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Gabe Eckhouse researches the political economy of energy markets and the changing structure of the global energy system. His work focuses on the industries and supply chains that underpin modern industrial society, with particular attention to oil, gas, batteries, and critical minerals. Across this research, he examines how the material conditions of production—from geology and extraction technologies to infrastructure and industrial organization—shape market formation, volatility, and investment.

His first book, Carbon Purgatory (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2026), analyzes the unstable transformation of oil and gas markets in an era of incomplete energy transition. The book argues that the world has entered a prolonged and turbulent period in which fossil fuels remain deeply embedded even as alternative energy systems expand.

He is the recipient of a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship from the European Commission for the project Materializing Renewable Capital (MaRC), and in 2025 was awarded an Early Career Grant from FORMAS to study the barriers to developing a Nordic battery industry.

Selected publications

• “Performing energy: the International Energy Agency and the conflicting imaginaries of capitalist energy transition.” New Political Economy (2025).
• Eckhouse, G. & Gibbs, E. “Two Late Imperial Oil Booms: a comparison of the UK’s North Sea and US hydraulic fracturing.” Geoforum (forthcoming).
• “COVID-19, global oil market volatility, and the renewable energy transition.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 54(8) (2022).
• Eckhouse, G. and Zalik, A. “Introduction: Whither hydrocarbons? The rescaling of global oil and gas markets amidst COVID-19 and a contested transition.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 54(8) (2022).
• “United States hydraulic fracturing’s short-cycle revolution and the global oil industry’s uncertain future.” Geoforum 127 (2021): 246–256.