Leviathan.
Led commissioning of the Leviathan offshore gas production platform, the largest built worldwide in the past decade, and managed hook-up and commissioning engineering across all disciplines.
From dark steel
to first gas.
Roni Korotkov, Oil & Gas Senior Advisor. Twenty years taking offshore and onshore energy projects from design to commissioning.
Discuss a projectPlatform live.
Commissioning is the moment a platform comes alive. Roni led hook-up and commissioning engineering on Leviathan for Chevron.
Offshore record
$250M
Brownfield onshore and offshore construction, topside and subsea, on projects with budgets up to that figure.
Both sides of the table.
Now advising the Natural Resources Department on engineering, safety and operations for offshore oil and gas developments, brownfield and greenfield.
Project sheets.
Delivery across Africa and Israel, labelled the way a drawing is: region, role, years, scope, scale.
Africa
Gas to CNG Project
- Role
- EPC Project Manager, then Marine Engineering Expert Consultant
- Years
- 2022 to 2026
- Scope
- Full EPC delivery: engineering, procurement, fabrication and marine installation. Marine advisory on gas extraction, export pipeline, mooring and subsea infrastructure.
- Scale
- $280M
Africa
Gas to Power Project
- Role
- Project Manager
- Years
- 2020 to 2023
- Scope
- Mooring, marine works and onshore plant construction.
- Scale
- $40M
Namibia
Power Station EPC
- Role
- QA/QC Manager
- Years
- 2022 to 2024
- Scope
- Quality management for the power station EPC project for NamPower.
- Scale
- 50 MW
Israel
National Transmission
- Role
- Chief of Maintenance, Israel Natural Gas Lines
- Years
- 2004 to 2010
- Scope
- Headed the department maintaining the high-pressure transmission pipeline and its facilities nationwide.
- Scale
- 500 km
Israel
Midstream and Downstream
- Role
- Director of Engineering, CH4 Engineering
- Years
- 2013 to 2020
- Scope
- EPC project engineering, quality and construction for the midstream and downstream oil and gas sectors.
- Scale
- Nationwide
Israel
Oil and Gas Department
- Role
- Head of Oil and Gas Department, AVIV AMCG
- Years
- 2014 to 2017
- Scope
- Design, development and management of onshore and offshore projects, pipelines and production facilities.
- Scale
- On and offshore
Every figure here is from the project record. Clients on the Africa sheets are kept confidential.
Onshore, safety is a line in a standard.
Downstream gas installations are certified against Israeli standards before they run. Roni inspects them, trains the teams who operate high and medium pressure systems, and has represented industry on the national committee for natural gas codes.
Senior Inspector, natural gas installations
CH4 Engineering and ITL
2017 to present
DVGW Certified Instructor
German Water and Gas Institute, Israel
2019 to present
Operations Manager, O&M, and member of SII Committee 407
Negev Natural Gas
2010 to 2013
Head of Natural Gas Department
Be'er Sheva Technical College
2015 to 2019
Certified
- DVGW, maintenance and operations
- Metering, flow computers and gas chromatography, Germany
- Polyethylene welder, EN 13067
- Process Safety Engineering, Houston
- G-4 and G-5 Gas Conditioning and Processing, PetroSkills
- Basic offshore training: water survival, SWET
Oil and gas engineer by trade. Mechanical engineer by degree. Twenty years on the energy value chain.
- Registered Engineer
- Ministry of Economy and Industry, Israel, No. 20584055
- Member
- Society of Petroleum Engineers, No. 4655866. Israel Organization of Consulting Engineers and Architects
- Education
- B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Tel-Aviv Engineering College. Practical Engineering Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Israeli Navy College
- Languages
- Russian, Hebrew, English
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Same discipline. New load.
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- PermitConcept and building-permit design
- 60%Developed and detailed design
- 90%Design completion and financial close
- SiteSupervision, commissioning and IST