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S&P Global Commodity Insights Special Reports showcase our key insights across a variety of important subjects affecting oil, shipping, natural gas, petrochemicals, electric power, coal, metals and agriculture markets.
May, 2023

Futures rising: A surge in iron ore derivatives is bringing the market to the cusp of a new evolutionary stage

  • In this report, S&P Global Commodity Insights and S&P Dow Jones Indices examine the recent growth in iron ore derivatives trading, increasing market transparency and their interface with spot price assessments for the physical market. Iron ore as an investment tool from a financial perspective is also considered.

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May, 2023

Atlas of Energy Transition™

  • Navigating a pathway to a low-carbon global economy requires a new plan. The S&P Global Platts Atlas of Energy Transition™, produced in collaboration with S&P Global Market Intelligence, is your map to the sustainable commodity markets of the future. (This report was first published in February 2021, and was updated in February 2022)

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May, 2023

Middle East Refinery Focus

  • From humble beginnings, the Middle East's refining industry has grown into a global player, strategically located between major international markets in Asia, Africa and Europe. At a time when refineries in Europe and the US are starved of investment, Middle East operators are going through a dynamic period of expansion to corner new opportunities opening up from changing flows in global trade.

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May, 2023

Recycling in focus: Navigating plastics and metals circularity in 2023

  • Platts explores price dynamics of the European ferrous scrap and recycled plastics markets, with a deep dive into recent fundamentals and key legislative developments for 2023 and beyond.

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February, 2023

North Sea Emissions Uncovered

  • The North Sea is one of the world’s most significant oil and gas producing regions. With an estimated 21 billion barrels of oil equivalent reserves the basin after almost 50 years of development continues to be an important supplier of crude for European refiners and the continent's most reliable source of natural gas to guarantee energy security.
    As the world accelerates its ambition to achieve net zero, there is growing interest in understanding the relative greenhouse gas (GHG) competitiveness of upstream oil and gas. This insight explores the range and character of the GHG intensity of North Sea production. It is the first in a series of analyses of new emission datasets from S&P Global Commodity Insights.

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