Janet Nodar
Senior Editor, Breakbulk and Heavy Lift, JOC, Maritime & Trade, IHS Markit
Janet Nodar is senior editor for breakbulk, project, and heavy-lift shipping at the JOC. She previously was a reporter and editor for Gulf Shipper, one of four regional weekly publications that were merged into the JOC in 2008, and later for the JOC’s Breakbulk magazine. From 2013-2018, she was content director for Breakbulk Events & Media, including three years with ITE Group, which acquired the Breakbulk business in 2015. She rejoined the JOC in July 2018 and is based in Mobile, Alabama. Nodar holds a master’s in English/creative writing and a bachelor’s in finance from the University of South Alabama.
Robert Ineson
Executive Director, Global LNG, IHS Markit
Robert Ineson serves as executive director of global LNG for IHS Markit, parent company of the JOC. In 1997, Ineson was instrumental in the development of a modeling system for North American natural gas markets that is today the most widely used market modeling software in the North American gas industry and a key component of IHS Markit’s analytical energy efforts. He has more than 30 years of energy industry experience and, prior to his current global role, led the company’s North American natural gas research efforts. Ineson is a co-author, with IHS Markit Vice Chairman Daniel Yergin, of The Wall Street Journal op-ed piece America’s Natural Gas Revolution. He is also a co-author of the IHS Markit CERA Multiclient studies Fueling North America’s Energy Future and Rising to the Challenge: Turning North America’s Unconventional Potential into Reality — A Robert InesonSupply Study to 2018.” His past works include Diminishing Returns: The Cost of North American Gas Supply in an Unconventional Era; New Realities, New Risks: North American Gas and Power Scenarios Through 2020; and The Alchemist’s Challenge: Turning the Southern Cone’s Natural Gas into Gold. His recent research focuses on the unconventional natural gas revolution and on the evolution of global LNG markets. Ineson holds a bachelor’s from the State University of New York at Albany, and a master’s. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Phyllis Kulkarni
Regional Director, North America
Independent Project Analysis
Phyllis Kulkarni serves as IPA’s director of North America, overseeing the Virginia-based consulting and research company’s North American operations. She is responsible for strengthening IPA’s relationship with global and local clients in the US, Canada, and Mexico, with a focus on enabling them to understand project risk and to improve the effectiveness of their capital project systems.
She previously served as IPA’s plant-based systems manager for six years, overseeing the worldwide business and technical development needs for the plant-based systems business sector. Plant-based systems encompasses small project benchmarking, turnaround benchmarking, and licensing of IPA’s FEL Toolbox.
She also served on IPA’s Review Board for two years, reviewing projects for multiple IPA business areas, and was a senior project analyst with IPA's Latin American Project Center, where she was involved in the analysis of petroleum, chemical, and mining projects in Latin America, the US, and Spain.
In addition, Phyllis has led megaproject assessments, site benchmarkings, turnaround evaluations, and analyses of exploration and production projects. In 2003, Phyllis she presented the results of a research study that she led on joint venture projects at IPA’s annual Industry Benchmarking Consortium.