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29 September 2023 Sam Wilkinson Anqi Shi
Mainland China battery storage market has experienced drastic growth since 2022 and is exclusively supplied by local players, leading to Chinese...
28 September 2023 Laura Sims Gethin Baker
Green light for Rosebank: How to develop the UK's largest undeveloped field with low emissions to support the UK's energy security and economy?...
25 September 2023 Marcos Lepore Gabriel Luc Carlos Rocha
Infographic: Guyana´s head-to-head with Brazilian pre-salt
25 September 2023 Timothy Stephure
This year’s iteration of S&P Global’s Renewable Market Attractiveness Rankings assess the promise of solar photovoltaic (PV), onshore wind and...
25 September 2023 Semieu Djima-Issifou Lucinda Ross Erik Meyer
The deepwater Niamou-1 well, in the Marine XX block offshore Congo, expected to be drilled before the end of the year will target approximately...
23 September 2023
TGS and PGS have announced an $864 million merger
20 September 2023 Nicholas Waters Gabriela Maximov Erik Meyer Eric Schmid
After a four-year break, a new well expected to spud imminently, Shell's Panna Cotta-1 wildcat will enrich the list of offshore drilling in Mauritania...
20 September 2023 Diego Ortiz
Only nine months into 2023, the European Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) landscape is setting remarkable records.
20 September 2023 Roderick Bruce Lucinda Ross
Maurel and Prom SA’s $730 million acquisition of Gabon-focused Assala Energy, owned by private equity fund Carlyle Group, was intended to strengthen...
12 September 2023 Try Abednego Chris Kennett
Commodity Insights’ comprehensive and rapidly evolving GHG modeling capabilities enable analysis of the Scope 1 emissions profiles of all major...
12 September 2023 Cristina Tome
This blog summarizes the status and implications of the current upstream operators in Niger following the coup.
11 September 2023 Vignesh Sundaram
The role of coal in the energy mix in sub-Saharan Africa is changing. Although coal is currently the leading fuel for power generation in the...
11 September 2023 Evgeniya Maiburova Charles Ross
Sources state that Equinor is looking at a potential sale of its business in Azerbaijan which includes 7.27% working interest in the giant...
06 September 2023 Ankita Chauhan
Corporate renewable procurement announcements jump by 60% in the second quarter of 2023 in comparison with the previous quarter of the year....
05 September 2023 Maria Lupachik Erik Meyer
Eni is gearing up to commence drilling operations in the Aaiun Tarfaya Basin offshore Morocco with its Cinnamon-1 exploratory well, utilizing...
23 August 2023 Padmanav Sahoo Mrinal Bhardwaj Kallol Saha
Latin America – Upstream oil & gas M&A trends: H1 2023
22 August 2023 Tiffany Wang Alex Kaplan
Our new infographic from our Clean Energy Technology team discusses how solar and energy storage manufacturing capacity is rapidly expanding...
21 August 2023 Mark Griffith
Building the amount of wind and solar (and other resources) needed to achieve a US net zero power grid and a net zero economy will be a challenge...
18 August 2023
Competitive tenders are one of the preferred policy mechanisms to accelerate the implementation of large-scale solar and wind projects in Africa...
18 August 2023 Alan Delgado
Brazil’s Campos Basin has produced more hydrocarbons than the rest of the country’s basins combined. Ongoing brownfield and revitalization projects...
14 August 2023 Xiao Lu
According to S&P Global Commodity Insights ship tracking data, in June 2023, China imported 6.3 MMt of LNG, up 8% month over month, 32% year...
11 August 2023 Nicholas Waters
In the first quarter of 2023, BP and partners announced a distinct change to their development concept for the second phase of the Greater Tortue...
10 August 2023 Mohd. Sahil Ali
The last week of June 2023 was particularly eventful for India’s carbon and environmental markets. India communicated the finalized framework...
10 August 2023 Padmanav Sahoo Mrinal Bhardwaj Kallol Saha
Far East and Australasia – Upstream oil & gas M&A trends: H1 2023
10 August 2023 Stephanie Vargas Ortega Joaquim de Azevedo
Now that Guyana's oil and gas potential has been proven and production is already being marketed, the government is looking to improve its revenue...
08 August 2023 Kevin Birn Celina Hwang
A more modest rate of production growth and ongoing intensity reductions allowed the oil sands to hold the line on absolute emission in 2022
04 August 2023 Renata Machado Fernanda Machado
An announcement made by the Argentine government in early July 2023 has focused attention on offshore activities. Equinor and partners have been...
02 August 2023 Ankita Chauhan
Renewable energy is a key pillar to meet India’s climate goals, with a target to reach more than 500 GW of capacity by fiscal year (FY) 2032....
02 August 2023 Diego Ortiz
Higher renewable ambition risk oversupply and project economics. Spain's draft National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) outlines an ambitious...
02 August 2023 Tianshi Huang
Ever since its establishment as the national gas pipeline company, PipeChina has accelerated third-party access to many of China's LNG receiving...
01 August 2023 Qingyang Liu
The following provides a brief overview of selected reports in the Global Power and Renewables service recently published research.
31 July 2023
Companies around the world are actively developing strategies to decarbonize their business: by setting promising net zero targets, reducing...
27 July 2023 Magda Rodriguez
OSVs fleet ages worldwide
27 July 2023 Mohd. Sahil Ali
The electric mobility transition is not only set to disrupt the automobile sector ecosystem, but also the ways in which electricity demand is...
26 July 2023 Zayd Wahab
We are now almost on the downhill run toward 2024, yet many of the narratives playing out in the world and the upstream industry are still carryovers...
21 July 2023 Logan Reese Ankita Chauhan
In the second quarter of 2023, 14 new insight papers have been published in the S&P Global Commodity Insights Asia Pacific Integrated service...
20 July 2023 Karl Melkonyan Edurne zoco
Recent announcements including additional funding from the EIB and the use of State aid aim to accelerate manufacturing investment decisions...
