Casey Merriman Email & Phone Number

Tempe, Arizona, United States

Thought leader directing Energy Intelligence's coverage across the Americas to push nimble, informed and differentiated analysis of key issues facing the energy industry. Coverage sits at the intersection of policy, markets and corporate strategy. Orchestrate and manage coverage priorities across multiple bureaus and time zones, directing top stories, guiding reporters and editors on crucial narratives, assisting on resourcing, pushing data analytics and ensuring delivery on deadline. | Key Achievements |➡️ Help envision, develop and manage the successful launch of Energy Intelligence News, a new digital-facing vertical streamlining three legacy publications. The new product platform, alongside integrated SEO best practices and user analytics, has driven significant uptick in reader “stickiness” and engagement. ➡️ Timely and continuous use of user analytics and client engagement to determine editorial priorities in the rapidly evolving sphere of energy on policy, market and corporate strategy fronts. ➡️ Successfully working with reporters to reimagine beats and develop new areas of expertise to meet the new demands governed by the energy transition. Report to: Editor-in-ChiefDirect reports include: Washington, DC bureau chief, Houston bureau chief

Tempe, Arizona, United States

Oversee Energy Intelligence's Competitive Intelligence Service — a news, analysis and research vertical showcasing differentiated insights into global energy corporate strategies at the company, peer group and industry level. Emphasis on both conventional and low-carbon strategies, as well as wider trends around M&A, ESG, capital spending, policy drivers and project development. | Key Achievements |➡️ Successfully led the development and delivery of the new vertical as part of Energy Intelligence’s wider digital-age pivot. Project management included leading market analysis to inform product development and managing teams across IT, data, editorial, research, marketing and sales to develop the offering and ensure its launch on defined timelines. ➡️ Successfully managed the relaunch of Energy Intelligence Finance, repositioning the publication as a more rigorous offering featuring house views, exclusive interviews and data-supported analysis. Trained editors and reporters to deliver toward these higher objectives. ➡️ Established subject matter expert in the field of energy corporate strategy and how it intersects with markets and policy. Extensive experience leading and collaborating on client-facing briefings, serving as an expert on webcasts and podcasts and moderating at conferences. Report to: Editor-in-Chief

Tempe, Arizona, United States

Oversee Energy Intelligence’s Production Services department, comprised of copyediting and production artist teams. | Key Achievements |➡️ Support substantial uptick in development and use of integrated graphics in editorial content following new website launch, in support of digital-age pivot. ➡️ Rigorous quality control implemented across Energy Intelligence’s suite of offerings, including the application of AP and house styles. Serve as top reporting line for the department.

Tempe, Arizona, United States

Editor of Energy Intelligence Premium Weekly, a single-page memo designed to cut through the overabundance of data and headlines to provide quick-hit, differentiated house views on crucial topics in energy markets, policy and geopolitics, and corporate strategy. The memo is a culmination of Energy Intelligence's global editorial and Research & Advisory work, and editorship required significant breadth of knowledge about the global energy industry and familiarity with the suite of Energy Intelligence content.| Key Achievements |➡️ Successfully executed weekly memo development, pivoting across a wide variety of topics on short notice to ensure timely house views and key new research were distilled and communicated effectively to c-suite and other time-sensitive clients. ➡️ Led collaborative engagement across numerous editorial and research experts on a given topic to hash out house views, develop compelling narratives and accurately compress significant reporting and analytical work into a sharp, bulleted narrative. ➡️ Successfully organized, planned and moderated monthly webcasts with clients on recent memo topic to take engagement beyond the written page and into greater depth. ➡️ Effectively coached global sales staff in weekly meetings on the latest memo’s main talking points, target audience and differentiated offerings. Reported to: Editor-in-Chief

Tempe, Arizona, United States

Precursor position to current Editorial Director, W. Hemisphere role, with similar day-to-day responsibilities but under greater oversight and mentorship of Editorial Director (now Editor-in-Chief). Thought leader guiding Energy Intelligence's Washington, NY and Houston bureaus to push nimble, informed and differentiated coverage of key issues facing the energy industry. Coverage sits at the intersection of policy, markets and corporate strategy. Helped orchestrate and manage coverage priorities across multiple time zones, directing top stories, guiding reporters and editors on crucial narratives, assisting on resourcing and ensuring delivery on deadline. | Key Achievements |➡️ Successfully implemented greater push toward enterprise reporting and value-add coverage to differentiate offerings from mainstream competitors. ➡️ Pivoted coverage in a rapidly evolving energy landscape as energy transition/sustainability pressures, massive growth in US oil and gas production, and pandemic lockdowns recalibrated the industry’s need-to-know topics and risk management requirements. Reported to: Editorial Director

