Richard Harrison is a private consultant and is interested in the integration of commercial and environmental opportunities offered by the use of natural gas. He has five years professional experience in presenting the Gas & LNG Projects course, developed in conjunction with Michael Williams. Mr Harrison had been with the Shell Group of Companies for 30 years. His final post was General Manager, Natural Gas and Project Development Manager for Shell in China from 1997 to 2001. His main responsibility was to develop a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import project, as well as sales and marketing of natural gas, in China. He represented Shell on the Joint Venture Project Committee of the Australian North West Shelf LNG project between 1993 and 1997. Prior to that, Mr Harrison was involved in managing the application of onshore and offshore technologies for Shell’s exploration and production programme, the successful development of gas projects for base and peak load duties in the UK Southern North Sea gas province, gas and oil venture assessments in Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, and deep-water gas and oil discoveries in The Philippines. Before joining Shell, Mr Harrison worked for two years as a Field Geophysicist in Central Australia and Papua New Guinea for the Australian Government Bureau of Mineral Resources (now Geoscience Australia) and for a further two years as a field party leader in Central Australia for a private exploration contractor.