Dave Edwards PhD

Dave Edwards is an accomplished technical advisor and project manager with diverse global experience delivering major upstream Oil and Gas projects. His technical and engineering backgrounds, and his ability to conceptualize and execute innovative concepts successfully, have repeatedly resulted in significant cost savings while maintaining high financial and safety performance records. Dave has extensive experience in deepwater field development and has served as the project manager on a number of $1-5billion+ CAPEX projects in a variety of international environments, successfully managing key internal and external stakeholders. In his 33 years at Shell, and 8 years at Endeavor Management, Dave has continually developed new engineering concepts and processes that have resulted in significant cost savings from improved efficiency, competition, and safety. In addition, Dave successfully managed large and diverse owner teams and predominately local project teams, and improved relationships with government mandated contractors, while meeting project schedules in locations that can be politically and economically challenging.