12 January 2021 David Vaucher
The latest IHS Markit North Sea Industry Trends report states that North Sea operators and service companies specifically were already reeling...
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07 January 2021
Guyana is one of the hottest areas for oil and gas exploration and production not just in Latin America, but around the world. In this quick...
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05 January 2021 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Q4 2020 Power and Renewables Research Highlights
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04 January 2021 Nathan Amery
What should you do to maximize ROI from your digital transformation initiative? Read our step-by-step guide
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30 December 2020 Francesco d'Avack
Today there are 6.1GW of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plants operating, with a further 1.2GW under construction or in advanced development....
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22 December 2020 Etienne Gabel
On 3 November, Chile’s Ministry of Energy presented a “National Strategy for Green Hydrogen for Chile” with three main objectives: have 5 GW...
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16 December 2020 Leanne Todd Ali Sangster
A paradigm shift is occurring in the energy industry, as the weakening economy and current market slowdown continues to air uncertainty. Lower...
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16 December 2020 Martina Assereto
PV project acquisition activity in Europe remains heated
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16 December 2020 George Hilton
As huge quantities of electric vehicle (EV) chargers and energy storage are installed worldwide in the coming years, there is the possibility...
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16 December 2020 Tom Scott Kevin Lindemer Juan Sacoto
The traditional refinery and biofuels sectors are at a point of convergence - one caused by falling demand for petroleum fuels, driven by decarbonization...
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15 December 2020 Lara Dong Bing Han
China’s Updated 2030 Climate Targets
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14 December 2020 Craig Hunter
With the double whammy of a pandemic and low oil prices, marine seismic is going through one of its worst slumps, with a large portion of the...
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04 December 2020 Zoe Grainge
Despite cautious positions on the energy transition adopted by certain governments in the region, the potential for growth in renewable power...
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04 December 2020 Sam Wilkinson Miguel De Jesus
Whitepaper: Grid stability - How PV inverters can help overcome challenges in the 21st century
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03 December 2020 Xiao Lu Jenny Nguyen Yang
Despite a slight delay, Chinese national pipeline company—China Oil and Gas Pipeline Network Corporation (PipeChina)—officially started operation...
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02 December 2020 Oliver Forsyth
When people discuss electricity markets, they commonly refer to the wholesale energy markets. This may include day-ahead energy markets – where...
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01 December 2020 Michael Marinovic
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent decline in oil prices has wreaked havoc on E&P investment. How will host governments...
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01 December 2020 Rebekah Bostan Anna Shpitsberg
The Luiperd discovery in October 2020 has led to a two-fold increase in South African gas reserves and is likely to be the second largest global...
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27 November 2020 Sergey Myakishev
On Sunday 22 November, the Supreme Petroleum Council (SPC) of Abu Dhabi announced a notable upgrade in the emirate's hydrocarbon resources –...
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25 November 2020 Coralie Laurencin
Europe is stepping up its 2030 climate target – what does this mean?
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21 November 2020 Sam Huntington Oliver Forsyth
Battery energy storage systems (BESS) are on the cusp of rapid growth in US wholesale power markets. But the unique operating characteristics...
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20 November 2020 Maria Chea
Since the election of President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador at the end of 2018, the renewable energy market in the country has experienced an...
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19 November 2020 Etienne Gabel
Many large and primarily European oil and gas (O&G) companies—including Shell, BP, and Total—have significant expansion plans for renewable energies...
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19 November 2020 Aliaksandr Chyzh
The North Sea basin is emerging as a global hotspot for carbon capture and storage (CCS) development on the back of strong policy momentum.
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16 November 2020 Yuejia Peng Steven Knell, Ph.D.
Carbon pricing mechanisms—emissions trading systems (ETSs) and carbon taxes—continue to increase globally, with a number of countries having...
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12 November 2020 Rebekah Bostan Nick Waters
Africa’s upstream hydrocarbon sector is at a crucial turning point, with reserve additions from final investment decisions (FIDs) and project...
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11 November 2020
In recent years, many US utilities have begun to follow a “shift to safety” strategy by rapidly shifting shares of capital spending away from...
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10 November 2020 Dalia Garduno
Amidst the uncertainties surrounding the oil price downturn and global production rollback due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mexican ministry...
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06 November 2020 Isaac Nuti George Laguros Fernanda Machado
The state of Alaska is facing a difficult decision, with reduced oil prices and oil production negatively impacting revenue for local government....
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28 October 2020 Rajat Joshi
Non-fuel sales were the sole bright point for retailers amid lackluster fuel retail sales
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27 October 2020 Thomas Maslin Josef Benzaoui Emma Xie He Anna Shpitsberg
Procurement of solar and wind projects by corporations is on the rise globally. However, the United States continues to be the largest market...
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26 October 2020 Patrick Luckow
The Democratic presidential nominee has put forth a far-reaching US decarbonization plan, seeking to eliminate emissions from the power sector...
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23 October 2020 Sarah McLean
After the global offshore rig market was sent reeling in March, with the double hit of an oil price crash and a global pandemic to work around...
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22 October 2020 Choon Gek Khoo Cecillia Zheng
Entering the third quarter of 2020, the Southeast Asia region power market is being tested once more by a second wave of COVID-19. Although easing...
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16 October 2020 Kaori Tachibana James Taverner
One key theme of the 9th annual LNG Producer-Consumer Conference—held by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Asia...
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15 October 2020 Josefin Berg
At IHS Markit, we have gone through the annual exercise of ranking solar phovoltaic EPC providers in the previous year, noting a new wave of...
