Marine & Energy Infrastructure Management
Master Mariner Turned Global Energy Executive
Neil Henderson is the senior consultant you bring in to de-risk and deliver complex marine and energy infrastructure projects.
FOR OPERATORS, DEVELOPERS & INVESTORS
When Projects Do Not Forgive the Wrong Decisions
You are setting up a complex marine or energy infrastructure build, HVDC and cable, vessel conversion, or offshore construction, and you want it de-risked from the outset. The scope is high-stakes, the margin for error is thin, and the cost of getting the early decisions wrong is measured in months and millions.
Or, you are already holding one that is slipping. Over budget, behind schedule, exposed on compliance, or short of the operational leadership it needs. Every week it drifts further from where it should be.
Either way, you need someone who has genuinely done this at this scale, who will give you the straight read early, and who will take control and deliver.
Most senior advisors have only ever advised
Neil Henderson has commanded the vessel, run the operation, controlled the budget, and answered to the regulator. He went to sea as a deck cadet in 1974, rose to Master Mariner, then moved from the bridge into the operations those vessels served: offshore construction, subsea installation, vessel conversion, HVDC and cable. By the time he reached Vice President of Marine Operations, he had done every job he would later oversee.
That progression, from the back deck to VP level, is rare to the point of being almost singular. It is also the reason he can walk onto a complex project and know, within days, what is going to go wrong, or what already has. When Neil signs off a schedule, it is signed off by someone who has stood in every role behind it.
De-risk it early, or recover it late
The value is greatest early. Preventing a problem always costs less than fixing one.
SERVICES & CAPABILITIES
What he takes ownership of
Brought in early or late, the capability spans the full delivery picture, technical and commercial.
CAPITAL PROJECT EXECUTION & OVERSIGHT
Running complex projects end to end, from tender strategy and spread definition through commercial and budgetary control to construction-phase delivery on multi-billion-dollar builds.
MARINE OPERATIONS STRATEGY
Fleet and operational planning, DP vessel management, and charter and Master Service Agreement oversight, built around what actually delivers offshore.
INTERIM EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP
VP and C-suite operational leadership when a project or an organization needs a senior hand through a critical phase.
DUE DILIGENCE & TENDER EVALUATION
Independent review of tenders, capital programs, and vessel conversions for operators and investors who need the real risk picture before they commit.
HVDC & ENERGY TRANSITION INFRASTRUCTURE
Offshore power transmission, cable routing, and the marine scope behind the energy transition, led from the front on CHPE.
REGULATORY & COMPLIANCE INTERFACE
Executive-level dealings with federal and state authorities, environmental compliance, and navigational risk governance.
Featured Projects
A closer look at the work. Each project sets out the situation, the intervention, and the outcome.
BY THE NUMBERS
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at sea and at the top of offshore energy, since 1974
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personnel led across 24/7 global operations
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countries across five continents of marine and offshore construction
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the annual portfolio growth based on offshore schedules he signed off
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the Amazon ultra-deepwater vessel conversion he oversaw as Operations Director
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the CHPE HVDC program, where he served as VP Marine Operations
ABOUT NEIL HENDERSON
Fifty years in marine and offshore energy, across the North Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, West Africa, Brazil, the Mediterranean, and Asia Pacific. He has led fleets and teams of more than a thousand people through round-the-clock global operations, and held full commercial responsibility for portfolios running to hundreds of millions a year.
He holds a Master Mariner certification, Class 1 Unlimited, and the full progression of qualifications behind it.
He founded Templewood Advisory to bring that authority to the operators, developers, and investors who need it. He is based in Houston, Texas, and works across the United States.
WORK WITH NEIL
How to engage
Neil takes on work in a few forms, in order of preference: embedded full-time on a single project for its lifetime, full-time consultancy across multiple projects, part-time consultancy for specific phases, or a full-time role where the brief is right.
He is based in Houston and available for engagement across the United States, with international engagements to follow. He is currently open to new engagements.
For search and placement partners, his full resume is ready to download.
Start a conversation
If you have a project that cannot afford to fail, or one that is already in trouble, the first step is a direct conversation. Book a call and Neil will give you a straight read on where you are and whether he is the right person for it.