Wood Mackenzie is a research, data and consulting business focused on energy and natural resources, headquartered at Exchange Place 2, 5 Semple Street, Edinburgh EH3 8BL. The company traces its history to an Edinburgh stockbroker founded in 1923 and published its first oil report in 1973; it now covers upstream oil and gas, gas and LNG, power and renewables, emissions and carbon management, energy transition scenarios, metals and mining, oils and chemicals and commodity trading. Its website carries a 2026 copyright notice for Wood Mackenzie Limited.
Origins and ownership
The company's story page records that it began as a small Edinburgh stockbroker, became one of the larger United Kingdom stockbroking firms by the 1970s on the strength of its equity research, and published its first oil report in 1973 before building specialist upstream expertise. It states that as of February 2023 it became a portfolio company of Veritas Capital, an investor focused on technology and government markets, and that it also runs partnership programmes with other organisations in natural resources.
Research platforms and data products
Most of the commercial offer is delivered through the Lens platform, which is licensed by segment:
- Upstream and Subsurface, covering asset and company analysis, commercial and technical data.
- Gas and LNG, including project, contract and pricing data.
- Power and Renewables, covering conventional and renewable generation, projects and markets.
- Metals and Mining, and Carbon, covering CCUS and offset opportunities.
- Emissions, Energy Transition scenarios and Hydrogen, ammonia and methanol value chains.
A Lens Direct application programming interface lets customers pull data into their own systems, while the supply chain analytics product, previously known as PowerAdvocate, covers cost, performance and risk management for large capital programmes. In 2026 the company introduced an Insight Assistant tool, built with Synoptic, that answers questions using its own written research. Alongside subscriptions it sells individual reports and wall maps, and it publishes free market commentary through its market insights pages, blog, podcasts and the Horizons monthly publication. A book, Connected, written by Jason Liu and Simon Flowers, is also promoted on the site.
Consulting and advisory work
Wood Mackenzie's consulting arm works on strategy and policy, commercial advisory, procurement and supply chain, performance improvement, due diligence, opportunity identification, valuation, mergers, acquisitions and divestments, and capability development. The company states that it provides research and consultancy to more than 3,000 customers, ranging from the largest global businesses to smaller specialists and spanning oil and gas, chemicals, metals and mining, power and renewables; its customers page carries testimonials from companies including BP.
Offices and support
The contact centre page lists offices and support lines by region. Europe is served from the Edinburgh head office on +44 131 243 4400, a London office at 22 Bishopsgate and a branch in Vienna; Asia Pacific from Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Gurugram, Tokyo and Astana; and the Americas from Calgary, Houston, New York and Chicago. Customer support telephone lines are published for Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas and share one mailbox, [email protected], which also appears against individual office entries. Help articles and training for the Lens platform are hosted on separate support and product training sites, and prospective customers are directed to a request a demo form.
Events and market engagement in 2026
The company runs conferences, webinars and regional events, with a 2026 programme that includes a carbon capture, utilisation and storage conference in Houston on 7 and 8 October 2026 and a webinar on large electrical load intelligence delivered with LandGate on 8 October 2026. Its editorial output during 2026 has concentrated on data centre power demand, the Middle East conflict and its effect on energy markets, energy transition scenarios, CCUS, electric vehicle adoption and investment intelligence. The company also promotes a partnership programme called Let's Share the Sun that supports clean energy access for communities, and it maintains customer account, sign-in and product help portals for subscribers to Lens and its other platforms.