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13 October 2020 Natalia Kazakova
Secrets to Surviving in Volatility: Planning for success in 2021 and Beyond to Thrive in New Upstream World
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08 October 2020 George Hilton
As huge quantities of both EV chargers and energy storage will be installed across the world in the coming years, IHS Markit has investigated...
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07 October 2020 Raul Timponi Elsa Kiener Anna Shpitsberg
According to the Egyptian energy regulator, EgyptERA, the steepest declines happened in March and April 2020, when the average daily peak and...
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07 October 2020 Ankita Chauhan
India’s ambitious target of 450 GW of renewable capacity by 2030 will require the country to adapt its power system to the increasing variability...
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02 October 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Status of global wind turbine orders, rolling blackouts return to California’s power markets, evolution of the NEM: Navigating Australia’s renewable...
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01 October 2020 James Simpson Dr. Christoph Berg
Infographic: Assessing biofuel policies and their impact on global markets
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29 September 2020 Matthew Palmer Jack Weixel Anusha de Silva
Natural gas prices could continue to struggle early in the 2020/21 winter heating season, but IHS Markit sees a strong rebound in 2021, according...
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25 September 2020 Xizhou Zhou Jenny Nguyen Yang
In a recent announcement to the United Nations, Chinese President Xi Jinping committed China to a carbon-neutral future, to be achieved by 2060....
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22 September 2020 Rajesh Joshi
Gain a better understanding of the factors that continue to influence the increase of propane exports from the United States to China.
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21 September 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert
In the last two months, the spot natural gas price at the Henry Hub has shot up by nearly 42%, and futures prices have gained even more sharply—and...
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18 September 2020 Silvia Macri Raul Timponi
Small-scale customers in residential and commercial segments, as well as industrial consumers and municipalities, are exerting pressure on South...
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17 September 2020 Maria Jose Chea
As COVID-19 continues to cast a cloud on industries around the world, the utility scale PV segment in the United states has continued to grow...
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16 September 2020 Drew Bobesink Barclay Gibbs
How does a case with deep decarbonization alter the performance outlook for various power sector technologies? Using our North American Power...
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16 September 2020 Dr. Christoph Berg
The climate change debate is leading to an increased interest in renewable fuels. COVID-19 has not changed that. All around the world, governments...
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16 September 2020
Exciting Changes to IHS Markit’s North American Coal Market Service
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15 September 2020 Sam Huntington Duncan Anderson Barclay Gibbs
When evaluating potential project sites early in the development cycle, energy storage developers are faced with a difficult question: how to...
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11 September 2020 Kevin Birn Cathy Crawford Carolyn Seto
Understanding methane's role in GHG emissions
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11 September 2020 Stephanie Rivera Ha Nguyen
Never in the history of the industry has output from a former major producing country fallen so low
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10 September 2020 Deeksha Wason
Pakistan’s National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) released the Draft Indicative Generation and Capacity Expansion Plan 2047, within...
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09 September 2020 Drew Bobesink Barclay Gibbs
There are striking differences across regions in how the captured price of solar generators reacts to increasing battery penetrations.
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08 September 2020
Between 2018-2019, utilization rates at the Malaysia LNG (MLNG) complex have fallen to between 80-90%, a decrease from the high utilization rate...
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08 September 2020 Guneet Kaur Dhingra Andrei Utkin
Nearly 1GW worth of new additions was commissioned last year to reach a total global installed base of 15.4GW by the end of 2019, around 5% of...
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07 September 2020 Sandeep Sayal Louise Vertz
As markets begin to find a new balance, refiners will be tasked with not just redesigning production profiles in the medium term, but weighing...
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03 September 2020 Ying Ting Lew Joo Yeow Lee
Southeast Asia is a very attractive market for renewable energy, owing to its rich renewable resources and surging energy consumption.
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02 September 2020 Siqi He Edurne Zoco, Ph.D.
Chinese polysilicon price has risen by 65% from a historically low level in June 2020.There are three factors that explain this dramatic surge...
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01 September 2020 Shan Xue Logan Reese
Coal-fired power has been the core power supply in Australia’s National Energy Market (NEM) in terms of both installed capacity and generation....
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27 August 2020 Indrayuth Mukherjee
IHS Markit tracked 62.5 GW of new wind installations in 2019, 22% higher than the year before. While over 90% of this was in onshore, the offshore...
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25 August 2020 Wade Shafer
Rolling blackouts returned to the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) on Friday, 14 August, for the first time since the 2001 energy...
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25 August 2020 Renata Machado Marcos Lepore
As soon as the crisis hit the Mexican oil market, a reaction was expected from Pemex, the country's main operator. As companies around the world...
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24 August 2020 Paul Markwell Nick Thomson Lysle Brinker Jim Burkhard
The projected price recovery paints a cautiously positive picture of the upstream industry
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24 August 2020 Etienne Gabel
Shifts in power demand patterns due to the COVID-19 crisis, combined with the growing penetration of intermittent and distributed generation...
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21 August 2020 Rebekah Bostan Ismini Katsimpardi
In July 2020 reports in the press indicated that ENI plans to divest operated assets in Congo. ENI is not the only company to have announced...
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20 August 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Impact of COVID-19 on Refining and Refiners
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17 August 2020 Warren Waite Nikolay Filchev Matthew Piatek
More and more natural gas pipeline projects in North American are being shelved and the future for big projects seems less promising.
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14 August 2020 Miguel De Jesus
The module level power electronics (MLPE) market is currently dominated by two suppliers, Enphase and SolarEdge. Enphase innovated in this space...
