Oil, Gas and Energy Transition

Committee

Interim committee

From October 2024 to April 2025, the group will be led by the Changing Future of Oil and Gas Project’s Working Group. In April 2025, the committee will be formally set up, with an annual meeting following election of the Chair, Treasurer and Secretary and recruitment of other committee members, seeking representation across regions, career stages and topic areas.

Steve Flynn

Steve Flynn

Chair

Steve spent 30 years working for oil and gas major BP in various technical and leadership positions, ultimately becoming BP Group Head of Risk Learning and Health Safety Security and Environment (HSSE).

Fatema Al-Haddad

Fatema Al-Haddad

Secretary

Amanda Wong

Amanda Wong

Early Careers Lead

Amanda is currently working as a graduate process engineer at KBR Consulting.

Domenica Seminario

Domenica Seminario

Planning and Events

Domenica is a chemical engineer with experience in various fields including water treatment, catalysis, and renewable energy. She has also been involved in web development.

Grace Yap

Grace Yap

Energy Efficiency Technology

Grace is a principal engineer with a specialisation in energy with Group Technical Solutions, Petroliam Nasional Bhd (PETRONAS).

Hasnor Hassaruddin Hashim

Hasnor Hassaruddin Hashim

Malaysian Representative

Hasnor currently leads the process simulation and optimisation team at Group Technical Solutions (GTS).

John Gunner

John Gunner

US Lead

John is a Fellow of IChemE with over 25 years of international technical and managerial experience, including in the downstream, upstream, brownfield and greenfield projects, process safety and operations support.

Leah Fitzgerald

Leah Fitzgerald

Australia and New Zealand Region

Leah is an IChemE Chartered member with over 10 years of experience in the energy industry within Australia.

Liam Parry

Liam Parry

Policy

Liam is an experienced Chemical Engineer now working as a policy advisor at the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero.

Michael Foley

Michael Foley

UK / EU Region

Michael has spent over 23 years working globally for ExxonMobil in Upstream engineering and operations leadership positions.

Minerva Martinez

Minerva Martinez

OG&ET Professional Development

Minerva is a trailblazing leader in chemical engineering, recognised for her pioneering roles at AspenTech and IChemE.

Mohammad Khankhara

Mohammad Khankhara

Middle East / Africa Lead

Mohammad is a Chartered Chemical Engineer, with over 28 years of experience in oil and gas.

Muhammad Farooq Khan

Muhammad Farooq Khan

OG&ET Professional Development

Farooq is a Senior Process Engineer at Kent Energies, based in the UK, with 17 years of international process design engineering experience, especially in the Oil & Gas, upstream and downstream sectors.

Sajalu Greenall

Sajalu Greenall

Energy Transition, Policy & Strategy Lead

Saj is Energy Strategy Leader for Northern Gas Networks, overseeing development of NGN’s whole system business plan, under multiple energy transition scenarios, and engagement on strategic energy planning with NESO.

Sanjoy Sen

Sanjoy Sen

Upstream and Decarbonisation Technical Lead

Sanjoy is a UK based energy professional with 25 years of experience across a wide range of sectors, including a variety of businesses from start-ups through to multi-nationals.

Weng Loong Hum 

Weng Loong Hum 

Committee Member

Yet Th'ng Lee

Yet Th'ng Lee

OG&ET Skills Lead

A graduate of the University of Manchester, Yet Thng Lee is Principal Process Engineer with Costain with over 17 years of experience in cryogenic gas processing industry (especially in LNG, LPG terminals).

Zahra Echresh Zadeh

Zahra Echresh Zadeh

Education and Outreach

Zahra Echresh Zadeh is a Lecturer (Teaching) in Chemical Engineering at University College London (UCL).