• CERAWeek
  • March 18 - 22, 2024

Kurt Barrow

S&P Global

Vice President, Oil Markets, Midstream & Downstream Insights

Responsible for research and forecasts of crude oil, NGLs, refined products, petrochemical feedstocks and emerging lower-carbon fuels.  He also has responsible for joint mobility research with S&P Mobility.  Kurt oversees a global team of experts providing data and analysis on market fundamentals, energy policy, and industry trends.  Kurt writes on a range of topics and supports executive and corporate boards with views on downstream markets, strategy and navigating the energy transition.

Sessions With Kurt Barrow

Tuesday, 12 March

  • 03:15pm - 04:00pm (CST) / -

    Downstream: Competing through the cycles

    Panel Oil

    The downstream business of refining crude oil and marketing products to end-users has long been a valuable, if occasionally out of fashion, part of the oil company portfolio. Today, the downstream business is attractive to a range of different types of owners. These companies seek out downstream profits from processing new low-cost crude oils, capturing product growth in emerging markets, and integrating further into petrochemical. Still, there is the ever-present concern that increasingly stringent policies aimed at decarbonization and local air quality will affect the downstream pillar of the oil business.