Tony Bryda
Senior Project Analyst, IPA North America
Since joining Independent Project Analysis (IPA) in April 2005, Tony has evaluated megaprojects, upstream exploration and production projects, and mineral extraction projects. He conducts benchmarking analyses from a whole asset perspective, that is, reservoir, well construction, and facilities combined. He has worked on a range of projects, from simple tank-type depletion gas reservoirs to highly complex compartmentalized oil reservoirs. Tony has evaluated several different well construction techniques, varying from simple straight open-hole completions to innovative extended reach wells. He has evaluated many different concept types, including subsea tiebacks, steel piled jackets, compliant towers, FPSOs, revamps, and pipelines. Tony also serves as Client Coordinator for a large petroleum company, with responsibility for coordinating the benchmarking of that company's capital projects.
Prior to joining IPA, Tony had 15 years of business consulting and project management experience in the energy, chemical, and insurance industries. He was a senior consultant and department lead for a major corporate law firm in Washington, DC, where his activities included consulting in settlement cases for Fortune 500 oil and gas, chemical, and public utility companies. He was the first non-attorney professional within the firm to serve as a non-testing expert working on cost recovery cases. He assisted nationally recognized experts in the fields of historical industrial practices, hydrogeology, contaminant fate, and transport and toxicology. Before his law firm experience, he was a project manager for two national engineering consulting firms. His responsibilities during that time included project management of water supply and hazardous waste site investigations, and remediations and research for the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Tony holds an M.S. degree in Geology (with a specialization in hydrogeology) from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska, and a B.S. in Geology from the University of Illinois in Chicago, Illinois. Tony is a member of the Geological Society of America; Geological Society of Washington, D.C.; and is a Professional Geologist in Pennsylvania. He has also authored several peer-reviewed articles and numerous technical reports and presentations.