Tempe, Arizona, United States

Editor of Energy Intelligence's flagship publication, Petroleum Intelligence Weekly — considered the gold standard for energy analysis since 1961. Publication serves as a high-level executive briefing distilling need-to-know topics from across the global oil and gas industry, including markets, policy, corporate strategy and risk management. | Key Achievements |➡️ Successfully led a revitalization of PIW back to its long-heralded editorial standards, making it a must-have information service. ➡️ Strong editorship required the development of extensive knowledge across numerous market, policy and corporate topics across regions, guiding contributors on critical story lines and investigating key — and often overlooked — questions. ➡️ Frequent author of and contributor to “page 1” stories, with a particular emphasis on how to draw together insights across beats and market, policy and corporate fronts to distill differentiated insights. Reported to: Editorial Director

Houston, Texas Area

Coordinated coverage across London- and Houston-based corporate teams and served as senior corporate reporter across Energy Intelligence’s suite of editorial offerings. | Key Achievements | ➡️ Successfully deployed corporate team resources to ensure most pressing topics and story lines were pursued. ➡️ Extended leadership beyond single-publication editorship (Energy Intelligence Finance). Reported to: Houston bureau chief

Houston, Texas Area

Reporter covering high-level trends in the integrated (upstream, midstream, downstream) and E&P oil and gas sectors for various Energy Intelligence editorial offerings. Beats included corporate strategy, earnings, cost and spending trends, balance sheet issues, M&A, the intersection of oil and gas markets and policies with corporate strategy, project execution, shareholder demands, and evolution in risk management.| Key Achievements |➡️ Initiated and built out Energy Intelligence’s US shale/tight oil coverage, becoming an in-house expert on the disruptive force US production became domestically and in global markets. ➡️ Tracked and analyzed massive shifts in the energy corporate landscape (including de-integration, retreat from international markets, shift to short-cycle resources). ➡️ Developed significant expertise in upstream M&A trends, with an emphasis on strategic rationales and future trends to watch. Heavy use of M&A data to inform narratives. Reported to: Houston bureau chief

Houston, Texas Area

Editor of and contributor to Energy Intelligence Finance, a weekly analytical offering devoted to the financial side of the oil and gas business, including corporate strategy, M&A, capital spending and investment trends, equity and debt offerings, and earnings performances. Publication offered a mix of editorial and in-depth briefing coverage alongside standard features flagging key corporate developments in the global energy industry.| Key Achievements |➡️ Successful revamp of publication from second-tier offering to Energy Intelligence’s leading corporate-focused product line. ➡️ Developed strong editing skills that required rapid familiarity with global industry, honing skills beyond main reporting beat. Reported to: Houston bureau chief

Houston, Texas, United States

Assessed prices and wrote market commentary on US NGL/LPG and clean products markets. Worked to collect, track and analyze data against daily deadlines, developing narratives and explaining significance. | Key Achievements |➡️ Rapidly built understanding of new-to-me markets, learning the intricacies of physical trade, commodity market dynamics and daily market analysis.➡️ Developed own set of spreadsheets to better track market trends to inform questions to sources and identify shifts in need of investigation. ➡️ Early identifier of soon-to-be disruptive impact US shale gas would have on the country’s petrochemical sector due to a sudden influx of cheap feedstock supplies. ➡️ Built networks with traders, brokers and other industry players without prior contacts.

Houston, Texas, United States

Took initiative to land summer internship at Rice University’s renowned Baker Institute and turned that into an extended opportunity that paved the way to my post-graduation employment in energy journalism and analysis. Supported fellows’ research, wrote briefings, edited content and assisted in external-facing outreach, including drafting an article that appeared in Esquire. | Key Achievements |➡️ Assistance on briefings and conference support helped identify unintended environmental consequences of the US’ corn ethanol-facing biofuels policy before such narratives were better understood, informing my course work on energy and environmental policy. ➡️ Demonstrated strong analytical skills and intellectual curiosity that afforded me the opportunity to extend internship well beyond initial scope. ➡️ Gained rapid exposure to wide variety of global and domestic energy topics.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Political Science

cum laude | study emphasis on domestic policy, including energy, environmental and climate policy and data-driven policy analysis | course.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Political Science

Honors program | class rank 10 out of 844 at time of transfer to Rice (transferred to focus studies on public policy and tap into Baker.