Commodities Focus

Platts Stuart Elliott, associate editorial director, Europe and Africa oil news, and Nadia Rodova, Platts' Moscow bureau chief, discuss the impact on Russian oil production of falling oil prices, whether Russia could still reduce its output and how companies and the government are coping with lower...

Pradeep Rajan, senior managing editor for Asia Pacific shipping and freight markets, talks to associate editors Deborah Lee, Shriram Sivaramakrishnan and Su Ling Teo on the lackluster Capesize market in the seasonally strong fourth quarter; the trend building up in the Panamax and Supramax segments...

Crude oil production from the Eagle Ford is increasing at the expense of West African crude imports to the US Gulf Coast. Richard Capuchino Jr., Americas crude managing editor, and Jacqueline Puig, associate editor for shale crude, explore how the domestic light sweet crude is finding more ways to...

Beatrice Bedeschi, Platts editor, and Gary Hornby, Platts associate editor, discuss recent developments in the European gas markets after the deal reached by Russia and Ukraine over winter gas supplies. We welcome any feedback or suggestions for topics. Contact us at webeditor@platts.com.

Platts Gareth Carpenter, managing editor, discusses the growing biomass market and how the euro's recent weakness against the US dollar has caused European generators to source their spot wood pellets from local suppliers rather than the larger volumes available from the US. We welcome any feedback...

Platts Stuart Elliott, associate editorial director, Europe and Africa oil news and Rosemary Griffin, associate editor, discuss the likely impact on the Russian oil sector of the so-called "tax maneuver", a new taxation regime due to come into force in 2015. We welcome any feedback or suggestions...

Platts Stuart Elliott, associate editorial director, Europe and Africa oil news and Nadia Rodova, Moscow bureau chief, discuss the impact to date of US and EU sanctions against the Russian oil sector and whether the recent oil price fall is also hampering oil developments in the country. We...

Global LNG trade is up, but North Asia is not part of the growth story. Stephanie Wilson, Platts managing editor for LNG, talks about the volatility in LNG spot prices, the key drivers of price movements, and the potential impact of upcoming availability of flexible LNG supply.This is the latest in...

Platts Stuart Elliott, associate editorial director, Europe and Africa oil news, Rosemary Griffin, associate editor, and Beatrice Bedeschi, editor, discuss the possible impact of international sanctions against Russia on oil and gas projects -- both current and future -- at Sakhalin Island. We...

China's National Development and Reform Commission recently asked major power utilities to reduce coal imports, while Indonesia is implementing a new export license rule. In India, the Supreme Court has ruled that coal blocks allocated between 1993 and 2010 are illegal. Deepak Kannan, Platts...