Analysis: Global Oil Demand & Transport Fuels – January 2025

17 Jan 2025
The excitement about low-carbon fuels in transportation, often obscures the scale and market dynamics of global fossil fuel markets. For example: the annual growth in Indian jet fuel demand alone is equivalent to the total global SAF consumption last year. Low-carbon transport fuels are growing, but the fossil fuel market continues to grow much faster… more

Crude oil prices: Recent rally unlikely to change overall picture

13 Jan 2025
Crude oil prices today climbed to their highest level since last fall at just under 81 $/b. The price rally was triggered by Washington’s announcement to add a further 183 oil tankers of the Shadow Fleet to the sanctions list. 

However, a look at our price chart shows that we are still a long way from an oil price crisis. On average, oil prices in January were 77 $/b, which is even lower than last year… more

HVO as Road Fuel – Markets and Sustainability

16 Dec 2024
HVO (“Renewable Diesel”) from plant or animal-based residual and waste materials is considered, alongside e-fuels, to be the most attractive fuel option for combustion engines in cars and trucks. We take the results from two new reports and show: the growth opportunities remain limited; the climate savings are greatly exaggerated; and fraudulent, large-scale imports of UCO and animal fats cannot be contained with the current EU certification system..… more

E-Fuels for transport: fundamentals, status and outlook

10 Dec 2024
E-fuels have become a hot topic that immediately brings any car-related discussion to a boil. We present basic facts, figures and an outlook.… more

Ammonia as marine fuel – a primer

6 Dec 2024
Green Ammonia: favorable properties as low-carbon marine fuel are not enough. The article provides important data and the maritime market context… more

Sustainable Aviation Fuels

4 Dec 2024
A runway for decarbonisation? New findings from T&E´s SAF Observatory…more

Crude oil prices likely to remain low in 2025

2 Dec 2024
In 2025, low-carbon fuels will have to deal with fierce price competition from fossil fuels. The current situation on the global crude oil market points to a growing oil supply with only…more

CCS – Can we simply bury our CO2 problem?

2 Dec 2024
The report provides a detailed and, in my opinion, clear and jargon-free presentation of the most important active CCS projects to date (Sleipner, Snøhvit, Gorgon et al.). They demonstrate how difficult, unplannable and individual each CCS project is….more

Project Launch!

2 Dec 2024
Today marks the launch of our new long-term project: Transport.Fuel.Tracker.2050.
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