07 September 2024 Emilio Intrieri David Ooi
Indonesia has recently awarded three exploration blocks across different settings from the first Petroleum Bidding Round 2024. In this article...
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Customer Logins07 September 2024 Emilio Intrieri David Ooi
Indonesia has recently awarded three exploration blocks across different settings from the first Petroleum Bidding Round 2024. In this article...
06 September 2024 Max Mucenic Evgeniya Maiburova
Countries are increasingly targeting greenhouse gas emissions embedded in imported goods as a way to prevent "carbon leakage." The European...
04 September 2024 Prakhar Arora Philippe Mauron Chris Kennett
GHG intensity of offshore Nigeria production in 2023
30 August 2024 Prakhar Arora Philippe Mauron Chris Kennett
GHG intensity of offshore Nigeria production in 2023
28 August 2024
By Angel Gutierrez. Petrodata Rigs Senior Analyst.
12 August 2024 Maria Lupachik
Seizing opportunities: Chappal Energies expands holdings in Nigeria
07 August 2024 Manar Nacer Lucinda Ross Erik Meyer
Apus Energy DMCC is about to start drilling the long-awaited Atum prospect in the MSGBC Basin offshore Guinea-Bissau. The drillship Ocean BlackRhino...
06 August 2024
Based on our annual shipping data collection, the global solar tracker market reached 94 GW in shipments terms in 2023, which is an increase...
31 July 2024 Yelena Shliomenzon
The EU Regulation on the Reduction of Methane Emissions in the Energy Sector was adopted by the European Council and will take effect on August...
30 July 2024 Cody Schulte
The eastern area of the North Slope Basin has seen a rise in hydrocarbon exploration activity that has yielded promising results. In some of...
29 July 2024 Choon Gek Khoo Cecillia Zheng
S&P Global published the Southeast Asia (SEA) power and renewable market briefing for the second quarter of 2024 (Q2 2024). The report discussed...
25 July 2024 Laurence Bird Charles Ross
The company will require significant capital to fund these projects and will likely need the ability to raise substantial debt, especially if...
22 July 2024 Richard Sanchez
Market dynamics shipyard perspectives and future outlook in the OSV industry
15 July 2024 Terence Khoo Jared Jeffery
With the US gearing up for hotly contested elections in November 2024, investors and other stakeholders in the carbon capture, utilization and...
12 July 2024 Logan Reese
On June 26, the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) released the Integrated System Plan (ISP) 2024 — a development path to transition the...
09 July 2024 Rahul Dev Chauhan Parag Goyal
Monetization of these fields will support India's drive to increase oil and gas production
04 July 2024 Mei Ching Koay
The Langkasuka Basin's long depositional history, under various sedimentological regimes and paleoenvironmental conditions throughout the Paleozoic...
01 July 2024 Sergio Pedraza Hugh Ewan Alex Wyer
Decarbonization on the Norwegian Continental Shelf - Martin Linge case study
01 July 2024 Chad Barnes
PTTEP has announced its agreement to acquire a 10% stake in the Ghasha Concession from Wintershall Dea in Abu Dhabi
27 June 2024 Ismini Katsimpardi
The Kaminho development in the Kwanza Basin is a significant milestone for Angola, demonstrating the region's growth potential. TotalEnergies...
26 June 2024 Evgeniya Maiburova
The January 2022 civil unrest in Kazakhstan, sparked by rising LPG prices, underscored the need for energy security and affordability. The government's...
24 June 2024 Jac Parsons
Labour's proposal to remove the Energy Profits Levy's Investment Allowance would have a significant impact on UK field development economics....
18 June 2024 Try Abednego Chris Kennett
Commodity Insights’ comprehensive and rapidly evolving GHG modeling capabilities enable analysis of the Scope 1 emissions profiles of all major...
30 May 2024
Unexpected turn: Saudi plot twist on rig-OSV ratio
30 May 2024 Shehzad Hassan
The Pakistani government plans to launch first offshore bid round in the third quarter of 2024, offering 12 blocks for competitive bidding. These...
21 May 2024 Kallol Saha Anushil Anand Roy
Mergers and Acquisitions Fueling Innovation and Growth in the CCUS Sector
21 May 2024 Roderick Bruce Pedro Martinez Ida Hockerfelt Ford Tanner David Gates
The Atlantic Margin play — focused on the coastal basins of western Africa and eastern South America — is drawing increasing strategic focus...
