
Biography
Mr. Pellegrino is a Principal with Long International and has more than 44 years of experience in all aspects of engineering, project planning and execution, and project management consulting for onshore and offshore oil and gas projects. His extensive and varied professional project experience in the oil and gas industry includes the full project life cycle responsibilities.
Mr. Pellegrino has supported, managed, consulted, and acted as an expert witness for some of the oil and gas industry’s largest, most complex projects. His responsibilities and experiences include conceptual business case assessment, cost estimating, planning, contract development and award, execution, administration, claims avoidance/assessment, and project commissioning startup and closeout of projects. His oil, gas, LPG, and LNG project experiences include onshore/offshore, upstream/downstream, and domestic/international projects with increasing size and complexity. Project scopes ranged from multimillion-dollar domestic projects to multibillion-dollar international projects. Mr. Pellegrino has worked extensively on international joint venture major capital projects from the owner’s side.
Mr. Pellegrino has extensive shipyard, modular construction, fabrication yard, and construction site project experience. His work experience includes both domestic and international onshore and offshore locations. His offshore responsibilities included various field development projects with owner management project teams and the engineering and construction contractors’ project teams for Floating Producing Storage and Offloading (FPSO) facilities, various platforms (drilling, processing, compression, water injection, living quarters, and Mobile Offshore Producing Units), and pipelines. Mr. Pellegrino consulted extensively on two Western Australian LNG mega-projects, providing project management expertise, driving the establishment of labor productivity programs, and participating as a Subject Matter Expert in the various project execution and risk assurance processes. As a Principal with Long International, Mr. Pellegrino provided expert claim support on two additional Australian LNG mega-projects.
Mr. Pellegrino has consulted as a Subject Matter Expert in project and construction management covering contracting strategies, contract development/assessment, cost, and schedule development/assessment, contract administration, claims avoidance, risk identification/qualification/quantitative, project controls, constructability, project planning and execution, productivity, workface planning/advance work packaging, and commissioning and startup for the owner’s multibillion-dollar portfolio of capital projects. From his direct involvement in project claims, Mr. Pellegrino focused on the implementation of the appropriate contract language, contractor award assessment, organizational structure, workflows, processes, project readiness, and performance assessments for claim avoidance on projects. Throughout his career, Mr. Pellegrino provided claims avoidance and contract claims support for disputes on various projects from the owner’s side.
EDUCATION
M.S., Engineering Management, University of Houston, 1999
B.S., Mining Engineering, University of Pittsburgh (Cum Laude), 1981
PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS
Registered Professional Engineer, Texas (No. 81606)
Project Management Professional (No. 4589) (inactive)
Certified Mediator in Negotiation/Conflict Resolution (1999)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Construction Industry Institute (CII)
Construction Users Roundtable (CURT)
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