Paul Bruner

Paul Bruner was appointed Senior Vice President, Operations in August 2023. He joined NextDecade in September 2019 as Vice President, Operations. Bruner is responsible for pre-operations readiness and will become responsible for the asset management of the Rio Grande LNG facility as each train reaches substantial completion. He has more than three decades of LNG operations management experience working at facilities around the world. Prior to his role at NextDecade, Bruner served as Asset Manager of Egyptian LNG and Queensland Gas Company for BG Group. Prior to that, he was Production Manager for ConocoPhillips at Darwin LNG, held commissioning/startup roles at Atlantic LNG and was in operations at Kenai LNG for 15 years. Bruner graduated from Bismarck State College in North Dakota.