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Expert Witness #261279
This expert has worked in the energy industry for many years completing assignments encompassing the entire energy value chain. This expert was responsible for reservoir engineering evaluations associated with exploration and development projects, assessment of the economic value of acquisition and divestiture activities, analysis of natural gas shut in strategies, pipeline/plant engineering design, pipeline/plant construction and operations management of existing production properties. This expert was in domestic crude oil trading and marketing. In the crude trading group, this expert evaluated transportation logistics, analyzed the operations of refineries, assessed the commercial aspects of potential mergers and asset trades, and formulated options and futures strategies.
This expert has been involved in a wide variety of assignments and is frequently retained to advise clients on both technical and commercial issues related to mergers, asset transactions, project development and start up, bankruptcy/workout, and dispute resolution. This expert has experience in the transportation, processing, refining, marketing, and electrical generation sectors.
Throughout the course of this expert's consulting career, this expert has advised clients on both technical and commercial issues related to mergers, asset transactions, project development, business start-ups, bankruptcy/workout, and dispute resolution.
This expert has experience in the transportation, processing, refining, marketing, and electrical generation sectors and brings many years of direct experience in the energy industry including project evaluation, development, and management; operations management; and contract evaluation/negotiation.
This expert is a frequent speaker at national and international energy industry conferences and is the author of 25 papers and presentations covering the industry's technical, economic, and commercial matters.
Start Crude Oil Expert SearchExpert Witness #261290
This expert began a career supporting operations in an integrated petrochemical complex. This expert held engineering as well as business management positions. This expert moved up the oil and gas value chain, into the midstream sector. As Manager of Natural Gas Engineering and Project Management, this expert led the development of a midstream infrastructure to support the growth in upstream operations a shale play. As Director of Engineering and Pipeline Operations, this expert led the pipeline design, engineering, construction, and commissioning as well as operations and maintenance activities. Development activities included pipeline, gathering, and storage assets for crude oil and gas. This expert draws on diverse experiences in the midstream and downstream sectors to provides analyses of both technical and economic issues and advise clients regarding interests in the energy sector.
Start Crude Oil Expert SearchExpert Witness #261284
This expert began a career in the oil and gas industry, where this expert worked as an Engineer in the Materials Technology Group diagnosing corrosion and water treating issues in upstream production facilities. This expert then became a plant engineer at a large gas processing facility, where this expert was responsible for the support of various gas processing units and gas compression facilities.
This expert worked as a Process Engineer in the Process Engineering Division. This expert developed conceptual designs for onshore production facilities and pipelines to process and transport high paraffin crude oil in arctic environments. This expert was assigned to a subsidiary where this expert performed general process troubleshooting and optimization, technical service work, and project economic analysis for offshore platforms.
This expert then moved to an assignment as Process Engineer on the gas offtake team, responsible for evaluating alternatives for transporting and processing gas. This expert was responsible for performance testing equipment, evaluating expansion projects and performing a rebuild on a fire-damaged offshore platform. This expert provided technical and project support to evaluate asset acquisition opportunities. This expert was responsible for leading a multi-discipline engineering team through the detailed engineering and construction phases of the project.
This expert became the Leader of New Developments, where this expert was responsible for providing concept selection and economic evaluation of all major projects. As part of this effort, this expert and team developed the Development and Production plans and worked closely with various governmental bodies and partner organizations to obtain approvals for these plans and for developing Field Development Plans. This expert became Project Manager for a multi-platform shallow water oil field development. This expert was responsible for leading a team through concept selection, pre-project planning, and scoping and bidding of the Front-End Engineering Design contract.
This expert implemented industry-standard project Front End Loading principles, practices and discipline to the asset by mandating the use of standard designs and a competitive bidding process to reduce costs. This expert developed contracting strategy to reduce costs and execution cycle time while leveraging company resources to maximum benefit, and instituted procedures to ensure safety and integrity of new facilities, and incorporated procurement and planning into the team.
This expert was responsible for completing construction and the start-up of a major gas plant designed to recover methane and helium from a high-acid gas feed stream. This expert also completed a study to determine the cost and schedule to replace the existing gas plant with a Selexol process designed to recover carbon dioxide (CO2) and reject hydrogen sulfide (H2S) from the feed gas. This expert began a consulting career, where this expert had a variety of diverse assignments involving insurance claims, construction disputes, gas transmission issues, oil and gas field operational issues.
