Natural Gas Expert Witnesses

What is a natural gas expert witness?

Natural gas expert witness candidates are typically professional engineers or financial analysts with expertise and extensive experience in pipeline safety engineering, energy strategy, gas exploration, petroleum engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering and/or the natural gas energy industry. Most often the expert witness chosen is member of an industry organization such the Natural Gas Council, the US Oil & Gas Association, and/or the Natural Gas Supply Association.

What types of cases require a natural gas expert witness?

Natural gas expert witnesses can provide litigation support for cases involving hazardous working conditions, property management/ownership rights, natural gas regulations and/or conservation. Cases may be civil or criminal and require not only expertise but the ability to communicate findings for ease of understanding.

Natural gas expert witness case examples

Natural gas is a non-renewable energy used as a source of energy for heating, cooking, and electricity generation. Because of its low density, natural gas is difficult to store and transport.

Cahn Litigation services has searched for natural gas subject matter experts for many cases including:

• natural gas processing,
• contract terms dispute in Houston, Texas,
• natural gas utility allocation,
• intellectual property disputes,
• utility gas rate design,
• oil field accident investigation, and
• natural gas regulatory matters.

What litigation support work might a natural gas expert witness be expected to perform?

Litigation support by a natural gas expert witness could include arbitration, forensic engineering, accident reconstruction, research and authoring expert reports, providing expert opinions, deposition and courtroom testimony. In addition, clients may seek an oil and gas industry expert for pre-litigation consultant work. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may request a professional with prior expert witness testimony experience.

Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a natural gas expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.

Related Disciplines

Natural Gas Expert Witness - Representative Bios

Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.

Start Custom Search

The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Natural Gas experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Natural Gas landscape.

• Expert Witness #227074

  This expert holds a PhD in Metallurgy and brings to the table many years of experience in the areas of materials engineering, failure analysis and engineering investigations. This expert’s doctoral research dealt with safely containing hazardous, explosive materials and this is also true for much of this expert’s industrial consulting work. This expert has direct experience with grey cast iron in terms of pipeline corrosion and prediction of fatigue life in cast iron vessels.

  This expert’s code related work has involved pressure vessel and pipeline codes. This work has involved assessing old cast iron pressure vessels for conformance to current codes. Below is a summary of example work experience:

  Cast iron experience:

  1.  Life estimate for buried pipe
  2. Water main failure in river crossing
  3. Stray current induced corrosion failure

  Metallurgical/Fatigue Life for gray cast iron:

  1. Remaining life prediction for very old dryers
  2. Fitness for service on old paper mill dryer drums
  3. Failure prediction in check valve bodies
  4. Failure of brake drums

  Code Experience:

  1.  Repair procedures for damaged batch digesters
  2. Life prediction for dryers and dryer drums
  3. Butane gas line explosion
  4. Steam piping analysis and failures
  5. Refrigeration line failures
  6. API/ASME 579 Fitness for Service experience

  Risk for Natural Gas Transport:

  This expert’s graduate course work and dissertation dealt with preventing explosions (liquid natural gas). Much of this expert’s professional experience has involved efforts to prevent explosions or determining why explosions occurred. This is a poorly understood problem and one that many companies are ignoring. This expert has directed NDT or inspection efforts in a number of different applications.

  
  Start Natural Gas Expert Search

• Expert Witness #235964

  This expert is an Energy Economist with strong public utility experience and a solid understanding of Utility rate design, Pipeline rate design and how they work together. This expert regularly provides advice on cost allocation, pricing, cost of capital and regulatory accounting policy reform, and market design issues to utilities, private energy firms, independent system operators and energy regulatory commissions both domestic and international. This expert has provided expert testimony before state public utility commissions on electricity and natural gas rate design, marginal cost analysis, electricity rate structures, reforms to tariffs for customers with distributed generation and net metering and efficient power contract design.  

  
  Start Natural Gas Expert Search

• Expert Witness #236398

  This expert is President and founder of highly sought-after energy strategies consultancy. This expert has many years of experience and provides a multi-disciplinary approach to each consulting engagement. This expert received a PhD in Managerial Economics, an MBA in Marketing and BSEE & MSEE degrees in Power Systems. This expert is a Professional Engineer and Senior Life Member of IEEE. This expert is an author of numerous papers and journals, and a frequent speaker at professional conferences. This expert was also an Adjunct Professor. This expert has led in the development of risk management best practices as they relate to energy portfolio management, counterparty credit risk and long-term purchase power (PPA) agreement review. This expert supported the development and implementation of comprehensive Enterprise Risk Management programs, where he also serves as the Chief Risk Officer. This expert has also been actively involved in the development and continuous improvement of competitive wholesale electric markets.

