• TPM25 | March 2-5, 2025
  • TPM25
  • March 2-5, 2025 | Long Beach Convention Center

Ted O’Brien

Xcoal Energy & Resources

Capital Markets & Marketing

Ted O’Brien, Capital Markets and Marketing, Xcoal, evaluates global investment opportunities in mines and infrastructure, and supports Xcoal’s core business of marketing coking coal and thermal coal to customers around the world. Prior to joining Xcoal in 2017, Mr. O’Brien spent 10 years at Doyle Trading Consultants, most recently as Chief Executive Officer, where he led the boutique coal consulting and analytics shop. He sits on the Board of Goehring & Rozencwajg Associates, a specialized investment management firm focused on the natural resource sector. Mr. O’Brien holds a degree from The Pennsylvania State University.

Sessions With Ted O’Brien

Thursday, 14 March

  • 11:30am - 12:30pm (PST) / -

    Coal's Capital Challenges: Cost, availability & investment horizons

    Panel Power Finance/Trading/Risk Management

    Major international lenders have, for social and strategic reasons, withdrawn as lenders to the coal industry. Capital is scarce and expensive. Hedge funds and trading companies provide an alternative, but their ambitions generally are short term. Coal is still fundamental to global energy and steel production, but financing new projects is difficult. How does the world obtain the coal it requires?

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