19 July 2023 Xizhou Zhou
As renewable energy investments accelerate worldwide, many large power markets find themselves forced to build thermal power plants to fulfill...
17 July 2023 Chris DeLucia
For the largest publicly traded US and Canadian electric utilities, overall capital expenditure has increased at a 7% compound annual growth...
13 July 2023 Tomos Phillips Susana Santos Stephanie Vargas Ortega Siddhartha Sen Chris Kennett
GHG intensity in the Gulf of Mexico in 2022 was 7 kgCO2e/boe, with considerable variation behind the average number.
12 July 2023 Ashish Singla
In April 2023, India launched fourth iteration of its National Electricity Plan (NEP) providing electricity supply mix projections for the terminal...
12 July 2023 Parag Goyal
The new gas production is helping India in becoming a gas-based economy
10 July 2023 Zhi Xin Chong Huyen Trang Vu
The Philippines’ gas demand has been in decline, owing to the dwindling Malampaya gas supply that generated 311 MMcf/d in 2022. Consequently...
10 July 2023 Yun Yun Teo
As jackup markets tighten, it is a more tedious process for operators still in the hunt for an offshore drilling unit...
05 July 2023 Zhi Xin Chong Shankari Srinivasan Jenny Nguyen Yang
To explore these issues and identify opportunities and risks for market participants, S&P Global Commodity Insights is publishing a new research...
30 June 2023 Tianshi Huang Paulina Mirenkova Jenny Nguyen Yang Anna Galtsova
After experiencing a decline in 2022, Chinese gas demand has resumed its growth trajectory in the first five months of 2023 and is expected to...
30 June 2023
While power prices have now returned to levels closer to pre-Russian/Ukraine war, large uncertainties remain around pricing renewables in the...
30 June 2023 Maria Lupachik
Equatorial Guinea could be a major hotspot for LNG within West Africa following the recent agreement between the Equatorial Guinea government...
27 June 2023 Renata Machado
Months earlier than expected, Woodside has announced the final investment decision on what can be the first deepwater development on Mexican...
21 June 2023 Kareem Yakub Claudia Pessagno
While there is a consensus that the world will remain dependent on fossil fuels for decades to come, increasing government regulations and rising...
20 June 2023 Bryan McNamara Anna Wuchek
Key trends and insights from the current global upstream mergers and acquisitions market
20 June 2023 Daejin Lee
Dry bulk demand is expected to increase by 1.4% in 2023 with recovery in iron ore and coal shipments, while fleet growth remain stable.
20 June 2023 Bharti Malhotra
World Seed Congress 2023 highlights on plant breeding innovation, the agri-food value chain, sustainability, and the policy landscape.
19 June 2023 Manisha Mishra Kallol Saha Chintan Patel Anushil Anand Roy
Solar and wind leading the clean energy investments and partnerships in 2023
15 June 2023 Ashish Singla
Distribution is a critical link in the Indian power sector value chain, and the performance of Distribution Companies (DISCOMs) remains a matter...
14 June 2023 Weixiao Qin
As one of the first eight pilots to trial spot power trading in China, Shandong is no stranger to negative prices with the first instance in...
09 June 2023 Luis Pereira
Using the leading cost estimation software QUE$TOR™ to investigate impacts of design changes on GHG emissions in the Cambo field.
09 June 2023 Rajeev Lala Geetika Gupta
Sonatrach is currently implementing a $40 billion investment plan to maintain its total liquids and gas production.
06 June 2023 Ankita Chauhan
After a record announcement of more than 50 GW corporate renewable procurement deals in 2022, first quarter 2023 had a lukewarm start. S&P Global...
05 June 2023 Jenny Nguyen Yang
China’s LNG demand growth has resumed since March 2023. According to S&P Global Waterborne data, Chinese LNG imports rose 16% year over year...
30 May 2023 Mohd. Sahil Ali
The Ministry of Power (MoP) released a draft on the Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS) on March 27, 2023, with the aim to establish a framework...
30 May 2023 Magda Rodriguez
The Americas region will continue to flourish not only by increased oil and gas activity, but also by local governments looking to start investing...
25 May 2023 Francesco d'Avack Etienne Gabel
How will global investments in clean energy evolve to 2030?
25 May 2023 Renata Machado
At the end of April 2023, Wintershall Dea announced the discovery of hydrocarbons in the exploratory well Kan-1EXP new-field wildcat. The well...
23 May 2023 Kevin Birn Celina Hwang
Canadian oil sands production is expected to reach 3.7 million barrels per day by 2030.
22 May 2023 Qingyang Liu
The following provides a brief overview of selected reports in the Global Power and Renewables service from April 2023.
18 May 2023 Shannon Castro Morgen McGuire Kevin Birn
GHG intensity in the Bakken Shale during 2019 was 24.5 kgCO2e/boe. There is considerable variation behind the average number, with lower intensity...
17 May 2023 Chris DeLucia
For the 25 largest (on the basis of market capitalization) US and Canadian electric utilities, growth in capital spending remains a key theme...
16 May 2023 Cecillia Zheng
S&P Global published the Southeast Asia (SEA) power and renewable market briefing for the first quarter of 2023 (Q1 2023). The report discussed...
16 May 2023
EMEA-focused independent peer group upstream capital expenditures and total production are expected to surge in 2023
16 May 2023
S&P Global Commodity Insights has updated its International Thermal Coal Market Forecast, May 5, 2023.
15 May 2023
Through all uncertainties, S&P Global Commodity Insights believes the upside for electricity prices and power sector gas demand this summer is...
15 May 2023
Over the past four years, the number of European power purchase agreement (PPA) transactions has tripled, with over 180 deals signed in 2022...
15 May 2023 Alessandro Bacci
This analysis provides some legal-fiscal notes to investors that might be interested in investing in Algeria’s, Libya’s, and/or Morocco’s offshore...
10 May 2023 Vivien Yang
Carbon reduction policies are pushing for renewable energy. Specialty chemicals are key for manufacturing solar panels and wind turbines.
