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Gaurav Sharma

Senior Contributor

Gaurav Sharma is a London-based energy market analyst and commentator with nearly two decades’ experience covering global markets. A former Vice President and Lead Analyst at Citi, he writes the Oilholics Synonymous blog and specialises in energy futures and oil and gas markets. He is a regular commentator across major international media analysing energy developments across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.

Oil and gas M&A activity appears buoyant in 2024 as crude prices dip

In his exclusive monthly column, Gaurav Sharma explores the surge in mergers and acquisitions in the oil and gas industry during 2023, fuelled by profits from soaring energy prices following the Ukraine invasion, and how this trend has persisted into 2024.

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Thought Leadership

US is now a global energy superpower giving the market a makeover

In his latest monthly column for Energy Connects, Gaurav Sharma dives deep into how the remarkable transformation of the US from being a net importer to the world’s leading energy producer is ushering in profound market shifts

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Thought Leadership

Green hydrogen's fate in a net zero economy hinges on upscaling

In his exclusive monthly column for Energy Connects, Gaurav Sharma catches up with the use case reality of hydrogen and explores what it would take to deploy green hydrogen as a heat source at scale. He writes that green hydrogen accounts for less than 1% of total global hydrogen production. This must change for it to play a key role in a future net zero economy.

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Thought Leadership

There won’t be a global energy transition without robust battery storage

In his exclusive monthly column for Energy Connects, Gaurav Sharma writes that building and upscaling battery storage is mission critical for expanding the world’s renewable energy footprint

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Transitioning oil market lays bare forecasters’ divergent assumptions

In an exclusive new monthly column for Energy Connects, Senior Contributor Gaurav Sharma writes that oil demand forecasting in the energy transition age is perhaps like an abstract art form. There might even be an equally persuasive case that it is, and always was, an inexact science. The ‘scientists’ would have you believe there are established rules and proven methods deployed in arriving at a particular conclusion on oil demand. For the ‘artists’, demand forecasting may involve some indeterminate creativity and the odd guestimate.

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