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13 August 2020 Martina Assereto
Ireland’s first renewable energy auction saw nearly 1300 MW of successful projects of which almost 800 MW was accounted for by solar, according...
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12 August 2020 Simon Blakey Shankari Srinivasan Catherine Robinson
A new European Commission communication proposes an EU hydrogen strategy. Together with five recently announced national strategies and a strong...
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10 August 2020 Oliver Forsyth
As renewable penetration increases, transmission and distribution (T&D) infrastructure will require significant reinforcement. Battery...
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10 August 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Our experts explore cost trends for offshore Gulf of Mexico and onshore unconventional in the lower 48 and Canada, in relation to the energy...
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07 August 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Global gas experts Michael Stoppard and Ed Kelly discuss recent gas infrastructure deals
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07 August 2020 Raj Rajendran
Saudi Aramco is likely to cut its September official selling price (OSP) to refiners in Asia, a first since May
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06 August 2020 Cinnamon Edralin, BA
The global offshore rig market once again finds itself in a downturn. However, given the short, slow recovery that was underway before March...
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06 August 2020 Robert Chambers
An overview of how coronavirus (COVID-19) and the oil price crash has impacted the future supply of feedstock gas into some of Western Australia’s...
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04 August 2020 Walt Hart, P.E. Keefer Douglas Darryl Rogers
The US has become by far the largest producer of ethane in the world – as well as the only significant waterborne exporter of the product. However...
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29 July 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert
The recent announcement of a $5 billion all-stock deal between Chevron and Noble Energy has some industry players wondering if this is the signal...
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28 July 2020 Kevin Birn Celina Hwang
The COVID-19 demand and price collapse has reduced Canadian oil sands production outlook to 2030 to the lowest point in the past half-decade...
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27 July 2020 RJ Chang, Ph.D.
Global carbon emission has dropped substantially due to coronavirus (COVID-19) that has curbed the demand of transportation fuels and business...
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23 July 2020 Cecillia ZHENG
As more Southeast Asian (SEA) countries began relaxing their lockdown in the second quarter of 2020, most economic sectors in the region were...
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22 July 2020 Etienne Gabel Eduard Sala de Vedruna Anna Shpitsberg
A handful of our global power and renewable experts virtually sit down to discuss power utilities seeking business growth beyond their home markets....
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17 July 2020 Cormac Gilligan
Solar tracker shipments reached new record levels in 2019 with shipments exceeding 31GW globally, an increase of 55 percent year-on-year.
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16 July 2020 Tianshi Huang Anna Galtsova
In 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed an alternative route for Russian piped gas to reach China, across Mongolia. Read the blog...
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15 July 2020 Joo Yeow Lee Allen Wang
Vietnam intends to prioritize grid enhancements, renewable integration, and significantly increase its renewable energy target
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14 July 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert
An overview of China’s power demand growth in June 2020.
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14 July 2020 Sam Huntington
Extraordinary cost declines mean wind and solar now often boast the lowest levelized cost of energy (LCOE) among power supply resources in many...
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10 July 2020 Carolyn Seto
oil and gas players have increasingly pursued open innovation strategies to complement internal research and development activities
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09 July 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert
The investigative report by the Pennsylvania grand jury released last month that was highly critical of the Department of Environmental Protection...
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09 July 2020 Justin Michael Cochrane, M.S.c Etienne Kolly
Five years on from the last crash, what to expect this time around – Africa's oil price drama
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08 July 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert
An overview of how coronavirus (COVID-19) has impacted Pakistan power demand growth and investments.
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08 July 2020 Sarah McLean
The double whammy of the oil price crash and coronavirus (COVID-19), has left many operators hitting the brakes, slashing budgets and deferring...
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07 July 2020 Rahul Bhutani John Barsby
As the world shifts to lower-carbon fuels, refining companies are changing the ways they come to market, maximize profitability, and choose investments....
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06 July 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert
The PV inverter market achieved record shipments, growing by 19% to 126 GW in 2019 driven by booming shipments in key markets such as United...
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02 July 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert
The risk of a dangerous resurgence is rising. Whether or not that risk transforms into a full blown “second wave” is unknowable at the moment....
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02 July 2020 Nathan Amery
The upstream oil and gas industry is facing another tough year as it looks to manage weakening economic growth and intensifying trade tensions...
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25 June 2020 Renata Machado Marcos Lepore
Mexican offshore logistics market has always been highly dependent on Pemex, until recently.
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24 June 2020 Cecillia ZHENG
Long-standing delays in numerous power generation projects in Vietnam will likely cause severe power shortages over the next five years. As a...
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23 June 2020
Chaotic is the best way to describe 2020 to-date. In just a short few months, the oil and gas industry had the collapse of the Vienna Alliance...
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22 June 2020 Britta Daum
Coronavirus (COVID-19) could very well serve as an opportunity to institute transformative green agenda policies.
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19 June 2020 Roger Diwan Carlos Pascual
Media and forecasters are increasingly making past-is-prologue comparisons between the 1970s and the coming 2020s, flagging potential parallels...
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16 June 2020 Youmin Rong, Ph.D. Chloe Holzinger
In June 2020, Tesla received formal approval from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to build Model 3 vehicles with lithium-iron-phosphate...
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15 June 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Fuel retailers are starting to take action to ensure they are attracting as many of these potential customers as possible
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12 June 2020 Cat Hunter, Msc, MA
The oil and gas industry is having to rethink the way in which it works again.
