US Natural Gas Analyst

Job Summary

The US Natural Gas Analyst plays a critical role in strengthening ConocoPhillips' commercial decision-making by delivering high-quality market analytics and modern, scalable modeling capabilities. This position supports a large and complex U.S. natural gas portfolio, providing insights that directly inform trading, portfolio optimization, and strategic planning.

Position Overview

• Building, maintaining, and enhancing U.S. natural gas supply-and-demand models covering production, pipeline flows, storage, liquefied natural gas (LNG) feed gas, and regional pricing dynamics.
• Producing short-, medium-, and long-term market balance forecasts that identify risks, dislocations, and opportunity drivers across Henry Hub and regional hubs.
• Developing analytical tools and workflows using Python to replace and modernize legacy spreadsheet-based models.
• Engineering and managing large datasets by integrating data from public and proprietary sources such as the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), pipeline data, pricing feeds, and weather data.
• Building automated data pipelines and application programming interface (API) connections to support timely, repeatable analysis.
• Partnering directly with natural gas traders to translate market fundamentals into scenario analysis, decision tools, and tradable insights.
• Supporting near-term and intraday decision-making through dashboards, indicators, and event-response analysis.
• Assessing the impact of weather, infrastructure constraints, LNG flows, and supply-demand shifts on price formation.
• Collaborating with teams across power, LNG, risk management, technology, and operations to ensure analytical outputs align with commercial workflows and systems.
• Communicating insights clearly through written commentary, visualizations, and presentations for traders and senior leaders.

Success Profile

• Communicates Effectively - Invites dialogue to gain a shared understanding and influences with confidence to drive performance and achieve business results.
• PARTNERS Collaboratively - Builds strong relationships based on trust and seeks opportunities to collaborate across the matrix/organizational boundaries to achieve business goals.
• Demonstrates Financial/Quantitative Acumen - Understands how key financial and quantitative indicators impact the business.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Engineering, other related field, or foreign equivalent.
• 3 or more years of experience with energy trading, market analysis, or related fields.
• Experience with Python programming for data analysis, modeling, and automation.
• Experience building or maintaining supply-and-demand models for natural gas or closely related commodities such as LNG, power, or crude oil.

Preferred Requirements

• Legally authorized to work in the United States.
• Experience working with large, complex datasets and integrating multiple data sources.
• Experience supporting trading, market analytics, or commercial teams in energy markets.
• Solid understanding of U.S. natural gas fundamentals, including production, transportation, storage, weather impacts, and basis dynamics.
• Familiarity with data visualization, time-series analysis, and market data platforms.
• Ability to communicate analytical findings clearly to commercial and non-technical stakeholders.
• A collaborative mindset and interest in supporting front-office decision-making.
• Demonstrated ability to balance analytical rigor with practical decision support.
• Comfort working in a build-phase environment where analytical tools and workflows are evolving.