Mahdi Charter Engineer, IChemE Fellow, AIChE Fellow is President of Triumph Gas. Mahdi has over 26 years of experience in Engineering and Construction in Upstream, Midstream, LNG, and Low Carbon Industries. Mahdi has held key leadership roles at Worley, Jacobs, and Bechtel. Geographically, his career has covered engineering and construction activities in the Americas, Europe, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Australia, Kazakhstan, West Africa, India, and Indonesia. He was involved in the development from concept to implementation and technical services of various world-class LNG and gas plants, over two dozen NGL recovery and fractionation plants, four gas processing plants during start-up, several gas processing and LNG plants technical services (optimization, gap analysis, debottlenecking, and capacity enhancement), and several carbon capture studies.

Mahdi is the principal author of a new reference book on the Life Cycle of a Process Plant, 1st Edition, Elsevier. He holds 1 US patent on condensate stabilization process and has also documented his research on gas treating & processing, cryogenic gas processing, and carbon capture in dozens of publications. Mahdi has served as Chairman of the Facility Design, Operation, and Maintenance Committee since 2016, Chairman of Facility Forums, and member of Programing Committee since 2018 at GPA Midstream, Chairman of the AIChE Fuels and Petrochemical Division (2023 – 2024), Director of AIChE Management Division (2019 – 2021), Director of AIChE Fuels and Petrochemical Division (2017 – 2021), and Chairman of Gas Utilization Conference AIChE Spring meeting (2018 –2021). He was also honored with the AIChE F&PD Chair Award 2024, the GPA Midstream Leadership Award 2021 and the GPA Midstream Committee Volunteer of the Year Award 2018.

Mahdi completed his studies at the Chemical Engineering School of Azad University, pursued executive education at Harvad Business School, and later at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

Email: mahdi.nouri@triumphgas.com