09 May 2023 Etienne Gabel Emma Xie He
In this brief video, S&P Global Commodity Insights shows quantitatively how we expect power grids to become cleaner over time and in different...
09 May 2023 Charles Ross
Azerbaijan's gas resources have the ability to provide additional exports to Europe, however will it come at a cost to it's domestic market?...
05 May 2023 Manisha Mishra Kallol Saha Anushil Anand Roy
Hydrogen M&A market 2022: Global trends — Key trends and insight
05 May 2023 Manisha Mishra Kallol Saha Anushil Anand Roy
Low-carbon M&A sets a record level of deal activity in 2022 due to increased focus on net-zero goals
04 May 2023 Shiva Gupta Ricardo Castillo
Energy transition will continue impacting the downstream industry both in expected and unexpected ways.
03 May 2023 Callie Kolbe Benjamin Levitt
Though the structure of residential and commercial heating demand supplied by natural gas in the US Lower 48 has been relatively stable for many...
02 May 2023 Yelena Shliomenzon
Well-thought-out governmental policies and an effective supporting regulatory framework are critical factors in reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG)...
01 May 2023 Ankita Chauhan
The Renewable Energy Certificates Regulations, 2022, came into effect on Dec. 6, 2022, in India, aiming to restructure the local renewable energy...
01 May 2023 Logan Reese Ankita Chauhan
In the first quarter of 2023, 21 new insight papers have been published in the S&P Global Commodity Insights Asia Pacific Integrated service...
28 April 2023 Hugh Ewan
Economic analysis of Raia-1, Eni's high-impact well in Mozambique.
28 April 2023 Rita Antonelli Luis Pereira
QUE$TOR™ enables oil and gas operators to estimate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, identify major sources, and optimize design for efficiency...
27 April 2023 Sylvain Cognet-Dauphin Giovanni Giansiracusa
The energy crisis puts the economics of power generation under the spotlight—again. On the back of all-time record-high prices, several power...
27 April 2023 Choon Kiat William Chia Bing Han
China’s government approved a record-breaking 86 GW of new coal-fired power capacity in 2022, raising critical questions on whether Beijing had...
27 April 2023 William Plampton Logan Reese Greg McAndrews
Recent developments in Australian gas and power markets have reinforced growing concerns over the security of low-cost gas supply in Australia’s...
25 April 2023 Kishore Thamilselvan Ana Saez Fuentes
As Turkey looks to address its growing gas demand, we assess the implications and challenges posed by the country’s prized Sakarya development....
25 April 2023 Frankie Hulbert
A summary of the latest bid round offering in New Zealand and outline of future plans for oil and gas opportunities
24 April 2023 William Plampton
A refresher of the key elements of the Scarborough field development and how it fits with the domestic gas market
24 April 2023 Yun Yun Teo
Though China's large and growing domestic offshore rig market is a relatively closed market, Chinese owned or built units can be found working...
21 April 2023 Energy Expert
The global gas market has undergone fundamental changes in 2022. A critical question for the industry in 2023 is how the market will recalibrate...
18 April 2023 Tito Poblete
Several European countries have increased their offshore wind targets, surging from 31 GW today to about 125 GW by 2030. Denmark, France, Germany...
17 April 2023 Lucinda Ross
On 28 February 2023, Eni announced that the acquisition of BP’s Algerian assets was complete and had been approved by the authorities. This shouldn’t...
10 April 2023 Xiaonan Feng
On 15 March 2023, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment released the allowance allocation plan for thermal generators for the second compliance...
05 April 2023 Coralie Laurencin Catherine Robinson
The European Union has reached a provisional agreement for the use of renewable hydrogen in industry and transport. In 2030, at least 1% of energy...
04 April 2023 Richard Sanchez
One of the metrics that our Petrodata Marine Research Analysts ask about is Operating Costs and the cost of labor. Offshore production projects...
03 April 2023 Zayd Wahab
Underinvestment, a rush in activity, and upward market pressure keeps upstream and downstream industry costs high in 2022
31 March 2023 George Hilton Francesco d'Avack
The cost of generating and storing renewable power has fallen almost without interruption for the past several decades. Although recent turmoil...
30 March 2023
After two years of tight supply chain dynamics, raw material and shipping costs decline in 2023, which has a direct impact on solar, wind, and...
30 March 2023 Norishah Hashim
The 24th Bidding Round is the first offshore acreage offering in Thailand since 2007, excluding the special auction for the expiring contracts...
24 March 2023 Sam Huntington Annie Gutierrez
Interconnection queues across the United States are facing a growing backlog of requests as transmission providers struggle with the throughput...
23 March 2023 Nicholas Waters
African OPEC heavyweights still underproducing, but 2023 has started brighter. Nigeria and Angola are seemingly unable to return to pre-pandemic...
22 March 2023 Manar Nacer
The concept of implementing a worldwide carbon pricing system has been a frequently discussed topic in conversations surrounding global climate...
22 March 2023 Etienne Gabel
In 2022, as concerns mounted around high energy prices and fuel shortages in power markets worldwide, many said that the Russia-Ukraine war had...
21 March 2023 Mrinal Bhardwaj Kallol Saha
ExxonMobil continues portfolio transformation with its latest divestment in Iraq
16 March 2023 Semieu Djima-Issifou
There was a lot of controversy around the development of the Cambo field, where opposers are in favor of the rejection of the license for development...
16 March 2023 Maria Lupachik Joaquim de Azevedo Erik Meyer
Prospect Valuation
14 March 2023 Ashish Singla
The spot market is one of the key indicators of the state of India's power sector. During the months of January and February 2023, the prices...
14 March 2023 Daejin Lee
After returning to the pre-pandemic level, dry bulk freight rates may recover while container freight rates are expected to decline further with...
14 March 2023 Matheus Varanda Eduardo de Freitas
IOCs offshore exploration in Brazil: the make it or break it moment
10 March 2023 Jaka Hardiwinangun Beatriz Serrano-Suarez
Shell's latest discovery, Jonker, adds to the positive outlook for the Orange Sub-Basin in Namibia where TotalEnergies, in early-2022 discovered...