  Areas of Specialization:

  Enterprise risk management, risk and uncertainty analysis, strategic planning, executive management consulting, regulatory economics, energy planning and forecasting, prudence review, management audits and assessment, wholesale market practices and procedures, energy trading and power contract management, counterparty credit risk assessment, merger and acquisition analysis, and emerging energy technology market valuation.

  ISO Wholesale Market Experience:

  -  Performed a comprehensive risk management review with a focus on operations management, IT platform development, bench testing and reliability analysis. Also supported the development of the organization's enterprise risk management program.

  -  Performed a comprehensive management audit with focus area on market integration, transmission planning and distributed generation based distribution planning.

  -  Performed a comprehensive management audit with focus area on the company's interface with the MISO, transmission planning coordination with ITC which had recently acquired the transmission network and cost impacts associated with windfarm interconnection to the MISO markets.

  -  Performed a comprehensive assessment of an energy's application to transfer its wholesale market participation from SPP to MISO. The focus was on transmission constraints, congestion management and the impact of the proposed sale of its transmission network to ITC.

  -  Supported senior management perform a strategic assessment of the benefits associated with its transformation from a wholly owned utility entity to a publicly traded corporation based on shareholder value and FERC based returns approved for the MISO.

  -  Retained to develop and lead two two-day conferences on energy and capacity procurement, contracts and risk management. The focus of the first conference was on state agency requirements including such entities as state hospitals, penal institutions and university dormitories. The second conference was designed for a State university system.

  -  Developed an energy procurement strategy for both natural gas and electricity.

  This expert has testified over 50 times before public service commissions; two arbitration panels, and a State Legislature Energy Committee.  

  
  Start Natural Gas Expert Search

• Expert Witness #255894

  This expert brings to the table many years of experience in the areas of materials engineering, failure analysis and engineering investigations. This expert holds both a BS and MS in Materials Engineering. Specializing in the determination of root cause and problem resolution, with extensive experience designing and conducting field and laboratory testing, this expert's work has encompassed metallurgy, property/structure relationships, stress states and corrosion of both ferrous and non-ferrous materials from across a broad range of industries. Much of this expert's background centers around the areas of materials characterization, fractography, metallography and mechanical testing.

  Although this expert's work has supported a broad spectrum of industries, this expert has worked with natural gas suppliers/distributors for most of this expert's career. This expert's work within the natural gas industry has been generally associated with large, catastrophic incidents, with state regulatory agencies involved, where this expert was tasked with identifying root cause. However, this expert has also been involved with evaluation and replacement programs, including the fit-for-service evaluation of cast iron pipes sections removed from existing lines.  

  This expert has provided litigation support to select clients for many years, with this expert's first project assisting a subrogation specialist successfully resolving a dispute regarding the fracture of a cast iron fire hydrant line that flooded the bottom floor of a building. This expert's litigation support clients have represented a wide range of industries, including natural gas. This expert has been involved with over 100 litigated or pre-litigation matters, and has provided deposition testimony approximately thirteen times.

  
  Start Natural Gas Expert Search

• Expert Witness #260052

  This expert is a CPA with a national oil and gas practice. This expert got a start rough-necking on oil and gas drilling rigs. This expert is a member of national and local Gas Associations and has a focus on regulatory accounting and finance. As Rate Manager for a Gas Company this expert assisted a number of water, wastewater, and gas distribution clients with rate case filings before various regulatory authorities in a number of states and is familiar with rate design issues. This expert contributed to multiple projects pertaining to the then pending merger with a large publicly traded corporation. This expert has provided testimony in numerous proceedings.

  
  Start Natural Gas Expert Search

• Expert Witness #261260

  This expert brings to the table many years of engineering, operations, and commercial experience in the energy industry, including refining, chemicals and natural gas processing. This expert has advised producers, midstream service providers and private equity firms in evaluating acquisitions and grass roots investments. This expert has analyzed royalty payments and associated deductions for oil and natural gas production and developed unbundling cost allocations for natural gas processing and transportation systems. This expert has assisted with startups, troubleshooting and incident investigations for domestic and international facilities.

  This expert has led audits of operating and measurement practices, including tests for adherence to contract requirements and standard practice. This expert has performed numerous valuations and due diligence associated with acquisition or divestiture and investigated accidents, including explosions, fires and injuries, for operating companies, as well as legal and insurance clients.

