Category: Report

May 8 2020

Unlike Fine Wines, Carbon Offsets Get Worse With Age

Companies hunting for carbon offsets at bargain prices should look at their age.

May 8 2020

Battery Making in Indonesia Can Cost Less than in China

Indonesia’s desire to move up the value chain and leverage its nickel wealth into becoming an EV and battery manufacturing hub is supported by the fact that it may have the lowest manufacturing costs in Asia.

May 6 2020

Oil Markets Start to Recover, May Tilt Into Deficit in 2H

Sentiment in the oil market has started to improve. Several European countries and U.S. states plan to restart their economies in phases, many as early as this month.

May 6 2020

Oil Digitalization Could Support Startups Despite Covid-19

Oil sector digitalization is set to continue even as oil prices fall, according to BloombergNEF. Technology to manage remote operations is particularly popular right now.

April 20 2020

Oil Sector to Spend $16B by 2030 on Cloud, Analytics

Our research shows that the oil and gas sector spent $12.5 billion on enterprise software in 2018 with companies such as SAP, Microsoft and Oracle.

April 17 2020

India’s Mega PV Auction Amid Lockdown Shows Investor Faith

India auctioned 2 gigawatts (AC) of solar projects at tariffs below the 2019 average. At a time of great uncertainty caused by the Covid-19 lockdown, this reaffirms investors' faith in the long-term prospects of solar in India.

April 17 2020

Personality and Regional Politics Drive Digital Decision-Making in the Oil Sector

More than many other industries, the characteristics of regional oil markets depend substantially on the personalities of the oil majors present in them. Because of decades of government financial support, and often government ownership, regional oil markets behave very differently. These different identities shape how they react to change.

April 1 2020

Covid-19 Wreaks Havoc on the Wind Industry

Supply-chain disruption and labor shortages are putting what promised to be a record year for the wind industry into jeopardy and have caused us to slash our 2020 onshore wind forecast.

March 30 2020

In Tackling the Carbon Footprint of Oil Majors, Digital Technologies Could be Key

Oil majors appear to want to trap fugitive methane emissions first to show that they are taking their carbon footprint seriously.

March 25 2020

Digitalization Helps Oil Producers Wring Out Profits, Even in Hard Times

The oil sector has done well over the past years in doing just that. One of the many reasons why the price of oil has generally fallen over the past decade is that many firms have worked out how to find, extract and refine oil more efficiently.