The Texas Alliance of Energy Producers (the Alliance) has appointed Karr Ingham as the organization’s president, effective July 1, 2024.
Before becoming interim president in 2023, Karr served as the Alliance’s executive vice-president for 5 years. He will continue his work as the petroleum economist for the organization. Every month Karr releases the Alliance’s Texas Petro Index (TPI), a measure of growth rates and cycles in the Texas upstream oil and gas economy, as well as the Alliance’s Texas Permian Basin Petroleum Index.
A professional economist, Ingham has specialized in regional/metro economics in Texas, and oil and gas/energy economics. Ingham is a member of the Houston chapter of the US Association for Energy Economics and was elected in 2023 as a member of the USAEE council (board). Since 2014 he has served on Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar’s Economic Roundtable, a group of state and national economists convened to provide economic counsel and insight to the Comptroller in terms of the general condition of the Texas economy and the ongoing revenue outlook.
He co-chairs the Supply and Demand Committee of the Independent Petroleum Association of America and serves on the board of directors of the Domestic Energy Producers Alliance.