Senior LNG Analyst, Northeast Asia

, Singapore

Job Family Group:

Trading Jobs

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

September 29, 2025

Business Unit:

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

Shell Energy Integration & Fundamentals (SEIF) Global Gas Fundamentals team is hiring a Senior LNG Analyst, Northeast Asia to join its global team of market analysts in the Singapore office. SEIF Global Gas Fundamentals Team Mission is: To drive Shell shareholder value through the delivery of world-class decision support.

Shareholder Value is the financial and strategic returns that Shell delivers to its investors through:

1. Maximizing profitability in short-term LNG trading
2. Structuring and originating advantaged an LNG portfolio for the mid- and long-term
3. Enhancing Shell’s global leadership in gas and LNG through strategic positioning and external thought leadership.
4. Forecasting: Monthly, mid-, and long-term projections of gas and LNG demand and supply.
5. Scenario Development: Simulating market conditions by providing a range of plausible and probabilistic outcomes.
6. Data Infrastructure: Building scalable platforms for data collection, warehousing, and analysis.
7. Insight Generation: Delivering value-driven market trends and directional market calls.
8. Stakeholder Engagement: Supporting the analytical needs of SLMT and SET traders, originators, optimizers, and strategic functions across Shell.

Decision Support Is Seif Delivering:

Being World Class is SEIF outperforming competitors and external vendors by delivering:

1. Speed: Rapid insights and real-time analytics ahead of market movements.
2. Accuracy: High-fidelity models best reflecting market behavior and outturns.
3. Scope: Global coverage with deep regional expertise.
4. 4. Innovation: Leveraging machine learning, satellite data, and predictive analytics to create digital products that monetize market calls.

The position of Senior LNG Analyst, Northeast Asia (Singapore) will report to the Team Leader, Regional Analytics (London). The primary focus of the position is to lead analytical coverage of Northeast Asian gas and LNG markets—China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan—with a strong emphasis on China. The role will also actively interact with the Team Lead, Short Term Analytics (Dubai) and Team Lead, Mid/Long Term Analytics (Singapore) and their team to form a global analytical narrative across multiple time horizons. This is a high-profile position within SEIF, SLMT and the wider organization because of the critical importance of understanding Northeast Asia’s gas market evolution, particularly China, for Trading & Supply and Shell’s success. The position will focus on multiple stakeholders across different forecast horizons:

• SLMT Short-Term LNG trading: The analyst will also take an active role in delivering and communicating SEIF’s global Short-Term market calls and narratives on a three-year horizon with the Singapore trading desk.
• SLMT Portfolio Optimization and Origination: The role will provide critical analytical inputs to SEIF’s global market narrative over the next two decades; as well as supporting specific market and counterpart opportunities over the same time horizon.
• Integrated Gas/Upstream and Corporate and Investor Relations: The analyst will drive the wider organization’s long-term and strategic thinking for Northeast Asia, which includes supporting the annual Shell LNG Outlook publication externally.

Key Responsibilities:

• Forecast monthly LNG imports for each country using sector-level demand modeling - power generation, industrial use, buildings (heating/cooling), and transport. Additional modelling for domestic production and pipeline imports will also be needed for China.
• Aggregate contractual terms to forecast spot and/or open LNG demand.
• Monitor market signals (news, government data, pricing, shipping flows, vendor forecasts) and adjust analysis accordingly.
• Build and refine models in Excel and DSML platforms (e.g., DataIKU) for short-, mid- and long-term forecasting (0–20 year horizon). Develop visualization screens and dashboards to best communicate model outputs and takeaways.
• Deliver country-, region- and global-level insights and market calls to traders, originators, and strategic teams during in-person meetings and wider video calls.
• Benchmark forecasts against vendors and understanding core differences in forecast beliefs. Back test models and forecasts and adjustment as needed to improve accuracy and insights.
• Consistently improve forecasting approaches including the development of alternate outcomes with associated probabilities.
• Initiate, communicate, manage and deliver predictive analytics and digital tools through SEIF’s Pod Structure: teams of analysts, data scientists/engineers and IDT developers.
• Interface with SLMT and SET trading desks, as well as strategic Shell functions to collect market insights and intelligence from counter parties to calibrate and models, forecasts and analysis.
• Deliver ad hoc analysis as requested by key stakeholders.
• A special relationship and collaboration with Shell’s Asia Power Analytics team is needed to streamline existing modeling in markets where SET is operating (Japan) as well as developing new power models.

To succeed in this role and within SEIF Global Gas Fundamentals’ performance culture, the Senior LNG Analyst, Northeast Asia will need to express and continue improving on these Core Competencies (6 Cs):

• Curiosity: Go beyond surface-level answers to uncover deeper insights; and proactively deepen your knowledge on markets, policy, technology and modelling techniques.
• Competitiveness: Strive to outperform industry peers and deliver high-impact analysis.
• Courage: Take risks, test new approaches, defend contrarian views, and learn from mistakes.
• Communication: Deliver clear, confident and compelling analysis using narratives and storytelling.
• Commerciality: Actively synthesize fundamental forecasts and analysis into consequences for market pricing and positioning.
• Collaboration: Work empathetically across a diverse, global team; promoting the collective view versus individual output.
• Experience in gas, power, or LNG industry.
• Proven capability in energy market fundamentals and demand modeling.
• Expertise in data visualization and energy modeling.

Skills & Experience:

• Advanced degrees in econometrics, energy economics, international economics, or energy policy.
• Strong grasp of statistical modeling and stakeholder communication.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office; experience with DS/ML platforms (e.g., DataIKU) preferred.

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