{"id":17753,"date":"2021-04-19T16:08:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T15:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abl-group.com\/abl\/?post_type=people&#038;p=17753"},"modified":"2024-08-08T07:02:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T06:02:19","slug":"ian-cummins","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/abl-group.com\/abl\/people\/ian-cummins\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Cummins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ian has extensive leadership experience in engineering and delivering multibillion dollar projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Ian Cummins is a chartered engineer with over 25 years experience in engineering, engineering management and project&nbsp;management in the Oil and Gas industry. Ian is a projects development director in the energy department, based in London. Prior to&nbsp;this, Ian has worked for marine and structures consultancies, a drilling contractor and seventeen years for BP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his role as BP\u2019s Head of Engineering, he managed BP\u2019s central engineering team of discipline experts and led the worldwide&nbsp;engineering discipline across BP, covering projects, operations, wells and technology (in excess of 2200 engineers). During this&nbsp;time, he revitalised engineering within BP and spearheaded industry-wide collaboration and standardisation initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before this, as Vice President of Engineering &amp; Quality for BP\u2019s Global Projects Organisation Ian led the transformation of the&nbsp;global projects engineering function to deliver safe and competitive projects while providing leadership, direction and functional&nbsp;support for engineering and quality to all upstream projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout his career at BP, he has held technical authority, engineering management and project management positions, with&nbsp;increasing accountability, for major projects both in the UK and across foreign assignments in Azerbaijan, The Republic of Georgia,&nbsp;Trinidad and the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has particular experience is driving cost reductions in the Oil &amp; Gas industry through leadership, innovation, standardisation and&nbsp;collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to his time at BP, Ian worked in France and the United States for Schlumberger Sedco Forex as a marine &amp; structures engineer and before that, in the United Kingdom, for highly respected offshore, marine and coastal engineering consultancies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Commercial Officer, ABL Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":28976,"template":"","service":[],"location":[111],"company":[724],"discipline":[639,653,662],"class_list":["post-17753","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-uk","company-abl","discipline-civil-engineer","discipline-marine-engineer","discipline-project-manager"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.6 (Yoast SEO v24.7) - 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