08 May 2024 Kevin Birn Celina Hwang
S&P Global Commodity Insights expects Canadian oil sands production to approach 3.8 million b/d by the end of the decade.
02 May 2024 Ankita Chauhan Abhyuday Tewari
India started the first quarter of 2024 on a strong note with more than 26 GW of renewable projects awarded in competitive tenders. Commodity...
30 April 2024 Yijie Zhu Sophie Boulter
There is an increasing amount of carbon capture projects centered around the heavy industry in the Texas Gulf Coast (figure), this has also been...
29 April 2024 Choon Gek Khoo Cecillia Zheng
Data from the power market suggests a significant year-over-year (YOY) increase in power demand during the Q1 2024 for major Southeast Asian...
23 April 2024 Yulia Khorikova Rebecca Vyse Alex Wyer
An overview of the upcoming Venus HIW in the Norwegian Barents Sea, covering regional exploration history, reservoir analysis, development opportunities...
05 April 2024 Pedro Martinez Ford Tanner
Since taking office in December 2023, the libertarian administration of President Javier Milei has achieved progress in its effort to unwind...
15 March 2024 Emma Xie He
The corporate clean energy procurement (CEP) landscape experienced both triumphs and challenges in 2023 with 55 GW of capacity contracted. A...
15 March 2024 Emilio Intrieri David Ooi
Bangladesh has launched its first offshore bidding round in 12 years. Will the revamped terms be sufficient to relaunch upstream investment in...
13 March 2024 Etienne Gabel Emma Xie He
The US SEC finalized rules mandating climate-related disclosures for public companies, focusing on scope 1 and 2 emissions, omitting scope 3...
12 March 2024 Qingyang Liu
Net additions of global top owners’ wind and solar assets reached a record high of 113 GW by Jan. 1, 2023, marking a 28% growth from the previous...
08 March 2024 Yun Yun Teo
The offshore rig sector is back on the road to recovery. But though demand is robust enough to warrant newbuild orders, the economics just do...
05 March 2024 Mark Griffith Doug Giuffre
While US power generation expansion is largely focused on clean energy technologies like solar, wind and batteries, S&P Global Commodity Insights...
01 March 2024 Akhmal Zulkefle
Offshore construction market is getting busy in Australia, with many vessels mobilizing into the country for work on the various porj
26 February 2024 Josefin Berg Holly Hu
After global solar photovoltaic (PV) additions reached 421 GWdc – a staggering 70% year-on-year growth – in 2023, S&P Global Commodity Insights...
23 February 2024 Choon Kiat William Chia Chengyao Peng
The recent volatility in hydropower generation, one of the key zero-carbon power sources in China, has weighed on China’s grid system in terms...
23 February 2024 Qingyang Liu Abhyuday Tewari
In January 2024, regional research teams came out with the key trends expected to play out in respective power and renewables markets in 2024....
21 February 2024 Stephanie Vargas Ortega Mariana Anjos
Trinidad and Tobago has worked diligently from diplomatic and policy angles to address the gas production decline that has affected feedgas to...
16 February 2024 Tony Loy
Japan is getting its wind turbine installation vessels ready for upcoming work. In this post, we take a closer look into Japanese wind vessels...
14 February 2024 Jessica Jin
The market share of top 10 companies through the module supply chain achieved over 80% in the first three quarters of 2023. Only four companies...
12 February 2024 Kevin Whited Jared Jeffery
As we look ahead to 2024, several trends in above-ground risk with implications for E&P from 2023 remain salient.
09 February 2024 Sam Huntington Patrick Luckow Matthew Palmer Benjamin Levitt
In 2023, the North American gas and power markets were again challenged by extreme weather, setting peak-demand records in several markets. Natural...
08 February 2024 Mohd. Sahil Ali Ashish Singla Ankita Chauhan
In 2024, India is expected to continue to push harder on its implementation strategy on energy transition while balancing its issues related...
07 February 2024
In assessing Africa’s continued quest to achieve equilibrium and growth in a disjointed world, this report marks the highlights of 2023 and provides...
05 February 2024 Vince Heo Logan Reese Kaori Tachibana Jian Ren Lim Andre Lambine
Wholesale power prices declined year-on-year in all 3 markets within OECD Asia (Australia, Japan, South Korea).
05 February 2024 Abhyuday Tewari
In December 2023, the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP28) was held in Dubai with a top priority of keeping the...
