Jean-Marc ICHBIA, engineer graduate of Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie de Nancy, is the founder and general director of Mineral Energies.

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He created MINERAL ENERGIES, with Peter Bridgeland in 2023 to fulfill the numerous requests received for project expertise with a huge network of competent professionals.

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Since 2022, their activities concentrated on energy transition in LIVISTA ENERGY EUROPE as Administrator and Project Management Team (PMT) Consultant since May 2022, allowing this new company and the energy transition industry to benefit from over 30 years of experience to structure and deliver the most ESG sustainable Lithium refineries in Europe contributing to the Circular Economy and Energetic Independence of Europe. LIVISTA is about to launch FEED for a project, which CAPEX is estimated at this stage at € 1 bn for its first plant.

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Before that, Jean-Marc worked 24 years in TOTAL S.A. (now TOTAL ENERGIES) until 2014. His experience was acquired all over the world: France, UK, Argentina, Norway, Angola, Venezuela, Russia, etc. and across all energy domains: Exploration, Development, Production and M&A within associations with all Energy Majors like Exxon, Shell, BP, Statoil and many more and with many National Oil and Gas companies. 

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He was the project director negotiating all the acquisitions of TOTAL in Russia for several billions of Euros. During this period, he was also at the origin of the concept of the Yamal LNG plant, north of the polar circle, for which he was the sponsor for Total supervising all development activities.

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From November 2014 and for 8 years, he worked in NOVATEK initially as LNG Department Director, where he oversaw multi-billion euros projects like Yamal LNG, € 29 bn, which entered in production in December 2017, 6 months ahead of the plan.

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He then became Project Director of Arctic LNG2, € 22 bn euros, which he started from scratch inside NOVATEK. On this Project, he applied all the methods he developed successfully previously to deliver a Project, which was still on time and cost despite of 2 years of Covid.

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This project was distributed over more than 10 worksites, including 35 000 workers across 6 yards in China, 12 000 workers on the production field, 20 000 workers to build the yard in Murmansk, 15 000 work to build part of the LNG plant in Murmansk, with Engineering centers in Paris, Munich, Milan, Ankara, Saint Petersburg, and Moscow.

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There were a few thousands of interface points monitored and effectively solutioned and the mitigation plans for each risk and opportunity registered were developed and implemented over more than 1000 lines of critical items.

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Jean-Marc has managed many contractor claims throughout his carrier, including one above 270 M€, which he managed to contain to a mere 8 M€ with his team and his strict organization, contract supervision and data management.

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He has negotiated successfully numerous contracts from concept, Pre-FEED/PFS to FEED or DFS, several EPC contracts of several billions, including 2 above € 10 bn. He negotiated directly or supervised negotiations for equipment and material contracts with Yards, major companies like Baker Hughes, Siemens, BASF etc., even many legal, financing, shipping, and marketing contracts. He negotiated several M&A deals up to several billions € and the associated Shareholders Agreements, Sales and Purchase Agreements and many more...  

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He initiated and participated in some of the largest External Project Finance in the world, with Yamal LNG USD 18 Bn and Arctic LNG2 USD 11.5 bn.