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Wood Mackenzie Lens
Subscription research data and analytics covering oil, gas, power, renewables and mining assets
As of 30 August 2026, Wood Mackenzie Lens's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Lens is a delivery platform for Wood Mackenzie research, not a software product in its own right. Softwr lists it under Energy. Wood Mackenzie Lens is made by Wood Mackenzie, available on Web, API.
Overview
What Wood Mackenzie Lens does
Wood Mackenzie Lens is a browser-based analytics platform that carries the research output of Wood Mackenzie. Modules are sold by sector: Upstream oil and gas, Subsurface, Gas and LNG, Power and Renewables with separate Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific variants, Metals and Mining, Hydrogen, Carbon Management, Emissions and Energy Transition Scenarios. Lens Direct delivers the same content through an API so customers can pull it into their own models and data warehouses. The underlying content covers assets, companies and markets, with economics modelled down to individual fields, mines and power projects. The fact a buyer should be clear about before signing is what the money is for. The interface is competent but unremarkable; the asset is the research. Wood Mackenzie analysts build the cost curves, reserve estimates and project economics, and no competitor can be swapped in without changing the numbers your business plans against. That is the source of the pricing power. It is also the source of the main risk, because the figures are estimates modelled by a third party, not operator-reported data, and they can differ materially from what the asset owner reports. The buyers are corporate strategy and business development teams at energy and mining companies, investors and lenders underwriting projects, commodity traders and government agencies. Ownership has moved twice in the last decade: Verisk acquired Wood Mackenzie in 2015 and sold it to the private equity firm Veritas Capital in 2023, so a multi-year subscription is now signed with a private equity holding rather than a listed data group. Licensing is per named seat per dataset, so covering an analyst team multiplies rather than adds, and login sharing is a contract breach that vendors in this segment do audit.
What people use it for
- A corporate development team screening acquisition targets against independent asset economics
- A lender or investor testing a project sponsor case against third-party cost and production estimates
- A strategy team building long-term scenarios that need consistent cross-commodity assumptions
- A trading or origination desk that needs asset level supply data pulled into its own models through the API
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Wood Mackenzie Lens.
- Licensing is per named seat and per dataset, so sharing a login across an analyst team breaches the contract and licensing the team properly multiplies the fee rather than adding to it.
- The content is analyst-modelled rather than operator-reported, so asset economics and reserve figures are estimates and can differ materially from what the owner of the asset publishes.
- Modules are split by commodity and by region, and a question that spans gas and power, or Americas and EMEA, can require two or three separate subscriptions to answer.
- Content refresh follows the research publication calendar, so individual asset records can lag a transaction or a project decision by a quarter or more, which matters on live deals.
- Ownership passed from Verisk to Veritas Capital in 2023, so buyers signing multi-year terms are contracting with a private equity holding whose plans for pricing and packaging are not public.
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Pricing
What Wood Mackenzie Lens costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Lens subscription
On request
- Quoted per dataset and per named user
- Regional variants of a module are priced as separate subscriptions
- Lens Direct API access licensed on top of platform access
- Annual terms with multi-year commitments common
Capabilities
Features
Upstream asset data
Field level reserves, production forecasts and economics for oil and gas assets
Power and renewables
Project pipelines, capacity forecasts and market outlooks by region
Metals and mining
Mine level cost curves, production and project data across commodities
Gas and LNG
Supply, demand and contract analysis for gas and liquefied natural gas markets
Energy transition scenarios
Modelled pathways used for planning and disclosure work
Emissions data
Asset level emissions estimates for portfolio and disclosure analysis
Lens Direct
API delivery of the same datasets into customer systems and models
Scenario and portfolio tools
Screening and comparison of assets and portfolios inside the platform
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Am I buying software or research?
Research. Lens is the delivery platform for Wood Mackenzie analysis, and the analysis is what the price reflects.
Who owns Wood Mackenzie?
Veritas Capital, which acquired it from Verisk in 2023.
Can a team share one licence?
No. Licences are per named user, and sharing breaches the subscription terms.
Can I get the data into my own models?
Yes, through Lens Direct, which is licensed separately from platform access.
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