Chad Verret
President and founder of Verret Marine Consulting, LLC

Chad Verret is the President and founder of Verret Marine Consulting, LLC. (VMC) In 2023 VMC executed a memorandum of understanding with North Yorkshire, U.K., based Cryosafe Services Ltd. to work cooperatively on cryogenic marine & terminal/training projects. This cooperative agreement expands the service areas of both organizations and greatly increases their capability to respond to market needs globally. Since starting in 2021 Cryosafe has specialized in LNG operations, assurance and training in terminals, ship-to-ship, and clean fuel bunkering. ChadVerret set up his Morgan City, La., based Verret Marine Consulting (which also has offices in the Houston area) with a focus on areas such as liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a marine fuel,
alternative fuels, and marine based liquefaction projects.

Verret got his start in the offshore industry nearly 40 years ago, signing on with Tidewater Marine as a deckhand in 1985, before working his way up to master though onboard roles at Nicor/Seacor Marine, Ensco Marine, Delmar Systems, and Inland Bulk Transfer. After his time at sea, Verret
moved on to onshore leadership roles, and for 14 years prior to forming VMC served as executive Vice President at Harvey Gulf International Marine, taking on an additional role as President of QLNG Transport in 2017. In 2014 HGIM sponsored the first ever low flashpoint fuels training in North
America for the crew of their pioneering LNG powered fleet. That training is still being delivered all over the country.

In these roles, he was a main driver behind a number of significant innovation projects including the creation of the Harvey Deep-Sea, the first LNG-fueled U.S. flag MPSV (executing the vessel build program from concept to delivery); an LNG terminal in Port Fourchon; Harvey Stone, the first large supply tug Robert Allen Ltd. had designed; and the Q-LNG 4000 LNG bunkering, ATB from concept to delivery. While at HGIM, Verret also served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Society of Marine Gas as a Marine fuel (SMGF).