Gold has big year in 2020 and outlook for this year robust. Learn about monetary expansion and gold future prices.Read More

The gold futures price reached US$1,767/ounce this week before retreating, which was the second time it has surpassed US$1,760 in the past two months, marking some of gold's highest levels in several years.Read More

Now operating at commercial rates and accessing higher grade, this miner is poised to deliver profitability in the near term, noted a VSA Capital Markets report.Sierra Madre Gold and Silver Ltd. (SM:TSX.V; SMDRF:OTCQX) achieved full commercial and record production in January at its La Guitarra silver-gold project in Mexico, reported VSA Capital Markets Analyst Oliver O'Donnell in a Feb. 24 resear...Read More

LONDON, 28 February 2025 - Data, analysis and comment from BullionVault features today in expert forecasts for the gold market published by German daily newspaper of record, Die Welt.The report lists 3 key points which investors should watch closely in 2025 named by BullionVault director of research Adrian Ash.Read the full story, in German, with a subscription to Welt here:Steigt der Goldpreis we...Read More

LONDON, 27 February 2025 - Analysis and comment from BullionVault today features in a report on the surge in US gold-warehouse stockpiles from leading financial news service CNBC."There's a 'glut of gold' in New York's vaults," the report quotes Adrian Ash, BullionVault's director of research.Read Adrian's analysis in the full report - widely syndicated across the world - at CNBC here:America's ap...Read More

LONDON, 21 February 2025 - Canada's leading financial news channel BNN Bloomberg today interviewed BullionVault director of research Adrian Ash about growing calls to audit the USA's official gold reserves, primarily held at Fort Knox."Why do that? What's the aim?" asks Adrian before explaining what proper bullion vault inspections require and what they prove.Watch Adrian's 5-minute interview at B...Read More

LONDON, 14 February 2025 - Data, comment and analysis from BullionVault today lead a report on the rush of gold into New York from London and other locations from leading UK TV channel, Sky News."This is a financial market phenomenon," says the report from Sky's economics editor, financial author Ed Conway, quoting BullionVault director of research Adrian Ash and presenting charts sourced and crea...Read More

For details on how your data is used and stored, see our Privacy Notice. Demand for mined commodities exceeded pre-pandemic levels in 2021. Despite macro-economic headwinds over the next few years, growth seems assured and could be supercharged by a faster decarbonisation pathway. Supply constraints and disruptions continue and are likely to be exacerbated by economic sanctions on Russia...Read More

Growing US crude production – particularly in the midcontinent and Rockies regions – is upending traditional Gulf Coast pipeline routes.The result? An unprecedented great American oil pipeline build-out. The shale revolution has led to burgeoning pipeline takeaway access from the Permian basin. Last month, we discussed three reasons why the Permian’s future pipeline capacity won&...Read More

What does tight oil have in common with Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet's Google stocks (known as FAANG stocks)? Answer: tight oil is arguably the upstream equivalent of these tech sector leaders. It's the hot investment play in the oil and gas index, it outperforms like mad, and it's been driving to distraction those that don't own any. Production has leapt from zero six years...Read More

Early 2022 has brought the most traumatic events in Kazakhstan’s 30 years of modern independence. Widespread protests and civil unrest led to unprecedented scenes of violence on the country’s streets. Especially in Almaty, the largest city. More than 225 lives have been lost.What began as peaceful demonstrations against a sharp increase in the price of LPG fuel in resource-ri...Read More

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Speaking after ConocoPhillips announced it will take over Concho Resources in a $9.7 billion all-stock deal, Robert Clarke, vice president, Lower 48 upstream, at Wood Mackenzie, said: “The combination is remarkable. Just in scale, ConocoPhillips is adding enough Permian production to nip at the heels of ExxonMobil’s massive programme.“We like the distinctives each firm brings too...Read More

Big Oil is on the move, feeling its way into a changing energy world. There are two sides to adapting: how to decarbonise oil and gas and how to build a sustainable business around zero-carbon technology. Valentina Kretschmar, VP and Tom Ellacott, SVP of our Corporate Analysis team took me through their thinking of how company strategies are developing.This week, BP went a step further on the firs...Read More

Commenting after Chesapeake announced plans to buy Vine Energy in a cash-and-stock deal which values the Blackstone Group-controlled E&P at around US$2.2 billion, analysts from natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie said:  “We were confident 2021 would be a big year for Haynesville consolidation.“This deal really picks up the pace after Southwestern Energy/Indigo just tw...Read More

For details on how your data is used and stored, see our Privacy Notice.Once the deal closes, Chevron will be the second-largest producing major in 2019 terms. It was fourth.The acquisition makes the Majors' peer group much more polarised. ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and BP are now in a league of their own. The deal plays to Chevron's strengths, which are tight oil and LNG. On top of this, it diver...Read More

For details on how your data is used and stored, see our Privacy Notice. The road to zero carbon will see an extraordinary build out of low carbon electric vehicles (EVs) and renewable power generating capacity. And as the world reduces its dependence on hydrocarbons, metals will be a linchpin of a zero carbon economy. Copper – in the form of wire, cable and foil – will bind...Read More

For details on how your data is used and stored, see our Privacy Notice.Wood Mackenzie, in partnership with WisdomTree, has launched an exchange traded fund (ETF) providing investors with exposure to the growth in the demand for, and the usage of, energy storage technologies, and in particular batteries.The fund tracks the WisdomTree Battery Solutions Index. The index stock selection is informed b...Read More

Fuelled by public policy and declining battery costs, global electric bus adoption is set to triple by 2025. The Chinese market - the most promising in this sector - will surpass the 1 million e-bus mark by 2023 and reach 1.3 million by 2025, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie.China dominates the heavy-duty electric vehicle (EV) segment, accounting for 98% of the global e-bus market thr...Read More

This webinar is open to Wood Mackenzie clients with the following subscription ONLY:Asia Pacific Power ServiceAsia Pacific Renewables ServicePlease register with your business email if your company has access the subscription above. Successful registration is based on email domain detection. Feel free to contact angel.hang@woodmac.com or luis.catalan@woodmac.com if you have any questions or e...Read More

As we look to 2020, copper is faced with a finely balanced market. For now, positive investor sentiment around copper’s fundamentals is supporting higher prices. Stronger demand growth is underpinned by new semis capacity, while mine supply growth will be reliant on additions from both projects and existing mines. Meanwhile, the recent approval of new copper scrap re-categorisation standards...Read More

Both nickel and copper possess properties that give them a central role in the drive for a greener future. While demand from existing use cases will continue to grow steadily, electric vehicle (EV) and energy storage applications will underpin a huge increase in long-term demand.At the recent Future Facing Mined Commodities Forum, we looked at the importance of these two metals for the energy tran...Read More