Kent Moors is Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Graduate Center for Social and Public Policy at Duquesne University, where he is also Scholar in Residence at the Institute for Energy and the Environment.
An internationally recognized expert in oil and gas policy/finance and risk assessment, Dr. Moors is also president of ASIDA, Inc, a global oil and gas consulting firm, and executive managing partner of Risk Management Associates, International, LLP, an international management advisory and training service. He is the founder and editor of The Oil and Energy Investor, a three-time a week advisory, the monthly Energy Advantage and weekly Energy Advantage Portfolio Update, as well as the investment alert services The Energy Inner Circle and Energy Sigma Trader. Dr. Moors is Global Energy Strategist to Money Morning and contributing editor to the two leading post-Soviet oil and gas publications – Thomson Reuters’ Russian Petroleum Investor and Caspian Investor. Dr. Moors directs the Russian/Caspian Special Projects Initiative – an electronic network of over 900 energy specialists in Russia, Central Asia, Europe and North America designed to provide rapid response advisories on developments in the former USSR – and has ongoing agreements to provide specialized advisories to Wall Street analysts, along with investment, hedge fund, capital and asset managers worldwide.
Dr. Moors has advised seventeen world governments (U.S., Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Poland, China, Ecuador, Ghana, Iraq, Kurdistan, Mexico, Nigeria, Greece, Bahamas, Morocco and Uganda), governors of several U.S. states, premiers of two Canadian provinces and has been a consultant to private companies, financial institutions, civic movements/organizations and law firms in 28 countries. He has served as an expert witness/consultant to law firms in Chicago, Houston, London, Montreal, Moscow, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Toronto on cases involving a range of issues, including: retail pricing of oil products; crude and oil product contract, trading, representational duties/responsibilities; oil field, petrochemical, transport installation and contract liability; strategic risk assessment planning and application; technical assessment of export taxation; patent infringement; equity and debt valuation; and oil equipment/technology transfer.
He currently serves on the U.S. Department of State (DOS) task force providing oil policy advisories to developing nations worldwide and the DOS Global Shale Gas Initiative, providing advisory services on the policy implications from unconventional gas development.
In addition to conventional oil and gas, he has advised shale gas, coal bed methane, tight gas, shale oil and oil sands projects in the Marcellus, Barnett, Haynesville, Woodford, Fayetteville, Utica, Eagle Ford, Powder River, Piceance and Monterey basins in the U.S., the Athabasca, Alberta Bakken, Horn River and Montney basins in Canada, and unconventional gas/oil projects in Mexico, Poland, Australia and North Africa. Dr. Moors also has experience in developing both project structures and finance for MLP, LNG import/export and tanker holding ventures. His clients have included six of the world’s top ten oil companies as well as leading oil and natural gas producers throughout Russia, the Caspian Basin, the Persian Gulf, Africa, Europe, as well as North and South America.
Dr. Moors has appeared over 1,800 times as a featured television, radio and media commentator in North America, Europe and Russia—including ABC, BBC, Bloomberg TV, Canadian CBC, CBS, CNBC, CNN, Fox Business Network, NBC and Russian RTV.
A prolific writer and lecturer, his over 950 professional/market publications and over 350 private/public sector presentations and workshops have appeared in 44 countries. John Wiley & Sons released his The Vega Factor: Oil Volatility and the Next Global Crisis, in May 2011. He has completed his next volume – Crude Pressure: Oil, Sanctions and the Crisis with Iran.
Dr. Moors is particularly known among public and private sector policy makers for providing targeted political, market and risk assessments in crises or rapidly changing environments. Until revisions in U.S. policy, he was slated to be the deputy director of the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office (IRMO) in Baghdad.
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