Lukoil takes Petronas’ Shah Deniz stake in US$2.25bn deal

Ryan Sweezey

Principal Analyst, North America Power & Renewables

Ryan focuses on coverage of North America power markets, producing forecasts of power, capacity and REC prices.

Latest articles by Ryan

• Opinion 8 March 2023

  The indefinite Inflation Reduction Act: will tax credits for renewables be around for decades?

• Opinion 4 October 2022

  Can Maryland make net zero work?

• Opinion 28 April 2021

  Winter reliability and the road to net zero

Zach Szumloz

Lead Meteorologist, North American Short-Term Power

Zach’s primary focus is on how weather impacts electricity consumption and renewable generation.

Catherine Tan

Principal Analyst, Asia Olefins

Catherine is responsible for Wood Mackenzie's ethylene and propylene analysis in Asia.

Latest articles by Catherine

• Opinion 11 August 2022

  Propylene: through the downcycle and beyond

• Opinion 11 August 2022

  Propylene: picking the winners and losers

Jamie Taylor

Senior Product Specialist, Lens (Asia Pacific)

Jamie is a senior product manager who brings in-depth upstream sector knowledge and regional expertise to his role.

Latest articles by Jamie

• Opinion 7 July 2022

  How NOCs’ exploration strategies are evolving

• Opinion 2 December 2020

  Three factors driving the upstream M&A market

Alexandra Tennant

Senior Analyst, PET/RPET

Alexandra covers the PET and RPET markets for North and South America.

Latest articles by Alexandra

• Opinion 14 June 2022

  Can chemical recycling close the plastic loop?

Ian Thom

Research Director, Middle East Upstream

Ian is a research director focused on the Middle East upstream sector.

Latest articles by Ian

• Opinion 18 April 2023

  Headwinds on the upstream energy transition journey

• Opinion 27 January 2022

  Upstream: short-term spend and long-term trend

• Opinion 10 August 2021

  Oil and gas: a risky business

• Opinion 17 April 2020

  Middle East oil & gas operators in a better position to weather the storm than global peers

• Opinion 1 April 2020

  Oil price crash: how Middle East, Russian and US upstream industry responses compare

• Opinion 4 March 2020

  Middle East boosts its unconventional gas resources

Andrew Thomas

Head of Lead and Zinc

An experienced analyst with in-depth knowledge of the zinc market, Andrew has followed metal markets for over 20 years.

Rhodri Thomas

Senior Vice President, Head of EMEARC Research

Rhodri's specialism is upstream and midstream oil and gas and commodity marketing.

Gavin Thompson

Vice Chairman, Energy – Asia Pacific

Gavin oversees our Asia Pacific research helping companies identify and build their international growth strategies.

Latest articles by Gavin

• Opinion 31 May 2023

  Securing Asia’s energy and natural resources future

• Opinion 25 May 2023

  Asia’s renewables need massive grid investment

• Opinion 12 April 2023

  Japan pulls no punches on risks to Australian LNG exports

• Opinion 8 March 2023

  Can Japan deliver its offshore wind potential?

• Opinion 15 February 2023

  Asia’s nuclear power surge

• Opinion 1 February 2023

  Australia’s deepening gas market turmoil

Douglas Thyne

Research Director

Douglas manages our global oil supply research and forecasts.

Daniel Toleman

Principal Research Analyst, Global LNG (Asia)

Daniel is a Principal Analyst with more than ten years of industry experience.

Latest articles by Daniel

• Opinion 26 May 2022

  Green LNG: can Australia prioritise decarbonisation in a high-priced world?

• Opinion 17 August 2018

  Dorado: Australia's biggest oil discovery this century

Janette Tourney

Principal Analyst, Copper Mine Costs

Janette’s analysis is enriched by extensive background knowledge of geochemistry and geology.

Andrew Utz

Product Manager - Energy Transition

Andrew Utz is a Product Director of Lower 48 Data Analytics.

Latest articles by Andrew

• Opinion 20 September 2021

  Could solar energy power nearly half of the US electric grid by 2050?

• Opinion 20 September 2021

  UK Wind Capacity Case Study

• Opinion 20 September 2021

  Could solar energy power nearly half of the US electric grid by 2050?

• Opinion 20 September 2021

  Could solar energy power nearly half of the US electric grid by 2050?