Start Crude Oil Expert SearchExpert Witness #277491
This oil & gas industry expert has held senior board leadership roles at an energy consultancy firm and has over 30 years of industry experience. As a consultant, this expert has worked on a broad range of assignments in the downstream sector around the world. This expert has provided expert testimony in international and domestic arbitration, U.S. Federal court, U.S. state court, and the English High Court of Justice. This expert has also provided extensive expert testimony in regulatory proceedings before energy regulators in Canada, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and U.S. state regulatory agencies. Prior to consulting, this expert worked for a petroleum company for over 10 years in a variety of refinery and headquarters positions.
This expert has provided expert testimony supporting several applications for multibillion-dollar crude oil pipeline projects in the U.S. and Canada, as well as numerous smaller crude oil pipeline projects. The testimony primarily concerned the economic and commercial merits of the pipeline projects.
This expert holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and an M.B.A. and is a licensed Professional Engineer in Texas. This expert has also provided expert testimony regarding various commercial and market issues relating to pipeline rates and tolls for crude oil and refined product pipelines before Canadian energy regulators and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Additionally, this expert has executed numerous engagements involving market, commercial, and competitive dynamics of various pipeline transportation options.
Start Crude Oil Expert SearchExpert Witness #279533
This fuel expert is a Professional Engineer (PE) with B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and expertise in bulk material handling. This expert has deep experience in the supply, handling, storing, blending, and processing of a wide range of bulk materials, including work involving ports and terminals, power, transportation, mining, steel, and process industries. A prior leadership role included chairing a technical committee focused on fuels handling, transportation, and storage.
A majority of this expert's projects have involved power-generating utilities, ports, and transfer terminals. Fuel is the single largest operating cost for a power plant, and the total cost contribution depends on fuel characteristics, including Btu content, unit dispatch, unit cycling, and heat rate. Fuel cost can exceed sixty percent of the operating cost for a plant. A fossil-fueled power plant converts the chemical energy of fuel to thermal energy to produce steam in a boiler and then mechanical energy rotating the steam turbine. In a combustion turbine and diesel generator, chemical energy is directly converted into mechanical energy. Fuel quality is a critical parameter for combustion and emissions.
This expert's work has concentrated on solid fuels, which are much more variable and difficult to handle, process, and combust than liquid fuels, although the primary concerns are similar. Crude oil is refined to improve its properties by removing sulfur, tar, and other components. Refineries vary and may be constructed to service regional or country-specific regulations. A refinery produces a number of products that must be separately stored and transferred. The bottom of the barrel, so to speak, becomes petroleum coke, a solid fuel. Project work has included petroleum coke and refinery-related issues. Refined oil is typically transferred by ships, pipelines, barges, and rail, while ports and transfer terminals store fuel along its transport route. Contaminants such as water, bacteria, and assorted particles can be introduced at these locations. The details of tank storage construction, spillage prevention and protection, handling protocols and data logging, and valve transfer options at each transfer location can be important.
This expert was responsible for a fuel oil handling facilities inspection program at over 10 plant locations receiving oil by vessel or barge. The investigation included modernization or repair of marine structures, fire protection, electrical systems, oil spill prevention, and communication systems, along with review of technical data for a leak detection system. Work has also included evaluating system requirements to convert a power plant from conventional fuel oil to an emulsified bitumen-and-water alternative fuel product. The spillage and dispersion properties of that type of alternative fuel are a more significant concern than conventional fuel oil because it cannot be contained by typical oil spill methods.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Crude Oil Expert SearchExpert Witness #280529
This fuel blending expert earned an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and has expertise in chemical processing and engineering, with extensive experience in mixing processes involving miscible liquids, immiscible liquids, and solid-liquid suspensions in oil and gas industry applications. This expert's expertise includes blending crude oil and fuels, as well as handling asphaltenes and waxes in crude oil and fuels. This expert's experience also includes sizing and selecting processing equipment to ensure proper mixing and transport of crude oil and fuels.
