2027 BOLT Intern - Natural Gas Marketing
About The Position
This is an 11-week summer internship on an active natural gas trading desk, reporting to the Director of Trading/Marketing. The intern will gain hands-on exposure to wholesale natural gas markets while supporting daily trading and scheduling operations and developing analytical tools to help evaluate market conditions and commercial opportunities. Working alongside experienced traders and schedulers, the intern will learn how natural gas is priced, transported, scheduled, and traded. The role includes contributing to daily desk operations and taking ownership of analytical projects addressing real business needs. The internship concludes with a presentation of project findings and recommendations to executives.
Requirements
- Pursuing a bachelor’s degree or MBA with an expected graduation date between December 2027 and May 2029.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
- Strong quantitative, analytical, and modeling skills, including the ability to build tools for data analysis.
- Self-motivated and energetic, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain analytical findings and recommendations.
- Ability to work under pressure, manage competing priorities, and consistently meet deadlines.
- Willingness to travel overnight occasionally, as business needs require.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with advanced Excel functions, quantitative analysis, financial modeling, or dashboard development.
- Interest in energy markets, commodities, finance, economics, engineering, or data analytics.
- Familiarity with data analysis or automation tools such as Power Query, VBA, SQL, or Python.
Responsibilities
- Learn natural gas market fundamentals, including transportation, storage, park and loan services, and pricing mechanisms.
- Learn the trading desk’s operations, portfolio, and commercial objectives; shadow traders and schedulers to understand daily workflows and information flow.
- Train on industry platforms and data sources, including ICE, PointLogic, Velocity Suite, and pipeline electronic bulletin boards.
- Research supply and demand fundamentals, identify market trends and pricing patterns, and contribute to daily morning market updates.
- Learn the nomination, confirmation, and scheduling process, including deadlines, transportation capacity constraints, and applicable rules.
- Work with schedulers to understand gas flows, transportation contracts, and coordination with counterparties.
- Support nomination entry, confirm scheduled quantities with counterparties, and help reconcile scheduled volumes against actual flows.
- Analyze how scheduling decisions, pipeline constraints, and operational changes affect daily positions and commercial opportunities.
- Analyze natural gas price drivers, including supply and demand, weather, geopolitical developments, and regulatory changes.
- Learn common trade structures and how traders evaluate commercial opportunities and trading strategies.
- Use market data, reports, and analytical tools to assess market conditions and support trading decisions.
- Develop an understanding of risk management, including hedging strategies, position management, and portfolio exposure.
- Work with traders to connect market fundamentals, scheduling activity, and commercial decisions.
- Own analytical projects that support commercial and operational objectives, potentially including storage and transportation valuation, Excel models and dashboards, regional flow and forecasting models, or pipeline and infrastructure analysis.
- Analyze data, identify insights, and develop practical recommendations for the team.
- Present project findings and recommendations to executives at the end of the summer.
- Travel overnight occasionally as business needs require.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
