Commonwealth Projects names CCO

George Nemeth has joined Commonwealth Projects as chief commercial officer.

Nemeth has more than 20 years of experience commercializing gas and marketing and trading LNG. He began his energy career with ExxonMobil working on projects around the world prior to moving to the trading side of the business to launch LNG trading desks at Merrill Lynch Commodities, Société Général and Koch Supply & Trading. Over the past eight years, he has directed LNG business development initiatives for AES Corporation and, more recently, Sempra Infrastructure.

George Nemeth

“We are thrilled to have George be part of the Commonwealth Team” said Farhad Ahrabi, CEO and President. “George has an impressive amount of recent and relevant experience in leading origination efforts and SPA negotiations of export projects. His insight and perspective are an ideal match to lead the commercialization and marketing efforts for Commonwealth LNG with the goal of delivering clean-burning natural gas to world markets.”

Commonwealth LNG is an 8.4 mtpa LNG export terminal project on the U.S. Gulf Coast near Cameron, Louisiana. TCommonwealth LNG is a subsidiary of Commonwealth Projects, a development company specializing in large-scale energy infrastructure projects.