Metals and mining: an industry at a crossroads

• 14 10月 2020

How has a year of unprecedented challenges affected mined commodities? Julian Kettle shares his view on the impact of a global pandemic, and the opportunities and risks posed by the energy transition.

Australia’s upstream M&A market is hotting up

• 13 10月 2020

Deals are emerging across the sector, but finding the right buyer is a challenge. For the Majors, freeing up capital, bolstering balance sheets and clearing out assets which could be a drag on future cashflows is a priority. But it's a difficult time to sell.

How much value does refinery-chemicals integration add for Total and Shell?

• 13 10月 2020

Integration has become a strategic imperative, but measuring value is notoriously difficult. Our experts crunched the numbers for Total’s integrated portfolio and looked at how that compared to Shell.

Equities

• 07 10月 2020

Measure company performance with direct observations from our sensor network, supplemented with expert analysis.

Green metals: the journey to decarbonisation

• 07 10月 2020

What does the path to becoming greener look like for steel and aluminium, two carbon-intensive industries?

Why polyolefins are the polymers to watch

• 07 10月 2020

Polyolefins dominate global plastics production, and offer useful insights into the overall health of the petrochemicals industry. So what are the drivers of demand? How has coronavirus altered the picture? And what really sets polyolefins apart in a chemicals portfolio?

NGLs

• 16 11月 2020

Understand and anticipate the changing natural gas liquids markets with access to real-time alerts, insight and fundamental analysis.

Breaking the Permian bottleneck: overcoming and overcorrecting

• 01 10月 2020

The rapid switch from bottleneck to overbuild in the Permian has far-reaching implications on the oil supply chain.

Nigeria's Petroleum Industry Bill scales new heights of fiscal complexity

• 16 11月 2020

Nigeria's latest attempt to reform its petroleum sector isn't just about finishing a job that started over 12 years ago. The government now seeks to make Nigeria's upstream, midstream and downstream competitive in the face of significant threats to oil demand, including the impacts of coronavirus and the energy transition.

No silos allowed in the pursuit of a greener economy

• 21 10月 2020

The move towards a circular economy is one of many initiatives being pursued as society seeks to reduce its environmental impact. Within the refining and chemical industries, there is an increasing focus on how technology and research can be applied to support the re-engineering of many product value chains, thereby reducing the environmental impact of specific products throughout their entire lifecycle.

The future of gas investment

• 12 11月 2020

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

In conversation with Asia Pacific’s CEOs

• 04 11月 2020

We hosted the CEOs of PETRONAS, Santos and Medco, the chairman of Indian Oil Corporation, and many other senior executives from a range of leading oil and gas companies, utilities and banks over two days at our APAC Energy & Commodities Summit last month.

Choppy waters ahead for global olefins

• 28 10月 2020

2020 has been characterised by a pandemic-driven collapse in demand and turbulent feedstock prices. How will the industry navigate the challenging times ahead?

The energy transition will be built with metals

• 30 10月 2020

The energy transition will see demand for some metals reach unimagined levels in coming years. Which metals are critical to the transition? How much will we need and what will it cost to develop the supply? And can the mining sector deliver?

Harvest or grow: what’s the future of upstream oil & gas investment?

• 27 11月 2020

Resilience and sustainability will increasingly shape the upstream oil and gas industry’s investment decisions

Exploration - where less can be more

• 20 11月 2020

How capital discipline led a return to value creation

Webinar | Closing the Gap: Technology for a Net Zero North Sea

• 17 11月 2020

The UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) is evolving to harness the full power of the offshore environment. A new study from Wood Mackenzie and the Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) explores the economic opportunity and lays out the technology roadmap to a carbon neutral future. Please join Malcolm Forbes-Cable, VP Upstream Consulting, for an overview of the key findings of the report “Closing the Gap – Technology for a Net Zero North Sea”. The Webinar outlines how accelerating the development of new energy technologies can dramatically reduce emissions. It also shows how adopting new technologies will harness the full potential of the UK’s world-class natural resources from renewable power sources and oil and gas, to hydrogen and long-term carbon storage.

Electric vehicles can help save the environment, but can they save the owner money?

• 18 11月 2020

Using Wood Mackenzie's Total Cost of Ownership (TCOO) Model to compare the potential cost of owning an EV against an ICE vehicle over 10 years, it's clear that three variables - incentives, fuel cost and depreciation - really make the difference.

What is carbon-neutral LNG?

• 18 11月 2020

LNG ranks among the most emission-intensive resource themes across the oil and gas sector.

Will we need to mine metals in the future?

• 26 11月 2020

We recycle a fraction of the metal that we extract – despite the fact that most can be reused infinitely. Is that set to change? How much scrap could be recovered? And is it possible to eliminate the need for mining and processing primary metal?

How decarbonisation will drive mining supply-side adjustments

• 09 11月 2020

Governments, consumers and producers will push and pull metals and mining to reduce emissions – and it's going to mean big adjustments for the supply side.

A Biden administration: implications for the energy industry

• 09 11月 2020

The energy sector faces a very different future under President-elect Biden. What are the implications for the oil market? How will key US geopolitical relationships change? And can a Biden administration push through its climate change goals?

The ecommerce revolution: friend or foe to sustainability?

• 11 11月 2020

Covid-19 has accelerated the adoption of ecommerce, which typically uses more packaging than traditional retail. The pressure is on for brands, and the packaging industry, to deliver sustainable solutions.

Biden, China and politics of energy

• 11 11月 2020

As the new administration looks to take the US back into the Paris climate agreement, will the US and China work together on tackling global warming?

Global upstream oil and gas: new challenges ahead in 2021

• 19 1月 2021

What does 2021 hold for the global upstream oil and gas industry? It will be a year of uncertainty and contingency – but resilience and recovery are also key themes.

Will 2021 breathe life back into the Asia Pacific upstream M&A market?

• 16 12月 2020

The recovery in oil and gas prices should help bring buyers and sellers closer on price expectation, while ongoing consolidation among upstream producers in North America has driven a sharp uptick in global M&A in recent months, likely pushing more non-core APAC assets into the market.

What will oil and gas companies focus on in 2021?

• 19 1月 2021

It’s been an extraordinary year for oil and gas companies. What will 2021 bring? Get the predictions for the year ahead from our corporate analysis team.

Five ways the copper industry can improve economics and sustainability

• 22 12月 2020

Driven by a growing list of stakeholder requirements and an explosion in creative solutions, is the mining industry about to accelerate its adoption of technology?

Faster decarbonisation and mining: a crisis of confidence or capital?

• 15 12月 2020

Fuelling an accelerated energy transition scenario calls for a massive increase in investment in key metals, and soon. What stands in the way, and can it be overcome?

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