Jurie Steyn

Consulting Partner, Director

Jurie holds a BEng(Chem)Hons and an MBA. He has more than 37 years of engineering, operations management and functional management experience. He started, developed and managed the Environmental & Risk Engineering group in Sasol Technology for more than 14 years.

About Jurie

Jurie holds a BEng(Chem)Hons from the University of Pretoria and an MBA. He has more than 37 years of engineering, operations management and functional management experience. He started, developed and managed the Environmental & Risk Engineering group in Sasol Technology for more than 14 years. He is the co-author and editor of two books on project and programme management.


Jurie’s areas of expertise include:

  • Fischer-Tropsch technologies (fixed and fluidised bed)
  • Plant process and control engineering
  • Production planning, control and reporting
  • International experience of environmental due diligence
  • International environmental trends and trading requirements
  • Operations and engineering management
  • Process and health risk management
  • Environmental engineering
  • Health and safety management during project construction phase
  • Land risk management and remediation of contaminated land.

    PUBLISHED INSIGHTS

    Engineering Quality Management

    Engineering Quality Management

    By Corne Thirion and Jurie Steyn. Projects are often remembered for their cost overruns or delayed delivery, rather than the quality of their deliverables. Yet, it is the quality of those deliverables that dictates the potential financial gains or losses throughout its lifespan. This article discusses an Engineering Quality Management (EQM) approach that ensures the delivery of technical quality in engineering projects.

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    Project Governance

    Project Governance

    By Herman van Heerden, Freek van Heerden, Jurie Steyn  Introduction Ed Merrow (2011), in his book Industrial Megaprojects, maintains that much of the pathology we see in megaprojects today reflects the nature and problems of the modern industrial firm and the way in...

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    Black Swan Risk Management for Projects

    Black Swan Risk Management for Projects

    By Jurie Steyn.Introduction Decimus Junius Juvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a poet active in the period AD 110 to 130. He wrote sixteen satires on the vices, abuses, and follies of Imperial Rome and is regarded by many as one of the greatest satirists of...

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    Natural Gas for Road Transport

    Natural Gas for Road Transport

    By Freek van Heerden, Corne Thirion and Jurie Steyn. Introduction Natural gas is a fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane (CH4) and is the cleanest of all hydrocarbon fuels. It generates carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, upon combustion and is therefore not...

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    Small-scale versus Large-scale LNG Plants

    Small-scale versus Large-scale LNG Plants

    By Jurie Steyn. Introduction Consumption of natural gas (NG) has grown rapidly over the past three decades and today accounts for nearly a quarter of the world’s primary energy supply. Although global primary energy consumption fell by 4,5% in 2020 due to the Covid-19...

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    Natural Gas for Power Generation

    Natural Gas for Power Generation

    By Corne Thirion and Jurie Steyn Introduction The world needs an abundant supply of clean and affordable energy to support economic and social progress and build a better quality of life, particularly in developing countries. Until recently, this desire for energy has...

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    Outlets and Applications for Natural Gas

    Outlets and Applications for Natural Gas

    By Jurie Steyn  Introduction South Africa’s energy sector has been in a state of insecurity for many years, and this will probably continue into the foreseeable future. Carbon emissions are high due to an over-reliance on coal as feedstock. This sets the scene for a...

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    Learning from All Projects

    Learning from All Projects

    Any organisation should strive for continual improvement in the way they execute projects. A good way to do this is to ensure that mistakes of the past are not repeated.

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    Beneficial Utilisation of Carbon Dioxide

    Beneficial Utilisation of Carbon Dioxide

    In this article, we take a brief look at the thermodynamics of CO2 and present an overview of some of the more interesting and promising applications for CO2, based on public domain information. Introduction Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the major cause of climate change,...

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    Alternative Modes of Natural Gas Transport

    Alternative Modes of Natural Gas Transport

    In this article we explore how energy from natural gas can be transported in other forms rather than directly as gas or liquefied gas.  Some of these methods are more speculative than others and research and development is at an early stage. Introduction The transport...

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    Thoughts on Marketing a Small Consulting Firm

    Thoughts on Marketing a Small Consulting Firm

    Marketing is everything that you and your company do to find and keep clients. Most small consulting engineering firms do not have marketing departments or even dedicated marketers. Marketing responsibilities are carried out by partners as one of several management...

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    Hydrogen for Vehicular Transport

    Hydrogen for Vehicular Transport

    I have had very few opportunities to use a motor vehicle during the past several months of Covid-19 induced incarceration.  Not being able to travel, affords one the opportunity to reflect on what the future may hold for vehicular transport.  In other words, what will...

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    Remote Project Support for Owner Teams

    Remote Project Support for Owner Teams

    Much has been written about the Covid-19 virus pandemic, the impact it has had on the world economy and how it will necessitate changes to the way we have traditionally interacted with other parties.  At this time, nobody knows precisely what the future holds, but we...

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    Hydrogen as Energy Carrier

    Hydrogen as Energy Carrier

    In this article, we share some thoughts about a potential future hydrogen economy, discuss the different production routes for hydrogen, consider logistic implications of hydrogen storage and distribution, and describe some of the applications of hydrogen, and particularly transport applications.

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    The Elusive Project Sponsor

    The Elusive Project Sponsor

    All projects are risky ventures: the larger and more complex the project, the higher the risk of an unsuccessful outcome. The project sponsor is the primary risk taker and owner of the project’s business case. In this article, we consider several scenarios for the...

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    The Widening Trust Gap in Projects

    The Widening Trust Gap in Projects

    Trust is essential for project success. With several stakeholders, often with competing short term business objectives, how is this trust established by the owner team?  What causes trust to break down?  In this article we discuss this challenge from the perspective...

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    Quantitative Risk Analysis for Projects

    Quantitative Risk Analysis for Projects

    This article is a continuation of a two-part series of articles on the basics of project risk management as published previously.  The two parts are as follows: Part 1:  Planning for project risk management (Steyn, 2018a); and Part 2:  Identify, analyse, action and...

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    Project Portfolio Management and Optimisation

    Project Portfolio Management and Optimisation

    In this article, the primary focus is on the management and optimisation of the project portfolios to ensure that business needs are adequately addressed, and value is maximised. Introduction Organisations invest in programmes and projects to ensure sustainable growth...

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