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11 June 2020 Alex Klaessig
Hydrogen could develop into a globally traded energy source, like oil and gas
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10 June 2020 Xiao Lu
The balancing effect on mainland China's gas-fired power: Low oil prices, rising capacity and coronavirus (COVID-19) in 2020.
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09 June 2020 Soufien Taamallah, Ph.D. Catherine Robinson
Power-to-X is proving highly resilient to the current downturn with announcements of major new projects made at the height of the COVID-19 turmoil....
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08 June 2020 Lara Dong IHS Markit Energy Expert
With China’s economic growth moderating in recent years, the key emphasis of power sector development has shifted from scaling up power supply...
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05 June 2020 Thais Vachala Mariana Anjos
The drilling market has always been the first and most impacted when there is a crisis in the oil and gas segment. On a global scale, the current...
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04 June 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Case study: An oil well has been observed having reducing trend of GOR.
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03 June 2020 Paola Perez Pena
While oil prices have, to some extent, improved and some optimization has emerged, it’s clear that the damage wrought during the global pandemic...
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02 June 2020 Indrayuth Mukherjee
Offshore wind turbine manufacturers navigating a challenging business environment.
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01 June 2020 Rob Smith
Coronavirus (COVID-19) has negatively affected all forms of global mobility, but none more so than air travel.
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29 May 2020 Brandon Savisky
Exiting 2019 and heading into 2020, the frac sand market was unwell; in fact, the market was slightly hovering above a recently found “new” bottom....
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28 May 2020 Cormac Gilligan
Floating PV installations are expected to grow strongly in the coming years due to an increasing pipeline of global projects.
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26 May 2020 Thais Vachala Mariana Anjos
An update on the OSV market in Brazil.
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22 May 2020 Shankari Srinivasan Matthew Shruhan Alun Davies
Despite a 5% decline in overall European gas demand in 2020, we still expect LNG imports to Europe to grow nearly 7% year on year to reach 90...
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21 May 2020 Etienne Gabel
Latin America is increasingly becoming an epicenter of the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The shock on the region’s economies is worsening...
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20 May 2020 Renata Machado Marcos Lepore
Mexican deepwater has a lot of potential despite the many risks. We discuss the details in the blog.
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20 May 2020 Hedi Grati Eleanor Budds
A beleaguered refining industry is hardly a new story for Europe, so how has coronavirus (COVID-19) impacted the industry?
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19 May 2020 Edurne Zoco, Ph.D.
2020 will be a critical year that will reshape the Solar PV module manufacturing landscape.
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14 May 2020 Kevin Birn IHS Markit Energy Expert Celina Hwang
An overview of Western Canada’s crude production.
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14 May 2020 Yin Yuan Nick Sharma Kunfeng Zhu Erik Darner
Podcast: Our Asia-Pacific upstream research team explores the future of Chinese national oil companies.
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14 May 2020 Thea Fourie Silvia Macri Natznet Tesfay Anna Shpitsberg
A virtual discussion: How is coronavirus (COVID-19) impacting the African power sector?
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13 May 2020 Rob Smith
Gasoline demand is on the upswing; however, US retail sector is still facing several months of low earnings. Discover more in our blog.
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13 May 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert
LNG’s cost competitiveness over diesel has contributed to the rise of heavy-duty vehicles (HDV) powered by LNG fuel in China.
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12 May 2020 Paola Romero
The global pandemic paired with a supply surplus has dramatically lowered the oil price and left the energy industry in a difficult position...
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11 May 2020 Sam Wilkinson
How will the solar PV industry endure the global pandemic?
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08 May 2020 Renata Machado Matheus Varanda
As the global oil & gas industry faces unprecedented market conditions, challenges pile up in Argentina.
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06 May 2020 Rob Smith
An overview of how coronavirus (COVID-19) has impacted bunker fuel.
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05 May 2020 Paola Perez Pena
An overview of how coronavirus (COVID-19) has impacted the United States upstream cementing market.
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04 May 2020 Joo Yeow Lee Allen Wang
Coronavirus (COVID-19) has hit Southeast Asia’s #power sector hard, although the impact will differ by country.
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01 May 2020 Xizhou Zhou
With countries going into lockdowns one by one, electricity demand around the world has been dropping. Power generation requirement has gone...
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30 April 2020 Sarah McLean
The West African offshore rigs market was barely back on its feet after the last downturn when the combination of the recent oil price crash...
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30 April 2020 Rob Smith
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has coincided with a return to prominence for Russia within the global oil markets.
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29 April 2020 Rob Smith
If you cannot sell it or store it, you cannot produce it.
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29 April 2020 David Vaucher
In the wake of OPEC discussions and the effects of coronavirus (COVID-19) on the global economy, our experts organized a webinar to deliver views...
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28 April 2020 Vince Heo
South Korea has a target of having 20% renewable generation by 2030. What factors might hinder this goal?
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27 April 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Well, production and land data implications from the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19)
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27 April 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert
IHS Markit has identified six major themes to help make sense of the impact on European utilities of the societal and economic response to COVID-19....
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24 April 2020 Nick Sharma Kunfeng Zhu
China accelerated its E&P policy reform, targeting to attract investment in upstream oil and gas from non-NOCs
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24 April 2020 Allen Wang
To fuel power-demand growth, independent power producers have focused on gas-fired power and renewables
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24 April 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert
The aftermath of OPEC discussions and the effects of coronavirus (COVID-19) on the global economy, in combination, have left the oil market in...
