Dec 17, 2024 | Insight
Consumers of methanol are facing supply challenges yet pricing remains below levels required to support investment in new production capacity. The global conventional methanol market is 113 million tons. Methanol is an essential feedstock for many important chemical...
Nov 28, 2024 | Insight
The 29th Conference of Parties (COP29) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held over the past two weeks in Baku, Azerbaijan, concluded in the early hours of Sunday morning, as negotiators as usual worked frantically against the clock...
Sep 6, 2024 | Insight
Last January, we explored the opportunities in the emerging landscape of carbon markets, focusing on the UK and EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and other market-based initiatives like the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and Carbon Capture and Storage...
Sep 4, 2024 | Insight
The economic landscape in energy markets is increasingly defined by the value attributed to products with lower intensity of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as the energy transition accelerates and governments increase direct regulations and policies. The LNG...
May 28, 2024 | Insight
The wave of regulatory measures and policy frameworks aimed at decarbonisation is driving the emergence of a diverse array of low-carbon fuel alternatives, from biomethane to hydrogen, each offering its own unique sustainability and value proposition. Commodity...
Apr 29, 2024 | Insight
The European oil refining landscape is in flux as oil refineries either close, are being converted or ownership shifts away from oil majors to new private equity players. Still, these assets are important to oil traders. Trading skills are core to the extraction of...
