Shell is seeking an LNG analyst to be based in Houston, Texas.
What’s the role?
The Analyst, Americas LNG is a multi-dimensional position within Shell Energy Integration and Fundamentals (SEIF) Global Gas Fundamentals team in support of Shell’s LNG Marketing and Trading (SLMT) businesses. The SEIF team is charged with delivery of best-in-class decision support to SLMT and Shell Energy, centered on LNG and global gas market fundamentals. SEIF has global accountabilities and a globally dispersed structure, across the major trading hubs. The Analyst, Americas LNG will be based in Houston, USA and work collaboratively across a dynamic global team to drive commercial value through fundamental insights and analysis.
What you’ll be doing
The Analyst, Americas LNG will have two primary accountabilities:
1) Americas LNG Exports
The Analyst will be accountable for developing, executing and delivering America LNG export monitoring and forecasting. This aspect of the role will focus on the short-term market horizon that covers operating and under construction projects. The analyst will be expected to leverage and operationalize existing tools as well as develop new monitoring products to analyze the performance of export facilities within the Americas. Heightened focus will be on US Gulf LNG export plants given expected capacity additions. The role will require a deep understanding of regulatory filings, shipping trends, LNG plant technology, feed gas sourcing and contracting. Interpreting the data and communicating the key messages to relevant trading desks and analytical communities in a clear and timely fashion is essential.
2) Americas LNG import forecasting
The Analyst, Americas LNG will also be responsible for delivering bottom up, sectoral forecast of supply and demand for LNG importing countries in the Americas (Central and South America, the Caribbean). The emphasis of this work will be maintaining, improving and developing robust and transparent sectoral forecasts for major LNG import markets through the short-to-long term time horizon. This will involve building out/upgrading existing demand models and data monitoring dashboards. A key focus will be to establish an industry-leading view on domestic market policy, infrastructure developments, contractual dynamics and a sharp structure for analyzing upstream development and pipeline imports (including cost competition).
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