05 February 2024 Ankita Chauhan
India has more than 126 GW of renewable capacity installed by mid-2023 and the largest 10 companies constitute about a third of these operational...
02 February 2024
The mining sector has the potential to use up to 180 TWh of additional clean energy from the current levels, according to estimates from S&P...
01 February 2024 Mariam Al-Shamma David Gates
The above-ground risk environment for upstream investment in 2024 will be shaped by the interplay between divergent trends and pressures among...
01 February 2024 Mohd. Sahil Ali Abhyuday Tewari
2024 expected to bring moderate economic growth and some consumer relief across the three South Asian markets.
30 January 2024
Accelerated renewable deployment and fossil fuel phaseout are creating a growing flexibility gap that needs to be filled by clean technologies...
29 January 2024 Choon Gek Khoo Cecillia Zheng
As 2024 begins, S&P Global Commodity Insights looks back at the power market events and highlights the most pertinent issues for the sector in...
25 January 2024 Ella Chen
How have Chinese leading power companies, mainly state-owned, developed their overseas’ strategies over the past decade following the guidance...
25 January 2024 Vince Heo Logan Reese Kaori Tachibana Andre Lambine
As 2024 unravels, S&P Global Commodity Insights lays out five big questions that are expected to shape the discussions around the gas and power...
17 January 2024
Solar microinverters are forecast to account for 31% of the module-level power electronics (MLPE) market in 2023, with power optimizers expected...
10 January 2024 Susana Santos Siddhartha Sen Robert Lewis Chris Kennett
In 2022, greenhouse gas emissions from the production of oil and gas in the Campos and Santos basins, the main producing basins offshore Brazil...
09 January 2024 Weixiao Qin Chengyao Peng
Power market reform in China leaped forward since late 2021 with all coal-fired power entering marketing trading, abolishment of regulated retail...
09 January 2024 Chengyao Peng
It has been two years since President Xi Jinping announced the development of about 100 GW of wind and solar to kick-start the national renewable...
21 December 2023
Increased record additions in solar PV capacity over the past year (60 GW), following strength in the prior couple of years, are certainly a...
21 December 2023 Etienne Gabel
COP28 ended on December 13th with parties pledging to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030. How difficult is this goal for different governments?...
20 December 2023 Magda Rodriguez Kristen Smith
OSV sales
18 December 2023 Stuart Lewis Jack Rivers Ian Conway
The purpose of this brief overview is to outline how 2023 (so far) compares in terms of exploration success across the last decade, highlight...
18 December 2023 Evgeniya Maiburova
This article delves into the topic of flaring, the controlled burning of natural gas, focusing specifically on the case of Russia from 2012 to...
18 December 2023 Sergio Pedraza Danial Shuhaizan
Rosebank field, strategic development in the UK for decarbonization and energy security
15 December 2023 Laurence Bird Chris Kennett
In 2022, greenhouse gas emissions from the production of oil and gas in the North Sea varied significantly. This blog explores this variation...
13 December 2023 Timothy Stephure Etienne Gabel
In this video, a set of charts shows part of the analysis that S&P Global Commodity Insights conducted to identify the most attractive markets...
13 December 2023 Diego Ortiz
Spain provides business case for repowering, Europe has a significant number of aging onshore wind installations, and incentives remain few and...
12 December 2023 Rajeev Lala Mehrun Etebari Mariam Al-Shamma
During COP28 in Dubai, the UAE is showcasing its commitment to ambitious climate policies while simultaneously expanding hydrocarbon production...
12 December 2023 Amy Groeschel
Global energy sector capital expenditures (capex) will increase by 8% in 2023 compared with 2022 levels. Cost inflation continues to affect key...
11 December 2023 Renata Machado
It has been more than one year since Gustavo Petro assumed the presidency of Colombia in August 2022 and presented in the Congress its ambitious...
05 December 2023 Etienne Gabel
The “Global South”—a term often used for the developing countries of South Asia and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa—houses 56% of the...
04 December 2023 Parag Goyal Manar Nacer
India's windfall tax on oil producers, has caused significant disruption in the industry. The tax's unpredictability and its effect on the profitability...
29 November 2023 Renata Machado Isaac Nuti
The development of Trion as a potential hub on the Mexican side of the Gulf of Mexico creates opportunity for previously stranded fields. In...
