Wood Mackenzie is a global energy, metals and mining research and consultancy group with an international reputation for supplying comprehensive data, written analysis and consultancy advice. The company provides asset and company reports, insights, and other research on assets, such as upstream and unconventional oil and gas, oil and gas exploration, refining and oil products, LNG, metals, coal, and chemical markets. It also offers commodity market reports, insights, and other research on commodities, such as macroeconomics, risks, and global trends, as well as power and oil markets, refining and oil products, NGL, gas markets, LNG, coal, metals, and chemical markets. In addition, the company provides country reports, insights, and other research on countries, including Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, Asia, Europe, Oceania, the Russian Federation and the Caspian, the Middle East, and others. In 2015, the company was acquired by Verisk Analytics, an American data analytics and risk assessment firm, in a deal valued at $2.8 billion. It is based in Edinburgh Scotland, though it has over 25 offices worldwide. The company's energy business was founded in 1973, when they started reviewing the North Sea oilfields.