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S&P Global Energy analysis of key news and pricing issues from across the global shipping, natural gas, power, petrochemicals, agriculture and coal markets.

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India, Pakistan jostle over exclusive rights for basmati rice

Thursday, November 13, 2025 • Duration 24:04

The global demand for basmati rice has been rising, especially in the Middle East and the EU. As a result, the competition to sell this long-grain variety has intensified in recent years. The world's biggest Basmati suppliers -- India and Pakistan -- claim proprietary ownership over this long-grain Asian indica rice. In this podcast, we will shine some light on the fundamental issues in the basmati trade and the way forward for the two South Asian countries.

Join S&P Global Commodity Insights' Asim Anand, manager, agriculture & food pricing, Dipanshi Agarwal, principal analyst, APAC crops, Ayushi Baloni and Namarita Kathait, associate price reporters for agriculture & food, in a discussion about the intricacies of the global basmati trade and why it has become a source of disagreement between India and Pakistan.

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Asia's coal transition dilemma amid renewable energy push

Wednesday, November 5, 2025 • Duration 22:07

The energy landscape in Asia has been evolving in recent years. With a global push towards renewable energy, the longstanding dependence of many Asian countries on coal comes into the limelight. The discussions surround critical questions about whether these nations will be able to transition from primarily fossil fuel-based to a more clean-powered energy, especially at a time when major coal consumers India and China are trying to increase their self-reliance on coal.

Join Andre Lambine, associate director, lead APAC short-term power and renewables research, Tanya Jain, associate price reporter for thermal coal and Anirudh Iyer, senior price reporter for energy transition as they speak to Vaibhav Chakraborty, senior price reporter for thermal coal about the ups and downs of achieving energy stability in Asian countries.

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Low-carbon methanol awaits regulatory backing for transportation use

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 • Duration 23:55

The global methanol market is seeing emerging demand for low-carbon transportation fuels, with particular focus on marine fuels, driven by a need to decarbonize global shipping without disrupting supply chains. While conventional methanol has a history of being used as a transportation fuel, there are many new technologies designed to produce methanol with lower carbon intensity than conventional, oil-based marine fuels. However, cost of production and supply availability remain barriers to adoption.

Global research lead for methanol and derivatives Olivier Maronneaud and chemicals price reporter Andre Mikhail discuss methanol's potential as a low-carbon fuel, the current production landscape, and the need for effective regulation to bridge the cost gap between sustainable fuels and fossil.

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International Methanol Producers and Consumers Association conference
International Maritime Organization 83rd meeting
eMethanol FOB Rotterdam $/mt FRGMD00
Marine Fuel 0.5% FOB Spore Cargo $/mt AMFSA00

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Copper markets eye easing concentrate supply in 2022

Wednesday, January 19, 2022 • Duration 13:28

Copper prices were on a roller-coaster ride in 2021 with demand recovery in US and Europe, logistics issues, COVID-19 disruptions and power cuts in China all contributing to the price fluctuations. Futures backwardation also hit a historical high in 2021.

In 2022, increasing supply from new and existing mines is likely to be one of the key factors to watch out for.

On this week's Commodities Focus podcast, S&P Global Platts Yuen Cheng Mok and Han Lu discuss what's in store for copper markets in 2022.

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A conversation with Enterprise: Going all in on upstream petrochemicals

Tuesday, January 4, 2022 • Duration 20:52

Enterprise Products Partners co-CEO Jim Teague and Chris D'Anna, senior vice president of petrochemicals, discuss the energy storage and transportation titan's push into upstream petrochemicals that will feed growing plastics demand over the next decade.

The company is a key delivery point for physically settled futures markets, with global hydrocarbon risk management from the wellhead to waterborne markets. Enterprise's reach includes 50,000 miles of natural gas liquids, crude oil, natural gas and refined products pipelines as well as 260 million barrels of NGLs, crude, refined products and petrochemicals storage. Petrochemicals is not new to Enterprise, but the company is expanding that reach with export growth, storage and olefin production facilities, including serious consideration of a cracker that could serve downstream plastics producers.

Kristen Hays, S&P Global Platts' global market lead for polymers, recently sat down with Teague and D'Anna to discuss the company's growing focus on petrochemicals.

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Oil and gas industry strikes back against energy transition at the World Petroleum Congress

Tuesday, December 14, 2021 • Duration 13:12

The World Petroleum Congress in Houston brought back a sense of normalcy to the energy sector as both the industry and the world continue to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic. But the other existential threat for fossil fuels is the burgeoning energy transition and switch to cleaner sources of power and fuels. At the conference, many oil and gas executives pushed back at the notion of a seamless transition, arguing that fossil fuels will be needed for many decades to come, and warning of price shocks and energy shortages if the world shifts too quickly.

Americas oil news director Jeff Mower, senior upstream editor Starr Spencer, and senior midstream editor Jordan Blum sat down to recap these themes from WPC and reflect on the slow shift toward in-person events again.

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Nord Stream 2: No end in sight to long-running saga over controversial gas pipeline

Wednesday, December 8, 2021 • Duration 19:21

The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany is one of the most controversial energy infrastructure projects in history. Now complete, there remains uncertainty over when the 55 Bcm/year project will begin commercial flows.

On this week's Commodities Focus podcast, S&P Global Platts Henry Edwardes-Evans, Stuart Elliott, Gary Hornby and James Huckstepp discuss the project's history, the many obstacles it has faced, its impact on European gas prices and what to expect next.

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US natural gas, power prices face bullish outlooks into winter heating season

Tuesday, November 30, 2021 • Duration 11:36

US natural gas and power markets are strengthening as the heart of winter heating season nears.

In this podcast, editors from S&P Global Platts power and natural gas teams discuss spot and forward pricing, weather outlooks, major trends, and market fundamentals impacting the winter outlook. With power and gas prices rising across the board, we investigate how these markets have evolved from the previous year, what infrastructure has been added, and what to expect as winter forges ahead.

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Freight and drought bite as the Californian Japonica rice market heads into 2022

Wednesday, November 24, 2021 • Duration 14:52

The price of the global Japonica market's benchmark, US #1, 4% broken white rice, is reaching highs not seen in ten years at quite an unfortunate time. Freight from California remains incredibly difficult to source, especially at an affordable rate for buyers. Meanwhile, other Japonica origins, such as Australia and China continue to steadily chip away at market share amid pressure to export their increasingly robust stockpiles.

In this Commodities Focus podcast, S&P Global Platts agriculture and freight editors discuss California's situation and what it means for the global Japonica rice trade going into 2022.

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Gas pays the price

Wednesday, November 10, 2021 • Duration 18:20

Ciaran Roe and Ira Joseph break down the unprecedented price movements in recent LNG and gas markets. The discussion focuses on how we arrived at this point of unusual tightness and whether the conditions that brought us here will persist. Then the discussion turns to the evolving pricing relationship between JKM and TTF, how LNG imports have been trading above Europe's main gas hub for months, and how the US Henry Hub fits into the mix. The final segment looks ahead to how short-term price volatility may trigger changes in long-term gas and LNG contracts and the types of indexation that will underpin them.

Note: Prices discussed as of date of recording 28th October 2021.

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