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23 April 2020 Kevin Birn Jordan Woloschuk Celina Hwang Bill Rawlusyk
Low oil prices impact Canadian oil production.
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22 April 2020 Roderick Bruce
The impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis on Sub-Saharan Africa’s upstream hydrocarbon sector will be broad and deep.
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21 April 2020 Roger Diwan Karim Fawaz
Historical compliance issues no match for the sheer brutality of market forces as demand disappears
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21 April 2020 Rob Smith
The combination of lockdown measures and social distancing has hammered US gasoline demand.
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20 April 2020 Richard Sanchez
The looming effects of the oil price crash and coronavirus (COVID-19) are impacting the offshore supply vessel (OSV) market.
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20 April 2020 Maxim Nechaev
An overview of the Russian upstream sector.
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20 April 2020 Tianshi Huang Jenny Yang
The new oil price environment will shuffle the order of the cost curve in the Chinese gas market in 2020.
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17 April 2020 Kurt Barrow
Awareness and commitments to address climate change are advancing rapidly, and downstream companies need strategies to address the shifting landscape....
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17 April 2020 Renata Machado Marcos Lepore
Mexico took the spotlight in the midst of energy discussions during the OPEC + meeting, playing an important role in the conduct of the negotiations...
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16 April 2020 Dr. Atul Arya, Ph.D.
When it comes to Energy Transition, there are people who believe that the energy system can be transformed globally to “zero-carbon” within a...
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16 April 2020 Mrs. Coralie Laurencin Etienne Gabel Eduard Sala de Vedruna Anna Shpitsberg
IHS Markit power experts sit down to discuss how coronavirus (COVID-19) is impacting the development of PPAs across different regions.
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16 April 2020 Rob Smith
The US upstream sector is both a major investment destination when times are good – and one of the first places to get cut when times are bad....
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16 April 2020 Keith King Jerry Kepes
Important questions arise when we talk about the future of exploration. Our experts explore this topic.
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15 April 2020 Pritesh Patel Jeff Otten
Developments involving OPEC and COVID-19 have caused a historic downturn in global oil prices and national economies. Our experts explore this...
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14 April 2020 Michael Muirhead Kevin Birn IHS Markit Energy Expert
A year that had started with cautious optimism and was on pace to record the first uptick in upstream spending since the 2014/15 price collapse...
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14 April 2020 Jim Day
California Public Utilities Commission adopts a lower greenhouse emissions scenario.
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13 April 2020 Jim Day
Massachusetts officials released a final version of the nation’s first “clean peak standard,” which requires utilities to buy credits showing...
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13 April 2020 Chris DeLucia
Insights on low-carbon investments.
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13 April 2020 Kate Ashcroft
Recent developments involving OPEC and coronavirus (COVID-19) have caused historic downturns in global oil prices and national economies.
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10 April 2020 Veeral Mehta Raoul LeBlanc Mr. Reed Olmstead Matthew Palmer Karim Fawaz Hassan Eltorie
The oil price collapse is rewriting the North America oil and gas rulebook—forcing companies into survival mode. We review the interconnectedness...
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09 April 2020 Veeral Mehta
Demand destruction and obstinate overproduction has sent crude prices reeling.
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09 April 2020 Heather Gardner
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues its spread across the globe, the oil and gas industry has put into practice new procedures and processes to...
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09 April 2020 Sheila Moore
Recent developments involving OPEC and COVID-19 have caused historic downturns in global oil prices and national economies.
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08 April 2020 Etienne Gabel Diego MoyaOcampos, LLB
The health of Venezuela’s power system has not visibly improved since the massive blackouts of March 2019 that plunged the country into widespread...
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08 April 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a temporary enforcement discretion policy for petrochemicals producers, refiners and...
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08 April 2020 Chris DeLucia
Conventionals account for approximately 90% of current production in aggregate. This blog looks at different scenarios to help portray the outlook...
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07 April 2020 Rob Smith
The ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) saga is an all-encompassing event, with no sector being unscathed. Global lubricants are no exception, though...
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07 April 2020 Ding Li Ang
March was an eventful month for upstream, resulting in an uncertain and volatile future.
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06 April 2020 Siddhartha Sen
An analysis on the oil targeting projects in Latin America which has an FID date between 2020 and 2022. Read our experts’ insights.
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06 April 2020 Lysle R. Brinker
Markets continue to fluctuate due to the blows served by coronavirus and tanking oil prices – forcing global oil companies to quickly shift strategies....
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03 April 2020 Isaac Nuti IHS Markit Energy Expert Cinnamon Edralin, BA
Coronavirus (COVID-19) is only part of the story when it comes to the oil price decline in recent months.
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02 April 2020 Rob Smith
The global biofuel sector is being significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, but it’s not all bad news.
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02 April 2020 Wade Shafer Mark Griffith IHS Markit Energy Expert
Maintaining power grid reliability will be a major challenge in a deeply decarbonized future.
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01 April 2020 Cecillia Zheng Ankita Chauhan
South and Southeast Asia’s power markets in 2020.
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01 April 2020 Chris DeLucia Carolyn Seto
Oil and gas companies face growing pressures to reposition their models to compete in a new energy landscape
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31 March 2020 Jordan Woloschuk Bill Rawlusyk
Canadian midstream capex cuts are limited; however, condensate price trend may further dampen Canadian NGL outlook
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31 March 2020 Edurne Zoco, Ph.D. Cormac Gilligan
An overview of the impact coronavirus (COVID-19) has played on the solar industry.
