• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Robert Ineson

IHS Markit

Managing Director, Energy

Robert Ineson, Managing Director, Energy, leads the IHS North American Natural Gas and Global LNG research activities for IHS Markit. Mr. Ineson specializes in analysis of North American gas and LNG markets, natural gas pricing and transmission, and corporate strategy. His research focuses on the unconventional natural gas revolution and on the evolution of global LNG markets. Mr. Ineson is a coauthor, with IHS Markit Vice Chairman Daniel Yergin, of The Wall Street Journal op-ed piece “America’s Natural Gas Revolution.” He is a coauthor of the IHS Markit Multiclient Studies Fueling North America’s Energy Future and Rising to the Challenge: Turning North America’s Unconventional Potential into Reality—A Supply Study to 2018. His past work includes the IHS Markit Multiclient Studies Diminishing Returns: The Cost of North American Gas Supply in an Unconventional Era; New Realities, New Risks: North American Gas and Power Scenarios Through 2020; and The Alchemist’s Challenge: Turning the Southern Cone’s Natural Gas into Gold.

Before joining IHS Markit through its acquisition of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Mr. Ineson was Director of Market Forecasting at Coral Energy. He previously held analytical positions with Texas Eastern, KN Energy, and Tenneco Energy and as Principal of the gas consulting practice at Resource Data International (RDI). He is the author of RDI’s Convergence of Gas and Power and articles on gas transportation modeling, deregulation, and the North American gas market.

Mr. Ineson holds a BA from the State University of New York at Albany and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Sessions With Robert Ineson

Wednesday, 13 March

  • 07:30am - 08:35am (CST) / -

    LNG: Reaching project sanction through cost management and innovation
    Panel Gas Technology/Innovation

    Potential LNG projects are abundant, and LNG buyers have shown reluctance to enter into large, long-term firm contracts to support new projects. Only the most cost-competitive and creative projects are likely to succeed in making it all the way to FID. Controlling capital costs is paramount, and new technical approaches and business models may be required. Moreover, known lower-cost options for new LNG supply will keep strong competitive pressure on greenfield project developers to offer the most competitive prices. What will it take to get new liquefaction projects over the finish line?