10 March 2023 Rajeev Lala Mansi Anand
PTTEP’s exit from Mariana oil sands is no surprise as a sharper portfolio strategy reaches fruition
10 March 2023 Hong Shien Lee Emilio Intrieri Amelia Sudirdja
This article highlights how the exploration blocks awarded in Indonesia since the beginning of 2022 complement existing infrastructure.
07 March 2023 Mansi Anand Geetika Gupta
In December 2022, PETRONAS and Savannah Energy entered into a share purchase agreement to sell the Malaysian state-owned company’s entire oil...
02 March 2023 Akashpratim Mukhopadhyay
The US EPA initiated a public consultation involving the disputed expanded use registration of the insecticide, sulfoxaflor, that it granted...
02 March 2023 Ankita Chauhan
Corporate clean energy procurement (CEP) announcements hit an all time high in 2022 with more than 51 GW of deals, growing by 60% year on year....
01 March 2023 Etienne Gabel
As 2023 began, the Global Power and Renewables team of S&P Global Commodity Insights examined five key trends that we believe will define power...
01 March 2023 Mehrun Etebari
In this paper, we present the ten questions on issues to look out for 2023 whose answers will have wide impacts on the LNG market and global...
28 February 2023
This cross-sector report represents a review of the energy sector progress that was made over the course of the past year and offers an outlook...
27 February 2023 Francois Blin
A look into the near-term future of UK hydrocarbon production ahead of the country's net zero emissions target is reached.
27 February 2023 Yee Jie Wong
In 2022, S&P Global tracked wind turbine orders exceeding 115 GW globally across 40 markets to be supplied by 23 manufacturers....
24 February 2023 Joo Yeow Lee
Southeast Asia as a region has experienced 5.7% annual power demand growth in the past decade, more than double the global average. This growth...
23 February 2023 Sofia Sanchez Manzanaro
A window of opportunity is opening in Brussels to ratify a long-stalled trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur – the South American trade...
23 February 2023 Nur Zafirah Mat Razali Mei Ching Koay David Ooi
Contributing factors to the success of the recent bid rounds and the key signposts to look out for in 2023
21 February 2023 Mohd. Sahil Ali Balaji Raparthi
For the smaller South Asian countries – Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Bangladesh— 2023 is going to be a crucial year following one of their worst...
21 February 2023 Mohd. Sahil Ali
The LT-LEDS makes renewable energy the pillar of India’s energy transition story, but the sector is not without its share of challenges. S&P...
17 February 2023 Sam Huntington Emma Xie He
Procurement of renewable energy by corporations continues to expand in the US. Corporates have procured more than 70 GW of project specific renewable...
15 February 2023 Paul Hughes
The vagaries of weather can cause production to swing from boom to bust quickly. So how accurate are your yield forecasts?
13 February 2023 Choon Gek Khoo Cecillia Zheng
At the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) held from 6 November until 20 November 2022, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations...
13 February 2023 Choon Gek Khoo Cecillia Zheng
S&P Global published the Southeast Asia (SEA) power and renewable market briefing for the fourth quarter of 2022 (Q4 2022). The report...
09 February 2023 Semieu Djima-Issifou Lucinda Ross Erik Meyer
China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) could expand its Gabon deepwater portfolio in the case of a positive result from the recently spud Tigre...
06 February 2023 Rashika Gupta Ankita Chauhan
In 2023, India will gear up to implement energy transition strategies by addressing issues related to energy security. These include building...
02 February 2023 Manisha Mishra Kallol Saha Anushil Anand Roy
The Paris Climate Agreement was signed on 12 December 2015 with an aim to limit global warming to 1.5°C per year. To achieve this goal, countries...
01 February 2023
Indonesian coal exports are beginning 2023 in complete contrast from where Indonesia was at the same time last year. S&P Global Commodities at...
01 February 2023 Rajeev Lala Mansi Anand Kareem Yakub Geetika Gupta Baihui Yu Andrew Neff
National oil companies (NOCs) comprise a diverse array of resource holders and resource seekers, including companies with massive petroleum resources...
31 January 2023 Emanuel Simon Carlos Rocha Andrei Utkin
A growing interest in offshore wind has led to a surge in environmental license requests, totaling over 176 GW in requests for an average capacity...
31 January 2023 Qingyang Liu
The following provides a brief overview of selected reports in the Global Power and Renewables service from January 2023. The year 2022 was tumultuous...
30 January 2023
2022 was an unprecedented year for power markets in Europe. Unusually high power prices drove tariffs to all-time record levels. The dependency...
26 January 2023 Raoul LeBlanc
This report highlights our view of what will unfold in the year ahead both inside and outside the sector and will serve as a guide for the research...
18 January 2023 Vince Heo Joo Yeow Lee
Vietnam and the Philippines have been gaining traction among offshore wind developers and investors. About half of electricity generation in...
17 January 2023 Bharti Malhotra Alan Bullion
Gene-editing (GE) is a set of novel techniques used to manipulate the genome of an organism at desired locations. It is being utilized extensively...
17 January 2023 Logan Reese Ankita Chauhan
In the fourth quarter of 2022, 15 new insight papers have been published in the IHS Markit Asia Pacific Integrated service, apart from the regular...
13 January 2023 Vince Heo Logan Reese Kaori Tachibana Andre Lambine
The year 2022 was full of unexpected market events in the already tight energy market, triggered by the war in Ukraine. Soaring import fuel prices...
11 January 2023 Narmadha Navaneethan
Drilled but incomplete backlogs provide flexibility in operations and support operators in transitioning to a return-focused business model....
10 January 2023 Cody Schulte
Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname NV announced the launch of the Demerara Bid Round 2022 with the data room open from 28 November 2022 until 28...
09 January 2023 Alessandro Bacci
In October 2022, Israel and Lebanon established their mutual maritime border and their EEZs. This analysis examines the agreement from a legal...
