What the coal-to-gas switching means for the European energy mix
Pressure on plummeting coal prices could cascade throughout 2020 as unprecedented events within the wider energy markets have helped the energy mix to connect like never before. Platts reporters Antoi...
14 Jan 20205min
With first oil produced from Guyana's offshore, what does it mean for the markets?
The consortium of ExxonMobil, Hess and China's CNOOC recently announced that first oil was being produced from Guyana's offshore. Starr Spencer, S&P Global Platts senior editor for oil news, talks wit...
24 Dec 20197min
US hydrogen market emerging around calls for decarbonization
As more US municipalities set ambitious goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions from power generation, transportation and other sectors, use cases for hydrogen are emerging that include fuel cells, dire...
18 Dec 201917min
The Acceptance Stage: Global shipping markets face up to IMO 2020
In the final Shipping Commodities Focus podcast of 2019, S&P Global Platts editors George Griffiths and Sam Eckett discuss the state of the markets ahead of IMO 2020's January 1 deadline. They review ...
18 Dec 20198min
Winter pricing insights: The new dynamics of US natural gas markets
With record-high production and unprecedented exposure to global markets through exports, US natural gas markets are in many ways heading into uncharted territory this winter. S&P Global Platts Americ...
18 Dec 201918min
Off beet: where did Europe's sugar surplus go?
Two consecutive campaigns of lower sugar production and trade deficits are forecast in the European sugar market. EMEA agriculture pricing lead Robert Beaman, global market development manager Piero C...
18 Dec 201914min
Growing European ethylene supply is hit by weak derivatives
What's in store for 2020? As 2019's heavy turnaround season at all main European petrochemical cracker units came to an end, ethylene supplies returned to a progressively weakening derivatives market....
3 Dec 201912min
Sunny side up: rising prices in the Black Sea sunflower oil market
In today's Commodities Focus podcast, join EMEA agriculture pricing lead Robert Beaman, oilseeds editor George Duke and global market development manager Piero Carello as they discuss how the global v...
28 Nov 201911min
