OCTG & Line Pipe FORECASTING SUMMIT October 28, 2025 • Houston, TX
OCTG & Line Pipe FORECASTING SUMMIT October 28, 2025
A one-day, forecast-focused investment of your time — participate and learn from independent experts how the industry might evolve over the next 3 years. Use the inputs and understanding you will gain to confidently build your forecasts, budgets, and models for the next 3 years. Learn how you should think about risk and investment in this highly volatile sector.
If your role involves understanding this sector and your business is driven by upstream or midstream oil and gas activity, you can’t miss this event.
What to expect from this Summit
Engage and network with peers from all sectors of the industry as leading experts present up-to-the-minute views of North America’s OCTG, Line Pipe, and core inputs outlook:
- Insightful keynote address on up-to-the-minute, key topics in oil and gas.
- Exhaustive coverage of the North American OCTG market. Including expected 2026–2028 drilling activity; Preston Pipe’s 3-year, detailed OCTG demand, source of supply, and price forecast; and much more.
- Full coverage of the North American Line Pipe market. A gathering and midstream construction outlook; Preston Pipe’s 3-year line pipe demand, source of supply, and price forecast; and much more.
- Thorough steel market analysis to inform how domestic OCTG / Line Pipe producers will compete over the next 3 years, presented by our conference partners, World Steel Dynamics.
- Complete API pipe and steel trade analysis — implications of the ever-evolving international trade situation on steel, OCTG, and Line Pipe.
- Key current developments that will influence drilling and pipeline activity including LNG export construction, growing electricity demand, carbon capture, and hydrogen.
- And much more!
Which drivers will tip the market balance?
The U.S. and global economy? LNG exports and data center electricity demand? OPEC+ and supply? Russia, Iran, the Middle East? Upstream M&A? Influence of 2025 capex restraint on future production? North America’s role in the global oil and gas supply mix?
How will these factors, and others, influence your OCTG and Line Pipe transactions? Bring your questions — the Summit is designed to give you input you can use directly in forecasting, budgeting, and making investment decisions over the next 3 years
Agenda
Schedule, topics and speakers are subject to change, as we prepare the most up-to-date and relevant content.
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Preston Pipe’s Ninth Annual OCTG & Line Pipe Forecast Summit
7:00a–8:00a
Registration, Breakfast, and Networking
7:50a–8:00a
Opening Remarks
Rick Preckel – Managing Partner – Preston Pipe
8:00a–8:30a
AI’s Electricity Demand Surge – Powered by Gas
Jason Jennaro – CEO – FrontierGen, LLC
In a September 2025 White Paper entitled Barrels to Megawatts, FrontierGen CEO Jason Jennaro explores how Texas basins help fill the power gap between current and future electricity demand, along with pipeline and infrastructure roles. A major foundational topic to kick off this year’s Summit.
8:30a–9:30a
Oil and Gas Pricing and Drilling Activity Outlook – 2026–2028
Nathan Nemeth – Principal Research Analyst – Wood Mackenzie;
Mark Chapman – Principal Analyst – OFS – Enverus
Expert drilling outlook through 2028 including global tensions, trade policy, OPEC+ supply, LNG export growth, electricity demand, upstream capital discipline, and possible peak U.S. production.
9:30a–10:00a
Emerging Trends in Well Designs & Commercial Implications
Barry Cresap – Director | Well Engineering – Viking Engineering
How performance requirements, pipe sizes, and connection standards are evolving to meet future well designs.
10:00a–10:30a
Networking Break
10:30a–11:00a
E&P from the Trenches
Tommy Nusz – Managing Partner – End Point Energy LLC
On-the-ground insights into upstream capital investments and dealmaking strategy.
11:00a–11:45a
OCTG Demand, Source of Supply, and Price Forecast 2026–2028
Rick Preckel – Managing Partner – Preston Pipe
Regional OCTG demand outlook with sourcing factors including raw material costs, trade actions, Section 232 shifts, M&A influence, and technological trends.
11:45a–12:15p
State of Trade in API Pipe/Steel
Robert DeFrancesco III – Wiley Rein LLP (invited)
Impacts of 2025 Section 232 changes and current steel import environment.