28 November 2023 Alan Delgado
In 2017, Petrobras announced that it would undertake a divestment process aimed at selling non-core assets to focus on deepwater oil exploration...
27 November 2023 Kishore Thamilselvan
Eight months following the unprecedented closure of Kurdistan’s only export route, the region’s end-of-year crude production is anticipated to...
21 November 2023 George Hilton Anqi Shi
Could the supply of AC-blocks become a key new trend for the energy storage industry in 2024?
15 November 2023 Zayd Wahab
Following multiple years of relentless escalation, upstream costs seem to have begun to moderate. Any slowdown is deceptive however as it obscures...
14 November 2023 Terence Khoo
On Oct. 20, 2023, Navigator CO2 Ventures LLC announced the cancellation of its Heartland Greenway pipeline project — a proposed 2,092-km CO2...
09 November 2023 Siqi He
PCS shipments to front-of-the-meter (FTM) energy storage siting accounted for over 50% of total global shipments over the forecast period (2023–30)...
08 November 2023 Abhyuday Tewari
This update provides a brief overview of selected reports in the Global Power and Renewables service. There has been net growth recently in the...
08 November 2023 Max Green Julian Gale Jose Gutierrez Fernandez Hope Lee Fernanda Okada Estela Cuesta Leon Cristina Nanni
Uncertainty and supply chain risks create opportunities for producing countries outside the traditional dominant players to expand sourcing options...
06 November 2023 Choon Gek Khoo Cecillia Zheng
S&P Global Commodity Insights recently released the Southeast Asia (SEA) power and renewable market briefing for the third quarter of 2023 (Q3...
02 November 2023 Vince Heo Logan Reese Kaori Tachibana Jian Ren Lim Andre Lambine
Power demand continues to decreases in OECD Asia. Thermal share decreases, while renewables rise.
31 October 2023 Xiaonan Feng
In 2021, Indonesia announced its ambitious climate commitments to peak national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030 and reach carbon-neutrality...
27 October 2023 Ankita Chauhan
Increasing interest rates and weakening of macro-economic indicators in South Asia could lead to higher cost of generation in 2023
27 October 2023 Richard Sanchez
Strange days for the US OSV fleet
27 October 2023 Yvonne Seow
Day rates continue to climb in Asia-Pacific while demand in the region increases and supply tightens.
20 October 2023 Amy Groeschel
Production in the United States continues to grow despite falling rig counts. Lower 48 onshore volumes exceeded previous records and reached...
19 October 2023 Logan Reese Ankita Chauhan
In the third quarter of 2023, 25 new insight papers have been published in the S&P Global Commodity Insights Asia Pacific Integrated service...
18 October 2023 Yufei Li Paola Perez Pena
Despite the recent surge of policy incentives for carbon capture projects, the world is not on track to meet the CO2 reductions expected from...
16 October 2023 John Murray Andrei Utkin
The offshore wind industry is expected to become a major contributor to the US' net-zero emissions goal by 2050, however a perfect storm of rising...
13 October 2023 Hong Shien Lee Emilio Intrieri David Ooi Antonio Dimabuyu Amelia Sudirdja
Indonesia is back making headlines in the upstream E&P industry with Eni’s Geng North gas discovery in ultra-deepwater Kutei Basin. Geng North...
12 October 2023 Shayne Willette Mark Griffith
Current market conditions could lead to natural gas’s best year on record followed by a steady decline.
10 October 2023 Benjamin Levitt
Heat pump adoption in cold climates is driven by demand for improved cooling, not heating. Sales of air-source heat pumps (ASHPs) are rising...
10 October 2023 Tiffany Wang Sam Wilkinson
Q2 2023 was the first quarter that global shipments declined - falling by 2% year-on-year.
09 October 2023
With the transport and mobility sector accounting for about 23% of global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions, behind the power generation...
09 October 2023 Natalia Sleta
Kazakhstan is actively exploring options for diversifying its oil exports. The primary and most dependable oil pipeline, the Tengiz-Novorossiysk...
05 October 2023 Zonia Palacios Chad Barnes
BLOG Oct 05, 2023 Lebanon, What’s Next? Chad Barnes Zonia Palacios After three years since the last exploration well (Byblos 1) drilled by TotalEnergies...
04 October 2023
This study was commissioned by the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) to better understand marginal emission rates; the rate at which...
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 Diego Ortiz
Only nine months into 2023, the European Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) landscape is setting remarkable records.
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 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 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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...