As renewable generation continues to expand and extreme weather phenomena become more frequent, managing weather risk is becoming increasingly important for energy companies. Conventional hedging strategies can help manage price exposure, but they do not always address the financial impact of unexpected weather patterns on demand, generation or trading positions.

As a result, weather derivatives are gaining greater attention. In this episode, Argus European Electricity Editor Helen Senior and Deputy Editor Apostolos Tsarikas talk with Pierre Buisson, Senior Weather and Energy Structurer, and Theresa Kammel, Weather Trader and Originator at Munich Re, to discuss how these products work and where the market is headed.

Listen to discover key insights on:

• How are weather derivatives used to manage and hedge weather risk?
• Who are the biggest market players and which products are the most liquid?
• How is the market expected to evolve in the coming years?

This podcast was created using data and insights from the Argus European Electricity service

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In this week's Strait Talk: Thin Diesel, Argus experts examine how the market has changed following the Houthi maritime ban on Saudi-linked shipping and attacks on key refining infrastructure. Product exports through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait have fallen sharply, while fresh warnings to shipowners and repeated attacks on the Jizan refinery have increased uncertainty for fuel exporters and buyers alike.

Geopolitical conflict and Middle Eastern supply disruption are increasing the value of larger, more flexible LPG and ethane inventories in China. In this episode of Global LPG Conversations, Matt Scotland (Editor, LPG World) speaks with Celia Chen (Lead LPG Analyst) about how growing supply concerns are reshaping storage investment decisions.

Listen to discover:

• Why China is adding more than 700,000t of LPG and ethane storage
• How trade tensions are reshaping butane and ethane infrastructure
• The growing role of storage in strengthening supply security
• Why tight propane availability could limit strategic stockbuilding

The discussion draws on the Global LPG Storage Survey, available to LPG World subscribers through Argus Direct. Explore the survey data for detailed information on LPG and ethane storage capacity, infrastructure developments and major projects across China, the wider Asia-Pacific region, and the rest of the world.