• CERAWeek
  • March 18 - 22, 2024

Bhushan Bahree

S&P Global

Executive Director, Global Oil

Bhushan Bahree, Executive Director, Global Oil, at S&P Global, is a widely respected authority on global oil markets, focusing on OPEC and the Middle East. For more than 35 years, he has analyzed decision-making and developments in the oil-exporting world, identifying and explaining Middle East and global oil and energy trends. Educated in India, Mr. Bahree achieved worldwide recognition during his 15 years as The Wall Street Journal international energy correspondent. He also reported on such key global economic matters as monetary policy, trade negotiations, and the founding of the World Trade Organization during postings in Paris, Geneva, London, and New York. As Deputy Managing Editor for AP-Dow Jones newswires, Mr. Bahree directed energy coverage before becoming the Journal’s chief international energy correspondent, a position he held until 2007.

Sessions With Bhushan Bahree

Tuesday, 12 March

  • 07:30am - 08:40am (CST) / -

    Realigning the Global Oil Order

    Panel Oil

    Russia and Saudi Arabia, two of the world’s three largest oil producers, formed an unprecedented alliance (the Vienna Alliance) in 2016 that allowed them to lead OPEC and non-OPEC producers to jointly agree to coordinated supply. The cooperation has continued, with the Alliance agreeing in December to cut supply again. What brought these two oil superpowers together after decades of failed attempts at joint supply management? What might sustain this alliance, and what could eventually pull it apart?