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Mitigating risks and capturing opportunities at the nexus of energy, politics and the energy transition

Secure new investment opportunities and mitigate traditional and emerging aboveground risks – specifically the energy transition – with our integrated package of news, analysis, research, data and access to experts. The Risk Service helps strategy and risk analysts, business development teams and in-country managers develop resilient and actionable risk assessments to support their decision-making and diversify their portfolio.

Our proprietary aboveground risk and reward ranking tool, the Country Risk Index, covers more than 60 countries ranked across 34 individual factors, providing the robust analytical framework underpinning our country, geopolitical and transition risk analysis.

Our 70+ years of geopolitical analysis, combined with our ongoing reporting of key risks driving energy markets and our analytical risk ranking model make us uniquely positioned to identify critical investment, geopolitical and energy transition risks facing the energy industry.

Benefits

  • Bridge the gap between geopolitical risk and impacts on markets, assets and cash flows with our daily news updates, analytical reports and proprietary Country Risk Index, covering country, geopolitical and energy transition risks
  • Identify and address blind spots in your political risk scenario planning by informing your in-house assumptions with our analysis of key producer countries
  • Build resilient country risk strategies by isolating political risks that can actually threaten assets and cash flows, with our Country Risk Index
  • Predict what move to make next with our actionable risk analysis and insights, which are derived from our exclusive access to primary political sources and policy decision-makers
  • Identify investment risks and opportunities in the energy transition with our Transition Risk Index, which analyzes the drivers behind host-government incentives and emerging regulations and policies

Features

  • Daily coverage of critical threats to the energy industry across six core themes: country risk, energy transition and policy risk, Opec-plus risk and geopolitical and macro risk
  • Country Risk Index – our proprietary aboveground risk ranking tool, covering more than 60 countries ranked across 34 individual factors, provides the robust analytical framework underpinning our analysis in Quarterly Outlooks, Risk Reviews and topical memos
  • Transition Risk Index – ʶԳ’s proprietary benchmarking of countries’ resilience and adaptation to the energy transition
  • Macroeconomic Outlook – a twice-yearly report covering global economic conditions, outlook and risk implications for the energy industry
  • Opec-Plus Break-Evens Outlook – a twice-yearly report presenting our external economic break-evens model and providing an overview on producers’ fiscal break-evens, including analysis of fiscal policy options/signposts, internal Opec-plus dynamics and risk implications
  • Macroeconomic data – a twice-yearly report covering global economic conditions, outlook and risk implications for the energy industry
  • Opec-Plus Break-Evens data – a twice-yearly report presenting our external economic break-evens model and providing an overview on producers’ fiscal break-evens
  • Direct access to our risk analysts, editors and data team through one-to-one discussions, regular private briefings, monthly video on demand updates and bespoke quarterly executive briefings

The ʶԳ Difference

  1. Our proprietary Country Risk Index, which provides a robust framework for political risk management, alerts clients to asset and strategy vulnerabilities and changes in the market or political environment, over near- and longer-term investment periods
  2. Our 70+ years of reporting on energy geopolitics by tracking political changes in key producing countries and their impact on the energy business, enables us to bring clients the focused intelligence they need to adapt their strategies and mitigate operational risk
  3. Our actionable energy transition insights, benchmarked in our proprietary Transition Risk Index, analyze the impact of low-carbon policies on countries’ demand and overall resilience, giving clients the confidence they need to assess investment opportunities
  4. Our inside-track reporting of Opec-plus, by our award-winning journalists, ensures clients have the real view of decision-making dynamics and market implications



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  • US-Iran nuclear negotiations are the most promising opening between the two in years. While threatening military action if talks fail, Washington is showing a clear preference for diplomacy. Tehran’s weakened regional position and economy provide incentives to negotiate. A deal would likely include Iranian oil sanctions relief. Tehran can likely increase production quickly, but we see a near-term, limited agreement as more likely, limiting potential upside. Yet, production and exports could rise to 3.8 million b/d and 2 million b/d, respectively, within six months if a deal were reached. However, if talks fail and the US fully returns to maximum pressure, output and exports could fall precipitously.
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With ʶԳ's 70+ year history of reporting on energy geopolitics, our experts are uniquely positioned to identify critical investment, energy transition and geopolitical risks facing the energy industry.
Eastern Hemisphere Editorial Director
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Eastern Hemisphere Head of Client Engagement & News Editor and Dubai Bureau Chief
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Latest Podcasts
  • Panel Experts:Jim Washer, Executive EditorEmily Meredith, Deputy Bureau Chief, WashingtonJill Junnola, Editor, Energy CompassBen Cahill, Manager, Research & Advisory
    Thu, Feb 2, 2017
  • The main issues we will cover in this Virtual Round Table are:What are the key energy policy risks and challenges for President-Elect Trump?What can the oil and gas industry expect in terms of change from energy policy under Obama?Where will the new Trump administration stand on climate change, and on US backing for the UN’s Paris climate deal?How will a Trump White House respond to environmental opposition to fracking and new pipeline projects?How will the new president approach relations with oil and gas superpowers like Russia and Iran?
    Thu, Nov 17, 2016
  • The main issues we will cover are:What are the prospects for an agreement at Algiers? How have positions changed in Opec and non-Opec since the Doha meeting in April? What kind of actions seem most likely?How will oil markets react?
    Mon, Sep 26, 2016
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