The Failure Happened Years Earlier

Some megaprojects are already in trouble…
the day the board approves them.
And the reason isn’t engineering or scheduling failure.
Megaprojects rarely fail during construction.
They fail years earlier.
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They fail in rushed pre-FID studies.
In optimistic cost assumptions.
In governance structures that look solid on paper…
but collapse under real pressure.
After more than three decades working across
LNG, oil and gas, mining, and infrastructure, one lesson has become unmistakably clear:
Most megaproject failures are not engineering failures.
They are decision failures.
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The teams are talented.
The schedules are detailed.
The cost models are sophisticated.
But once billions are sanctioned behind
flawed assumptions, even world-class
execution struggles to recover the value.
Boards approve massive capital
investments every year.
The real question is not whether the
organization can build the project.
The real question is whether the organization has
built the decision architecture to govern it.
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Disciplined stage-gates.
Transparent risk visibility.
Capital allocation frameworks that challenge
optimism before billions are committed.
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That’s what changes outcomes.
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Megaproject success isn’t luck.
It’s structured decision-making.
If you’re responsible for billion-dollar investments,
this is a conversation worth continuing.
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And remember…
decisions shape outcomes.

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capital portfolios or megaproject investments?
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