Your Advisors
BluEnergy comprises a team of strategy and project development advisory experts offering a pragmatic refresh to your strategy and pragmatic, real-world implementation advice, through project implementation as required. In addition to the Advisors below, we have an extensive network of associates to call on as required.
Hamish Wilson
Lead Advisor (Strategy, Business Planning; CCUS)
Specialises in Strategy and Business Planning; Business Case Development; Capital Raising; CO2 storage subsurface
Hamish has successfully led capital raises from private equity for renewable energy start ups as well as CO2 Transport and Storage companies. He is passionate about the opportunities presented by low carbon business opportunities
He has led development of successful CCUS projects; developed Solar, Wind & Battery projects and has extensive experience in company strategy formulation with companies such as Baker Hughes, Sumitomo, BG, BP, Dana and Maersk
He started his career at BP upstream, spending 10 years working in the North Sea, Alaska and South East Asia.
Hamish holds a BSc Geology from Edinburgh and an MBA from IMD (Switzerland)
Sarah Milne
Lead Advisor (Commercial & Non-Technical Risk)
Specialises in Strategy; Complex Value Chain Risk Allocation and Commercial Negotiations; Non-Technical Risk.
Sarah is a leading expert in commercial negotiations and the sustainable allocation of risk along complex value chains. She specialises in understanding and allocating risk fairly between stakeholders who generally have no understanding of each others business models but for whom successful decarbonisation is potentially reliant on interdependent projects.
With >5 years experience of CCUS commercial negotiations in a range of global policy environments, Sarah brings an outstanding track record of leading and delivering commercial deals across the energy industry for nearly 25yrs. She also brings extensive experience in successfully developing complex projects in highly sensitive communities.
With the first half of her career in a variety of roles at at BP, she has subsequently worked on an independent advisor for a range of clients in Sub-Saharan Africa, L48, EU, Australasia with clients including Total and Tullow. She holds a BSc Hons in Economics & Politics from the University of Bath.
Martin Dru
Risk Expert
Specialising in Portfolio risk management; Business transformation; and Technology & Systems
Martin brings 20 years of financial risk management skills to the team, secured in energy and agricultural commodity trading sectors. Previously he gained extensive international experience in a range of major oil company roles from upstream exploration through commercial gas to New Business development. He has risk-managed green energy portfolios since 2001. Martin is recognised as a specialist in large scale breakthrough project design and execution, incorporating IT systems and process change. He holds a BSc Geology from Sheffield and an MBA from Reading.
Tony Smith
Hydrogen Expert
Specialising in Hydrogen; Natural Gas Commercial & Strategy Planning
Tony is one of the UK’s thought leaders in Hydrogen, having spent some 5 years developing a UK industrial decarbonised cluster based on hydrogen and CO2 & CCUS.
He brings some 40 years experience with BP, ExxonMobil and Schlumberger and has global consulting experience in Africa, USA, M.East, Europe.
Previously he specialised in natural gas commercial. He is an expert at Infrastructure planning and is an Advisory Board member of the Decarbonised Gas Alliance and a founder of the UK North West Hydrogen Alliance. He is also a member of the UK Government Hydrogen market advisory group.
He holds a PhD in oil biotechnology
What we do
From informing Board strategy to providing deep expertise in a number of areas BluEnergy can offer the following:
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BluEnergy provides a full range of advisory support across the project lifecycle for CCS and other projects, from concept to execution. Our team helps clients turn ideas into investable, technically sound projects that deliver measurable value. Specific services include:
• Project definition and strategy: framing objectives, technical options, and delivery pathways.
• Economic analysis and business case development: building robust financial & cost models.
• Cost estimation and benchmarking: developing CAPEX/OPEX models and cost-risk assessments.
• Technical and commercial feasibility studies: integrating engineering, market, and regulatory insights.
• Funding and stakeholder engagement: aligning projects with donor, investor, and policy frameworks.
• Implementation planning and oversight: ensuring readiness for procurement, construction, and operations.
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From CCS to Hydrogen, BluEnergy supports C-suite leaders in navigating the shifting energy landscape — helping shape resilient strategies as the headwinds of transition, geopolitics, and regulation intensify. With industry-leading experts on our team, we’re sure to offer advice that is pragmatic and direct.
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From strategy to execution, BluEnergy supports clients through every stage of commercial negotiations — working either alongside your team or as an independent adviser to achieve the best commercial and strategic outcomes.
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BluEnergy provides end-to-end subsurface expertise — from initial opportunity identification through to detailed characterisation and development planning.
We combine technical, operational, and commercial insight to support efficient, value-driven resource management.Our services include:
• Prospect identification and screening;
• Geological, geophysical, and reservoir characterisation;
• Resource and reserve assessment (JORC / SPE-PRMS compliant);
• Development concept selection and production optimisation;
• Integration of geothermal and low-carbon subsurface applications.Our team brings decades of hands-on field and management experience, ensuring that every subsurface decision is technically robust and commercially sound.
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As onshore energy and infrastructure projects grow in scale and visibility, community acceptance has become a decisive factor for timely and successful delivery.
BluEnergy’s Community Acceptance Service helps clients move beyond compliance and bridge the gap between extensive planning, ESG documentation, and the real-world challenge of building community buy-in.
Drawing on our associates’ experience delivering major linear energy and transport projects in complex and sensitive environments, we offer practical insight and structured engagement approaches.
Our goal is to turn regulatory compliance into genuine social alignment — ensuring projects are not only permitted, but welcomed.
BluEnergy promise to Clients is that you will have access to the advisors that you thought you were buying and all the advice we offer is rooted in our deep practical experience and you will enjoy the experience of working with us….