Interviewer: Jason Theriot

Affiliation: University of Houston

Doug Peart graduated from Tulane University in 1977 with a degree in mechanical engineering. He promptly went to work for Shell in New Orleans. After working onshore on production projects for a number of years, Peart became a production superintendent offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. As deepwater drilling began to rise in the early 1990s, Peart was called to become a deepwater project manager for Shell’s subsea systems, heading up the first such group, chartered in 1993. Peart helped to bring major Shell projects like Tahoe, Auger, Popeye, and Mensa from design to first production.