  
  Start Natural Gas Expert Search

• 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 Natural Gas Expert Search

• Expert 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 Natural Gas Expert Search

• Expert Witness #277301

  This diesel emissions testing expert is a university professor whose research program focuses on clean, safe, and efficient commercial vehicles through advanced diesel and natural gas engine systems, controls, electrification, powertrain electrification, and vehicle automation and connectivity.

  This expert's research has enabled greater compression ignition (CI) engine efficiency and emissions control through variable valve actuation (VVA). Research on VVA has been heavily cited and promoted by state and federal environmental regulators in connection with new emission standards for heavy-duty engines. This expert holds advanced degrees and has previous testifying experience.

  
  Start Natural Gas Expert Search

• Expert Witness #277656

  This mechanical and metallurgical engineering expert holds a PE and provides forensic and consulting engineering services using a combination of mechanical and metallurgical engineering experience, including plastics, along with related education. This expert is a registered professional engineer in Texas and more than 25 other states, with over 30 years of experience in manufacturing in the metals processing industries, over 30 years performing failure analyses, and over 25 years investigating claims. Assignments have involved mechanical equipment, appliances, oil and gas production and transmission equipment, plumbing, HVAC, heavy equipment, machine tools, cranes and wire cables, metal roofs, manufacturing and thermal processes, among many others.

  Over the course of over 15 years, this expert has investigated a number of oilfield assignments, including pipelines, separators, heat treaters, workover rigs, drilling rigs, and associated equipment. This expert has worked with gas compression equipment at well sites and midstream locations, including diesel-driven and turbine-driven equipment, and with a variety of valves used in high-pressure applications, including those used with natural gas.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant. This expert has testified in a wide variety of matters, including personal injury and property damage, in both state and federal court, and has testified by deposition more than 150 times and in court more than 15 times. Expert opinions and testimony have never been excluded.

  
  Start Natural Gas Expert Search

• Expert Witness #278296

  This fire/explosion causation expert has over 40 years of experience in fire/explosion investigation, reconstruction, and Fire Protection Engineering, and holds credentials as a Registered Professional Engineer, Certified Fire Investigator (IAAI), Certified Fire/Explosion Investigator (NAFI), and Registered Gas Distribution Professional.

  This expert has experience with lithium battery fires and numerous other hazardous materials, including propane, natural gas, ammonium perchlorate, ammonium nitrate, fireworks-related materials, explosives, and magnesium, and has testified on several occasions.

  
  Start Natural Gas Expert Search

• Expert Witness #278312

  This diesel/dual-fuel combustion and emissions expert serves as a professor in a mechanical and aerospace engineering department and has over 25 years of research experience in engine combustion and emissions, alternative fuels including natural gas and hydrogen, CFD simulation of combustion and emissions, and assessment of energy consumption in manufacturing processes. This expert's research involves both experimental and numerical simulation work.

  This expert has served as PI or co-PI on over 40 research projects with substantial total research funding across China, Canada, and the United States. This expert has supervised graduate students at the MS and Ph.D. levels and currently advises doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.

  This expert has extensive experience with natural gas-diesel dual-fuel engines and hydrogen-diesel dual-fuel engines. This expert's research in dual-fuel engines involves both experimental and numerical simulation work, supported by graduate student work and the publication of over 10 journal papers and a number of conference papers in the dual-fuel engine area.

  
  Start Natural Gas Expert Search

• Expert Witness #284166

  This oil and gas supply management expert founded a consultancy that helps companies, investors, and governments develop resilient, agile, sustainable, and secure supply chains. The consultancy has analyzed contracting procedures for gas pipeline allocations and operations as part of an assessment of the comparability of natural gas marketing, operations, pricing, contracting, and maintenance to their equivalents in oil and coal supply chains, highlighting differences between the industries.

  This expert has identified potential sources of discrepancy in measured quantities of resin delivered under a supply contract and suggested the most likely causes of the variances. The product was shipped in bulk and weighed via scales, silos of material were released via calibrated meters, and the manufacturing operation used backflushed quantities of resin to quantify the discrepancies.

  This expert led a multi-year project assessing technological, economic, and operational issues affecting the supply of gas and oil. The scope included flowmeters, line pipe, OCTG, valves, compressors, surveillance drones, and other pipeline equipment and services.

  This expert has experience creating an oil and gas pipeline study that analyzed competitive dynamics in the oil and gas pipeline market and quantified and forecast pipe needs by pressure, size, and metallurgy, based on a bottom-up database of pipe projects in the United States.

