Special Reports

An interactive editorial project exploring the changing relationship between geopolitical risk and the price of crude. This analysis shows how diversity of supply, higher levels of global spare capacity and the expansion of strategic fuel reserves have helped to insulate markets from the risk of supply disruptions in the Middle East and beyond.

Global petrochemical companies are expected to continue facing challenges in the second-half of 2022 from the Russia-Ukraine war, but the overall impact from the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be fading gradually outside of Asia.

Shipping markets have experienced extreme uncertainty in the past two years, as the sector's inclusion in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme loomed. A myriad of questions still hang in the air surrounding the trading dynamics that will be felt globally once vessel emissions begin to be accounted for. In this special report we address these concerns head on, exploring how stakeholders may respond to the upcoming changes.

A wider and more volatile spread between steel and iron ore prices and pandemic-fueled supply chain disruptions have given rise to a quiet revolution in steel pricing. This report seeks to examine the approaches to steel indexation used across different regions of the world and considers barriers to adoption alongside steps taken by existing adopters to overcome them.

From modest beginnings in 1983 when the first container terminal was opened in Fujairah, the port has grown over the last 30 years to become the world's third-largest global bunkering hub after Singapore and Rotterdam. Connected to oil production in OPEC's third-largest producer by a 240-mile-long 48-inch wide export pipeline from Abu Dhabi, Fujairah now encompasses crude storage, bunkers, refining and dry bulk container freight.