Track record
Eight major projects. Every phase, concept to operations.
Most project people are either front-end people or execution people. Very few have carried projects from concept selection through FID and on into construction and operations — which is what makes the judgement at either end worth buying.
What sets this apart
I have been the name on the accountability line.
Most capital project advisers have reviewed megaprojects, audited them, or run a function on one. Very few have been the single named person accountable for delivering one.
Sole project director · EPC execution
- Energía Costa Azul LNG~$2B · Mexico · 2020–2023
- Woodfibre LNG~$6B · Canada · 2024
- Hong Kong Offshore LNG Terminal~$1.5B · FEED through EPCIC · 2018–2020
Sole accountability · FEED and FID readiness
- St Charles Clean Fuels~$4B blue ammonia and hydrogen · two parallel FEEDs, reporting to the CEO · 2024–2026
And the result
On Energía Costa Azul and Hong Kong I also set up the client-led safety programme before FID and then implemented it through execution. Across those two projects: 24 million work hours without a single lost-time injury. Designing the system and then being accountable for delivering against it are the same argument — the safety record is what that argument looks like in practice.
Answerable to the joint venture for every part of delivery — the estimate, the schedule, the contractor, the regulator, and the safety of everyone on site. That is a different qualification from assessing a project from the outside. It changes what you notice in a schedule, which risks you take seriously, and whether you are willing to tell a board something it does not want to hear.
$20B+delivered
8major projects
24Mwork hours LTI-free, directly accountable
25years, client-side
Direct delivery accountability
Not involved in this phase
Single point of accountability
Project
Pre-FEED
FEED
FID Readiness
EPC Execution
Operations
St Charles Clean Fuels
Blue ammonia and hydrogen · 1.4 MTPA · ~$4B · Louisiana, USA
Senior Project Director · 2024–2026Sole accountability · FEED & FID readiness
Woodfibre LNG
LNG export · 2.1 MTPA · ~$6B · British Columbia, Canada
Senior Project Director / VP Projects · 2024Sole accountability · EPC execution
Energía Costa Azul LNG
LNG export · 3.2 MTPA · ~$2B · Ensenada, Mexico
Project Director · 2020–2023Sole accountability · EPC execution
Hong Kong Offshore LNG Terminal
FSRU, offshore platform and subsea pipelines · 7.1 MTPA · ~$1.5B · Hong Kong
Project Director · 2018–2020Sole accountability · FEED through EPCIC
Kwispaa FLNG
FLNG · 4 × 6 MTPA · Sarita Bay, Vancouver Island, Canada
Project Manager · 2016–2018
West Africa FLNG
FLNG · 2.5 MTPA · Fortuna, New Age Congo & Cameroon
FLNG Project Manager · 2014–2016
Gladstone LNG
LNG export · 7.8 MTPA · ~$10B · Curtis Island, Australia
Project Manager, reimbursable scope · 2008–2014
West Kimberley Power Project
Small-scale LNG & gas power · 200 tpd + 4 regas terminals and power stations · ~$0.5B · Western Australia
Engineering Manager & Lead Commissioning Engineer · 2005–2008
Santos Ltd — Operations Brownfield Projects†
Brownfield oil & gas · Moomba & Ballera, Australia
Senior Project Engineer · 2002–2005
† Santos Ltd — Operations Brownfield Projects is early-career operations and brownfield project work. It is shown here because it is where the operations-phase experience comes from, but it is not counted among the eight major projects. Two marks against St Charles FEED: two parallel FEEDs run for separate work scopes. Sectors span LNG export, FLNG, FSRU, FSU and offshore LNG import platforms, blue ammonia and hydrogen, gas power generation, and greenfield and brownfield projects — delivered across Australia, Canada, the USA, Mexico, Hong Kong, Malaysia, France and the UK.
Project detail — open any project to compare configuration, technology, contractor and contracting strategy against your own.
