Graham Ellis started as a petroleum engineer before pivoting to markets, bringing fourteen years of field-to-finance experience to energy coverage. His beat spans upstream break-evens, midstream throughput, downstream cracks, and the rising capex cycle in grids and renewables. Trade Engine readers get grounded analysis that ties commodity curves and policy to earnings power and balance sheets, including how hedges and leverage shape cash returns. Graham’s work has been cited in energy trade outlets and he has moderated webinars on transition timelines, permitting, and grid reliability. He favors models that connect rig counts and interconnect queues to forward EBITDA, avoiding buzzwords in favor of throughput and cash. On weekends he hikes right-of-way trails and sketches out simple frameworks for reading reserve notes.