Steelhead LNG names projects director for proposed Vancouver Island facility – BiV
Steelhead LNG Corp., which is planning an export project onVancouver Island, has hired Ernest Buchan as projects director effective immediately.
Buchan is an oil and gas executive with more than 30 years of international experience working on major oil, gas and LNG projects for companies such as Chevron Corporation and Royal Dutch Shell plc.
In this role, reporting to Ian Hill, Steelhead LNG’s vice-president, technical, Buchan will build and lead an experienced project team that will work with industry partners and contractors to help them evaluate and develop LNG project opportunities through pre-FEED, FEED and engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) phases. Buchan will also work with regulatory agencies in British Columbia to secure the permits required for individual projects and support Steelhead LNG at the corporate level in developing its business and project managementsystems.
Buchan’s engineering, construction and project management experience in the LNG sector includes all aspects and phases of field development, from exploration opportunity framing through to commissioning and operations support, in offshore, onshore and integrated upstream/downstream developments.