This expert has testified in arbitration, providing opinions on process engineering issues involving the flow of oils and fuels in the oil and gas industry.
Start Crude Oil Expert SearchExpert Witness #289614
This mid-stream asset evaluation and development expert has held senior leadership roles with energy consulting and education firms, leads an executive team, and offers over 40 years of experience in upstream and midstream processes, energy marketing, and energy research projects. This expert is widely regarded as an authority in crude oil, natural gas, NGL, and LNG, with expertise spanning major U.S. producing basins. This expert has managed thousands of natural gas transactions involving billions of cubic feet across U.S. producing basins and Mexico.
This expert also leads a nationally recognized energy education firm offering courses in Natural Gas Basics, Gas Midstream and NGL Basics, and Gas Processing Agreements that have been shared with over 10,000 industry professionals. Before launching these firms, this expert held positions with major energy companies. This expert is an in-demand speaker and lecturer with past engagements for prominent energy, royalty, and oil and gas industry associations. This expert is a respected thought leader, a popular contributor on professional social media, and a frequent podcast guest on energy platforms. This expert has extensive prior litigation experience, including deposition and testimony.
Start Crude Oil Expert SearchExpert Witness #293087
This economic regulation and liquid pipeline transport expert is a director at an economic consulting firm and has over 15 years of experience in the economic regulation of liquid pipeline transportation and storage, including expert witness, consultant, and regulator roles.
This expert previously worked as an energy industry analyst for a federal energy regulator, addressing economic issues of throughput and economic obsolescence in numerous matters. As a consultant, this expert advises government and private clients on liquid product logistics economic issues, including analysis of economic rate regulation, competition analysis, shipper access, custody, title, and jurisdictional matters.
This expert has strong experience testifying as an expert on economic issues related to petroleum and petroleum products transportation and related services before regulatory and court tribunals, including valuation of crude oil transportation facilities in cases before state regulators in California and Alaska. Valuation work in multiple matters before a state assessment review board addressed ad valorem tax assessment issues and economic obsolescence.
This expert has extensive experience with the FERC Oil Pipeline Index, which governs annual adjustments to regulated rates on natural gas liquids pipelines. Expert witness experience includes multiple depositions, including in federal district court, as well as multiple rounds of prepared testimony or reports, cross-examination, and live direct testimony.
Start Crude Oil Expert SearchExpert Witness #296587
This oil refinery/process engineering expert holds a P.E. credential and has a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, with over 20 years of experience in front-end engineering and refinery operations support. This expert has experience in production and testing from work at major refinery facilities. This expert participated in several management-of-change processes within tank farm operations involving product blending and testing for fuel oil and other products. Additional field work involved data collection as part of a rebuild following a major incident, including tank farm and truck loading areas for fuel oil, crude oil, and diesel fuel.
This expert also has over 30 years of experience with various liquid pipeline systems, including crude oil, propane, and fuel products. This expert has served on multiple company accident and incident investigation teams addressing pipeline and facility issues nationwide. This expert has also served as an expert witness for over 5 years, including in binding arbitration and state and federal civil cases.
Start Crude Oil Expert SearchExpert Witness #298721
This petroleum coke expert is a P.E. with over 50 years of experience in the refining industry and holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from a university.
This expert has subject matter expertise in the development and installation of petroleum coke storage buildings, distribution and reclaiming of petroleum coke inventory, and support for construction permit applications. This expert has extensive experience in petroleum coke storage projects.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant, including providing trial testimony in a crude oil matter.
Start Crude Oil Expert SearchExpert Witness #304428
This international shipping expert has over 35 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, including tanker freight rates, crude oil pricing, oil marketing, tanker chartering, ship-to-ship transfers, and crude oil valuation.
This expert has experience in disputes concerning the hedging of tanker freight rates and has advised oil producers on crude oil pricing using Middle Eastern crude grades as pricing benchmarks. In a senior oil marketing role at an oil and gas company, this expert's team managed time charters for offtake and storage tankers with frequent ship-to-ship transfers.
This expert has provided valuation analysis for cargoes of Middle Eastern crude oil and has been involved in projects concerning the trading and term purchase of Iranian crude oil, including work involving a prominent national oil company in Iran.
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