Situated on the Gulf Coast near Sabine Pass, Texas, the Golden Pass LNG terminal is among the largest LNG facilities in the world with the capacity to produce more than 18 million metric tons of LNG per year.
Our vision is to be the premier LNG export company in North America.
The mission of Golden Pass LNG is to bring clean energy from Texas to power the world.
Our values of safety, integrity, people, community and the environment set us apart and define who we are as a company.
In the early 2000s, there was a growing demand for a cleaner energy source in the United States. Because natural gas is a clean-burning, environmentally friendly fuel, Golden Pass shareholders saw an opportunity to import natural gas into the United States to help meet that demand. The Golden Pass LNG import project began in November 2003. Construction of the Golden Pass Pipeline was completed in 2009, followed by the completion of the terminal construction in 2010. Golden Pass received its first LNG cargo in October 2010 on the Al Khuwair Q-Flex ship.
Due to advances in technology, the United States soon had access to become an abundant domestic natural gas resource base. Around 2012, it was estimated that the United States had enough natural gas supply to last more than 100 years. This was exciting news for the entire country. However, Golden Pass faced an important challenge. What role would the existing facility play in the evolving energy market? The facility maintained all authorizations, operational capabilities, and a ready-to-receive status, serving as a safety valve for U.S. energy security in the event of market disruptions.
This challenge created an opportunity, and the start of a new project in 2012 – the Golden Pass LNG export project. In 2019 our shareholders made a final investment decision to proceed with the project, and construction on a new, world-class LNG export facility began.
Starting up in 2026, Golden Pass will soon bring clean energy from Texas to power the world.
Alex Savva is the President and CEO of Golden Pass LNG, a rapidly growing joint venture of ExxonMobil and Qatar Energy with a vision of becoming the premier LNG export company in North America. In this role, Alex is leading the Golden Pass businesses through final preparation and numerous requirements necessary for startup and commissioning.
He joined ExxonMobil in 2000 as a Facilities Engineer in Australia. Over his years with the company, he has served in a variety of engineering roles with increasing responsibility across facilities, reservoir and subsurface as well as planning, operations and managerial positions in Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Nigeria, and the U.S., where he was appointed New Operations Readiness Manager for ExxonMobil Upstream Oil & Gas. Immediately prior to being named CEO at Golden Pass, he was once again abroad as Executive Director/Production Manager, Upstream Oil & Gas, Deepwater, Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited
An Australian citizen, Alex earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree as well as a Bachelor of Commerce degree from The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1999.
Shawn Carsten is the Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer at Golden Pass LNG, overseeing the finance department's comprehensive responsibilities. Since joining in Spring 2024, he has been a key member of the Golden Pass Leadership Team.
Shawn brings a wealth of experience establishing robust financial organizations and frameworks, including spearheading digital transformations and enhancing business operations. His deep experience in end-to-end energy value chain, along with the chemicals industry has been shaped by domestic and international roles in Shell plc and serving as CFO of Shell Midstream Partners.
Shawn is an alumnus of the University of Colorado, where he pursued Finance, and he holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Mark Robeck serves as General Counsel at Golden Pass, having joined the company in 2021 as Assistant General Counsel. He brings more than 35 years of legal experience representing domestic and international clients across the energy sector.
He began his career in private practice, where he spent nearly three decades focused on dispute resolution, investigations, compliance counseling, and risk management. He represented clients in state and federal courts, domestic and international arbitrations, and in response to civil, criminal, regulatory, and legislative investigations. Mark left private practice to join the U.S. Department of Energy as Deputy General Counsel for Energy Policy. In that role, he advised senior leadership on a wide range of legal and policy matters related to program implementation, legislative proposals, interagency negotiations, White House initiatives, and regulatory actions.
At Golden Pass, Mark initially focused on negotiating and managing the company’s commercial contracts and litigation, while supporting enterprise-wide legal matters. Now as General Counsel, he leads the legal function and provides strategic counsel across all aspects of the business.
