Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Fellow Trisha Curtis, President and CEO, PetroNerds LLC, presenting a hybrid seminar titled Geopolitics of Oil and Gas on Tuesday, February 28, 2023 from noon-1pm MT in the Ben H. Parker Student Center, Ballroom D&E.  Free lunch provided.

Trisha Curtis is the President and CEO of PetroNerds, LLC. She founded the company and began running it out of Denver in 2016. She was formerly the Director of Research, Upstream and Midstream, at the Energy Policy Research Foundation, Inc. (EPRINC) in Washington, DC. Since 2010, she has led extensive research efforts and major consulting projects and authored several reports on the North American upstream and midstream markets for government agencies, global think tanks, and corporations.

She was also the Manager for Strategy and Analytics at Anschutz Exploration in Denver, Colorado from 2019 to 2020.

At PetroNerds, Ms. Curtis leads research and consulting services. She is a macroeconomist with an expertise in US shale markets. She is globally recognized for her knowledge of US shale and has been asked to speak and present at several forums including OPEC in Vienna, Austria, in Bahrain, and in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Stanford University, Chatham House, Oxford University, Denver University, and Colorado School of Mines. She is also the host of the PetroNerds Podcast.

Trisha evaluates US and North American upstream markets on a wells-up basis with critical analysis of individual operators, assets, reservoirs, and plays. She provides clients with in-depth analysis of the US shale industry and the global oil market and synthesizes this into relevant, actionable, and forecastable information integral to her clients and their respective businesses.

Ms. Curtis has traveled to the Middle East and participated as a keynote speaker at an SPE Unconventional Workshop in addition to an investor panel with the Oil Minister of Bahrain.

In November 2017 Ms. Curtis released her report “Completion Design Changes and the Impact on US Shale Well Productivity.” In November 2016 Ms. Curtis released a report with Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES) on US well productivity gains over the course of the downturn. This followed an extensive report she completed in November 2015 on the state of U.S. shale oil in a low oil price environment.

She spearheaded EPRINC’s projects with Department of Energy for the Quadrennial Energy Review, evaluating future North American crude oil production volumes and midstream transportation options through 2030. She worked extensively with US and Canadian railroads in their efforts to begin moving Bakken crude, by rail, to the East Coast.

Her work for Department of Defense has focused extensively on China, international economics, and US Shale.

Ms. Curtis is a Research Associate at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES), a recognized independent center of Oxford University, and a Distinguished Fellow at the Energy Policy Research Foundation, Inc. (EPRINC). She is also a Fellow at Colorado School of Mine’s Payne Institute.

Ms. Curtis completed her undergraduate work at Regis University in Denver, Colorado where she double majored in Economics and Politics, minored in Criminology, and graduated Summa Cum Laude. She has a Master of Science (MSc) degree from the London School of Economics in International Political Economy and wrote her MSc Dissertation on Chinese National Oil Companies. As an undergraduate, she also worked as a staff assistant in UK Parliament for John Grogan, Selby Constituency. Raised in northwest Colorado and southwest Wyoming, she grew up around pump jacks and has worked on oil and gas sites in Colorado and Wyoming with her father.