CEO Experience - Jacobus Nieuwenhuijze
HSSE and Risk

CEO Experience - Jacobus Nieuwenhuijze

Oil and gas experience - Leadership roles

Locations

  1. India for ONGC - Bombay projects
  2. UK/ Brasil - London for B&R / Halliburton – offshore Brazil project for Petrobras. • Azerbaijan – 4 projects - Worldbank and EBRD regulations for upstream, midstream and downstream.
  3. Egypt – Sakara project - . upstream, midstream and downstream.
  4. Philippines - downstream project for Shell Philippines
  5. Australia – LNG project – satellite offices in Singapore, Japan, Oslo, London and Houston
  6. Oman – downstream project with OECD rules compliance
  7. Malaysia – various projects in East and West Malaysia -


Actions

  1. Managing shareholder objectives
  2. Coordinate and managing all stakeholders expectations including negotiations
  3. Provided leadership, management and coordination between the contractors, company and stakeholders.


Results

  1. Successful completion of all projects. • Implementation of a large number of sustainable social programs/investmen



BP Refinery Whiting Modernization Program


Situation

  1. North East USA (Chicago, NYC, etc.) extensively relied on refined products.
  2. Refinery unsuitable for intended handling of Canadian heavy Sand oils.
  3. Brownfield facilities and project scope.
  4. Contractor management commercial model was unviable.


Actions

  1. Provided leadership, management and coordination between the contractors and ongoing operations.
  2. Renegotiated main contractors (Jacobs – Amine and Sulphur Recovery Unit, Foster Wheeler (Delayed Coker) and Fluor (Hydro Treater, VDU, CDU, Utilities and Offsites) towards a limited risk reward model.
  3. Extensive HSSE program (and SIMOPS) to assure safe operation of the exciting facility vs the construction of the new build.
  4. Managed large logistics program with goods and materials coming from 6 fabrication yards around the world.
  5. Negotiations with 11 unions presented in the construction work.


Results

  1. No increase of refinery footprint.
  2. No interruption of the operation’s output.
  3. Zero LTI.
  4. No strikes ( 11 different unions).

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