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30 March 2020 Paola Perez Pena
The recent drop in oil prices has created controversy about the future of most of the E&P and services companies, but how will this affect the...
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30 March 2020 Rob Smith
Coronavirus (COVID-19) and the lockdown period implemented by governments all around the world, have caused an unprecedented drop in oil product...
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27 March 2020 Paola Perez Pena
Several forces have plunged the upstream sector into what will surely be an historic downturn, and it’s difficult to overstate just how dire...
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26 March 2020 Mariam Al-Shamma David Gates Catherine Hunter
With multifaceted challenges, the global oil market is facing a period of massive oversupply.
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26 March 2020 Sam Wilkinson Francesco d'Avack Edurne Zoco, Ph.D. Eduard Sala de Vedruna Cormac Gilligan
IHS Markit experts in clean energy technology recently sat down to discuss how coronavirus (COVID-19) could impact the renewables industry.
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26 March 2020 Xizhou Zhou
Renewables have emerged as a winner in the increasing competition among different power generation resources in China.
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25 March 2020 Rob Smith
How has coronavirus (COVID-19) impacted oil demand? We explore.
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20 March 2020 Rob Smith
The COVID-19 outbreak and its aftermath, what does it mean for China’s oil demand and performance of its oil industry
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20 March 2020 Shankari Srinivasan Catherine Robinson
Hydrogen gas is gaining momentum. Discover why.
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19 March 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Early this year, a shipment of five ISO containers of LNG arrived in Cambodia. This event marks two first: Cambodia’s first gas imports and China’s...
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18 March 2020 Yanyu He, Ph.D Darryl Rogers
Oil prices have plummeted, tearing down the historical price relationships in the energy and chemical markets, including NGLs.
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18 March 2020 Robert Chambers
An overview of how the oil price collapse has impacted APAC’s upstream financial investment decisions.
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17 March 2020 Karl Melkonyan
Due to technology advances and cost improvements, solar PV is one of the most dynamic industries of our time.
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13 March 2020 Sylvain Cognet-Dauphin Coralie Laurencin
The greening of Europe’s fuel mix will continue, driving prices lower when renewable availability is high.
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11 March 2020 Eduard Sala de Vedruna Anna Shpitsberg
IHS Markit estimates that there will be 290 gigawatts (GW) of net power capacity added in 2020, globally, 5% more than in 2019.
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09 March 2020 Patrick Luckow Mark Griffith
The decarbonization of electric power.
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06 March 2020 Kurt Barrow Bob Fryklund
Watch video as our IHS Markit energy experts discuss global energy transition and its impact on crude oil supply and refining markets.
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05 March 2020 Michael Stoppard
An extraordinary counter-cyclical build is under way in the world’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry.
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05 March 2020 Xizhou Zhou
The expected impact of the coronavirus on the China power and renewables sector
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04 March 2020 Keith King Jerry Kepes
Research experts Keith King and Jerry Kepes join Upstream in Perspective to share insights on the conventional exploration trends in the era...
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03 March 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert
An outline of the global demand for replacing PV inverters.
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02 March 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert
An overview of the wind turbine ordering activity between mainland China and the United States in 2019.
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24 February 2020 Pritesh Patel Kate Ashcroft Jeff Otten Jeff Nitto Anuj Kadakia
An overview of the novel coronavirus impact on the Upstream Capital Cost Index and Upstream Operating Cost Index.
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20 February 2020 Jim Burkhard Bhushan Bahree Aaron Brady
The stunning rise of US oil production growth has been the most important catalyst in this newest cycle of surplus, but how much longer will...
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20 February 2020 Jenny Yang
An overview of how the coronavirus outbreak has impacted the LNG industry.
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19 February 2020 Xizhou Zhou
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has led to a slowdown of economic activities in China.
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19 February 2020 Andrei Utkin
On 31 December 2019, the first of the three floating platforms of the 25 MW WindFloat Atlantic project, developed by the consortium led by EDP...
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18 February 2020 Xiao Lu
An overview of gas-fired power development in China
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17 February 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert
PennEast Pipeline is filing an amendment with FERC to construct the project in two phases.
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14 February 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert
In rejecting rehearing requests about the Rio Grande LNG project and related Rio Bravo Pipeline at its January 23 meeting, FERC raised new issues...
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13 February 2020 Kevin Birn Cathy Crawford
Understand how emission intensity can evolve over the life of an oil- or gas-producing asset and why it matters
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13 February 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert
An overview of the upstream activity recovery in 2020.
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12 February 2020 Siddhartha Sen Keith King Jerry Kepes
Overall, the industry remains more challenged than ever. Has the global competitive landscape in E&P really changed, or is it the...
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11 February 2020 Rob Smith
Trade disputes and geopolitical volatility continue to lurk, and it seems increasingly likely that the 2020s will represent an inflection point...
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10 February 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert
An overview of China’s plan to launch the world’s largest carbon market.
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10 February 2020 Jenny Yang
An overview of the recent policies issued by the Chinese government to accelerate the development of hydrogen as an energy carrier.
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07 February 2020 Catherine Robinson
Interest in hydrogen has soared in every region of the world and in all sectors of the economy.
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07 February 2020 Chris DeLucia Carolyn Seto
Oil and gas companies were involved in a record-high number of low-carbon transactions in 2019. Read the overview.
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06 February 2020 Jim Day
Raising serious concerns about the safety of battery storage, investigators into the alarming spate of lithium-ion battery fires in South Korea...
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05 February 2020 Xiaonan Feng
In just little over two months’ time, a SARS-like novel coronavirus has quickly escalated into what is described by many as an unprecedented...
