Fostering understanding of energy since 1983

The Energy Forum, Inc. is dedicated to fostering public understanding of energy issues including the energy market and industry and of the many challenges facing them in a rapidly changing world. Its regular public lectures and discussions on a variety of relevant topics provide a collegial platform where industry and academic experts, business leaders, policymakers, students, journalists and others can exchange information and ideas about energy issues and interact with one another in a non-partisan environment.

This year promises to be another nearly impossible one to forecast. We not only have the usual uncertainties about shifts in demand and supply cycles, but we also have to deal with the entire trend and regime shifts. Think for instance about Russia’s aggression and EU embargoes forcing wholesale change to global energy trade flows, or a less responsive US supply side, or a suddenly accelerating (or is it decelerating) energy transition. And there are profound questions to answer. How much less oil will be traded against Brent and WTI benchmarks and will that sustain historic volatility? Will there be peace in eastern Europe again, and is that bullish or bearish?