James Ball
Director, Gas Strategies
Biography
James Ball, Director of Gas Strategies, is a respected advisor on natural gas. He has led assignments with the most important energy companies in the world and has acted as personal advisor to key leaders and organisations in gas and LNG world wide for the last 25 years. James has been involved in the inception, delivery and completion of numerous projects and business developments with clients.
He has also acted as an expert or trusted advisor on commercial matters in dispute resolution proceedings and led numerous due diligence projects for the lenders to many of the largest gas and LNG projects in the past 15 years.
Gas Strategies advises companies, government departments and project developers world-wide on commercial, organisational change and strategic issues in gas and LNG.
James and his Gas Strategies colleagues have been key advisors in the formative stages of several major breakthrough LNG and gas projects including Teesside GasPort, China’s first LNG terminal, the Blue Stream pipeline, Qatar’s RasGas LNG, Trinidad & Tobago’s LNG industry, and Indonesia’s original LNG extensions contracts. They have also advised various stakeholders over the years as they and their businesses expanded and evolved.
Among his prestigious papers were the first Anzai Paper at Gastech in 1988 and the Sir Dennis Rooke Lecture in 2000. In 2005, James was made a Companion of the Institute of Gas Engineers & Managers an honour bestowed on “distinguished persons” in the gas industry. In 2007, he was made a Fellow of the Energy Institute.
