Prema Suresh

Senior energy and EPC executive with 29+ years of international experience leading complex, capital-intensive projects and operating-center performance across LNG, refining, petrochemicals, offshore, carbon capture, and green hydrogen. Proven record spanning project development, FEED, open-book estimating, lump-sum EPC delivery, engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning readiness, client management, and business development.

Former Managing

Director with P&L accountability for an 850+ person operating center; currently leading execution of a multibillion-dollar U.S. LNG development through a global, multi-center delivery model.

Project Director - Technip Energies - Houston Operating Center | Houston, Texas

(2022)

Commonwealth LNG — 6 × 1.5 MTPA Liquefaction Trains | Louisiana | Present Deputy Project Director for 6 × 1.5 MTPA Commonwealth LNG EPC execution. Lake Charles LNG — 3 × 5.48 MTPA Liquefaction Trains | Louisiana | 2022–2023

• Progressed the program from FEED and open-book estimate through execution readiness, serving as a key member of the complex contract negotiation team that led to the EPC Prime contract signature for the CWLNG project.
• As Deputy Project Director, lead EPC execution from Houston across operating centers in Houston, Paris, India, and Bogotá for a multibillion-dollar LNG development.
• Advanced critical long-lead packages including the main cryogenic heat exchanger, mixed-refrigerant compressor, and Solar gas-turbine generators for the approximately 120 MW Power Island — 5 × Solar Titan 350 gas turbines, modularized at the Solar shop — while driving procurement to approximately 99% completion; manage interfaces between Power Island / generation equipment and the broader LNG EPC scope.
• Directed early construction package strategy and awards (~$1.0B+) covering site preparation, storm-surge wall, marine/MOF, LNG tanks, and piling while managing U.S. LNG regulatory and permitting interfaces.
• Maintained working relationships with major U.S. Gulf Coast construction contractors supporting LNG site execution, subcontracting strategy, and construction interfaces.
• Obtained FERC NTP for site construction and multiple variances; supported LaDOTD transportation permits and field material-management strategies.
• Responsible for progress, scheduling and cost controls for a portion of the EPFC scope.
• Led Re-FEED / verification within the KBR–Technip Energies–Zachry (KTZ) joint venture, using value engineering to optimize target cost for the greenfield LNG development.
• Integrated highly modularized scope—including approximately 150,000 tons of ISBL PAUs and OSBL PARs—with specialty subcontracting packages; EPC contract signed in 2024.

Managing Director - TechnipFMC / Technip Energies - Mumbai, India

(2019 - 2022)

Held P&L and operational-delivery accountability for an 850+ person, multidisciplinary and multifunctional operating center serving domestic and international projects. Led Mumbai Operating Center across disciplines, functions, and global projects.

• Delivered revenue and gross margin above forecast for three consecutive years while overseeing technical, commercial, safety, quality, talent, and delivery performance.
• Maintained client-satisfaction performance above target and led two strategic EPC wins during COVID lockdowns and remote-working constraints: IOCL Barauni Once-Through Hydrocracker and Nayara Polypropylene Unit.
• BP Net Zero Teesside: delivered FEED on an accelerated schedule for an integrated power and approximately 2 MTPA carbon-capture development with GE Power, Shell CCU, and Balfour Beatty; supported EPC cost estimation.
• IOCL Barauni OHCU: led execution of a high-pressure/high-temperature hydrocracker involving CrMoV heavy-haul reactors and clad columns; reached approximately 60% progress with engineering and procurement complete before transition to Houston.
• IOCL Haldia DHDT: led lump-sum EPC delivery for a high-pressure Euro VI unit within a congested operating refinery; managed 350,000 home-office manhours and 2.5 million LTI-free site manhours and negotiated contract closeout with PMC and client.
• HPCL Vizag Naphtha Isomerization Unit: achieved mechanical completion through COVID-era constraints; mobilized subcontract labor safely and delivered 200,000 home-office manhours, 1,200 construction-management man-months, and 5.5 million LTI-free site manhours.
• BHP Billiton Ruby Well Protector Platform: delivered engineering, process, procurement services, and fabrication-yard support for a U.S. project entirely from Mumbai—an operating-center first.
• BP Tortue FPSO: executed approximately 600,000 topsides engineering manhours through a multidisciplinary team and achieved a critical milestone supporting yard fabrication.
• Yuri Green Hydrogen / Yara Ammonia, Australia: supported engineering and supply of balance-of-plant modules from Technip Energies’ Dahej modular-manufacturing yard.

