Commodities Focus

In this podcast, Yen Ling Song, Platts senior writer, and Max Gostelow, Platts associate editor, talk about the slowdown in China's gas demand growth, the country's appetite for imported gas, and market expectations on gas price movement given the recent decline in oil prices. The...

In tandem with the recent launch of the Monthly Liquidity Report in Platts European Gas Daily, market reporters Gary Hornby and Reginald Ajuonuma discuss the November 2014 trading results, commenting on recent trends in gas trading across Europe and explain the reasons behind the continuing larger...

Liquefied natural gas spot prices are hitting pre-Fukushima levels in North Asia. In this podcast, Abache Abreu, Platts LNG editor, and Max Gostelow, Platts LNG associate editor, talk about the impact of South Korea's return to the spot market, the effect of falling crude oil prices on the LNG...

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...