• CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Raoul LeBlanc

S&P Global

Vice President, North American Unconventionals

Raoul LeBlanc is Vice President for North American Upstream.  He has been with S&P Global for 10 years and focuses on evaluating the dynamic onshore arena. Raoul'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 IHS Markit’s well and production database insightful for commercial decision-makers. At the same time, 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, Raoul brings 30 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 1997-2006, Raoul worked at Anadarko Petroleum. During his tenure there, he directed the company's Strategic Planning effort, which assumed responsibility for strategy formulation, portfolio optimization, scenario planning, and competitor analysis. Raoul holds an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and an M.A. in Energy and International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University.

Sessions With Raoul LeBlanc

Monday, 18 March

  • 11:50am - 12:30pm (CST) / 18/mar/2024 04:50 pm - 18/mar/2024 05:30 pm

    North American Oil and Gas: Growth, profits and decarbonization

    Upstream Oil & Gas

    North America’s oil and gas revolution has consistently outperformed expectations over the past decade. It has provided massive supply growth for consumers and record profits for stakeholders— although never both at the same time. And while the industry has made progress on “easy” emissions reductions, the next tranche of decarbonization will require larger-scale action. Can the industry deliver growth, profits and lower emissions over the next 10 years? How will the sector overcome infrastructure hurdles to move the molecules from the resources to the customers? After a decade of rapid growth, is the sector moving into a new phase focused on improving efficiency and delivering more value from its operations?”  

Wednesday, 20 March

  • 10:30am - 11:15am (CST) / 20/mar/2024 03:30 pm - 20/mar/2024 04:15 pm

    S&P Global | Pooling Multi-tenant Emissions and Abatement Data to Accelerate Decarbonization

    Imagine the power of a dataset created by multiple companies sharing their equipment-level emissions data and the abatement actions they are deploying across their portfolio. This Lyceum session will discuss the Accelerate platform that S&P Global is building to create this pool of anonymized, standardized data to help companies reduce abatement costs and meet emissions goals.

  • 11:30am - 12:00pm (CST) / 20/mar/2024 04:30 pm - 20/mar/2024 05:00 pm

    Decarbonizing Upstream Oil & Gas: Winning strategies for real results

    The upstream oil & gas journey to lower the carbon intensity of operations is seeing tangible results. That journey will become more complex as low-hanging fruit disappears and operators tackle the integrated challenge of balancing rapid learning and maturing new technologies to further decarbonize operations. What abatement initiatives are showing the greatest—and the least—promise? Do companies have the information to make actionable decisions based on marginal abatement cost curves (MACC)? What are the critical technologies that can deliver accelerated progress? How do companies prioritize and make trade-offs among very different options? What internal and external factors will make the biggest impact on success by 2030? 

  • 04:50pm - 05:20pm (CST) / 20/mar/2024 09:50 pm - 20/mar/2024 10:20 pm

    Expert Zone | S&P Global Expert Presentation: Global Upstream

    S&P Global experts present their latest research and discuss topics on energy transition, energy security and trends shaping the global economic and energy landscape.