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03 February 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert
The increase of discussions around ESG, climate risk and funding energy projects is not reflective of what's happening in the energy business....
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03 February 2020 Cormac Gilligan
After years of weak solar demand growth in Europe, installations are forecasted to reach a new record.
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31 January 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert Ankita Chauhan
An overview of India's onshore wind supply chain
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30 January 2020 Jeff Beattie
At least five large states raised the prospect of pulling out from PJM Interconnection or the grid operator’s capacity markets as a result of...
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28 January 2020 Hedi Grati
The transition to low-sulfur bunkering has started - what's next?
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28 January 2020
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline project suffered another legal blow as on January 7 the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vacated the air...
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27 January 2020 Ankita Vijay
Interest in developing small-scale LNG technology across North America is growing.
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27 January 2020 Judson Jacobs Carolyn Seto
As the oil and gas industry transitions to a low-carbon future, companies are seeking to position themselves to succeed in this new and uncertain...
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24 January 2020 Stephanie Rivera Nicholas Blanco Ha Nguyen
In an environment of oil supply glut, a new player entered the scene
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23 January 2020
DOE has published its responses to its report, “Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Perspective on Exporting Liquefied Natural Gas from the United States...
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21 January 2020 Paul Markwell
How is the energy transition impacting upstream oil and gas companies? We explore.
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21 January 2020
Duke Energy Progress LLC told the North Carolina Utilities Commission in a January 8 update that it is making progress with start-up of new gas-fired...
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20 January 2020 Kevin Birn Cathy Crawford
This Insight provides some context into the variation of emission sources that can arise from crude oil extraction
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16 January 2020 Brandon Savisky
2019 oil prices had their ups and downs, but the sentiment overall from a sub-segment of the upstream industry is steady.
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10 January 2020 Yanyu He, Ph.D
On the demand side, India is arguably the second most important market after China, in terms of driving LPG demand growth
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09 January 2020 Coralie Laurencin Alun Davies
Winds of change blew across Europe’s gas and power markets in 2019.
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08 January 2020 Allen Wang
Southeast Asian economies have grown on average by 4% to 7% per annum since the start of the decade.
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07 January 2020 Laura Sima
Recent research shows that the E&P sector is experiencing a ‘crisis of perception.’ What does this mean for investors in the...
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06 January 2020 IHS Markit Energy Expert
In a move seen as protecting existing power plants that have trouble competing in the PJM Interconnection market, FERC on December 19 directed...
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03 January 2020
New Study by Global Energy Institute Puts Impact of Fracking Ban at $7.1 Trillion Over Four Years
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30 December 2019 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Financially, 2019 was a difficult year for the pumping suppliers and unfortunately, the fourth quarter did not allow them to end on a high note....
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27 December 2019 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Our experts take a walk down memory lane with us as we explore their 2019 expectations for upstream oil and gas markets.
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23 December 2019 Rebekah Bostan Ismini Katsimpardi
The future of the Equatorial Guinean (EG) LNG facility on Bioko Island seemed in doubt over 2018, however into 2019 there has been a reversal...
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20 December 2019 Raoul LeBlanc
North American shale is expected to hit an inflection point in 2020.
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20 December 2019 Robert Chambers IHS Markit Energy Expert Hong Shien Lee
The future of oil and gas in Indonesia: the potential to transform resources into production, including understanding the key basins to focus...
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19 December 2019 Mrs. Silvia Rey Gomez
An overview of interpreting production data using rate transient analysis
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18 December 2019 Kevin Birn Cathy Crawford
Interest in understanding GHG emissions that result from the extraction, through to end-use of crude oil has been increasing.
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17 December 2019 Timothy Stephure Etienne Gabel David Crisostomo
On 20-22 November in Monterrey, Mexico, IHS Markit team members Etienne Gabel, Tim Stephure and David Crisostomo delivered the training "Gas...
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13 December 2019
The Natural Gas Supply Association (NGSA) announced on December 3 that it supports a national carbon pricing policy, becoming what it believes...
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12 December 2019 IHS Markit Expert
ERCOT has released its December CDR Report, which includes planning reserve margins for the next five years.
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11 December 2019 Brandon Savisky
IHS Markit recently published the results of our latest survey of the proppant industry.
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10 December 2019 Jenny Yang
On 21 November 2019, IHS Markit delivered the second workshop for the “Hydrogen the Enabler: Meeting China’s Energy Challenge?” multi-client...
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05 December 2019 Camron Barati
An overview of global ground-mounted PV installations.
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02 December 2019 Jenny Yang Anna Galtsova
Five and a half years after signing the sales and purchase contract, first gas from the Power of Siberia pipeline project has finally been delivered...
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28 November 2019 Matthew Shruhan Jenny Yang
Impact of China’s tariff increase from 10% to 25% on LNG imports from the US, a commodity once hoped would ease trade tensions between the two...
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27 November 2019 Steven Knell, Ph.D.
Over the course of the past five years, the use of environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics and targets has moved in from the periphery...
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26 November 2019 Cinnamon Edralin, BA
An overview of floating drilling rigs
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22 November 2019 Vinod Raghothamarao
Like any other major industry, the oil and gas (O&G) sector is embracing initiatives to help ease its way through the rapid digital transformation...
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21 November 2019 Yelena Shliomenzon
An overview of arbitration clauses in hydrocarbon contracts.
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20 November 2019
The next phase of the energy transition requires rapid reductions in GHG emissions across the economy—residential heat, transport and industry....
