Utilis Advisory Group
Director, Strategy and Business Development
Datamonitor Nov 1998 - Apr 2001
Practice Area Manager, Us Energy
Pira Energy Group Nov 1996 - Jan 1998
Manager, Business Development and Energy Consultant
Standard & Poor's Platts Commodities Group Jul 1989 - Nov 1996
New York Bureau Chief
Education:
Nyu Stern School of Business
Master of Business Administration, Masters, International Business, Finance
Washington University In St. Louis
Bachelors, Bachelor of Arts, Biology, History
Skills:
Oil Natural Gas Lng Solar Nuclear Expert Witness Distributed Generation Gas Geothermal Emissions Energy Energy Markets Renewable Energy Energy Policy Upstream Oil&Gas Downstream Pricing Regulatory Analysis Shale Gas Shale Oil Hydraulic Fracturing Water Treatment Natural Gas Liquids Refined Products Oil Sands Gas Processing Fracking Wti Brent Refining Pressure Pumping Commodity Pricing Market Risk Futures Lpg Coal Gasification Gasification Eur Proppants New Client Acquisitions Business Development Strategy Downstream Oil and Gas Shale Insitu Production Petroleum Trading Commodity Power Generation
Interests:
Poverty Alleviation Exercise Enthusiast Adventure Traveler and Glassblower Survival School Graduate
Languages:
English Spanish
Certifications:
Series 3 (Futures and Commodities) Certificate In the Quantity and Quality Analysis of Petroleum Products National Futures Association Saybolt
Growing production is also a worry. There is a growing swell in global crude-oil production, said Alan Herbst, a principal at Utilis Advisory Group. While its not a tsunami of crude, the greater levels of production and a stronger U.S. dollar ha
After recent oil price gains, traders are also looking to take profits prior to [Fridays] release of the January nonfarm-payroll report and accompanying monthly unemployment number, Alan Herbst, a principal at Utilis Advisory Group, wrote in emailed comments.
Seasonally, this is also the time of the year many refineries, past the summer driving season frenzy, are focusing on scheduled maintenance, which reduces their demand for crude, said Alan Herbst with Utilis Advisory Group.
While workers are still evacuated at the approach of a hurricane and production operations cease, platform construction is now more robust, making significant storm-related damage to these structures less likely to occur, said Alan Herbst, a principal at Utilis Advisory Group in New York.
, Okla. has pressured WTI prices, prompting them to trade at a more than $25-a-barrel discount, at one point, to Brent crude, Europes benchmark, said Alan Herbst, a principal at Utilis Advisory Group, and by removing the bottleneck, the spread between WTI and Brent will likely continue to narrow.