Governing Body

Chris Sparling, ExxonMobi’s LNG Principal Process Engineer, was the lead author of “LNG: Trends in energy and execution efficiency” or, said another way, “Efficiently building more efficient LNG plants” published April, 2020:  LNG Market Trends | ExxonMobil LNG 

Chris has 30 years of experience in engineering, operations, technology commercialization & global project execution, including commissioning, startup & facilities debottlenecking. He’s held positions of increasing responsibility including Project Engineer, Engineering Manager and Advisor on assignments in Canada, Qatar, USA, Japan, Indonesia and France on projects from conventional oil and gas through LNG and Canadian Oil sands. On two occasions, Chris has been loaned to ExxonMobil’s partners to support their project execution with the most recent being the Coral South FLNG project, operated by Eni, as Facilities Lead for the Liquefaction topsides modules.  Chris is now on assignment in Bengaluru, India, where his responsibilities include delivering better designs for future LNG projects.