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The COVID-19 outbreak has damaged supply chains and impacted labor availability across Europe, which has direct implications on upcoming petrochemical projects currently under construction/commissioning and scheduled for startup this year. Any potential delays in construction/commissioning of these plants in 2020 may spill over to 2021, and could potentially affect the scheduling for next year as […]
COVID-19 pandemic has considerably disrupted oil and gas supply chains, says GlobalData
Social distancing is directly affecting global travel, logistics and material handling, as well as potentially creating gaps along the oil and gas supply chain that will take some time to fix, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. The company’s report, ‘Coronavirus (COVID-19) Case Study: Impact on Oil & Gas Supply Chain’, notes that […]
Depressed demand and falling oil and gas prices challenges global LNG sector
The global liquefied natural gas (LNG) sector has been hit by supply overhang followed by COVID-19-induced economic slowdown and lower demand worldwide. Haseeb Ahmed, Oil and Gas analyst at GlobalData, comments: “Due to the sharp fall in oil prices, spread between oil-indexed long-term LNG contracts and spot contracts have considerably reduced. This can make it […]
Over US$85bn of 2020 forecast expenditure erased from oil and gas sector
To protect balance sheets, maintain shareholder pay-outs and preserve cash, oil and gas companies have gone into survival mode, reducing forecast expenditure where possible to weather the impacts of COVID-19 and oil market volatility, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. Daniel Rogers, Oil and Gas Analyst at GlobalData, comments: “The bearish near-term outlook […]
Q1 oil industry results reaffirm industry instability
Following the release of Q1 results from several oil and gas companies; Ella Benson Easton, Thematic Analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers her view: “This year has seen extraordinary volatility in the oil and gas industry. The decline in the cost of renewable energies, an oil price war and COVID-19 have […]
Low prices and depressed demand impact global oil and gas pipeline sector, says GlobalData
The global oil and gas pipeline sector is facing several headwinds such as fall in the oil and gas prices, demand destruction and a weak global economic outlook. The pipeline operators are being forced to cut capex on upcoming projects, leading to projects getting delayed or stalled, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. […]
COVID-19 hampers oil and gas services industry business outlook
The COVID-19 pandemic impact has devastated crude oil demand as the majority of the end user industries are witnessing a slowdown amid lockdowns. This market environment coupled with crude oversupply concerns is creating an imbalance resulting in a crude price crash. Companies across the oil and gas value chain are re-evaluating their capital expenditure (capex) guidance […]
Evercore was top global M&A financial adviser in oil and gas sector in Q1 2020, says GlobalData
Evercore was the top global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) financial adviser in the oil and gas sector by both value and volume in Q1, 2020, according to GlobalData, a leading data analytics company. The firm took the top spot with seven deals worth US$4.81bn. GlobalData, which tracks all M&A, private equity/venture capital and asset transaction […]
With Canadian oil prices well below global averages, country to drop production by 15% in 2020
Following recent news about Oil Sands producers shutting down crude production due to their unprofitability; Adrian Lara, Senior Oil & Gas Research Manager at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers his view on the current events: “With an average discount to Western Texas Intermediate (WTI) of around US$18 per barrel, the WCS blend […]
Asian crude oil importers are likely to gain after Saudi Arabia slashes oil prices, says GlobalData
Asian crude oil importers are likely to be at an advantageous position, as Saudi Arabia slashed oil prices to around US$4.2 per barrel of Arab light crude for the Asian markets for the months of April and May 2020 in a bid to boost its market share. This aggressive move by Saudi is likely to […]
Effects of negative WTI will be felt for years, says GlobalData
Following the news that theWest Texas Intermediate (WTI) plunged into negative territory; Indrajit Sen, Oil & Gas Editor at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers their view: “WTI’s dive into negative territory has highlighted just how weak demand for crude oil currently is, and it is a stark warning to oil-producing countries and companies […]
Falling oil and gas prices and COVID-19 hit Australia’s flourishing LNG sector, says GlobalData
Australia began to develop its Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) sector a little over a decade ago and quickly became one of the world’s largest exporters of the commodity. The fall in oil and gas prices, weak economic outlook, lowering LNG demand and supply glut have hit hard on the country’s LNG sector, says GlobalData, a […]
Scoop-Stack to hit record-low in terms of average rig count in 2020, says GlobalData
Scoop-Stack hit a peak, in terms of rig count in 2018, averaging approximately 75 rigs for the year with the majority of them operating within the Canadian-Woodford acreage. Ever since the peak, the rig count in Scoop-Stack has seen an apparent downward trend and been further aggravated by the current oil price crisis. By assessing the […]
Final investment decision problems cause delay of first oil for Uganda
Following today’s news that Tullow has reached an agreement to sell its assets in Uganda; Conor Ward, Upstream Oil & Gas Analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers his view on the country’s problems to reaching first oil: “With the news that Tullow Oil has reached an agreement ‘in principle’ for the […]
Measures to contain COVID-19 outbreak weakens Indian LNG demand, says GlobalData
The stringent measures adopted to contain COVID-19 pandemic in India has led to a sharp decline in natural gas demand due to fall in industrial and domestic consumption. With LNG storage tanks almost full, Indian LNG importers are being forced to refuse cargoes citing force majeure clauses. Despite these initiatives, LNG supply still exceeds demand, […]
Most Gulf Cooperation Council IPO aspirations in doubt due to COVID-19 impact
Capitalizing on the momentum from the Aramco IPO in Q4 2019, 15 companies have expressed an interest to get listed in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) market in 2020 as against 2019, which saw around eight IPOs; Nandakumar Premchand, Director at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers his view: “Sulaiman Al Habib Medical […]
Chinese refining companies show signs of recovery post COVID-19 impact, says GlobalData
China, one of the largest consumers of transportation fuel globally, had a lot at stake when it became the ground zero for coronavirus (COVID-19) and subsequently announced countrywide lockdown to arrest the spread. This resulted in sharp decline in the domestic fuel demand, forcing some of the state-owned refiners to make deep production cuts. However, […]
WTI May futures and oil storage issues likely to have rippling effect on global markets
Following the news that the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) May futures nosedived 300% to as low as almost negative $40 in early trades on 20 April 2020; Nandakumar Premchand, Director at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers his view: “This being the last day of the expiry of the May futures, ETFs such […]
Crude production cuts in the US too slow to support the price as storage runs out by mid-May, says GlobalData
Following the historic fall of the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures price for May delivery into negative territory, going as low as negative US$37.6 per barrel; Adrian Lara, Senior Oil & Gas Analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers his view on the current events: “WTI is just getting too much downward […]
After four-week 24-million-barrel build up in gasoline stocks, a first withdrawal during last week can be a good sign, says GlobalData
Following the Energy Information Administration (EIA) Weekly Petroleum data release with information on refined products supplied and stocks build up for crude oil Adrian Lara, Senior Oil & Gas Analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers his view on the current events: “The withdrawal of 3.7 million barrels (mmbbls) of gasoline from […]