SRK Consulting welcomes Dr. Sergei Sabanov as principal consultant

SRK Consulting welcomes Dr. Sergei Sabanov to our Almaty office as Principal Consultant (Mining Engineering).

Dr Sergei Sabanov is a chartered engineer and a professional Member of Institute of Mining Materials & Metallurgy (CEng MIMMM) with 23 years of experience in the energy, metals & mining, oil & gas industries. Dr Sabanov supported a number of Business Improvement, Internal Investment Decision, Resource and Reserves Audit projects. For those he completed technical due diligence work, including Competent Person Reports (CPR) for stock exchange listings, financial analysis, risk assessment etc. His expertise lies in strategy planning, organisation, managing and working on technical studies (International and CIS standards). He also provided project finance advisory services to investors developing projects in the metals, mining, energy and oil & gas sectors.

Dr Sabanov has built a solid client base and served as a company representative on multiple concurrent commissions. He has worked with projects in Russia and the CIS, Europe and South America. Dr Sabanov is experienced in a wide range of commodities areas including oil shale, coal, gold and silver, iron ore, diamonds, zinc, bauxite, potash and rare earth elements. Also he is highly experienced in the area of sustainable mining of oil shale in Estonia and globally, including conventional (drill-and-blast, selective mining) and unconventional (in-situ retorting) mining. Dr Sabanov has also specialised on Mining Method/Design, Production Scheduling, Drill-and-Blast, Mine Dewatering, Mine Power Supply, Mine Ventilation, Processing (oil shale, coal), Mine Closure, Risk Assessment and Management, Sustainable Development of Mining Industry.

He has authored over 60 technical publications mostly in the field of mining engineering and risk assessment & management. Since joining SRK, Sergei has been involved in working on feasibility studies in Russia and the CIS. In particular, he took a key role liaising with Russian Design Institutes on the Diamond Project over a two year period.