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Financial-sector leaders are navigating a generational investment environment as low-carbon technologies and climate-focused policy redefine global energy markets.
IHS Markit’s Investing in Energy team offers subscription-based advisory services to guide clients through this transition via reports, data, and interactive engagement.
We meet the advisory needs of energy-focused investment professionals through four workflow solutions and two briefing services focused on traditional and low-carbon energy markets:
Mr. Diwan has more than 25 years of experience in advising governments, oil and gas companies, and financial institutions on oil markets, geopolitics of oil, and assessment of the strategic shifts of the global oil and gas industry. He leads a team of analysts and strategists to advise asset managers, hedge funds, private equity firms, and investment banks by providing customized analysis on the oil and gas industry. Recently, Mr. Diwan has been focusing on strategies that investors are implementing to capture value in the energy sector and the implications of the decapitalization of the oil and gas sector and capitalization of the energy transition. He still leads analysis on topics as varied as the global exploration outlook, the geopolitical impact of US shales, China's energy outlook, or the changing strategies of the Gulf national oil companies. Mr. Diwan holds a Bachelor of Arts from the Sorbonne University, France, and master's degrees from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, United States, and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris, France.
Mr. Fawaz is a Director in the Energy and Natural Resources group at IHS Markit. He leads the Energy Advisory Service, which provides energy research tailored to financial institutions investing in the energy and commodity space. He has extensive expertise analyzing short-term global crude oil and refined product markets, managing IHS Markit's global short-term liquids supply/demand balances, and forecasting short-term trends in global oil fundamentals, prices, differentials, and refining margins. He also specializes in the relationship between physical and paper commodity markets. Mr. Fawaz has also led various consulting engagements across the midstream and downstream value chain, including asset acquisition due diligence projects, global crude and product trade flow modeling, and pricing analyses. Prior to joining IHS Markit in 2013, Mr. Fawaz worked in the Financial Advisory practice at PFC Energy. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the American University of Beirut and an MA from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Mr. LeBlanc's passion lies in the intersection of oil and gas expertise and leading-edge data analytics. He currently leads the development and commercialization of data products that leverage knowledge to make the IHS Markit well and production database insightful for commercial decision makers. Mr. LeBlanc also plays a key role in directing research and forecasting of onshore North America and then delivering an integrated, substantive story to executives and investors. As a veteran of the industry and a former partner at PFC Energy (now IHS Markit), Mr. LeBlanc brings 25 years of experience in strategic and industry analysis. Familiar with a wide range of corporate and market issues, he has extensive experience on issues related to North American independents, upstream assets, and natural gas markets. From 1997 to 2006, Mr. LeBlanc directed Anadarko Petroleum's strategic planning effort, responsible for strategy formulation, portfolio optimization, scenario planning, and competitor analysis. He has worked and studied in Japan, the western Pacific, and Great Britain. Mr. LeBlanc holds an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and a Master of Arts in energy and international relations from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, United States.
Laurent Ruseckas is a leading authority on the gas industry in Europe and Eurasia, with a special focus on gas supply and transportation and a regional focus on the Caspian Sea region, southeastern Europe, Turkey, Ukraine and the Eastern Mediterranean. He has published client research on topics including EU gas regulation, Russian-Ukrainian gas arbitration, and the gas sectors in Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. He has worked for more than two decades advising international oil and gas companies and institutional investors on energy investment in Eurasia, and has led assignments in which IHS Markit served as Lenders' Market Consultant in support of project financings on numerous occasions. Ruseckas first joined CERA (a predecessor company of IHS Markit) in 1991 and led CERA's Caspian Energy practice from 1997 to 2003. Ruseckas co-managed the Caspian Development Corporation project carried out for the World Bank and European Commission (DG Energy) during the period 2009-2011. From 2006 to 2008, Ruseckas was based in Baku, Azerbaijan as Director of Business Development and head of strategy for a company in the oil transportation sector. A Russian speaker, Ruseckas holds a B.A. with honors in Russian and Soviet Studies from Harvard University (Cambridge, USA), and he passed comprehensive examinations in the Ph.D. program in Political Science at Columbia University (New York, USA).
Mr. Gardett is an executive director for IHS Markit and is part of a dedicated research team that provides integrated climate and cleantech advisory research to the financial sector. Mr. Gardett has more than 20 years of experience in energy and commodities markets as a journalist, analyst, entrepreneur, and executive. His work at IHS Markit focuses on the energy transition and cleantech, including solar, wind, hydrogen, batteries, and storage. Mr. Gardett holds a degree from the University of St Andrews in Scotland and lives in New York City.
Chad Singleton is an associate director for IHS Markit's Financial & Capital Markets practice, specializing in gas, power, and renewables. Chad has over 10 years of experience in north america power fundamentals and has served as both a regional lead covering the western interconnect as well as a topical lead covering clean resource adequacy, flexibility, resiliency, grid modernization, and asset valuations. He has authored whitepapers and presentations contextualizing the role of power and renewables in the 4th industrial revolution as well as external business environment influences on the sector. Chad has developed numerous proprietary models and tools concerning project economics, net cost analysis, nodal pricing, energy scarcity pricing, flexible resource adequacy, REC price forecasting, and RPS compliance. Chad holds a BBA in Business Economics from the University of North Texas.
As a member of the Financial Services team, he provides market research and analysis to clients in the financial sector, including hedge funds, private equity firms, and institutional investors. Mr. Karst's research focus is concentrated on refined product markets, refining, and demand, especially in Asian markets. Mr. Karst holds a Bachelor of Arts from the State University of New York at Geneseo and a Master of Arts from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, both in the United States.
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