As Chief Operating Officer of Abadie-Williams, Mr. Plaisance is responsible for oversight of the Abadie-Williams project managers within a matrix organization, ensuring continuity between engineering, operations, controls, and subject matter experts. He serves as a critical liaison between Abadie-Williams project managers and client representatives, interfacing this critical component for successful midstream project implementation.

Prior to joining Abadie-Williams, Mr. Plaisance served as the Manager of Oil Movements for The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP), managing the operations control center and the scheduling department. The team was responsible for scheduling and offloading tankers calling on LOOP, receipts from the Mars Pipeline and the Endymion Pipeline. The average total volume of receipts was approximately 1.3 million barrels per day. The team also was responsible for scheduling and moving 1.3 million barrels per day on the pipelines departing the Clovelly Hub.

From 2009 to 2010, he served as the Operations and Maintenance Superintendent of all of LOOP and LOCAP’s onshore assets, interfacing with the offshore supervision to ensure safe and reliable operation of LOOP’s 48” pipeline, from the Marine Terminal to the Clovelly Hub.

From 1998 to 2009, Plaisance served as the Instrumentation and Control Systems Supervisor at LOOP. Project Manager on multiple large-scale meter system upgrades at multiple locations. Project Manager for a complete Facility Upgrade Project at LOOP’s Fourchon Booster Station, including the refurbishment of four 6,000 horsepower pump PLC replacement and electrical substation upgrades. He was the Project Manager for multiple legacy PLC upgrades at the offshore and onshore facilities, including the storage caverns and the brine system.

From 1995 to 1997, he served as the District Engineer for Unocal Pipeline’s Louisiana District, supporting new pipeline start-up on multiple offshore pipelines, valve replacement projects, and control system upgrades. In 1998, he became the acting Louisiana District Manager, responsible for the Whitecap Pipeline, which is an 18” pipeline that runs from Ship Shoal Block 208 to Ship Shoal Block 28 and is a main source of Louisiana Light Sweet Crude (LLS). Between 1993 to 1995, he served as a contract engineer, contract PLC design engineer for LOOP, working on the conversion of the 7,000 horsepower electric pump drives to 7,400 horsepower diesel-driven pumps. He designed the PLCs for 3 of the 4 conversions.

He has served as the Incident Command System Planning Section Chief. Led the Planning Section to develop Incident Action Plans (IAP) for actual emergency responses and emergency response drills. Presented IAP to Federal, State, and local officials and achieved Unified Command approval of the IAP every time. Served as Incident Commander on two emergency responses. Developed customer and media communications protocol to be distributed during weather-related events and abnormal situations.

Mr. Plaisance holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Louisiana State University.