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19 November 2019 Isaac Nuti
On the 27th of August, BP plc (BP) announced the sale of its upstream and midstream oil and gas assets in Alaska.
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18 November 2019 Damian Kennaby
As US-China relations dominate geopolitical news, industry attention turns towards the impending IMO specification changes. But further ahead...
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15 November 2019 Patrick Luckow
In October 2019, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf issued an executive order directing the state’s Department of Environmental Protection to join...
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14 November 2019 Stephanie Rivera Nicholas Blanco Ha Nguyen
Argentina’s current environment begs the question: how will the development of Vaca Muerta be affected?
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13 November 2019
FERC staff’s “2019-2020 Winter Energy Market Assessment” was presented at the Commission’s open meeting on October 17, and it came to the same...
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12 November 2019 IHS Markit Energy Expert
With natural gas production at or near record highs and flaring continuing to be far above the state’s limit of 12%, the North Dakota Industrial...
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11 November 2019 Niamh McGovern
Offshore Ireland has over 30 years of exploration history. The last licensing round held in 2015 saw a significant increase in the interest of...
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08 November 2019 Edurne Zoco, Ph.D.
On October 29th, the China National Energy Administration (NEA) released cumulative connection data for the first nine months of 2019 of 15.99...
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08 November 2019 IHS Markit Energy Expert
India is the fastest growing major economy besides China and will be the prime contributor to the Asian fuel demand growth
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07 November 2019 Zhi Xin Chong Vince Heo Vidur Singhal Tianshi Huang Kaori Tachibana
As with many natural gas markets around the world, Asian gas markets typically developed as natural monopolies, built around national or private...
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06 November 2019 Coralie Laurencin
Interest in renewable power projects in Spain is booming: IHS Markit expects that 2 GW of onshore wind and 4 GW of solar capacity will have been...
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06 November 2019 Nick Sharma Kunfeng Zhu
China aims to secure its energy supply by producing more domestic oil and gas
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06 November 2019 William Plampton Robert Chambers Frances Hulbert
The Roebuck Basin, located on Australia’s front line of hydrocarbon exploration and development, is a province turning a lot of heads.
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04 November 2019 Paola Perez Pena David Vaucher
The resource abundance in the US of the past decade came from the relentless drive to perfect the application of horizontal drilling and hydraulic...
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31 October 2019 Carlos Cardenas Etienne Gabel
Venezuela, which suffered massive blackouts in March of this year, continues to be affected by recurrent and significant power outages.
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30 October 2019 Callie Kolbe
Will Southern California have adequate natural gas resources available ahead of winter 2019/20?
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29 October 2019 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Offshore wind is seen by many as an emerging low-carbon opportunity, where oil and gas firms can leverage competitive advantages of their already...
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25 October 2019
Exploration and appraisal drilling during 2019 has seen quarter on quarter increases; in Q3 (July – September) there were around 37 new conventional...
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24 October 2019 David Masson
What are the key distinctions to look out for if you are seeking to implement a stringent oil and gas benchmarking program?
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22 October 2019
India has the market size and demand flexibility to help balance the global butane market, stabilizing the propane and butane price relationship...
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08 October 2019
The great prize – Surplus Transfer of Rights in the presalt Santos basin
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07 October 2019 Patrick Luckow Lin Deng
Discover how New York plans to reach their goal to be 100% carbon-free by 2040.
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27 September 2019 Thomas Maslin Max Cohen Emma Xie He Anna Shpitsberg
Discover what’s fuelling US corporate renewable procurement.
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27 September 2019
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) Board of Commission on September 10 voted to approve power purchase agreements for the...
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25 September 2019 Rodrigo Fiatikoski Nick Thomson Jim Thomas, Ph.D. Alex Hicks
Brazil will soon start promoting and licensing acreage on its extended continental shelf (ECS) for the first time
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25 September 2019
With several LNG projects coming online recently or soon to come online, it’s not surprising that some of the recent key pipeline completions...
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20 September 2019 IHS Markit Energy Expert
Amid concerns of credibility, cash flows and carbon, investors are shying away from the oil and gas industry. What's behind investor apathy?...
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19 September 2019
Record production of US natural gas will drive the 2020 Henry Hub average price to a level not seen since the 1970s (in real dollars), according...
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18 September 2019 Sarah McLean Justin Smith
The global offshore rig market is set to continue its tentative recovery for the foreseeable future.
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11 September 2019
Electric fracturing enables operators to leverage previously wasted natural gas to power their hydraulic fracturing equipment. And, it provides...
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06 September 2019 Ha Nguyen
Mexico’s leader launches a wildly ambitious energy plan, but the hard reality falls short for current crude production and refinery utilization...
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30 August 2019 Ankita Chauhan
Renewable auction prices in India for both solar and wind have trended significantly downward in the past few years. Are these aggressive bids...
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28 August 2019 Sam Huntington
Battery energy storage systems (BESS) are rapidly gaining market share in power grids around the world.
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27 August 2019
In first half 2019, IHS Markit recorded nearly 30 GW of publicly announced wind turbine contracts globally, up by 67% compared to the previous...
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26 August 2019 Richard Sanchez
Like most of the world West Africa has been suffering through a deep recession in offshore exploration and development since the fourth quarter...
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22 August 2019 Nik Haziq Nik Alwi
Why are the Asia-Pacific day rates stabilising?
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20 August 2019 Divya Ramaswamy, MSc, BSc Molley Sheriff, MJEL, MSc
Read the effects Argentina’s subsides have had on the country’s unconventional gas.
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