Testimonials

ECC Award Video
Since 1988, the ECC has been honoring outstanding industry leaders with the annual ECC Achievement Award (formerly the ECC Division Award).  In 2008, Louis J. Cabano, Chairman of Pathfinder, LLC was the 21st recipient.  As part of the ceremony, colleagues of Lou's share their testaments to his work over the years.

Front End Loading, PDVSA
“Pathfinder’s project management support has played an integral part in our capital investment program for more than 20 years. Through supporting our project teams with objective and independent evaluations, practical advisory services and responsive hands-on project support, Pathfinder has contributed to the success of many of our projects, both upstream and downstream.”

McNeil Specialty Products
“Pathfinder has proven to be a true partner, contributing to the success of our project by providing expert, objective overview during the planning, engineering and construction phases of the project. Their responsive, practical and reliable hands-on support to work through the challenging situations associated with aggressive project construction programs has helped us achieve our overall business objectives.”

Equistar Chemcials LP

“Pathfinder’s project specific advice and recommendations have given us a real comprehensive advantage. Their timely reviews and experienced teams have consistently assisted us in achieving successful project results.”

Operadora Cerro Negro, S.A.

“Pathfinder has played an active role in our capital project initiatives. They’ve worked hand-in-hand with our project teams providing expert, objective, independent project review services that have consistently provided us with reliable, predictable forecasts and practical recommendations.”

PDVSA-CIED

“IPMA has been providing project management and related topic training to PDVSA through its training division, PDVSA-CIED, for more than 10 years. Their experience in project management, understanding the Venezuelan marketplace, and ability to customize training sessions around our projects is a synergy rarely available elsewhere.”

Cabot Corporation

“Pathfinder provided the industry perspective we needed to augment our internal training capabilities. The program offered an excellent forum to introduce our new project management process and best practices.”

BP Amoco

“Pathfinder’s staff of outsourced, expert project management and controls professionals has consistently been a responsive, value-added resource for our short and long term project needs.”

ExxonMobil

"Pathfinder has been an excellent source of expert, value-added project management resources when internal resources or expertise have not been available to meet our project commitments.”

UOP

“When we were planning the implementation of the re-engineering design of our project management process, we turned to Pathfinder. They provided us with a world-class, turnkey solution by helping us retool out process, web enabling it for easy use, and training to speed implementation.”

The Bahrain Petroleum Company B.S.C. (Closed)

“Pathfinder has been a true partner in our efforts to develop and administer effective Contracting strategies and plans for many of our major capital projects and programs on a regular basis. Pathfinder has been responsive to needs for expert advice as well as hands on support, working together with our project teams seamlessly to provide contracting and project management services and expertise as needed.”

Nick Lavingia, Chevron*

Nick Lavingia, project management consultant for Chevron, has also witnessed the benefits of working with individuals as skilled and knowledgeable as Pathfinder’s. “We are leveraging Pathfinder to do much of our training,” he said. “Pathfinder has the right experience and background to work with our people in the oil and gas industries. The quality of their people really sets them apart.”

Duaine McMillan, Shell Chemicals*

Duaine McMullin, who serves as a project manager for Shell Chemicals, was impressed when working with Pathfinder to perform cost control on a particular project.

“This project centered on putting in a new control building and replacing the control systems of one of our units,” he said. “They did a very efficient job and were as quick and as thorough as could be expected. I found their staff to be very skilled and organized.”

“The individual assigned to the project had a lot of experience in managing costs associated with what we were doing. He was very good at projecting future costs and was easy to work with.”

“In my experience, Pathfinder gave us high-quality services,” McMullin said. “We spent a little more to hire them, but they provided great service that was worth the money spent.”

Chuck Mackenzie, Motiva Enterprises*

“After an initial learning curve, things have progressed very quickly,” said Chuck MacKenzie, manager of project services for Motiva’s Convent, La., facility. “They have been extremely efficient. We relied on them pretty heavily to drive the whole initiation of good project controls at certain sites. They responded very well.”

Mackenzie believes that Pathfinder’s ability to work quickly and efficiently has much to do with its seasoned staff of project professionals.

“They have a lot of experience in the area of project controls. They really understand that piece of the business,” he said.

John Edmunds, Murphy Oil USA*

John Edmunds, vice president of engineering for Murphy Oil USA, has worked with Pathfinder on several of these projects, including one involving a gated project execution process.

“Pathfinder created templates, work processes and checklists to assist project engineers in executing their projects,” he said. “Murphy Oil has also used Pathfinder to generate template bid documents and contracts for project execution. Pathfinder sets the standard in terms of companies that offer these types of services.”

Frank Hyweege, Emerson Process Management

“Pathfinder is a highly experienced company with very knowledge people and they are the best source to train our Project Managers. The training program we developed is company specific and very well accepted by the course attendees. Pathfinder has been a true partner and took all effort getting this training program developed successfully.”