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

Helen Currie

ConocoPhillips

Chief Economist

Helen Currie is chief economist for ConocoPhillips. Currie has over 20 years experience in the energy industry with ConocoPhillips and BG Group. Prior to her current role, she held leadership positions in corporate strategy, business development, upstream and downstream business analysis, commercial risk management and IT risk systems. Prior to entering the energy sector, Currie held roles in academia as a  finance professor and in government as an economic analyst. She has published work in finance and management journals and energy industry research. Currie is a noted industry expert and frequent speaker at industry venues. She was named as one of Oil & Gas Investor’s Top 25 Influential Women in Energy in 2018. She is president of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics and a member of the Mississippi State University Foundation board of directors where she chairs the Investment Committee.  Currie holds a PhD in Finance from Mississippi State University, a Master’s in Economics from University of 
Washington and a Bachelor’s in Economics from Millsaps College.

Sessions With Helen Currie

Tuesday, 19 March

  • 11:50am - 12:40pm (CST) / 19/mar/2024 04:50 pm - 19/mar/2024 05:40 pm

    Oil Markets in 2024-2025: Abundance or scarcity?
    Markets Fundamentals

    Oil markets are entering a new “normal” phase. Demand growth is cooling from the post-Covid surge and will be shaped by global economic growth, inflation, interest rates, China and a gradual but profound structural shift in the transportation fleet. While demand growth is cooling, non-OPEC supply growth is rising sharply, leading OPEC+ to reduce output to rebalance the market. At the same time, the war in Ukraine and outbreak of conflict in the Middle East has injected significant geopolitical risk into the market. How will these new oil fundamentals develop over the next two years?