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Holger Kelle is Managing Director and Co-Founder of INCITIAS, with more than 30 years' experience in engineering, project delivery, Owner's Engineering, project management consulting, and original equipment development for complex energy and marine infrastructure projects.
He has led multidisciplinary Owner's Engineering and PMC teams across LNG terminals, FSRUs, floating infrastructure, mooring systems, marine transfer systems, offshore facilities, and energy transition projects. His work helps owners, developers, lenders, and project teams make technically robust and commercially defensible decisions across concept development, FEED, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operations.
His career includes major terminal infrastructure programmes in the USA, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Germany, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Australia. His current work extends into hydrogen, green ammonia, CO₂ sequestration, offshore battery storage, and critical infrastructure resilience.
Holger's approach is based on integrated project delivery, treating advisory, engineering, original equipment development, approvals, constructability and operations as connected parts of one project strategy rather than separate workstreams. Under his leadership, INCITIAS helps clients define the right scope early, test technical decisions against commercial and delivery constraints, and maintain continuity from feasibility through commissioning, reducing the risk of late redesign, procurement misalignment, approval delays, construction issues and operational compromise.
Holger has contributed to more than 67 terminal and energy infrastructure projects across multiple continents, covering LNG regasification, storage, FSRUs, floating infrastructure, mooring systems, marine transfer systems, and specialist offshore equipment. His experience spans concept development, FEED review, Owner's Engineering, PMC leadership, procurement strategy, constructability, commissioning readiness, and operational risk review.
His advisory work includes technical lending advisory for the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, technical and commercial due diligence for private equity and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and expert witness work in the Admiralty Court of Australia. These roles required engineering judgement capable of withstanding lender scrutiny, investment review, contractual challenge, and formal legal proceedings.
More recently, Holger has led work across hydrogen, green ammonia, CO₂ sequestration, offshore battery storage, and critical infrastructure resilience, including Project Director responsibility for the FEED and EPCM delivery of SPARC Hydrogen's photocatalytic reactor plant in South Australia. He has also been responsible for implementing critical infrastructure risk review and compliance frameworks for energy and port-related infrastructure, including the practical application of European security, resilience, and critical infrastructure standards.
As Managing Director and Co-Founder, Holger leads INCITIAS' technical direction, strategic growth and senior client engagement. Ensuring the company's advisory, engineering, PMC and original equipment capabilities are applied as an integrated project development model which connects specialist inputs into coherent project strategies aligned with commercial objectives, regulatory requirements, delivery planning, constructability, commissioning readiness and long-term operation.
Have a project you'd like to discuss? Talk to Holger directly about your engineering challenge, and find out how INCITIAS can help you move from concept to delivery with confidence.
Discuss your project with Holger →Engineering Services
INCITIAS Services and Original Products are supported by in-house team of engineers and designers:
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Mooring Handling LIFTING BEAM GENERAL ASSEMBLY Original Equipment
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FPSO Decommissioning
Our clients find our experience invaluable during FPSO decommissioning planning and execution, using the INCITIAS teams’ ability to assess the most suitable strategy, based on the project and local authority’s requirements. Our team has extensive experience in the design and installation of FPSO mooring systems, risers and umbilicals.
We can support the client decommissioning plan with the following services:
Examples of typical deliverables for FPSO Decommissioning are:
Single Point Mooring system
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Independent Verification Design
Working together with INCITIAS, clients can obtain objective evidence of asset compliance with project requirements.
With our independent verification design process, INCITIAS applies an efficient risk-based assessment method to prioritise critical elements of the asset.
An INCITIAS comprehensive review can include:
We work together with our clients to ensure the appropriate level of review is carried out.
Operations & Maintenance Support
INCITIAS combines our Engineering expertise with real world Operations and Maintenance experience. We support our clients with O&M development and management activities including:
Integrated Owner’s Engineering Services
We support Owners with engineering, technical, and project management expertise across LNG, marine, and vessel conversion projects. Our clients can minimise risk and maximise opportunities earlier in project execution, with INCITIAS Owner’s engineering services.
INCITIAS can provide integrated owner’s engineering services for onshore and offshore projects from a client office, site location or remotely from our offices in Melbourne.
Typical services are:
Indicative deliverables are:
We can be as involved as you require. From specialist resources who consultant on specific aspects of your project, to the provision of a fully integrated Owners team.
At INCITIAS we develop tailor-made delivery solutions to match your project’s execution strategy and risk profile. Offering a full range of alternative delivery methods enables us to deliver the most effective project outcomes for you.
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Advisory Services
INCITIAS offers integrated technical and commercial advisory services to assist clients advance their projects and provide support for their decision-making process. Clients can reduce risk and maximise opportunities by accessing our team of advisory specialists’ wealth of experience.
Typical advisory services are:
INCITIAS techno-commercial advisory services aligns commercial drivers with feasible and proven technical solutions. Our team’s experience includes facility selection, financial assessment, contracting strategies, construction management and project operations. Assisting clients meet their business objectives using our capabilities to provide insights and solutions.
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