Refinery Investments: Distilling the Commercial Complexities

Refinery Investments: Distilling the Commercial Complexities

As outlined in Liz Martin’s insightful April 2024 article, refineries often hold greater strategic value for asset-backed traders than for other acquirers or even incumbent owners. This has driven a trend of major trading houses dominating refinery acquisitions,...
Methanol Outlook: Short term pricing and feedstock challenges

Methanol Outlook: Short term pricing and feedstock challenges

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...
COP 29: A historic win for carbon markets.

COP 29: A historic win for carbon markets.

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...