As founder and Chief Executive Officer of Abadie-Williams, Mr. Abadie is directly involved in day-to-day activities, working with functional departments, and assisting client executives. He has been involved as an owner’s rep, strategic consultant, and due diligence advisor for over $450 million dollars’ worth of acquisitions and divestments between major corporations and independent operators.
His experience and expertise has allowed an expanded consulting confidence in his clients, specifically, in areas such as marine terminal front-end engineering and design, deepwater pipeline operations, abandonment and liability planning, Gulf of Mexico asset life extension, engineering assessments, integrity auditing, data management, CAPEX/OPEX planning, purchase sale agreements, facility sharing agreements, tariff generation, and regulatory compliance representation.
Mr. Abadie has directly managed CAPEX intensive projects throughout the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, and Texas; ranging from crude oil terminal and pump stations to large-scale deepwater pipeline diving operations.
Prior to starting Abadie-Williams, Mr. Abadie served as engineering and operations lead for Harvest-Marks Pipeline, a private equity joint venture, which acquired Chevron and British Petroleum Cypress Pipeline assets located within southeast Louisiana. Mr. Abadie worked directly with ownership to achieve revenue benchmarks and managed daily operations. Tyler facilitated the implementation of capital projects, new producer connections, an upgraded SCADA system, compliance management software, and represented the company in PHMSA/LDNR audits. Tyler eventually served as the technical and operational liaison between the divesting and acquisition parties.
Before his tenure in the midstream industry, Mr. Abadie worked as a contractor for companies such as Dow Chemical, OxyChem, Rolls Royce, NASA, Georgia-Pacific, Chevron GOMBU, Monsanto, International Paper, Buckeye, DuPont, and Shell.
Mr. Abadie holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Louisiana State University and is a licensed professional engineer in Texas and Louisiana.