12:15p–1:45p
Networking Lunch
Recharge and discuss morning insights with peers.
1:45p–2:15p
Midstream Activity Outlook 2026–2028
Uday Turaga – Founder & CEO – ADI Analytics
Basin balancing, LNG construction influence, take-away capacity dynamics, and infrastructure development.
2:15p–3:00p
Steel Supply, Demand, and Price Outlook and the Effect on Pipe Supply
Philipp Englin – CEO – World Steel Dynamics;
Adam Green – Managing Director – World Steel Dynamics
Key steel inputs shaping OCTG and Line Pipe availability and costs.
3:00p–3:30p
Networking Break
3:30p–4:00p
Pipeline Permitting – Influence of a New Administration
Dave Conover – VP Government Relations & Communications – Kinder Morgan
Shifts in infrastructure policy and permitting under the new administration.
4:00p–4:30p
Line Pipe Demand, Source of Supply, and Price Forecast 2026–2028
Rick Preckel – Managing Partner – Preston Pipe
Integrated forecast combining upstream, midstream, steel, and trade outlooks.
4:30p–4:45p
Final Remarks
Preston Pipe
Key takeaways and planning guidance for 2026–2028 budgeting.
4:45p–5:45p
Summit Networking Reception
Cap the day with conversations, cocktails, and comparison of possible forecast scenarios.
Preston Pipe is a market research and consulting firm dedicated to the steel pipe & tube industry.
We help improve business performance by providing data, forecasts, actionable insights and analyses through regular and custom-designed reports and presentations.
Our experience in the OCTG, Line Pipe, Standard Pipe, Mechanical Tube, Structural Tube, Pressure Pipe & Tube, and Stainless Pipe and Tube markets combined with our extensive database of pipe and tube information makes us uniquely suited to provide actionable insights to your specific problem. Our experience and background, market connections and data, combined with our integrity, impartiality and focused approach, results in a superior value for our customers.
Our goal is to provide complete steel pipe & tube market data and analysis – as well as other services focused on the steel pipe & tube industry – in an impartial, objective manner. We at Preston believe that an informed market is better for the complete supply chain and end-user customers. To accomplish this, we maintain the largest market intelligence database on steel pipe & tube in the world. We utilize our database, along with our knowledge, industry experience, education and extensive network of contacts to maintain an up-to-the-minute understanding of every aspect of all seven steel pipe & tube product segments. We maintain information on the complete supply chain, from raw materials to the arrival of finished products at the customer’s location, as well as data on the end-use markets for steel pipe & tube. This provides us with the tools to publish well-informed industry periodicals and special reports, perform customized special market studies, and offer consulting services revolving around virtually all aspects of steel pipe & tube markets – both in North America and abroad. We have served as consultants for the industry, both in the U.S. and internationally, and for the U.S. and foreign governments.
Preston is committed to the highest degree of integrity, confidentiality and impartiality with respect to all of our interactions and publications.
Consulting
They offer consulting services focused on the steel pipe & tube industry. Consulting services are specific to our client’s needs. Examples of our past work include: greenfield and brownfield expansion planning, acquisition guidance and advice, business plan preparation, market evaluation, distribution planning, topic-specific conference calls, special event presentations and onsite education and training. We also offer customer survey services. Please contact us to discuss your requirements.
Special Market Studies
They offer custom Special Market Studies for individuals and corporations covering a wide variety of topics including – but not limited to – detailed and precise analysis of market trends, pricing, supply & demand, and evaluation of production capabilities. These Special Market Studies are offered on a one time or on a subscription basis. Please contact us to discuss your requirements.
Special Reports
They also offer Special Reports on an as-needed/as requested basis. These may be initiated by Preston to address paradigm shifting events in the industry or may be requested by a customer and have included President’s Reports, Board Meeting Preparation, etc. Please contact us to discuss your requirements.
Historical Data
At Preston, we maintain or have access to data that we don’t regularly publish or data that we also offer in an Excel format. This can include import/export data, extended historical data, forecast data, and other pipe and tube industry topics. Many of our customers subscribe to data services in addition to our standard reports. Please contact us to discuss your requirements.
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