Kurt Barrow

Mr. Barrow is responsible for IHS Markit research of crude oil, NGLs, refining, and petrochemical feedstocks. He also has responsibility for joint mobility research offerings with the automotive team at IHS Markit. Mr. Barrow’s expertise includes refining economics, energy policy, and price forecasting. He is active in downstream research and oversees a global team conducting expert-based analysis and analytical modeling of market and industry fundamentals. Mr. Barrow has written extensively on the International Maritime Organization 2020 bunker fuel topic and the influence of US tight oil and crude oil production on the downstream sector. He routinely supports executive and corporate boards with views on energy transition, refining/petrochemical interface/integration trends, and the oil and refining sectors. Mr. Barrow began his career as an engineer at Exxon. He holds a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Kansas State University and an MBA from the University of Houston, both in the United States.