Manager-Macro Research
Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co., LLC

David Pursell is the Head of Macro Research at Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. and was one of the founding partners of Pickering Energy Partners, Inc.   Mr. Pursell is responsible for macro-oil and gas strategy which includes supply, demand and pricing outlooks.

Prior to Pickering Energy, Mr. Pursell’s initial Wall Street experience was as Director of Upstream Research at Simmons & Company International. Prior to Simmons, Mr. Pursell worked in various production and reservoir engineering assignments at S.A. Holditch and Associates in College Station, TX, which is now part of Schlumberger. Mr. Pursell started his petroleum engineering career at ARCO Alaska in Anchorage with production and reservoir engineering assignments on the North Slope and the Cook Inlet.

He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University (1985 and 1987).