Mark earned his bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University and JD from the University of Texas School of Law
Jeremy Horn joined Golden Pass as Vice President of Operations in June 2022. He oversees the Plant and Pipeline Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Safety, Health and Environment teams for Golden Pass, focused on ensuring safe and reliable operations.
Jeremy has over 19 years of experience with ExxonMobil in a variety of operations, technical and strategic planning roles. He started his career as a Facilities Engineer supporting Upstream oil and gas operations across Texas. In 2014, he relocated to Doha, Qatar and began a loan assignment to RasGas as Head of Operations for all common utilities across 7 LNG trains and 2 flowing gas plants. Following a second assignment in Doha as Surface Technical Manager for ExxonMobil Qatar, he returned to Houston in 2019 where he was assigned as LNG Operations Readiness Manager supporting projects across ExxonMobil’s global portfolio. Just prior to arriving at Golden Pass, he worked as the Operations Manager for ExxonMobil’s unconventional oil and gas operations across East Texas and North Louisiana.
Jeremy received his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Auburn University and his MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.
Jeff Hammad is the Chief Commercial Officer for Golden Pass LNG. Jeff has broad responsibilities for managing the commercial group at Golden Pass, including the procurement of 2.6 bcfd of gas supply as well as the corresponding LNG sales of about 18 mta. He began working on the Golden Pass project during its early development phase in 2007 and has remained a core part of its leadership team since the company was founded.
Prior to his assignment at Golden Pass, Jeff joined Qatar Petroleum in Doha as Qatar was emerging into a global LNG powerhouse and managed the commercial development of a portfolio of international LNG receiving terminals. In 2009, he was seconded into Golden Pass LNG to manage the structuring and development of the import facility, and then subsequently the LNG export project. Jeff began his career in the energy industry with Enron where he was a Financial Analyst supporting their international business development efforts, including several expat assignments in the Middle East. Asset development remained his primary focus for the next 20 years, where he held commercial managerial roles helping launch major infrastructure projects across the full energy value chain with companies such as El Paso Energy, Enterprise and Oxy.
Jeff is a life-long Houstonian, and received his Bachelors of Business Administration from the University of Houston following his enlistment in the United States Marine Corps.
Candace Jimerson, Vice President of Business Transformation & Development, has been with Golden Pass for more than 10 years and was instrumental in executing the transition from an LNG import terminal to ultimately a final investment decision on the 16 MTA export facility. In her current role, Candace is responsible for establishing, deploying, and continuously improving our people, business processes, systems and tools to enable the effective delivery of the company’s strategic priorities. She strives to deepen the GPLNG company values and inclusion and diversity behaviors to ensure Golden Pass maintains a solid cultural foundation through growth and change.
In her previous role at Golden Pass, Candace was responsible for commercial LNG operations, where she supported gas supply build out, facilitated governance requirements across functional groups and managed the contractual obligations for the project’s LNG off take agreement.
Candace received her BBA in Marketing from Southwest Texas State University in 2000 and her MBA from Texas Southern University in 2003.
Iain Quinn is the Senior Project Manager of the Golden Pass LNG Expansion Project, a project to convert the established LNG import terminal and existing pipeline to a world class LNG export system. In this role, Iain is leading the project team through the construction, completion, commissioning, and turnover to operations of the 18MTA export facility.
He joined ExxonMobil in 2004, after more than a decade of experience in industry. Over his years with the company, he has served in project management roles with increasing scope and complexity across Europe, North America, and Asia. Immediately prior to joining the Golden Pass Export Project, he was the Senior Project Manager responsible for the delivery of the Huizhou Chemical Complex, a 1.6MTA greenfield multi-product chemical complex.
A British citizen and Veteran Combat Engineer of the British Army, Iain earned a Bachelor of Science in Applied Geology from Anglia Ruskin University and a Master of Science in Mining Geology from the Camborne School of Mines in the United Kingdom.
In a major step toward the startup of our LNG export facility, an LNG cargo designed to cool down our facility has safely arrived at our terminal in Sabine Pass, Texas
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