James joined OPIS in 2015 to head up California cap-and-trade coverage for the U.S. West Coast refined products desk. After graduating from the University of Kansas in 2007 with a creative writing degree, he spent the next eight years living in Japan, China and Singapore. It was during his stay in Shanghai that James began covering the China energy complex for Russian business publication Interfax China. Prior to joining the OPIS, he also covered Southeast Asia natural gas news for Interfax Energy and Asia-Pacific fuel oil and bunker fuel markets for Argus Media in Singapore.

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