FTI Consulting Expands Its Houston Energy Practice with the Addition of Rick Porter
September 14 2016 - 7:30AM
FTI Consulting, Inc. (NYSE:FCN), the global business advisory firm
dedicated to helping organizations protect and enhance their
enterprise value, today announced that it has expanded its Houston
Energy practice within the firm’s Economic Consulting segment
with the addition of Rick Porter as a Senior Managing
Director. Mr. Porter will be based in Houston.
Mr. Porter, who joins FTI Consulting from Black & Veatch
Management Consulting, has nearly 40 years of experience in the oil
and gas sector, focusing on the midstream business working with
large interstate pipelines. He has conducted regulatory due
diligence for acquisitions and pipeline construction. He also has
provided regulatory analysis and expert testimony in rate cases,
and has prepared Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rulemaking
and policy analysis, commentary and strategy development.
Before joining Black & Veatch, Mr. Porter founded The Pythia
Group LLC, a consulting firm that provided regulatory strategy,
support and advisory services to the natural gas industry. He also
spent more than a decade at ANR Pipeline, where he directed the
regulatory planning, development and implementation of multiple
pipeline expansions, Greenfield pipeline projects, new service
offerings, rate case filings, settlements and litigation.
“The oil and gas sector faces a host of regulatory challenges,
and Rick’s deep regulatory background will help clients navigate
those issues,” said John Klick, Global Leader of the Economic
Consulting segment and co-head of the Energy, Power &
Products (“EPP”) industry practice at FTI Consulting. “With
the addition of Rick, we continue to focus on growing our existing
platform as well as identifying and developing new service
offerings for our energy clients.”
FTI Consulting’s EPP practice brings economic analyses,
engineering expertise, operational experience, litigation support
expertise and communications services to companies and their
counsel. The practice provides a unique combination of seasoned
managerial and executive experience with insights gained from years
of industry-related dispute management, damages analysis, public
policy analysis and expert testimony. Areas of expertise cover the
spectrum between the reservoir and the end user, with years of
hands-on experience in upstream, midstream, downstream, energy
regulation, energy asset valuation, chemical and petroleum
engineering.
About FTI ConsultingFTI Consulting, Inc. is a
global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations
protect and enhance enterprise value in an increasingly complex
legal, regulatory and economic environment. With more than 4,600
employees located in 28 countries, FTI Consulting professionals
work closely with clients to anticipate, illuminate and overcome
complex business challenges in areas such as investigations,
litigation, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory issues, reputation
management, strategic communications and restructuring. The Company
generated $1.78 billion in revenues during fiscal year 2015. For
more information, visit www.fticonsulting.com and connect with us
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