Senior Natural Gas Trader
Gulfport•Oklahoma City, OK
•Onsite
About The Position
The Senior Natural Gas Trader is responsible for developing and executing natural gas marketing, optimization, transportation, and hedging strategies that maximize the value of the Company's production and midstream assets. This position evaluates market fundamentals, transportation opportunities, and commercial transactions to optimize revenue generation while managing market and operational risk. The Senior Natural Gas Trader serves as a key commercial representative of the Company, building and maintaining strategic relationships with customers, counterparties, pipelines, and other industry participants.
Requirements
- Advanced understanding of North American natural gas markets, pricing mechanisms, basis differentials, and pipeline operations.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to interpret market data and financial impacts.
- Ability to evaluate complex commercial agreements and identify value-enhancing opportunities.
- Knowledge of midstream asset operations and wellhead through delivery point pathing
- Appalachia and Scoop gas sales and pipeline network comprehension
- Expertise in macro supply/demand and basin fundamentals
- Ability to recognize optimization opportunities and capitalize to generate additional revenue
- Strong negotiation skills
- Contract comprehension including industry standard terms within NAESB, transaction confirms and firm transport agreements
- Minimum of 5+ years related work experience
- Bachelor’s degree from accredited university
- Strong skills in Microsoft Teams and Office products with emphasis in Excel and PowerPoint
- Knowledge and previous experience with ETRM software
Responsibilities
- Develops and executes marketing, transportation, and optimization strategies to maximize netback value of company production.
- Markets the company's natural gas through optimization, term and spot sales
- Collaborates with operations to ensure flow from wellhead to markets
- Performs fundamental analysis and market surveillance to determine the need for pipeline capacity and submits proposals to senior management for approval
- Corresponds with pipelines and industry contacts as a company representative to gather necessary information
- Negotiates terms of sales/purchases and transportation with counterparties
- Evaluates and recommends natural gas basis hedging opportunities to support corporate objectives and risk management strategies.
- Interacts with internal and external clients and other key business partners
- Develops, cultivates, and manages relationships with end-users and other key markets
- Supports budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning through market analysis and pricing assumptions.
- Provides market intelligence, pricing trends, and strategic recommendations to management to support commercial decision-making.
- Performs other duties as assigned
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
