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Career Experience · Capital Projects & Operations

Where Our Experience Comes From

SafeGuard Projects is a new firm. The experience behind it comes from the roles our principals held at the companies below.

75+
Combined years in industry
$30B+
Project value worked on (includes FEED-stage work)
12
Plant commissionings & startups (Bruce Miller)
24
Plants operated or supervised (Bruce Miller)

Projects Our Principals Have Worked On

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Sasol US Mega Projects — Lake Charles, LA

$12B project. Bruce Miller served as PSM Manager (all project PHAs, P&ID reviews, PSM budget and schedule, 10 direct reports), then Commissioning Director. Michael Lambden served as Commissioning Systems Engineer on the Ziegler Alcohols and ethylene cracker units.

PSM & Commissioning Petrochemical
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Sasol GTL Project — FEED

$18B gas-to-liquids project (FEED; the project was later postponed). Bruce served as Refinery Manager for the Fuels/Derivatives area with alignment work in South Africa, Nigeria, Qatar and Italy; Michael served on the FEED team.

FEED GTL
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Chevron Pascagoula Refinery — 31 years

Bruce Miller rose from Operations Trainee to Plant Manager across 24 plants, with Operations Director, Turnaround Manager, PSM Manager and alarm management roles, and FEED-to-startup assignments on multiple unit projects.

Operations Refining
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Chevron Pascagoula — Continuous Catalytic Reformer

Bruce Miller served as 3D Operations Superintendent on the CCR project from FEED through startup, including PHA and P&ID HAZOP reviews.

FEED → Startup Refining
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Chevron Pascagoula — Bio Gas Project

Bruce served as Operations Superintendent from FEED through startup.

FEED → Startup Refining
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Chevron Pascagoula — Paraxylene/Eluxyl & Aromax

Bruce served as Operations Supervisor on both aromatics projects from FEED through startup.

FEED → Startup Aromatics
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Chevron Pascagoula — RDS/Coker

Bruce served as Operations Supervisor through commissioning and startup, and as turnaround manager on the RDS/Coker units.

Commissioning & Startup Refining
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Angola LNG & Nigerian GTL — FEED

While with Chevron, Bruce served as Plant Manager during the FEED phase of the Angola LNG project and the Nigerian GTL project.

FEED LNG / GTL
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Formosa Plastics Olefins 1 & 2, BTX — Point Comfort, TX

Michael Lambden worked from construction and pre-commissioning through startup and operations, as operator through Lead DCS Operator/Supervisor: P&ID reviews, HAZOP/LOPA/JSA participation, PSSR development and MOC follow-through.

Construction → Startup Olefins
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SIPCHEM Methanol — Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia

Michael served as Operations Trainer on the methanol synthesis unit after startup, training and qualifying junior operators.

Operations Training Petrochemical

These are roles Bruce Miller and Michael Lambden held as employees of the companies named, not SafeGuard Projects engagements. Project values are as stated in their career records.

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