John Harpole

John Harpole is founder and president of Mercator Energy LLC, a natural gas services, brokerage and energy market analysis company.  Mercator assists both producers and end users throughout the United States in selling and sourcing approximately 1 BCF per day of natural gas supplies.  Mercator also conducts specific research projects for client groups exploring the impact of industry trends on various regional markets.  Mercator’s analysis on “Poverty and Fracking” was  featured in a Wall Street Journal editorial and on Fox News.

During his career, Harpole has provided strategic advice and counseling to independent oil and gas producers, power producers, major electric and gas utilities, hedge funds and energy traders, retail and wholesale energy marketers, equipment vendors and large energy users typically at the CEO level.  He has also played a key role in developing innovative new business structures and in helping to transform energy and environmental policy at the state and federal levels.

Harpole is an Advisory Board Member of the Western Energy Alliance (formerly IPAMS), a Board Member of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, the Leadership Program of the Rockies, University of Colorado’s Global Energy Management Program (GEM) and Energy Outreach Colorado.  He is also the moderator for the annual Wyoming Oil and Gas Fair.

Harpole has travelled to China twice in the last few years to instruct employees of PetroChina on the regulatory and marketing history of natural gas in the United States.