  
  Start Natural Gas Expert Search

• Expert Witness #284194

  This natural gas market expert has over 40 years of experience in the natural gas sector, working across the gas value chain, including complex upstream projects, midstream and LNG export projects, LNG imports, gas-to-power matters, wholesale and retail market management, regulatory policy, and trading.

  This expert is recognized as a leading global LNG expert, with longstanding involvement in U.S. gas markets and deeper engagement during the rise of the U.S. shale gas boom. In recent years, this expert has engaged with energy transition impacts on energy markets globally, including CCS, offsets, and net-zero LNG.

  
  Start Natural Gas Expert Search

• Expert Witness #286003

  This combustion expert holds a PE and PhD and applies expertise in combustion and thermodynamics to industrial accidents. This expert is a Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator and Professional Engineer, with experience completing Process Hazard Analyses, modeling consequences of fluid and vapor releases, vapor cloud explosions, and other adverse incidents, and inspecting and evaluating gas appliances and fuel gas supply equipment, including propane and natural gas.

  This expert is well published and has been designated as a testifying expert several times and deposed a number of times.

  
  Start Natural Gas Expert Search

• Expert Witness #289608

  This oil and gas processing/value chain expert serves in a senior producer services role for a well-known consultancy specializing in all phases of the natural gas, oil, and NGL value chain across major producing basins.

  This expert has a proven track record across the energy sector, with industry-recognized knowledge in oil and gas marketing, midstream contract negotiation, gas gathering and processing, business development, and all phases of producer services.

  
  Start Natural Gas Expert Search

• Expert 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 Natural Gas Expert Search

• Expert Witness #292973

  This HVAC installation expert holds a PE credential and has experience designing, installing, testing, repairing, and upgrading natural gas systems. Background in both field construction work and management of a construction and service firm provides a practical engineering perspective.

  This expert has served as a consultant and expert witness in matters for both plaintiffs and defendants.

  
  Start Natural Gas Expert Search

• Expert Witness #293081

  This macroeconomic modeling and energy infrastructure expert is a senior economic consulting professional and energy economist with substantial experience providing expert evidence in energy-related commercial and regulatory disputes, as well as international arbitrations. This expert has over 25 years of experience addressing economic issues involving oil and gas, natural gas liquids, pipelines, and the broader energy sector.

  This expert routinely conducts economic analyses of energy and transportation markets to assess historical and forecasted market conditions, including supply, demand, and prices, and to evaluate competition and valuation issues for business, regulatory, and commercial contexts involving expert testimony. This expert has testified frequently regarding natural gas and natural gas liquid product and pipeline markets, as well as the economics of transportation product flows, throughput, and transportation alternatives.

  In addition to expert consulting assignments, this expert is an adjunct professor at a prestigious university, teaching a graduate-level course in energy economics and policy that covers the economics of energy products, transportation, and regulatory economics. This expert has been recognized in recent years as a leading energy expert and arbitration expert by a prominent legal ranking publication.

  
  Start Natural Gas Expert Search

• Expert Witness #303609

  This energy economics expert holds a PhD and has experience as an economist in a federal energy regulatory agency's administrative litigation office, supporting numerous matters involving interstate natural gas transportation, tariff compliance, and rate design. In that role, this expert provided expert support on protested interstate transmission tariff applications for natural gas transmission companies and assisted in evaluating complex issues related to landfill-sourced natural gas transportation.

  These engagements required detailed assessments of transportation cost structures, careful interpretation of pipeline tariff provisions, and analysis of how capacity rights and secondary-market transactions influence customer charges and system operations. This expert has also analyzed California's retail natural gas rates, further broadening expertise across wholesale and retail gas markets.

  
  Start Natural Gas Expert Search

• Expert Witness #303677

  This energy economics expert has more than 40 years of industry and consulting experience focused on the energy industry, primarily natural gas procurement, sales, transportation, and trading.

  This expert provides expert testimony and dispute advisory services in legal and commercial disputes. The testimony primarily addresses contractual disputes and industry customs and practices, including Force Majeure, early termination, joint venture dissolution, price re-openers, appropriate documentation of agreements, infrastructure and rate disputes, trade secrets, and other commercial issues.

  
  Start Natural Gas Expert Search

• Expert Witness #303682

  This energy economics expert specializes in energy markets, quantum valuation, and financial analysis, with over 15 years of extensive experience in the energy sector.

  This expert has developed deep expertise across various domains, including power and renewables, LNG and natural gas markets, and gas midstream operations.

  
  Start Natural Gas Expert Search