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A high carbon tax could erode up to 60% of Asia’s total refining earnings by 2027, says Wood Mackenzie, at the Global Energy Summit Focus Week.
China begins the sale of its Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR) today. According to Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq:VRSK), the SPR auction is unlikely to have material impact on crude oil markets globally.
US President Joe Biden has a transformational goal: he wants the country to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, building on the net-zero power sector he wants in place by 2035. Can the US meet this challenge? According to new research released today by global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq: VRSK), the US is likely to struggle to achieve Biden’s ambitions. Technological limitations, policy design, market structures and even the United States’ political and constitutional foundations may hamper progress.
The severe drought in Brazil will contribute to an extremely tight power balance in the country, new research from global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq: VRSK), shows.
UK gas production is down 28% year-to-date, helping fuel the current European gas price rally, global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq: VRSK) said.
The use of carbon capture and storage (CCS) could have a material impact on LNG projects’ carbon emissions. Depending on the strategy adopted, more than 25% of overall carbon emissions could be removed, says Wood Mackenzie,
– Oil and gas companies must use the current cash flow windfall opportunity to speed up decarbonisation of their businesses, global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq: VRSK) said in a report released today.
The development of net zero hubs around the UK has proved a key plank of the country’s strategy towards achieving net zero by 2050. Scotland, which has a 2045 net-zero target, could advance its ambitions by establishing a net zero hub on the Firth of Forth, research from global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk company (Nasdaq: VRSK) has found.
Woodside has confirmed it is in discussions with BHP over a potential merger involving BHP’s entire petroleum business.
Shell has started a process to divest all of its operated joint venture licences held by the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Nigeria. This includes a 30% interest in 19 Oil Mining Leases (OMLs). Gail Anderson, Research Director with Wood Mackenzie’s Sub-Sahara Africa upstream team, said: “There is considerable value upside across the joint venture assets, which bidders will need to carefully evaluate and quantify.”
Speaking after Chesapeake announced plans to buy Vine Energy in a cash-and-stock deal which values the Blackstone Group-controlled E&P at around US$2.2 billion, analysts from natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie said: “We were confident 2021 would be a big year for Haynesville consolidation."
We may only be halfway through 2021, but it is already shaping up to be a breakthrough year for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) to emerge as a viable tool for upstream companies to decarbonise operations. Although the concept has been around for decades, CCS is moving into the mainstream. All the industry’s largest companies now plan to use sequestration to help them reach their decarbonisation targets.
Wood Mackenzie is organising the 2021 Southeast Asia Energy Forum today. Experts will be discussing key issues and opportunities facing the region’s energy industry over the coming decades.
Oil Search and Santos have reached agreement on the merger ratio under the proposed merger.
Demand across most commodities in China is expected to slow down in the second half of 2021, according to Wood Mackenzie’s new monthly China Economic Focus report.
Last week, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) released a draft of its upcoming 6th Strategic Energy Plan which included major changes to the FY2030 power generation mix targets.
Europe is at the forefront of the shift to net zero, both in ambition, but also in terms of how to make rapid and deep decarbonisation a reality. The world needs to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions as quickly as possible. Not doing so means we will need to turn to expensive and unproven technologies to withdraw CO2 from the atmosphere later this century.
The EU Commission proposed a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) as part of today’s “Fit for 55” package. James Whiteside, global head of multi-commodity research at Wood Mackenzie, said: “As the first mechanism of its kind, the CBAM is being designed in consultation with industry to avoid unintended consequences. “A CBAM that does not cover a substantial portion of the production chain will encourage carbon leakage - pushing emissions beyond the borders of the EU or shifting competition between EU and non-EU producers to the next stage of the value chain.”
Speaking after the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) was passed by the Nigerian National Assembly on 1 July, Mansur Mohammed, head of West Africa content on Wood Mackenzie’s sub-Saharan Africa upstream research team, said: “The Senate and House each passed different versions of the bill, which will now require reconciliation before it is sent to the president for assent into law. So there is still outstanding work to do before the PIB becomes law, but we see momentum behind the bill.”
As OPEC+ meets on 1 July, oil prices are supported by tightening oil market fundamentals for the second half of 2021. Global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie forecasts total oil demand to rise 5.9 million barrels per day (b/d) year-on-year for 2021.
Achieving the 2°C goal of the Paris Agreement will require more than simply avoiding carbon. To cap global warming at 1.5°C or even 2°C, carbon removal will be essential. Research from global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq:VRSK), shows the key to effective large-scale carbon removal is unlocking potential economies of scale through basin-wide carbon capture and storage (CCS), effectively providing a community answer to a global problem.
Wood Mackenzie is now offering Refinery I/O, a new tool providing daily refinery analytics from proprietary data sets.
Australian producers need to be at the forefront of green LNG to remain competitive, says Wood Mackenzie.
For the second consecutive year, French major TotalEnergies has been named the upstream industry’s most-admired explorer, an accolade awarded as part of with Wood Mackenzie’s industry-leading annual Exploration Survey.
The energy transition represents US$14 trillion worth of uncertainty for upstream oil and gas, according to a new report by Wood Mackenzie.
Wood Mackenzie experts comment on the recently announced Australia Budget 2021.
The 2.5 million barrels per day (b/d) Colonial Pipeline moves roughly 45% of the US East Coast's supply of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel from the Gulf Coast. The duration of the outage following the cyberattack on 7 May 2021 is uncertain. In the short term, Wood Mackenzie expects fuel demand and prices to rise in PADD 1, prompting refined fuel inventories to decline and PADD 1 refiners to maximize production.
The UK government and the country’s oil and gas sector recently agreed a deal to leverage the upstream industry's capabilities, accelerate the energy transition and help the North Sea reach net zero by 2050.
OPEC+ is, as expected, holding firm to its decision to increase supply, gradually and carefully, over the coming months.
In its rebound from the 2020 downturn, Brent flirted with US$70 per barrel. Higher prices in 2021 mean higher cash flow for producers, perhaps even record-setting highs. Have the good times returned? Global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie believes operators need to be cautious.
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