Vivek Chandra

Vivek Chandra is an LNG entrepreneur with over 35 years of international oil and gas experience across the entire value chain. He is currently developing Gulfstream LNG, an LNG export facility with a large site on the Mississippi River in southern Louisiana. The multi-billion capex project has closed on multiple funding rounds, has received its FTA export permit from the US Government, announced its technical partners, and is actively progressing in the FERC permitting process with expectations that it will progress from the preFiling phase to the Application phase in mid 2025.

Chandra’s extensive 35+ year 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 Oil and Gas (merged with BP) in the United States, including California, Texas and Alaska, and offshore geophysical field engineering with Schlumberger in SE Asia, Middle East and US.

Chandra has worked on LNG import, LNG export, as well as natural gas pipeline export projects. He has degrees in Geophysical Engineering (Colorado School of Mines), Energy Management (U. of Pennsylvania), Petroleum Economics (IFP France), Commercial Law (Deakin University Australia) and a Ph.D. in International Law with dissertation on disputed international maritime boundaries (Deakin University Australia).