Dreifa Energy has signed up a key name in LNG circles as the company starts work on its first platform supply vessel-to-floating regasification unit (FRU) conversion project.

David Thomas, who formerly headed trader Vitol’s global LNG business, is joining Dreifa’s board of directors.

Thomas, 56, is well known in the LNG industry.

He began his career in operations with Schlumberger in West Africa.