06 January 2023 Choon Gek Khoo Cecillia Zheng
Countries in Southeast Asia mostly regulate electricity prices at a lower level to support economic growth. However, the regulated pricing system...
06 January 2023 Sanjiv Rana
The EU Council of national ministers has requested the European Commission to provide a complementary study to its existing impact assessment...
05 January 2023 Charles Ross
The Vostok Oil development is a vast project located in the Arctic portion of Krasnoyarsk, around the Yenisei Bay that extends to Russia’s Taymyr...
04 January 2023 Nathan Amery
Growth has returned to the upstream industry following the disruption caused by the pandemic. However, some operators have been unable to take...
22 December 2022 Isaac Nuti Irena Agalliu Ford Tanner Cody Schulte Cat Hunter Aube Montero
On December 9, 2022 Guyana's Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) launched the Guyana 2022 Licensing Round which offers 14 blocks for tender in...
20 December 2022 Ankita Chauhan
Corporate clean energy procurement (CEP) continues to rise. The total corporate power purchase agreements (PPAs) closed in first three quarters...
19 December 2022 Ankita Chauhan
High seasonal and daily variability in supply due to intermittent nature of wind and solar is driving the policies at national and state levels...
19 December 2022 Qingyang Liu
The following provides a brief overview of selected reports in the Global Power and Renewables service from November 2022.
16 December 2022 Yvonne Seow
The offshore rig market is in a long-overdue upswing. While utilisation and day rates are on the rise, two other indicators that point to a rig...
15 December 2022 Sanjiv Rana
The European Commission has decided to extend the current approval for the herbicide, glyphosate, by a year until December 15th 2023.
15 December 2022 Stuart Lewis Jack Rivers
2022 delivered more than 18.7 Bboe of newly discovered resources from exploration drilling. By the end of November almost 180 discoveries had...
15 December 2022 Kishore Thamilselvan
Kurdistan is a geo-political region located in the heart of the Middle East. Despite its relatively small size, the region is estimated to hold...
12 December 2022 Joo Yeow Lee
As fossil fuel generation continues to feature prominently in the generation mix over the next three decades, while the countries target to achieve...
09 December 2022 Michael Pickens
The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) is finalizing an ambitious plan to reform one of the largest wholesale electricity markets in the...
08 December 2022 Stephanie Vargas Ortega Renata Machado
In 2022, the recently elected government of Gustavo Petro submitted to Congress a tax reform bill (“Reforma Tributaria para la Igualdad y la...
07 December 2022
After a long night of negotiations, on Tuesday (6 December), Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and the EU Council reached an agreement...
07 December 2022 Zayd Wahab
The cost of developing upstream oil and gas assets, as tracked by the S&P Global / IHS Markit Upstream Costs Services (UCCI and UOCI), expects...
07 December 2022 Padmanav Sahoo Mrinal Bhardwaj Kallol Saha
Ithaca’s inorganic route to significant growth in operational and financial metrics
06 December 2022 Robert Birkett
The global chemical-based crop protection market is expected to have recorded 6.2% growth in 2022 to $69,256 million at the ex-manufacturer level...
02 December 2022 Stephanie Vargas Ortega Joaquim Azevedo Jaka Hardiwinangun
The government of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) issued an invitation to companies to participate in its 2022 Onshore and...
02 December 2022 Eduardo de Freitas Carlos Rocha
The global offshore drilling market has been experiencing a gradual recovery since the past year and the uptick gained further steam throughout...
01 December 2022 Alan Bullion
The global market for biostimulants was worth around US$2,556 million in 2021 at the manufacturer level, and it is growing with a CAGR of around...
29 November 2022 Mirzi Moralde
Following the UN Climate Conference, COP26, in Glasgow in 2021 and the subsequent COP27 event in Egypt this year, major Middle East E&P...
29 November 2022 Akashpratim Mukhopadhyay
The US EPA has been ordered by a federal appeals court to complete an evaluation of the insecticide, cyantraniliprole’s, effects on species listed...
28 November 2022 Kevin Birn Hugh Ewan Chris Kennett
The North Sea is one of the most significant oil and gas producing regions globally—accounting for nearly 4% of global supply in 2021. The scale...
22 November 2022 Sanjiv Rana
EU member states have once again stalled the European Commission’s proposal to extend the approval of the herbicide, glyphosate, by a year.
22 November 2022 Agribusiness Expert
Agricultural groups in the US are pressuring the country’s EPA to back away from a proposal to restrict use of the herbicide, atrazine, arguing...
22 November 2022 Alan Bullion
Formulation science is a key element in successfully bringing any effective active ingredient (AI) to market for crop protection products.
21 November 2022 Qingyang Liu
The following provides a brief overview of selected reports in the Global Power and Renewables service from October 2022.
21 November 2022 Hui Min Foong
As governments continue to announce new targets and solidify their EV road maps, the future of electric mobility in Southeast Asia is coming...
21 November 2022 Roderick Bruce Keryn Tsimitakopoulos Kelli Krasity Justin Cochrane Ian Conway Alessandro Piccoli
Eni’s Coral South floating liquified natural gas (FLNG) project offshore Mozambique has started up, with the first cargo leaving the Coral Sul...
21 November 2022 Lysle Brinker Laura Sima Cindy Giglio
There are growing signs that low-carbon sectors are becoming meaningful for Global Integrateds (GIOCs), owing to stepped-up acquisitions and...
18 November 2022 Etienne Gabel
The ongoing energy crisis is challenging the design of many power markets globally. Underinvestment in conventional energy infrastructure, the...
18 November 2022 Ida Hockerfelt
Uganda has been on the cusp of commercial oil production for the past decade, but a series of internal and external challenges have plagued the...
17 November 2022 Adrian Heafford
Location of S&P seismic relative to 33rd blocks and play summary
16 November 2022 Kevin Birn
A key factor influencing oil sands GHG emissions is the dramatic production swings in response to regional and global market disruptions, including...
16 November 2022 Zoe Grainge Giovanni Giansiracusa
Europe’s energy crisis has been in the headlines for most of 2022. Owing to the gas supply crisis, worsened by low nuclear availability, European...
