Proof

Fourteen first-of-a-kinds.

Delivered from the owner's side of the table — first-of-a-kind facilities that had to be engineered, permitted and built with no precedent to copy, the safety record they were delivered with, and every phase each project was carried through. The fourteen are numbered below; the unnumbered lines are further distinctions on the same projects.

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Energía Costa Azul LNG Sempra Infrastructure · Mexico · Project Director
  • The only LNG project in the world to reach FID in 2020 — in the middle of the pandemic.
  • The world’s first onshore LNG facility to use the APCI DMR liquefaction process.
  • The world’s first LNG facility to use a hybrid seawater and air cooling process.
  • The world’s smallest onshore footprint for a liquefaction train — which significantly increases the construction challenges.
  • Mexico’s first LNG liquefaction export facility.
  • Only the second LNG facility anywhere built with the liquefaction train inside a live operating plant, designed for simultaneous liquefaction and regasification.
Woodfibre LNG Pacific Energy · Canada · Senior Project Director / VP Projects
  • The world’s first net-zero emissions LNG facility.
  • The world’s first LNG export facility driven electrically by renewable hydroelectricity.
  • The world’s largest onshore mega-modules.
  • Canada’s first LNG liquefaction facility to reach FID.
  • Canada’s first project with an Indigenous government, the Squamish Nation, acting as environmental regulator.
Hong Kong Offshore LNG Terminal CLP · Hong Kong · Project Director & Engineering Director
  • The world’s largest offshore LNG terminal, at 7.1 MTPA import capacity.
  • The world’s deepest subsurface pipe installation by jetting.
  • Hong Kong’s first LNG facility, feeding two power stations totaling 10 GW.
  • One of only three offshore LNG import projects in the world.
Gladstone LNG Santos · Australia · Project Manager, reimbursable scope
  • One of the world’s first modularized onshore LNG facilities — 111 modules fabricated in the Philippines and shipped to Curtis Island.
West Kimberley Power EDL · Australia · Engineering Manager & Lead Commissioning Engineer
  • Australia’s first large-scale diesel-to-gas power transition.
  • A complete small-scale LNG chain: LNG liquefaction facility, LNG road tankers, and four remote regasification terminals with gas-fired power stations.
Kwispaa FLNG Steelhead LNG · Canada · Engineering Manager, then Project Manager
  • Named designer on the Kwispaa FLNG patent — four 6 MTPA floating liquefaction facilities with a 1,000 MW CCGT power station.

24 million work hours without a lost-time injury — 10 million at Energía Costa Azul, 14 million in Hong Kong. Both were under my direct accountability, and on both I set up the client-led safety program before FID and then implemented it through execution. This is not a total across every project on this page. It is the record on the two where the safety system was mine to design and mine to deliver.

Pre-start briefing on an LNG construction site at first light: a supervisor in an HSE hard hat in the foreground, the incoming shift assembled behind him.
Energía Costa Azul LNG · EPC execution. Pre-start briefing, day shift.

Delivery record

Eight major projects, concept to operations.

That career was deliberate. I went looking for both sides of everything: small companies with no playbook and large ones with heavy governance; offshore and onshore; greenfield and brownfield; half a billion to ten billion; every project phase, most project departments, and a run of world and country firsts.

Each side does something better than the other and something worse. The disciplines I run are largely the same on every project. The judgment lies in how you apply them with these people, in this country, under this contract.

$20B+executed
8major projects
25years, client-side
14first-of-a-kind facilities
20 MTPADelivered LNG capacity, export and import
200 MWDelivered gas-fired power generation
151modules and jackets, ~100,000 tonnes fabricated and installed
24Mwork hours LTI-free, directly accountable
Direct delivery accountability

Project detail — open any project to see the configuration, technology, contractor and contracting strategy.

