Mexico's Pemex announces large oil discovery, but faces challenges in reaching production goals
Mexico's Pemex recently announced it had discovered more than 1.2 billion barrels of oil equivalent in an onshore complex in the state of Tabasco, near the site where the company is planning to build ...
19 Mar 202112min
Brazil's Center-South readies for 2021-22 sugar, ethanol season
Brazil's Center-South region will kick off the 2021-22 sugar and ethanol crop season April 1 and producers are betting again on high international sugar prices and depreciated Brazilian real to increa...
18 Mar 202127min
Logistics, tight supply pose challenges to China's copper concentrates market
China consumes around 50% of world's copper and will continue to play a critical role in the market this year. S&P Global Platts metals experts Keith Tan and Han Lu examine China's appetite for copper...
12 Mar 20219min
Fleet vehicle electrification could be big growth driver for US EVs
US plug-in electric vehicles accounted for 2.6% of total sales in December, tied with Nov. 2020 for a record high and year-to-date PEVs account for just shy of 2% of all light duty vehicles sold in th...
4 Mar 202121min
What is the future for gas in Europe amid the EU's green push?
The current European Commission is the greenest ever as it pushes toward carbon neutrality by 2050. Gas —despite being a fossil fuel— is considered by many as having a key role to play in Europe's ene...
3 Mar 202132min
Clean tankers face extended weakness amid refinery outages, diesel hike
Refinery outages from the cold snap on the US Gulf Coast Feb. 15-19 put even more bearish pressure on the already weak Americas clean tanker market, and heightened diesel prices in the USGC. With petr...
26 Feb 202112min
Multitude of factors push global styrene prices higher
The global styrene market has risen sharply in February, driven by a number of factors around the world, including production issues in Europe and severe winter storms in Texas. Matthew Cook, associat...
25 Feb 202113min
Jim Rogers on the future of oil, agriculture, and energy transition
Commodities have witnessed a broad upturn in prices across the board in recent months. In a discussion with S&P Global Platts Asia Energy Editor Sambit Mohanty, veteran commodities investor and chairm...
25 Feb 202113min