07 November 2022 Akashpratim Mukhopadhyay
Indian authorities have issued a four-year approval for environmental release of genetically modified mustard seeds following the examination...
07 November 2022 Bob Fryklund
As the energy industry moves toward a low-carbon future, performance metrics must go beyond dollars and barrels and begin to include emissions....
04 November 2022 Sam Huntington Annie Gutierrez
In early December, the US Department of Interior will hold a lease auction for five wind energy areas off California’s coast, a material step...
04 November 2022 Mohd. Sahil Ali
In August, India’s Power Minister Mr. RK Singh tabled the amendments to the Electricity Conservation Act. In his remarks, he seemed to suggest...
03 November 2022
A group of 36 professional associations working in the health and nutrition fields has joined forces to support a Change.org petition calling...
03 November 2022 Isaac Nuti George Laguros
For decades, the Unites States Deep Water Gulf of Mexico (DWGOM) has set a standard of consistency for a wide range of oil and gas operators...
01 November 2022 Cody Schulte
Upcoming bid rounds in Guyana and Suriname will concentrate on underexplored offshore regions with the hope of replicating recent successes.
01 November 2022 Kareem Yakub Claudia Pessagno
The energy transition is gaining broader attention in the oil and gas industry, including among our Latin American national oil companies (NOCs)...
19 October 2022 Keryn Tsimitakopoulos Ian Conway
The Precaspian Basin is one of the world’s top global conventional basins with over 50 billion boe remaining recoverable oil and gas resources....
18 October 2022 Qingyang Liu
The following provides a brief overview of selected reports in the Global Power and Renewables service from September 2022.
17 October 2022 Jonathan Shoham Alan Bullion
Around half of the 600 or so products used in agriculture are also sold into non-crop pesticides markets. This sector is composed of 6 main segments...
17 October 2022 Logan Reese Ankita Chauhan
In the third quarter of 2022, 24 new insight papers have been published in the S&P Global Asia Pacific Integrated service, apart from the regular...
17 October 2022 Gethin Baker
In response to the energy and cost of living crisis in the UK, the Government lifted the moratorium on fracking in England during September 2022......
17 October 2022 Mei Ching Koay David Ooi
Is there potential for exploration upside in the ultra-deepwater area? What can be done to unlock further potential in the outboard?
13 October 2022 Thomas Grieder
A blog post exploring implications to Finland’s gas supply from the launch of the Hamina LNG regasification terminal.
11 October 2022 Joo Yeow Lee Cecillia Zheng Allen Wang
Enlit Asia (formerly PowerGen Asia) is a major event in Southeast Asia that gathers various power sector stakeholders, from regulators and financiers...
11 October 2022
The global chemical markets must overcome obstacles from the pandemic, Ukraine war, supply chain issues, and energy transition.
10 October 2022 Kyle Hodge
It has been established in the last decade by the 2016 Paris Agreement, and subsequent reports by the International Energy Association (IEA)
06 October 2022 Akashpratim Mukhopadhyay
The US EPA has withdrawn its 2020 interim decision involving the herbicide, glyphosate, following a US court’s ruling ordering it to reconsider...
06 October 2022 Robert Birkett
Corteva Agriscience and Syngenta Crop Protection have been dragged to court over allegations that they pay distributors to block competitors...
04 October 2022
Compare prospects, peers, operators and countries to transform the unknown to known.
04 October 2022
Importance of and how to determine fair valuation with POR (for M&A...
04 October 2022
POR estimates the number and size of the missing prospects globally and includes them in a commercial evaluation and ranking process.
29 September 2022
An increasing number of airlines have started to announce GHG reduction targets and offtake agreements for SAF. There is an emerging trend of...
27 September 2022 Edurne zoco
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is a reconciliation bill that unlocks $370 billion in climate and energy investment in the United States, supporting...
26 September 2022 William Plampton
In a previous post earlier in 2022 (https://ihsmarkit.com/research-analysis/bayuundan-dlng-and-barossa-the-energy-transition.html)
23 September 2022 Kurt Barrow Eleanor Budds
Global refined oil product markets are on track to remain tight until mid-decade, with the global downstream industry facing significant near-...
20 September 2022 Akashpratim Mukhopadhyay
Health Canada has published a fresh set of guidelines covering gene-edited crops that meet the criteria for food that is not considered "novel"...
14 September 2022 Pritesh Patel
The cost of developing upstream oil and gas assets, as tracked by the S&P Global Upstream Capital Costs Index (UCCI), increased by over 7% in...
12 September 2022 Nicholas Waters
Nigeria’s overall production will likely decrease from the end of the decade. Crucial in preventing this decline is the sanctioning and timely...
09 September 2022 Robert Birkett
Brazilian experts rate the country's agriculture as sustainable, even as many of its innovations and practices are not widely known outside its...
08 September 2022 Xizhou Zhou Etienne Gabel
Skyrocketing natural gas and coal prices have caused upheavals in the global energy market and caused a crisis that is still ongoing. The public...
08 September 2022 Andrea Anderson
Placing a value on an oil and gas company: easier said than done. The value of an exploration and production company is driven by its assets...
08 September 2022 Andrea Anderson
North American shale reservoirs are complex and it’s hard to pinpoint what’s driving performance.
08 September 2022 Andrea Anderson
The list of prep work for analyzing oil and gas data is long: collecting data from different sources and databases, cleansing and normalizing...
31 August 2022 Thomas McCartin
Even though the MPI jumped strongly last week, it is still 15.5% below its all-time high established in early March.
31 August 2022 Mariam Al-Shamma David Gates Cat Hunter
The recent spike in prices for crude and natural gas, caused in part by recovery from the pandemic and the repercussions of the Russian invasion...
31 August 2022 Alessandro Bacci
Algeria’s Law No. 19-13 of 11 December 2019 modified the country’s legal/fiscal framework for the hydrocarbons sector. Law No. 19-13 reintroduced...
