Global Oil Storage Monitoring

A unique solution combining visual imagery measurements of storage assets across North America and Europe with satellite measured data in hard to monitor regions.

Horizons podcast: Scraping the barrel

• 06 三月 2023

Is the world running out of high-quality oil and gas? Valentina Kretzschmar, Head of Energy Transition at Capricorn Energy and Andrew Latham, Vice-President of Energy Research at Wood Mackenzie join to discuss this month’s Horizons topic.

Canada upstream: 4 things to look for in 2024

• 10 一月 2024

The inflection points we see across the production, exploration, sustainability and M&A themes.

Webinar | Regional vs. Northern Sands: is the Permian proppant debate over?(2)

• 27 八月 2019

Please join our premier US Lower 48 research team's webinar to hear our take on this long-standing industry debate on Regional vs. Northern Sands. Our latest analysis will put the Permian proppant debate to a standing still.

Offshore wind at a pivotal moment

• 24 十月 2023

Supply chain bottlenecks and rising interest rates threaten the viability of offshore wind projects. The policy response will be critical.

Walking on hot coal

• 24 九月 2021

Thermal coal prices have been hitting record highs in recent months, driven by the same forces that have stoked many other commodity markets this year

US anger at OPEC+ production cut

• 11 十月 2022

The decision provoked some anger in the US. But the actual production cut is smaller than the headlines imply, and is coming as global demand for oil is faltering.

Tariffs begin to redirect global energy trade flows

• 06 五月 2025

The full impact of the new tariffs has not yet worked through world markets, but US energy exports to China have been falling

US$8 billion in clean energy projects were cancelled this year

• 20 五月 2025

Tariffs, cancellations and market chaos—can the US clean energy sector survive the storm or is China poised to dominate the future energy economy?

US Congress threatens to cut support for nuclear power

• 30 五月 2025

The Trump administration wants increased investment, but proposed legislation could undermine it.

Geothermal: the next North American goldrush?

• 29 五月 2025

Next generation technology is opening up a new world of opportunities for this established energy resource

The shrinking scale of greenfield oil and gas projects: slowing growth prospects outside the L48 bubble

• 26 一月 2017

Despite the uptick in numbers, investment in greenfield conventional projects is stuck at a low ebb.

Video | Tariff turmoil: how big a cost hit will US oil and gas operators take?

• 15 五月 2025

In this exclusive video, we explore the impact of shifting tariff policies on costs, activity, and company behaviour across the U.S. Lower 48 and Gulf of Mexico.

Meeting the data center power challenge

• 07 五月 2025

In the second article of this two-part series, we discuss how utilities and large-load customers can prepare for the increasing electricity demand driven by AI and data center growth. This includes investment in infrastructure and collaboration between utilities and data center operators.

What the data center boom means for grids

• 07 五月 2025

In this first article of a two-part series, we discuss the increasing electricity demand due to the growth of data centers, particularly driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing.

US wind market installations hit a decade low

• 08 四月 2025

The U.S. wind market continued a downward trend in 2024, with 5.2 gigawatts (GW) of total installations, the lowest in 10 years, according to the U.S. Wind Energy Monitor report released by Wood Mackenzie. The report shows that 3.9 GW of onshore builds came online last year, along with 1.3 GW of onshore repowers and 101 megawatts (MW) of installed offshore capacity.

US solar industry to add 502 GWdc of capacity in next 10 years

• 23 四月 2025

Speaking from Wood Mackenzie's Solar and Energy Storage Summit, Sylvia Leyva Martinez, Principal Analyst, North America Utility-Scale Solar, said, "Bright skies are ahead for US solar, with average annual installations surpassing 40 GWdc through 2035. In total, the US solar industry will add about 502 GWdc of capacity to the market in the next 10 years."

Clean energy finance in uncertain times

• 05 六月 2025

Dive into the future of clean energy finance with industry titans as they navigate uncertain times and debate crucial policy changes at the ACORE Finance Forum in New York.

US residential solar turbulence persisted through 2024

• 23 四月 2025

Residential solar installed capacity contracted for the first time since 2017, with significant shifts occurring in the financing landscape

Biofuels Production Monitor

Real-time renewable and biodiesel production alerts for key facilities across North America.

Power Market Fundamentals

Our power solutions combine multi-commodity data, proprietary cost intelligence, asset-level data, unique geospatial capabilities, and market fundamentals to help discover new opportunities while assessing risk.

North America Power Solutions

Get a visual representation of major constraint patterns, congestion risks, and historic impact analysis.

Natural Gas Analytics

Discover how our Natural Gas Analytics suite delivers essential insights and analytics to empower confident, agile decision-making in the dynamic natural gas market.

Lens platform: Lens Power & Renewables Americas

• 21 二月 2025

Make sense of the complex regional and sub-regional market structures with integrated analyses connecting power markets with commodity markets.

Is US solar growth truly unstoppable?

• 17 十二月 2024

Sylvia is joined by Abigail Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, to discuss the industry's current state in the wake of the US election, the implications of the Inflation Reduction Act, potential changes to tax credits, and the impact of tariffs and energy demand on the industry.

Is geothermal energy the key to stabilising the grid? | Podcast

• 07 四月 2023

In the latest episode, we discuss the growing importance of geothermal energy in power generation, Virtual Power Plants and the trend of ESG investing.

Permian produced water: slowly extinguishing a roaring basin?

• 11 六月 2018

With the recent rise oil prices, operators have been adding rigs and ramping up completions in the Permian Basin – the largest and most important source of oil supply growth in the world. However, persistent operational water challenges present a material risk to companies' future profitability and production.

North America to lead next wave of global LNG projects

• 18 十二月 2018

North America will lead the next wave of global LNG project sanctions in 2019, with three US Gulf Coast developments expected to reach final investment decision (FID) in the first half of 2019, according to Wood Mackenzie's latest quarterly North America LNG projects update.

Upstream companies positioned to thrive in 2019

• 17 十二月 2018

Price volatility. Market turbulence. Geopolitical tensions. As 2018 draws to a close the stage is already set for a fascinating 2019 in the upstream industry. In the recently published 2019 upstream and corporate outlook reports, Wood Mackenzie highlights how well prepared the industry is to adapt and thrive in tumultuous times.

Golden Pass crests second wave of US LNG

• 05 二月 2019

ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum’s announcement that they will proceed with development of the Golden Pass liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project at Sabine Pass, Texas, kicks off what could be a record year for LNG final investment decisions (FIDs). The go-ahead for Golden Pass LNG comes as Anadarko and its partners in Mozambique LNG (Area 1) took a major step towards FID after signing sales and purchase agreements (SPAs) with CNOOC, Tokyo Gas-Centrica and Shell. ExxonMobil (30%) and Qatar Petroleum (70%) said construction at Golden Pass will begin in the first quarter of this year, with start-up scheduled for 2024.