Project
Pre-FEED · FEL 2
FEED · FEL 3
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
Pre-FEED
FEED
FID
EPC
Ops
Joint venture
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (operator and project lead) and International-Matex Tank Terminals
Configuration
Greenfield and brownfield onshore blue ammonia/hydrogen facility; first phase one train at 1.4 MTPA
Technology
Topsoe
Power
100 MW grid import
Modularization
78 modules – total weight of 33,000 tonnes
FEED contractors
Hyundai, and S&B Engineers and Contractors
Contracting
EPC&C lump sum, provisional sum and reimbursable — approx. $4B
Woodfibre LNG LNG export · 2.1 MTPA · ~$6B · Squamish, British Columbia, Canada Senior Project Director / VP Projects · 2024Sole accountability · EPC execution
Pre-FEED
FEED
FID
EPC
Ops
Joint venture
Pacific Energy (operator and project lead) and Enbridge
Configuration
Greenfield onshore LNG liquefaction, one train at 2.1 MTPA, and the conversion of two LNG carriers (cargo volume 125,000 m³ each) into Floating Storage Units (FSUs)
Technology
APCI C3MR
Power
140 MW hydroelectric grid import — fully electrically driven
Modularization
16 modules (total weight of 42,000 tonnes) 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 LNG LNG export · 3.25 MTPA · ~$2B · Ensenada, Mexico Project Director · 2020–2023Sole accountability · Pre-FID through EPC execution
Pre-FEED
FEED
FID
EPC
Ops
Joint venture
Sempra Infrastructure (operator and project lead) and TotalEnergies
Configuration
Brownfield onshore LNG export facility, one train at 3.25 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 Terminal FSRU, offshore platform and subsea pipelines · 7.1 MTPA · ~$1.5B · Hong Kong Project Director · 2018–2020Sole accountability · FEED through EPCIC
Pre-FEED
FEED
FID
EPC
Ops
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 (30″ × 46 km and 20″ × 18 km), and onshore receiving facilities at two power stations totaling 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 (now Worley)
Modularization
20 jackets and 4 topsides modules – total weight of 4,000 tonnes
Classification Society
Bureau Veritas
Contracting
EPCIC lump sum — approx. $1.5B
Kwispaa FLNG FLNG · 4 × 6 MTPA · Sarita Bay, Vancouver Island, Canada Project Manager · 2016–2018
Pre-FEED
FEED
FID
EPC
Ops
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
Modularization
24 modules – total weight of 45,000 tonnes
Hull & modules fabrication contractor
Hyundai Heavy Industries
FEED contractor
Worley Parsons (now Worley)
Classification Society
Det Norske Veritas (DNV)
West Africa FLNG FLNG · 2.5 MTPA · Fortuna, New Age Congo & Cameroon FLNG Project Manager · 2014–2016
Pre-FEED
FEED
FID
EPC
Ops
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
Modularization
17 modules – total weight of 45,000 tonnes
EPC contractors
SAIPEM S.p.A, and Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, DSME (now Hanwha)
Classification Society
Lloyd’s Register
Bid portfolio
Fortuna FLNG (2.5 MTPA), Congo FLNG (1 MTPA), Cameroon Near Shore FLNG (1.5 MTPA)
Gladstone LNG LNG export · 7.8 MTPA · ~$10B · Curtis Island, Australia Project Manager, reimbursable scope · 2008–2014
Pre-FEED
FEED
FID
EPC
Ops
Joint venture
Santos (operator and project lead), TotalEnergies, PETRONAS and Korea Gas Corporation (KOGAS)
Configuration
Greenfield onshore modularized 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
Modularization
111 modules (total weight of 51,000 tonnes) 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 Project Small-scale LNG & gas power · 200 tpd + 4 regas terminals and power stations · ~$0.5B · Australia Engineering Manager & Lead Commissioning Engineer · 2005–2008
Pre-FEED
FEED
FID
EPC
Ops
Owner
Energy Developments (EDL)
Configuration
A complete small-scale LNG chain — one 200 tonne/day 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 Senior Project Engineer · 2002–2005
Pre-FEED
FEED
FID
EPC
Ops
Operator
Santos Ltd
Scope
Greenfield and brownfield operations projects across remote gas processing and field oil facilities, including the Moomba facility rebuild following a major industrial incident
Projects per phase
Pre-FEED2
FEED6
FID7
EPC6
Ops2

† 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.

From site

Where the work was actually done.

Glen Cunial on the deck of an LNG carrier alongside Energía Costa Azul, with the liquefaction train under construction inside the operating regasification terminal behind him.
Energía Costa Azul LNG · Ensenada, MexicoIn the background — the LNG liquefaction facility under construction inside the regasification terminal, still operating.
Marine loading arms and jetty topsides at the Energía Costa Azul terminal, with a walkdown party at the base for scale.
Energía Costa Azul LNG · LNG jetty platformLoading arms and jetty topsides, on a walkdown.
Glen Cunial on the deck of an LNG carrier berthed at Energía Costa Azul, the vessel’s funnel and the Baja coastline behind him.
Energía Costa Azul LNGAboard an LNG carrier alongside during operations.
A temporary ambient air vaporizer and an LNG road tanker set up to supply gas for early commissioning of the power station, West Kimberley, Australia.
West Kimberley Power Project · AustraliaTemporary ambient air vaporizer and a road tanker to facilitate early commissioning of the power station.