S&P Global to Spotlight Global Exploration Trends at World Energies Summit

The industry has moved from energy transition to energy expansion. The question now is who moves fastest, and where.

More than 40 countries are offering exploration acreage in 2026, and we’ll be covering many of them at this year’s Summit. Tens of high-impact wells are scheduled across frontier and deepwater basins in Latin America, Africa and Asia-Pacific. Yet exploration spend remains stuck around $10 billion a year, a fraction of historical norms.

That tension - between opportunity and discipline, expansion and restraint - defines the upstream landscape right now and few organisations can see and explain the full picture the way S&P Global does, bringing decades of monitoring the global E&P sector, coverage spanning the globe, and data on over six million wells, fields and basins relied upon by the vast majority of the world's largest E&P companies.

That depth of intelligence on licensing, high-impact drilling and capital allocation will undoubtedly sharpen the debate on our stages.

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