Arnie Chaiyavet
Senior Project Manager | 31+ Yrs Oil & Gas | Led $100M–$2B Major Capital Projects | Offshore/Onshore | Deepwater Subsea | CCS | Portfolio & Project Leadership | 25 Yrs Chevron & 5 Unocal, Top 5% Leadership Effectiveness
- Role
- Senior Manager, Capital Projects - Portfolio Performance at Chevron
- Location
- Houston, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Arnie Chaiyavet
Enterprise-wide experience (30 years, 25 Chevron + 5 Unocal) covering upstream, downstream and midstream (pipeline) both offshore and onshore including technical experience in deepwater subsea completions (e.g. Angola and Nigeria), FPSO developments, LNG and diesel import facilities, waterflood, steamflood (e.g. Kuwait PZ) and shallow, offshore shelf developments (e.g. Thailand), and Gorgon CCS Co2.• Wide-breadth of technical, consulting, and management experience covering facilities engineering, drilling, decision analysis, reservoir engineering, assurance, risk management and project management.• Diversity of domestic and international locations including resident and rotational expatriate assignments (e.g. Thailand, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kuwait, U.K, Kazakhstan). Consulted in many other various locations (e.g. Brazil, Venezuela, Australia (Perth), Indonesia, Nigeria, Alaska, Bakersfield, Covington).• Strong project management and team-building skills.• Excellent leadership behaviors; strong teamwork and soft-skills.
Experience
Senior Manager, Capital Projects - Portfolio Performance
Jul 2025 — Present · Houston, TX, US
Education
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
M.S., Civil & Environmental Engineering
1993 — 1995
Thayer Leadership
Executive Education, Battle-Tested Leadership Strategies For Executives at West Point
2018
Columbia University
B.S., Chemical Engineering
1988 — 1992
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Executive Education, Asian American Executive Program
2019
Skills
- Reserves
- Onshore
- Petroleum
- Field Development
- Risk Management
- Gas
- Offshore
- Planning
- Petroleum Engineering
- Risk Assessment
- Drilling Engineering
- Decision Analysis
- Upstream
- Project Engineering
- Change Management
- Completion
- Risk Analysis
- Engineering
- Project Planning
- Feed
- Downstream Oil & Gas
- Drilling
- Risk
- Oil & Gas Industry
- Lng
- Offshore Drilling
- Energy Industry
- Energy
- Oil/Gas
- Oil & Gas
- Oil
- Natural Gas
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