IHS CERA Industry Forums

IHS CERA Industry Forums provides independent, quantitative research and analysis on rapid changes in the key international energy markets and their impact on energy-related firms. Through a series of interactive workshops, clients are able to help shape and define the IHS CERA research agenda. Members not only benefit from exchanging opinions and experiences with their peers from different industries, they also receive access to IHS proprietary data, reports, research assistance, and the members-only portion of our website. From helping you improve your project portfolio costs to imparting a greater understanding of the paramount questions facing energy firms today—including emerging climate change policies, evolving transportation technologies and growing digital upstream applications—our industry forums deliver the thoughtful analysis you need to create winning strategies.  

Who uses IHS CERA Industry Forums:

• Downstream producers
• Upstream producers
• Independent power generators
• Renewables firms
• Regulators
• Financial institutions
• Utilities
• Merchant generators
• Power plant developers
• Energy marketers and traders
• Equipment manufacturers
• Engineering and construction firms
• Transmission, transportation and distribution firms
• End users

What IHS CERA Industry Forums can do:

• Provide benchmarking of internal project costs and future costs via scenario
• Serve as a tool for comparing various generation technology types and their associated costs
• Provide a forum for evaluating investment opportunities
• Offer a medium for gaining insight into the strategic issues and long-term cost environment facing the gas, power, oil and renewables industries

IHS CERA Industry Forums enable you to:

• Contribute to and shape the IHS CERA research agenda
• Participate and interact with a distinguished community of peers from diverse industries and regions of the world
• Receive unique, timely insights concerning project costs, their direction and the strategic implications associated with changes in the related cost environment
• Understand differential regional and country costs for similar projects
• Compare a company's project portfolio against our indices
• Discern the difference between real and estimated inflation rates for large projects
• Compare and contrast the costs associated with different generation technology types
• Participate in focused forums aimed at promoting thought leadership for climate change and clean energy, 21st century transportation, global energy, and global power
• Save time and resources by focusing on the important E&P issues
• Gain a better understanding of the present Eurasian transportation environment and emerging digital oil field applications

IHS CERA Industry Forums are designed to help clients understand the dynamics of rapid change in their industry and its impact on their businesses.

Our forums include:

Canadian Oil Sands Energy Dialogue
This program is a calendar of member and participant discussions organized and led by IHS CERA.  It is intended to deliver a robust and comprehensive understanding of the critical factors surrounding this key industry issue.

Capital Costs Analysis Forum - Downstream
Helping clients more effectively monitor, forecast, and manage downstream portfolio project costs

Capital Costs Analysis Forum - European Power
Assisting utilities and power generators to better monitor, forecast, and manage costs, and to discuss costs from a strategic point of view with regulators and investors

Capital Costs Analysis Forum - Upstream
Equipping clients with the tools to better monitor, manage, and forecast project portfolio costs

Capital Costs Analysis Forum-North American Power
Enabling clients in the North American power business to better monitor, forecast, and manage their project portfolio costs

Climate Change and Clean Energy Forum
Delivering original research to help understand, integrate, and address the clean energy questions facing the global energy industry

Digital Oil Field of the Future Forum
Offering valuable insight into the organizational and technical aspects of the advanced operating practices taking hold in exploration and production

E&P Trends Forum 
Furnishing in-depth data, analysis, and insight relating to global and regional E&P trends

Eurasia Transportation Forum 
Featuring our global platform aimed at improving the transportation of Russian and Caspian oil and gas

North American Gas and Power Scenarios 
Presenting sophisticated tools for evaluating company strategies under plausible alternative futures

Operating Costs Analysis Forum - Upstream
Empowering clients to better monitor and understand the impact of the dynamic operating cost environment on their upstream project portfolios.