30 August 2022 Gabriela Paes Eduardo de Freitas Carlos Rocha
Brazil has two of the most prolific basins in the world: Santos and Campos, which could have made the country complacent in its development strategy...
24 August 2022 Cecillia Zheng
This report will briefly describe the region’s national emission targets and then take an in-depth view of the power sector, ranging from PDPs...
19 August 2022 Akashpratim Mukhopadhyay
The US EPA has petitioned the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for a partial rehearing of the latter’s ruling that ordered the Agency...
19 August 2022 Erik Meyer Analene Enslin
The upcoming and highly anticipated Mukuyu-1 well has the potential to change Zimbabwe’s economic landscape.
18 August 2022 Xiaonan Feng
The European Parliament (EP) and the Council of the European Union (the Council) have approved the fundamental modality of the carbon border...
17 August 2022 Yvonne Seow
Jackups leaving yards and criss-crossing regions
15 August 2022 Adam Speck
HPAI outbreaks continue to affect the table egg production sector, particularly the egg product sector where an estimated three-quarters of that...
09 August 2022 Siqi He Shaunagh Rae Maxine Moodie Cormac Gilligan
Module level power electronics (MLPE) such as solar power optimisers and microinverters are increasingly being used in distributed generation...
09 August 2022 IHS Markit Agribusiness Expert
Strained supply chains due to the war in Ukraine and decreased crop yields with fertilizer restraints have placed significant pressure on grains...
09 August 2022 Paul Hughes
While headline food inflation continues to soar, there are signs ag commodities, the basic building blocks of food, are easing.
08 August 2022 Akashpratim Mukhopadhyay
A bill has been introduced in the US Senate seeking to hold the EPA responsible for “restrictive” regulatory changes to pesticide use. If cleared...
08 August 2022 IHS Markit Agribusiness Expert
Pesticide control to protect crop yields.
03 August 2022 Niall Hall
FPS providers have implemented a standardised approach to building and converting FPS units to reduce cycle time to first production and optimise...
03 August 2022 Paul Hughes
Global livestock outlook for 2023
02 August 2022 Choon Gek Khoo Cecillia Zheng
Southeast Asia (SEA) was regarded as a “slow starter” in the energy transition but has accelerated the decarbonization path, with most SEA countries...
02 August 2022 Pamela Cordova
The jackup market has undergone a significant change over the last year: a stubborn surplus has been replaced by a tight market driven by a strong...
01 August 2022 Alan Bullion
Biofertilizer markets and a vulnerable supply chain
01 August 2022 Lee Bridgett
Consumers prioritise groceries, switch to cheaper products as inflation hits home
01 August 2022 Matheus Varanda Gabriela Paes Carlos Rocha
In June 2021 Petrobras ordered by $2.3 billion a new FPSO (P-79) from Saipem and Korea’s DSME, designed to process 180,000 bd of oil and 7.2...
29 July 2022
The Europol has flagged increased proliferation of fake pesticides in the EU, adding that raids this year have yielded 1,150 tonnes of such products...
29 July 2022 Ida Hockerfelt
Amid higher global oil prices and a sharpening focus on new oil and gas supply sources to offset dependence on Russia, East African frontier...
27 July 2022 Choon Gek Khoo Cecillia Zheng
S&P Global (now a part of S&P Global Commodity Insights) published the Southeast Asia (SEA) power and renewable market briefing for the second...
26 July 2022 Kevin Birn Celina Hwang
Annual release of 10-year Canadian oil sands production outlook
26 July 2022 Yufei Li Paola Perez Pena Edurne zoco
A recent report by Clean Energy Technology at S&P Global benchmarked multiple decarbonization pathways currently available for the cement industry....
26 July 2022 Pieter Devuyst
The European Commission proposed to delay some environmental rules of the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) by one year to 2024
21 July 2022 Rajeev Lala Mansi Anand Kareem Yakub Geetika Gupta Baihui Yu Andrew Neff
As the global integrated oil companies (GIOCs) strive to adjust their strategies and aim to reduce their carbon footprint in the context of the...
21 July 2022 Darren Stobbart
This outlook provide estimates for 2022 and forecasts to 2030 across a selection of significant countries and crop groups.
20 July 2022 Mohd. Sahil Ali
As the second most populous country supporting 18% of the world’s population, India faces serious risks for global inaction on climate change....
20 July 2022 Bing Han
Following the release of China’s 14th Five-Year Plan (FYP) on the overall energy sector covering 2021-25, the National Development Reform Committee...
20 July 2022 Sam Wilkinson
The 2022 electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) and energy storage report from S&P Global provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging...
19 July 2022 Logan Reese Ankita Chauhan
In the second quarter of 2022, 24 new insight papers have been published in the S&P Global Commodity Insights (formerly S&P...
18 July 2022 Akashpratim Mukhopadhyay
An analysis of policy movements in the Indian agricultural drone and digital agriculture sectors.
15 July 2022 Johan Utama Hong Shien Lee David Ooi
With challenges to frontier exploration in Asia Pacific, Harbour Energy’s recent success in the deepwater Andaman Sea in Indonesia is welcome...
14 July 2022 Xizhou Zhou Patrick Luckow
As the US Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v EPA unfolds, our North American Power and Renewables experts share key highlights from recent...
14 July 2022 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Cross-state Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) Group 3 seasonal nitrogen oxide (NOx) allowance prices have increased over tenfold in 2022 (see Figure...
12 July 2022 Francesco d'Avack
Geothermal energy could play a crucial role in the energy transition as a source of clean firm power
12 July 2022 Prashanth Pillai
The service sector has reached a point where supply of available equipment and accessible labor force are struggling to meet strengthened activity...
12 July 2022 Jonathan Pegg
The US Supreme Court has denied a second Bayer request to review litigation alleging that its legacy company Monsanto’s glyphosate-based Roundup...
07 July 2022 Aliaksandr Chyzh
The United Kingdom’s Conservative government is building policy and regulatory frameworks to facilitate decarbonization and reach emission-reduction...
