Oil & Gas
Proprietor of pda, Jeff Jones, has been involved in the oil & gas industry since the late 80’s. Jeff was Exxon trained as a project engineer in Esso/BHP’s Bass Strait oil & gas fields obtaining significant upstream production experience as an industry renowned Production, Facilities & Construction engineer (SPE Member# 1166925).
Jeff’s Esso project career included being awarded an IEAust Engineering Excellence award in 1995 for the Longford Liquids Recovery project followed by a key role in the Esso Owner’s Team for the successful delivery of the $1.1B West Tuna & Bream B offshore platforms, the first to utilize a Concrete Gravity Structure allowing onshore Hook-up & Commissioning to minimize offshore installation and production start-up time.
Jeff’s project delivery experience has been further solidified from over 12 years with Thiess Pty Ltd, including Senior Project Manager roles for large infrastructure projects, Oil & Gas Proposals Manager for PT Thiess Indonesia and in a corporate role responsible for implementation and support of risk and assurance systems.
Since 2005 Jeff has provided extensive project risk management services through pda to a variety of client & contracting organisations including the landmark Santos $19B GLNG mega-project from concept through to implementation. Other recent international Oil & Gas clients have included BG-QGC, Shell and Saudi Aramco.
Jeff is regularly engaged to undertake periodic external pipeline audits and Safety Management Study risk assessments for Licensees and operators of gas and liquid petroleum pipelines and associated facility assets; including APA Group, Caltex Australia, EIM QLD, Elgas, Multinet Gas, Shell Aviation and Viva Energy.
Jeff brings a wealth of successful project delivery experience within an oil & gas operating context and has first-hand understanding of business drivers to allow pda to provide superior oil & gas project risk and assurance consulting services.
Jeff’s Esso project career included being awarded an IEAust Engineering Excellence award in 1995 for the Longford Liquids Recovery project followed by a key role in the Esso Owner’s Team for the successful delivery of the $1.1B West Tuna & Bream B offshore platforms, the first to utilize a Concrete Gravity Structure allowing onshore Hook-up & Commissioning to minimize offshore installation and production start-up time.
Jeff’s project delivery experience has been further solidified from over 12 years with Thiess Pty Ltd, including Senior Project Manager roles for large infrastructure projects, Oil & Gas Proposals Manager for PT Thiess Indonesia and in a corporate role responsible for implementation and support of risk and assurance systems.
Since 2005 Jeff has provided extensive project risk management services through pda to a variety of client & contracting organisations including the landmark Santos $19B GLNG mega-project from concept through to implementation. Other recent international Oil & Gas clients have included BG-QGC, Shell and Saudi Aramco.
Jeff is regularly engaged to undertake periodic external pipeline audits and Safety Management Study risk assessments for Licensees and operators of gas and liquid petroleum pipelines and associated facility assets; including APA Group, Caltex Australia, EIM QLD, Elgas, Multinet Gas, Shell Aviation and Viva Energy.
Jeff brings a wealth of successful project delivery experience within an oil & gas operating context and has first-hand understanding of business drivers to allow pda to provide superior oil & gas project risk and assurance consulting services.