As a cash trader on Expand Energy’s Marketing & Commercial team, Pamela Fyfe helps market and sell the company’s natural gas, while monitoring the market conditions that can affect supply, demand and pricing. Her work requires quick decision making, collaboration across teams and a close eye on market trends.
How do you describe what the Marketing & Commercial team does?
Our role is to effectively market and sell natural gas produced by Expand Energy. We work to identify market opportunities, manage price exposure and help maximize the value of our production.
Can you walk us through a typical day for you?
Our team starts early each morning before the markets open. We review information that could influence supply and demand, including weather forecasts, maintenance activity and storage levels.
Once trading begins, we actively monitor market conditions across multiple regions and pipelines to help sell our gas at the best possible value. We also work closely with the scheduling team to ensure we are optimizing value while making sure our gas is delivered safely and reliably.
No two days are the same, since market conditions can change quickly based on weather patterns, pipeline constraints and other factors.
What’s something your team has worked on lately that most people at Expand Energy wouldn’t notice, but actually makes a real difference?
Our team is developing new risk analysis tools to better understand how changing market conditions could affect our business. These tools help us evaluate different scenarios involving weather, demand and price changes so we can better understand potential risks and opportunities in premium markets.
Having better information allows us to make more informed decisions and helps position the company to respond to changing market conditions.
What’s one thing on your professional bucket list — a skill to learn, a project to tackle or a milestone to hit?
I would love to help lead Expand Energy in entering a new market, whether that’s supporting a new data center, power plant or LNG facility. Being involved in pricing and helping navigate a new opportunity from beginning to end would be an exciting professional milestone.
What do you like to do outside of work?
I enjoy spending time with my family. My husband and our two children, ages 4 and 2, keep me busy. We spend time outdoors together, whether we’re playing soccer, hiking or skiing.
