Research-oriented consulting office based in Hamburg 🇩🇪, established in 2008 and run by Dr Steffen Bukold.
Services: research and policy papers (for background or for publication), consultancy services, website/newsletter services.
Working languages: German and English; plus some Dutch.🇩🇪🇬🇧🇳🇱
Focus: oil markets, fuels and transport, in the context of global decarbonisation challenges.
My three working areas so far (may see a bit dialectical, yes):
1. 1990s/2000s: transport research (maritime transport, ports, rail freight, road freight, transport infrastructure.
2. Since 2005: international oil & gas markets, oil & gas prices, CO2 and methane emissions, CCS, oil policies & politics, Big Oil strategies; establishing Hamburg-based research office EnergyComment in 2008.
3. Since 1/2025: decarbonisation of transport fuels (air, sea, road) including oil, gas/LNG, biofuels, e-fuels and electromobility
My CV:
Since 2008 head of EnergyComment, a small consultancy firm in Hamburg/Germany that I founded in 2008. Featuring interdisciplinary and international research and analysis in the fields of oil, gas and fuels.
2009-2021 editor and main author of subscription-based newsletter Global Energy Briefing.
Author of a large number of research and analysis papers focused on (fossil) oil and gas markets, Big Oil strategies, and oil/gas prices, often in the context of climate policies and the global energy transition. Main client groups have been NGOs, political parties/associations, companies.
Author of „Oil in the 21st century“ (Vol.1/2, 2008, in German).
Author of “State of the European Infrastructure” (1995, Rotterdam/Brussels)
Editor/Author of “China Energy Briefing” (2011-2013)
Editor/Author of “Global Energy Briefing (2009-2021)
Research and work stays in the Netherlands (7 years, TNO Delft, Panteia/NEA Rijswijk, ECIS Rotterdam), France (1 year, ENPC, Inrets) and Belgium (5 years, EU Commission and others) on the topics of transport, infrastructure and financial markets.
PhD thesis (Dr.rer.pol.) at TU Hamburg/Bremen University on intermodal freight transport in Europe, a comparative path analysis on the emergence of new transport systems.
Several research projects at the Technical University of Hamburg on the topics of freight transportation, regional economics, mechanical engineering and technology development.
Graduated from the University of Hamburg in 1989 with a degree in political science and a master thesis on the containerization of the Port of Hamburg.
University studies of political science, philosophy as well as public law, English and Scandinavian languages in Heidelberg and Hamburg.