Project updates—Ichthys

Antoine Serceau has been working in the oil and gas industry for more than 25 years, specialising in the project management of pipeline, platform and onshore plant construction. For most of his career Antoine has been with the French company Total E&P, most recently as Senior Vice President, Projects Construction in the Total E&P Technology and Operations Division. In 2010, Antoine was seconded from Total to INPEX as Managing Director in charge of the large-scale Ichthys LNG Project, a joint venture between INPEX CORPORATION and Total E&P Australia. Antoine is undertaking the critical role of progressing the Ichthys Project through the final stages of the FEED phase and into construction. Construction is due to commence in early 2012 following a final investment decision by the Joint Venturers scheduled for Q4 2011. Antoine graduated in Engineering from the Institut Catholique des Arts et Métiers in Lille in 1973 and took up a position as a pipeline engineer with OTP in Paris. In 1980 he joined Elf (subsequently part of Total) as an engineer in the E&P Division’s Congo Projects group. He then held various engineering management positions, on major projects in Norway, Gabon and the Netherlands. Antoine Serceau’s career continued to progress, with a posting to Elf’s E&P centre in Pau (France) as Projects Department Manager, followed by a move back to Norway as Froy Project Director. Then from 1997–2002, his operational career was crowned by appointment as Project Director for the showcase Girassol deep offshore development project in Angola.