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

Susan Farrell

IHS Markit

Vice President, Energy-Wide Perspectives

Susan Farrell is a Vice President in the IHS Markit Energy-Wide Perspectives team, with particular expertise in strategy and planning. She started the executive briefing service Strategic Horizons, which provides summaries of key analysis covering oil markets, economics, geopolitics, upstream, global gas, downstream, and renewables. Ms. Farrell co-heads the IHS Markit Long-Term Scenarios, which outlines different trajectories for demand and supply of oil, gas, coal, renewables, nuclear, and other energy sources, and the Climate and Carbon service, which assesses the impacts of climate policies and competitive changes. She presents the IHS Markit outlook for industry drivers, markets, and company strategies to executive teams and Boards of Directors. Ms. Farrell joined IHS Markit in 2013 when the firm acquired PFC Energy. Bringing over 20 years of industry experience in the assessment and implementation of strategic planning for international markets, she founded PFC Energy’s Houston office in 2000. Prior to joining PFC Energy, Ms. Farrell led the global strategy groups of two major oilfield service companies, Brown and Root (now KBR) and McDermott International. She lived and worked in Europe for over 10 years and traveled extensively in Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Ms. Farrell holds a BA from Brown University and an MBA from Boston University.

Sessions With Susan Farrell

Monday, 9 March

  • 07:30pm - 09:00pm (CST) / -

    Investment Strategies for a Lower Carbon World
    Climate & Sustainability

    Energy companies are making very different decisions around future investments and business models that will contribute to a lower-carbon world while delivering shareholder value. How are different sectors in the energy economy responding? Are investment strategies changing and how fast? What technologies and operational changes will contribute to decarbonization? Is diversification an option or a necessity? 

Tuesday, 10 March

  • 04:30pm - 05:20pm (CST) / -

    Carbon-neutral Cities of the Future
    Climate & Sustainability Geopolitics/Policy/Regulatory

    Cities have been directly impacted by climate change and air pollution.  This has pushed them to move toward adopting a carbon-neutral environment. What policies and market-based mechanisms need to be put in place? What are the possible timelines? What actions are already underway? What role will companies play in this transition?

Wednesday, 11 March

Friday, 13 March