Enquirer Consulting Group
Jorge Granada | Knar Global | October 2026
As of 12 Oct 2026
Knar Global builds decision models that tie reliability, asset integrity, maintenance and capital choices to production and financial value, for asset-intensive organizations.
Its own site places that work in oil and gas, pipelines and midstream, power generation and utilities, chemicals and refining, mining, and multi-site industrial manufacturing.
This page maps those organizations by type and size, and who usually signs off on a reliability, integrity or capital decision at each.
Counts are firms by employee size band, banded on purpose. A group without a clean industry code says so instead of showing a number.
| Group | Organizations in the US | Under 20 staff | 20 to 99 | 100 to 499 | 500 or more |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oil and gas producers, including gas processing | about 4,300 | about 3,800 | about 280 | about 120 | about 100 |
| Pipeline and midstream operators | about 270 | not published | not published | not published | not published |
| Power generators, hydro and thermal | about 410 | not published | not published | not published | not published |
| Petroleum refiners and basic chemical producers | about 1,000 | not published | not published | not published | not published |
| Metal ore mining and processing operators | about 260 | not published | not published | not published | not published |
| Multi-site industrial manufacturers running planned outages | no clean public count |
US firm counts by industry code, banded deliberately.
The decisions Knar describes cannot be cheaply reversed, so approval tends to sit above the engineer who first sees the problem.
| Group | Usually signs off | Usually in the room |
|---|---|---|
| Oil and gas producers | Asset manager or vice president of operations for the field or facility | Reliability lead, facilities engineering manager, production planning |
| Pipeline and midstream operators | Vice president of operations or asset integrity director | Integrity manager, capital projects manager, procurement lead |
| Power generators | Plant or fleet manager, with the generation director on capital items | Reliability and maintenance managers, asset management lead |
| Refiners and chemical producers | Plant manager or site director, with a turnaround manager on shutdown timing | Reliability engineering lead, inspection and integrity lead, planning |
| Mining and processing operators | General manager of the operation or the capital projects director | Maintenance superintendent, process engineering lead, study managers |
| Multi-site manufacturers | Vice president of operations or manufacturing | Site maintenance managers, operational excellence lead |
Engineering leads usually own the problem and the technical case. The approval for capital, a supplier choice or a turnaround change usually moves up to operations leadership and an investment committee, with finance checking the business case.
That split matters for outreach. The engineer feels the recurring failure or the uncertain design, while the executive feels the production loss and the money at risk. A first message works best when it names the decision itself rather than the method.
Capacity expansions and new facility designs before concept selection, power or utility upgrades with supplier performance claims, turnaround planning cycles, recurring production losses without an agreed cause, and moves away from diesel toward hybrid or renewable supply at remote sites.
These ten run reliability, asset integrity and asset management at LNG, offshore, midstream, refining, chemical and utility operators across Texas and Louisiana. They own the RAM studies, integrity programs, turnaround timing and maintenance strategy calls that Knar models. Work emails and phone numbers as of October 12, 2026.
| Name | Role | Company | Where | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremy East | Reliability Director | Cameron LNG | Lake Charles, LA | jeeast@cameronlng.com | +1 337 794 0496 |
| Tony Poulassichidis | Director, Mechanical Integrity | Talos Energy | Spring, TX | tony.poulassichidis@talosenergy.com | +1 832 907 9049 |
| Brad Fields | Vice President, Reliability and Optimization | Kinetik | Midland, TX | bfields@kinetik.com | +1 936 554 2918 |
| Matthew Banasik | Director, Asset Integrity and Spatial Data | Western Midstream | Spring, TX | matthew.banasik@westernmidstream.com | +1 832 690 2302 |
| Kevin Lassahn | Vice President, Reliability, Process Safety, and Power and Gas | Valero | Corpus Christi, TX | kevin.lassahn@valero.com | +1 302 420 7686 |
| Matt Mahler | Corporate Reliability Director | Marathon Petroleum | Texas City, TX | mjmahler@marathonpetroleum.com | +1 313 701 0911 |
| Clint George | Director of Reliability | Celanese | Missouri City, TX | clint.george@celanese.com | +1 832 444 1069 |
| Jeff Miller | Director, Asset Integrity | Methanex | Geismar, LA | jmiller@methanex.com | +1 225 892 4645 |
| Brett Adamcik | System Integrity and Reliability Director | CenterPoint Energy | Houston, TX | brett.adamcik@centerpointenergy.com | +1 281 844 0255 |
| Amir Gadid | Director of Asset Management | Atmos Energy | Dallas, TX | amir.gadid@atmosenergy.com | +1 972 934 9227 |
Built from public federal registries and the company's own website, counts banded deliberately.
If a walk-through is useful, pick a time at cal.com/ecg.
Prepared by Matt Marani, matthew@enquirerconsulting.com.