AVP, Head of Engineering / Project Engineering Manager - Technip India / TechnipFMC - Mumbai, India

(2008 - 2018)

Led Project Engineering Managers and the Piping, Civil/Structural, Electrical & Instrumentation, and Mechanical disciplines, with annual peak workload of approximately 1 million engineering manhours. Directed peak annual engineering workload across major disciplines.

• Managed delivery quality, industrial hourly rates, cost of non-quality, construction rework, utilization, productivity, workload and resource planning, capability development, work-process improvement, value engineering, and proposal support.
• CPChem Polyethylene Project | Texas, USA: As Engineering Head, supervised approximately 850,000 engineering manhours for three HDPE/mPE trains under a deferred lump-sum conversion model.
• HRD Process Platform, EPCIC | ONGC, India / PTSC Yard, Vietnam: Led engineering delivery for Mumbai Operating Center’s first EPC offshore-platform project and supported fabrication of approximately 8,000 tons of topsides. Separation / gas-compression platform with KHI compressors, three-stage compression and string test at the PTSC Vietnam yard.
• JBF Petrochemicals PTA Plant — OSBL / Utilities, EPCM | Mangalore, India: Managed engineering and procurement delivery and provided field-engineering services for OSBL and utilities scope, including power generation with Siemens gas turbines, switchyard interfaces, large BFW pumps, boilers, deaerators and cooling-tower / utility systems.
• Seventh Crude-Oil Storage Tank | ZADCO, Zirku Island, Abu Dhabi: Managed engineering and procurement services for a 100-meter-diameter storage tank and associated gauging, pumps, pipelines, foam, deluge, and tank-farm interfaces.
• Cooling-Water / Fire-Water Network Segregation, EPCM | BPCL Mumbai Refinery: Developed the execution plan and procurement / construction-subcontract strategies; negotiated subcontracts and managed home-office engineering, procurement, and reporting.
• Modular Hydrogen Plant, LSTK | BHP Billiton, Kwinana, Australia: Managed E&I engineering and procurement to Australian standards and provided fabrication-yard engineering support for a fully modularized plant executed across four international operating centers.
• NHT / NSU / PENEX Refinery Units, Lump-Sum EPC | IOCL Gujarat: Led E&I engineering and procurement scope and served as field-engineering lead at site.

Lead Instrumentation & Controls Engineer - Chemtex Global Engineers Pvt. Ltd. - Mumbai, India

(2006 - 2008)

• Managed man-hours and cost budgets, progress, and deliverable quality across continuous-polymerization, first-generation bioethanol, and sulfur-recovery projects.

Discipline Job Engineer - Tebodin Middle East - Abu Dhabi, UAE

(2005 - 2006)

• Delivered instrumentation scope for SABIC Jubail Port expansion and BUNDUQ offshore water-injection-platform replacement / revamp work.

Lecturer, Undergraduate Engineering - University of Mumbai - Mumbai, India

(2001 - 2005)

Career Break — Full-Time Parenting - India

(1997 - 2001)

Electrical & Instrumentation Engineering Roles - Ion Exchange India, IAEC Boilers & Heaters, and other industrial organizations - India

(1993 - 1997)

Bachelor's degree in engineering - University of Madras, India (1988 - 1992)

Postgraduate Certification in Senior Leadership - XLRI, India (2001 - 2002)