Neville Ephraim

General Manager, Operations iGAS

Neville Ephraim is the GM: Operations for the South Africa Gas Development Company (iGAS), ), which is a subsidiary of the CEF Group of companies. He is a registered Professional Engineer with 30 years engineering, project management and business development experience in the energy industry, with more focus on gas.  

His initial experience was gained at the Mossgas/PetroSA GTL plant in Mossel Bay as a Design Engineer and Project Manager. Later experience was gained in Italy, Norway, Japan, Germany, Iran and the United Kingdom in Project and Technology management as well as business development while working in International Joint Ventures for the development and commercialisation of the PetroSA Low Temperature Fischer Tropsch (LTFT) technology and the GTL.F1 Gas to Liquids flow-scheme. Significant roles include AIA Design and Verification Engineer; Engineering and Project Management for the Fischer-Tropsch Semi-Commercial (FTSC) Plant in Mossel Bay, Technology management for a GTL Plant in Iran and Project Management for the Tinrhert Integrated GTL Project in Algeria.  More recent experience has been with iGas, working on gas transmission infrastructure projects, that include engineering and construction of the Compressor Station in Komatie-poort and Loop Lines 1 and 2 in Mozambique; pipeline integrity improvement and management; and intelligent pigging.