Vivek Chandra

CEO and Founder, Texas LNG

Vivek Chandra is the CEO and Founder of Texas LNG, a 4 MTA LNG export project in South Texas, USA, to be built in two phases on a 625 acre deepwater frontage site.  The Texas LNG project has recently transitioned from US Government Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) pre-Filing permitting phase to the formal FERC application phase. FEED engineering has been completed by equity and technical partner, Samsung Engineering. The project has attracted funding from a major US investment fund and will begin construction in 2017, first production in 2021.

Mr Chandra’s extensive 29+ years international gas experience includes roles as independent LNG consultant, senior commercial executive with an Australian energy company, development of gas projects in the Middle East, and diverse experiences with ARCO in the United States, including Alaska, and offshore field engineering with Schlumberger in SE Asia, Middle East and US. He has worked on commercial matters with LNG import, LNG export, as well as gas pipeline export projects.

He is the author of Fundamentals of Natural Gas: An International Perspective, a bestselling hardcover book published by Pennwell publishers of Oil and Gas Journal (second edition to be published in late 2016), teaches the popular “Natural Gas Dynamics” executive course, and has developed mobile apps for the natural gas industry.

Mr. Chandra holds a BSc. degree in Geophysical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, a MSc. in Petroleum Energy Management and Policy from the University of Pennsylvania, a Diplome D’Ingenieur in Petroleum Economics from the French Petroleum Institute (IFP), and a Masters in Commercial Law from Deakin University, Australia.