NextDecade Appoints Tarik Skeik as Chief Operating Officer
NextDecade Corporation has appointed Tarik Skeik as chief operating officer of the Company.
In this role, Skeik further enhance a management team with outstanding experience in major capital project delivery and operations as the company works to deliver phase 1 of Rio Grande LNG (RGLNG) safely, on schedule, and within budget, reach positive final investment decisions on RGLNG trains 4 and 5, and advance its Next Carbon Solutions business.
“With more than 20 years of experience delivering mega energy projects around the globe, I’m excited to have Tarik join our team,” said NextDecade Chairman and CEO, Matt Schatzman.
“Tarik brings a diverse set of skills that will help NextDecade transition from a successful development company into a world-class operating company,” added Schatzman.
Before his appointment as the COO of the company, Tarik Skeik, 44, was a global project executive at ExxonMobil where he worked since 2011. Skeik has more than 20 years of experience delivering global complex mega projects in LNG, oil and petrochemicals across North America, the Middle East and Asia. He led the completion and start-up of six greenfield assets exceeding $50 billion in investments. His experience includes the planning and execution through initial operation of projects including the Huizhou Chemicals Complex in China, Gulf Coast Growth Ventures in the U.S., Banyu Urip in Indonesia, Kearl Expansion in Canada, and QatarGas 2 in Qatar.
NextDecade is an energy company accelerating the path to a net-zero future. Leading innovation in more sustainable LNG and carbon capture solutions, NextDecade is committed to providing the world access to cleaner energy. Through its subsidiaries Rio Grande LNG and NEXT Carbon Solutions, they are developing a 27 MTPA LNG export facility in South Texas along with one of the largest carbon capture and storage projects in North America. The company is also working with third-party customers around the world to deploy proprietary processes to lower the cost of carbon capture and storage and reduce CO₂ emissions at their industrial-scale facilities.
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