St Charles Clean FuelsBlue ammonia and hydrogen · 1.4 MTPA · ~$4B · Louisiana, USA
- Joint venture
- Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (operator and project lead) and International-Matex Tank Terminals
- Configuration
- Greenfield and brownfield onshore blue ammonia and hydrogen facility; first phase one train at 1.4 MTPA
- Technology
- Topsoe ammonia
- Power
- 100 MW grid import
- Modularisation
- 78 modules
- FEED contractors
- Hyundai, and S&B Engineers and Contractors
- Contracting
- EPC&C lump sum, provisional sum and reimbursable — approx. $4B
Woodfibre LNGLNG export · 2.1 MTPA · ~$6B · Squamish, Canada
- Joint venture
- Pacific Energy (operator and project lead) and Enbridge
- Configuration
- Greenfield onshore LNG liquefaction, one train at 2.1 MTPA
- Technology
- APCI C3MR
- Power
- 140 MW hydroelectric grid import — fully electrically driven
- Modularisation
- 16 modules including 2 mega-modules, fabricated at QMW’s yard in Qingdao, China
- Principal contractor
- McDermott International; major subcontractors Kiewit and Ledcor Bird
- Contracting
- EPC&C lump sum and reimbursable — approx. $6B
Energía Costa Azul LNGLNG export · 3.2 MTPA · ~$2B · Ensenada, Mexico
- Joint venture
- Sempra Infrastructure (operator and project lead) and TotalEnergies
- Configuration
- Brownfield onshore LNG export facility, one train at 3.2 MTPA, built inside a live operating regasification terminal
- Technology
- APCI DMR, with hybrid seawater and air cooling
- Power
- 60 MW on-site (5 × Solar Titan 130) plus 40 MW grid import
- Mechanical drives
- 2 × GE LM6000, 60 MW each
- Principal contractor
- Technip Energies; major subcontractors ICA Fluor and Bonatti
- FEED contractors
- Bechtel and Technip Energies — competitive FEED
- Contracting
- EPC&C lump sum — approx. $2B
Hong Kong Offshore LNG TerminalFSRU, offshore platform and subsea pipelines · 7.1 MTPA · ~$1.5B · Hong Kong
- Joint venture
- CLP (operator and project lead) and Hong Kong Electric
- Configuration
- Double-berth offshore LNG platform — fixed multi-jacket substructure and topsides — with permanently moored FSRU, two subsea pipelines, and onshore receiving facilities at two power stations totalling 10 GW
- FSRU
- MOL Challenger — 263,000 m³ storage, 1,000 MMSCFD regasification
- Principal contractor
- China Offshore Oil Engineering Corporation (COOEC)
- Fabrication yards
- COOEC-Fluor Heavy Industries, Zhuhai; Chiwan Sembawang, Shenzhen
- FEED contractor
- Worley Parsons
- Classification
- Bureau Veritas
- Contracting
- EPCIC lump sum — approx. $1.5B
Kwispaa FLNGFLNG · 4 × 6 MTPA · Sarita Bay, Vancouver Island, Canada
- Developer
- Steelhead LNG
- Configuration
- Four jetty-moored new-build FLNG facilities at 6 MTPA each — two 3 MTPA trains per floater on a QMAX-derived hull — plus onshore gas pre-treatment and power generation
- Technology
- APCI DMR, air cooled, fully electrically driven
- Power
- 1,000 MW on-site CCGT — 16 × Siemens SGT-800 at 53 MW each, plus 8 steam turbines
- Hull & modules
- Hyundai Heavy Industries
- FEED contractor
- Worley Parsons
- Classification
- Det Norske Veritas (DNV)
West Africa FLNGFLNG · 2.5 MTPA · Fortuna, New Age Congo & Cameroon
- Operator
- Bumi Armada
- Configuration
- New-build offshore FLNG — two trains at 1.25 MTPA LNG each, plus 0.4 MTPA LPG and 0.1 MTPA condensate
- Technology
- APCI SMR
- Power
- 75 MW on-board gas-fired generation (3 × GE PGT25)
- Mechanical drives
- 4 × GE PGT25, 26 MW each
- EPC contractors
- Saipem, and Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (now Hanwha)
- Classification
- Lloyd’s Register
- Bid portfolio
