2013 Speakers

Keith Bainbridge

Consultant

Keith Bainbridge spent 15 years at sea with BP Shipping before BP left him in 1986! His career path then took him into the “sleuth world” of tracing oil losses on behalf of Lloyds’ Underwriters before attaining a steady job with French oil major Elf (now Total). Sleuthing still continued but concentrating then on ship quality before secondment to Nigeria LNG in 1995. Keith was Shipping Manager for Nigeria LNG from July 1995 to November 1997 whereupon he joined the Paris brokerage firm Barry Rogliano Salles concentrating on LNG commercial development. In January 2001 Keith joined LNG Shipping Solutions as a Director: LNG Shipping Solutions was created by a merger of LNG departments of BRS in Paris and Clarksons of London. In July 2005 he was Managing Director and in May 2007 he was appointed Managing Director of LNG Division in Clarksons. In August 2009 he left Clarksons to become a partner in RS Platou LLP in London and left there at the end of July 2012 to set up his own LNG consultancy.