Energy Project Executive · Major energy infrastructure

The name on the
accountability line.

Twenty-five years delivering major energy and industrial capital projects — LNG liquefaction & regasification, FLNG, FSU & FSRU, blue ammonia and hydrogen, and power generation. More than $20 billion delivered across eight major projects, every phase from concept selection through construction and into operations: establishing them, taking them through the gates, financing them, and directly managing them through EPC execution.

On three multi-billion-dollar projects I was the single named person accountable for execution, so I signed the estimate, shaped the contracting strategy, carried the schedule to the board, and then lived with the consequences. Very few people have been the single named person accountable for delivering a megaproject. Fewer still have done it more than once, on more than one continent, in more than one contracting model.

What I am good at is the part that decides the outcome and is rarely written down anywhere: setting a project up so it can be delivered, seeing early which assumptions are load-bearing, and telling the board what is actually true while there is still time to act on it.

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Glen Cunial · Energy Project Executive
Glen Cunial

Glen Cunial

Energy Project Executive

  • BasedHouston, Texas — working globally
  • CitizenshipAustralian
  • Experience25 years in major project delivery, owner-side — more than $20B delivered
  • EducationB.Eng. Mechanical (First Class Honours) and B.Tech. (Distinction), Queensland University of Technology
  • Regions lived and workedAustralia, Canada, USA, Mexico, Hong Kong, Malaysia, France and the UK
  • PatentNamed FLNG patent designer — Kwispaa FLNG
  • MemberInstitution of Engineers Australia · NFPA · Project Management Institute

Lifecycle coverage

Where I have worked in the project lifecycle.

Concept selection through to operations. Very few people work at both ends of a project, and the judgment that matters at the front comes from having lived with the consequences at the back.

Concept → Operations

GATE 1 Create FEL 0 Explore and identify prospect opportunities.
GATE 2 Assess FEL 1 Appraise, define the risk profile, reduce assumption uncertainty, set the delivery model.
GATE 3 Select FEL 2 · Pre-FEED Evaluate and select key options.
GATE 4 Define FEL 3 · FEED Technical specification frozen, FID readiness, financing launched, key agreements in place.
GATE 5 Execute  Detailed engineering, procurement, module fabrication and construction.
GATE 6 Operate  Commissioning and start-up, turnover, close-out and lessons.
A group on a construction walkdown at Energía Costa Azul, one of them pointing out an item of plant, with a crawler crane and a pressure vessel behind them.
Energía Costa Azul LNG · Site presenceThe report tells you what the project believes. Standing in front of the work tells you what is actually built — and when the accountability is yours, that is the only version worth having.

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Where to go next.

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Track record

Fourteen first-of-a-kinds, then every project and every phase with the detail behind each one.

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Capability

The technologies, asset types, contracts and assurance I have worked with, and the seven things I have actually done that set me apart.

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How I run projects

The disciplines behind a predictable project, written up one at a time.

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Contact

How to reach me.