Eric Jas is a civil engineer with more than 30 years’ experience in the pipeline industry, both offshore and onshore. He has worked for pipeline construction contractors, engineering design consultancies, as well as offshore oil and gas operators. His geographical experience covers Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Europe and North America. Mr Jas has been the initiator and design manager for several innovations and research and design programs in the subsea pipeline industry. This has included the development of improved pipeline on-bottom stability design methodologies, pipeline secondary stabilisation and protection designs, subsea scarp crossings, and pipeline shoreline and waterway crossings based on conventional open cut & cover, horizontal directional drilling and tunnelling. He founded Atteris, based in Perth, Western Australia in 1999 and Atteris LLC, based in Houston, Texas, USA, in 2016.