Your Consultants
BluEnergy is not a big name consultancy offering endless strategy refreshes and re-organisation.
The net zero challenge needs to go beyond compliance and cost minimisation but we aren’t going to insist that you transition to become an energy company.
Hamish Wilson
BluEnergy Lead and Renewables Expert
Specialising in Strategy and Business Planning; Renewables energy strategy formulation & Low Carbon Business case and capital raising
Hamish is NED of a renewable energy start up, and understands the scale of the low carbon business opportunity.
He has worked with Solar and Wind projects and has extensive experience in company strategy formulation with companies such as 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)
Bill Senior
Carbon Capture & Storage Expert
Specialising in Low Carbon Future; Carbon Capture & Storage - Strategy, Projects & Policy; Subsurface – CO2 Storage
Bill is one of the world’s leading CCS experts with over 20 years experience and knowledge of the global landscape, projects, geological storage and the policy/ regulatory environment.
He has worked in the oil and gas industry (BP, Oil and Gas Climate Initiative), consultancy and for UK Government, the European Union and Asian Development Bank. Bill has also contributed to many major CCUS reports, including Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, UK Department of Energy and Climate Change, European Commission & US National Petroleum Council.
He has subsurface, management and projects expertise covering CO2 Storage, oil & gas exploration and resources around the world. He has an MA in Geology from Oxford University.
Sarah Milne
Commercial Negotiations & ESG Expert
Specialising in International Negotiations and ESG (formerly CSR)
Sarah is passionate about identifying commercial low carbon opportunities to enhance a company’s relationship with its host governments, wherever they are around the world.
She brings an outstanding track record of identifying & making deals across the energy industry for over 20yrs. She has extensive community-level access to renewable energy and has led a major CCS project in negotiations with the EU.
Following 12 years at BP she has a decade of consulting experience in a range of projects primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa as a consultant with a range of clients including Total and Tullow. She holds a BSc Hons in Economics & Politics.
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
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.
BluEnergy is a team that has practical low carbon expertise with extensive oil & gas skills, combined with an intimate understanding of risk management and business transformation.
Have a track record of developing and leading low carbon projects from Carbon Capture, Use and Storage and Hydrogen through renewable energy generation including Wind Power, Solar, as well as battery storage and energy sales.
Understand how oil & gas companies work from Board and Business Unit to well head and have developed and delivered oil & gas projects globally
Understand how low carbon opportunities can fit within oil & gas investment criteria and risk profile
Drive to identify practical action based solutions to address the energy transition challenge.