- Fortuna FLNG (2.5 MTPA), Congo FLNG (1 MTPA), Cameroon Near Shore FLNG (1.5 MTPA)
Gladstone LNGLNG export · 7.8 MTPA · ~$10B · Curtis Island, Australia
- Joint venture
- Santos (operator and project lead), TotalEnergies, PETRONAS and KOGAS
- Configuration
- Greenfield onshore modularised LNG export facility, two trains at 7.8 MTPA
- Technology
- ConocoPhillips Optimized Cascade
- Power
- 70 MW on-site (6 × Solar Titan 130)
- Mechanical drives
- 12 × GE LM2500+G4, 25 MW each
- Modularisation
- 111 modules fabricated at AG&P’s yard, Batangas, Philippines
- Principal contractor
- Bechtel Oil, Gas and Chemicals
- Contracting
- EPC&C lump sum approx. $9B, plus provisional sum and reimbursable scope approx. $1B
West Kimberley Power ProjectSmall-scale LNG & gas power · 70 MW · ~$0.5B · Western Australia
- Owner
- Energy Developments (EDL)
- Configuration
- A complete small-scale LNG chain — one 200 tpd liquefaction train at Karratha, six LNG road tankers, and four remote regasification terminals with gas-fired power stations at Broome, Derby, Fitzroy Crossing and Halls Creek
- Technology
- Salof Refrigeration liquefaction (now Baker Hughes)
- Power
- 70 MW installed — 38 × Caterpillar reciprocating gas engines and 17 diesel engines
- Contracting
- Discipline-based service contracts, with project management, engineering, procurement and commissioning executed directly by the owner — approx. $0.5B
Santos Ltd — Operations Brownfield Projects†Brownfield oil & gas · Moomba & Ballera, Australia
- Operator
- Santos Ltd
- Configuration
- Production engineering support and greenfield and brownfield operations projects across remote gas processing and field facilities, including a facility rebuild following a major industrial incident
Capability
Depth to go with the breadth.
A reviewer is only as useful as the technology and contract structures they actually understand. This is the ground covered first-hand.
Process technologies
- APCI C3MR, DMR and SMR LNG liquefaction
- ConocoPhillips Optimized Cascade LNG liquefaction
- Baker Hughes small-scale LNG liquefaction
- LNG regasification
- Topsoe ammonia and hydrogen
Asset types
- Onshore liquefaction and regasification
- FLNG and FSRU vessels
- LNG road transportation vehicles
- Offshore platforms and subsea pipelines
- Simple cycle and CCGT power generation — industrial and aero-derivative gas turbines, reciprocating gas engines and steam turbines
- Power systems spanning roughly 1.6 GW: about 1.3 GW of gas-fired generation and 280 MW of grid interconnection and transmission
- Modular fabrication, to the largest onshore mega-modules built
- Greenfield and brownfield facilities
Commercial & contracting
- Bidders list development, RFP and ITT preparation, evaluation criteria and scoring, clarification and bid evaluation, through to final selection
- EPC&C negotiation and execution above $1B
- Development and negotiation of joint venture, joint development and time charter party agreements
- Lump sum, provisional sum and reimbursable
- Competitive FEED and tender management
- Claims, variation and change control
- Project financing and lenders’ assurance
Risk & assurance
- Enterprise and project risk management
- Quantified cost and schedule risk analysis, and contingency setting
- Technical assurance, verification and independent verification units
- HSSE and quality assurance
- Regulatory compliance, permitting and environmental approvals
- Classification societies — Bureau Veritas, DNV, Lloyd’s Register
Delivered across Australia, Canada, the United States, Mexico, Hong Kong, Malaysia, France and the United Kingdom.