07 July 2022 Joo Yeow Lee
Many of the Southeast Asian governments have put in place ambitious renewable addition plans, to add more than 200 GW in aggregate from just...
05 July 2022 Maria Lupachik Ismini Katsimpardi
How the European energy crisis has transformed the asset economics
04 July 2022 Sanjiv Rana
The EU has decided to set binding targets for all member states to cut pesticide use by 50% by 2030
04 July 2022 Rod Hutton
Drillships are a hot spot in the world rig market. Utilisation is tightest in the high-specification category, in particular for units fully...
04 July 2022 Alan Bullion
Measures introduced to protect food security and the competitiveness of EU agricultural production
30 June 2022 Lee Bridgett
Central bank actions show early signs of tempering inflation in the US, but the global picture remains uncertain
30 June 2022 Pieter Devuyst
The European Commission proposed new EU rules to halve the use and risk of chemical pesticides by 2030
29 June 2022 Warren Waite Nikolay Filchev Matthew Piatek
On 8 June 2022, the Freeport LNG export facility on Quintana Island in Brazoria Co., Texas, suffered a leak in the pipe racks, which support...
29 June 2022 Magda Rodriguez
Over the last year it has been observed a strong reduction of stacked OSVs with a drop of -17% approximately.
28 June 2022 Alan Bullion
The biologicals market for crop protection products has seen healthy global growth in recent years, but In Europe there is still frustration...
28 June 2022 Rama Zakaria Etienne Gabel
In this video, a dynamic chart shows part of the analysis that S&P Global Commodity Insights conducted to identify the most attractive markets...
28 June 2022 Erik Meyer Analene Enslin
The Gazania-1 new-field wildcat is targeting the up-dip extension of the proven 1988 Soeker oil-bearing A-J 1 discovery, located within the Orange...
27 June 2022 Sara El-Hakim Matthew Palmer Ian Archer
Henry Hub cash prices soared to $9.50/MMBtu (a nearly 14-year high) earlier this month, after which they tumbled 20%, to $7.34/MMBtu on 17 June....
24 June 2022 Susan D Bell Debnil Chowdhury
Despite President Biden’s call on US refiners and the federal government to pull out all the stops to rescue US citizens from the high cost of...
24 June 2022 Rita Antonelli
A more integrated offshore energy sector, with closer links between oil and gas and offshore renewables is vital to accelerate the energy transition....
24 June 2022 Zayd Wahab
The S&P Global Upstream 1st quarter 2022 CAPEX and OPEX Cost indices increased across the board, with costs expected to rise to over 8% by...
23 June 2022 Logan Reese Kaori Tachibana Joo Yeow Lee
Australia, Japan, and Singapore are the few markets within Asia Pacific that have achieved full liberalization of their power markets. With the...
23 June 2022 Benjamin Levitt
In May, Québec’s energy regulator approved a greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction program jointly proposed by Hydro-Québec and Énergir —the...
23 June 2022 Alan Bullion
The Ukraine-Russia conflict has again demonstrated the fragility and vulnerability of both global and European food supply chains, and with growing...
22 June 2022 Keryn Tsimitakopoulos
The upstream potential of the Orange Subbasin offshore southern Namibia finally has been demonstrated after many decades of disappointment for...
21 June 2022 Robert Birkett
US Supreme Court judges met to consider whether to hear Bayer's bid to dismiss claims that it failed to warn customers of cancer risks from Monsanto’s...
20 June 2022 Paola Perez Pena
Steel and cement emit the most industrial carbon dioxide
17 June 2022 David Crisostomo Alan Bravo
The recent natural gas price increase in the United States is inevitably spreading to Mexico’s gas and power markets. A lower-than-expected supply...
17 June 2022 Padmanav Sahoo Kallol Saha
The upstream competitive landscape in Brazil has significantly shifted where the regionally focused independents and private equity-backed E&P...
16 June 2022 Terence Khoo Rachel Calvert Aliaksandr Chyzh
Hydrocarbon producers seek to advance low-carbon projects through incentive schemes for upstream players.
16 June 2022 Alessandro Bacci
In February 2022, Iraq’s Federal Supreme Court (FSC) issued a decision in relation to Case 59/Federal/2012 and Unified 110/Federal/2019.
16 June 2022 Laurent Ruseckas
Russia’s technical regulator reduced the operational capacity of the Nord Stream pipeline by 60% on 16 June.
15 June 2022 Xizhou Zhou
Southeast Asia’s emerging economies have averaged 5% annual GDP growth over the past decade, while electric power demand outpaced the economy...
15 June 2022 Philippe Mauron Etienne Kolly Cyril Ruchonnet Alessandro Piccoli
As of mid-year 2022, Tullow Oil and Capricorn Energy were about forming a new Africa-focused energy company.
14 June 2022 Zoe Grainge
German energy policy is never far from the headlines, but since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 the government has made two important...
13 June 2022 Robert Birkett
South American agriculture is witnessing uncertainty and fear over rising costs in the wake of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, besides...
08 June 2022 Roderick Bruce
Following two offshore discoveries that have uncovered billions of barrels of hydrocarbon resources, Namibia’s government is focusing on value...
06 June 2022 Ravin Singh Rahul Dev Chauhan
Commercial analysis overview on the key contract areas which were offered under DSF-III
06 June 2022 Chris DeLucia
Amid the current market environment, a key question has emerged around how existing conditions could alter low-carbon spending plans of upstream...
01 June 2022 Hong Shien Lee
Following the latest bid round in November 2021, the Special Task Force for Upstream Oil and Gas Business Activities Republic of Indonesia, SKK...
01 June 2022 Lara Dong Jenny Nguyen Yang Fenglei Shi
The Omicron outbreak in China since the beginning of 2022 has led to stringent restriction measures that severely disrupted economic activities...
31 May 2022 Maria Lupachik Erik Meyer
Sao Tome and Principe has a chance to become a new oil producer in case of positive results of the recently spudded Jaca-1 new-field wildcat...
