Multiclient Studies

Multiclient Studies tackle today's critical energy questions through a highly focused, collaborative research process that is undertaken between IHS CERA and its clients. Our research experts guide the process, hosting a series of interactive workshops with senior-level professionals. These studies leverage IHS proprietary datasets and original research to offer a critical, non-partisan, and realistic analysis of the future state of the world's energy markets. Clients help guide the research process and receive access to our datasets and final reports, giving them a road map for future strategic decision making, corporate planning and investment analysis.

Clients who are interested in already-completed multiclient studies may subscribe to those studies to receive the final reports and supporting datasets.

Who uses these studies:

• Energy producers
• End users
• Utilities
• Institutional investors
• Policy makers

What Multiclient Studies can do: 

• Analyze investment opportunities
• Evaluate operating strategies
• Conduct market research
• Understand emerging technologies
• Explain a specific fuel's potential

Multiclient Studies enable you to:

• Influence the policymaking and regulatory process by participating in forums for decision makers at a time when major policy proposals are being developed
• Anticipate new opportunities as they unfold in regional markets
• Receive objective analysis and recommendations to support investment and strategic decisions
• Understand and set realistic expectations about the future of various fuel markets, at the regional and global levels
• Educate relevant stakeholders (such as shareholders, media, national legislators and other policymakers) on a wide range of issues surrounding a key energy segment
• Establish business models that align with consumer behavior or specific markets
• Anticipate the impact of global fuel markets on regional ones
• Stay apprised of the newest technologies affecting the discovery and production of various energy types

• Keeping Europe's Lights On: Design and Impact of Capacity Mechanisms
  This study examines capacity mechanisms throughout Europe and evaluates the impact on power prices and plant revenues.
• A Clean Slate: Financing Europe's Renewables Future
  This innovative new study analyses challenges and opportunities to fund the development of renewable power deployment in Europe.
• Coal Rush: The Future of China's Coal Markets
  This study provides a truly comprehensive look at China's Coal Markets and evaluates its impact on global coal markets.
• European Policy Dialogue
  An ongoing research effort designed to inform and help shape the development of sound energy policy
• Japan's New Energy Quest
  Access to key research and participation in a series of workshops on global energy issues and its importance for Japan.
• The Tiger Re-emerges: Southeast Asia Gas, Power, Coal Market Opportunities
  Analyzing new opportunities and challenges to infrastructure requirements, technology choices and price formations in Southeast Asia’s gas, coal and power markets.
• NGLs Analytics and Insight: Rebalancing NGLs in an Unconventional North America  
  Integrated and scenario-based outlooks and analysis providing a deep understanding of the enormous potential and the challenges of NGLs
• Unconventional Frontier: Prospects for Global Unconventional Gas
  Understand the global potential of unconventional gas, make strategic choices and create investment plans.
• Thirst for Growth: Outlook for Gas and Power in the Middle East and North Africa 
  A comprehensive outlook for the MENA gas and power sectors, focusing on the fundamentals of supply and demand, energy policy, and investment outlook through 2030 
• North American Tight Oil
  With as many as 50 Billion barrels of new recoverable oil in the next decade from North American tight oil reservoirs, this study identifies where the plays are that will deliver and how they rank against each other.
• Solving the Tangram: China Regional Gas and Power Scenarios
  This study will help you navigate energy markets in China’s 31 provinces providing a roadmap to 2035
• The Future of Water in Unconventionals
  Planning for the current and future costs of water management in developing unconventional resources
• The New Map of Global Gas
  The map of global gas is changing. Unconventional gas has greatly enlarged the potential resource base and, together with recent large conventional discoveries, is transforming both the size and location of world supply. This study will provide members with a comprehensive view of the impact of this new supply picture on the global gas industry.

Multiclient Studies offers clients an opportunity to purchase the final report and accompanying datasets from recently completed studies. Listed below, these studies offer relevant data and insight for today’s pressing energy topics:

• Cream of the Crop
  A landmark study of unconventional gas plays in North America
• Fueling North America's Energy Future
  A major study offering insight on climate change policy and its implications for interfuel competition and technology choices for North America
• Growth in the Canadian Oil Sands
  An examination of the benefits, risks, and issues associated with developing the Canadian Oil Sands
• Securing the Future: Making Gas Interdependence Work
  An examination of the impact of the interdependent European-Russian relationship on the future of Europe’s gas security
• Strategies for Leaner Europe: Meeting the Challenge of Energy Efficiency
  An analysis of the future of energy business models and strategic choices created by the conservation revolution