Chris Sonneborn is Vice President for Project Controls and System Planning for Energy Transfer. He oversees the planning and hydraulic analysis of Energy Transfer’s portfolio of intrastate gas transmission, gathering, and liquid pipeline and rotating equipment assets, as well as working closely with the company’s Alternative Energy team exploring opportunities in the renewable fuels, hydrogen, ammonia, and carbon capture and sequestration spaces. He also has the project controls team, overseeing project risk analysis, scheduling, and forecasting for major projects. Chris has over 27 years of experience in the midstream industry, working in a variety of roles including project management, project engineering, estimating, SCADA development, leak detection, and hydraulic analysis.
Chris has held a number of board positions and currently serves as the Chair for the Emerging Fuels Institute under Pipeline Research Council International. He holds a Bachelor of Science (1993) and a Master of Science degree (2001) in Mechanical Engineering, with a focus on optimization and fluid dynamics from Rice University.
