Richard Swann

S&P Global

Global Director, Clean Refined Products

Richard leads S&P Global Commodity Insights’ global team of market reporters producing all of the Platts clean refined product price assessments and related market analysis and insight. Based in Houston, Richard has previously headed up the company’s oil market reporting in the Americas and been the company’s global director for oil news. Richard joined Platts in 1996 to launch the company’s European Natural Gas Report from London and is a graduate in modern languages from the University of Bristol.

Sessions With Richard Swann

Monday, 6 March

  • 02:00pm - 02:30pm (CST) / 06/mar/2023 08:00 pm - 06/mar/2023 08:30 pm

    Low-carbon Solutions versus Low-emissions Solutions

    This session will explore the role of fossil fuels in the energy mix in a net-zero world. Do fossil fuels combined with CCUS offer a pathway to move toward lower emission future? Can we bring to bear the engineering and technical skills of the oil and gas industry to reduce emissions at scale? Or do we need to decarbonize and move to renewable energy to address climate change?