Liberty Energy Solutions announces appointment of Chief Operating Officer
– Singapore, 12 October 2026
Liberty Energy Solutions Ltd (“Liberty Energy”) announces the appointment of Luke Gallagher as Chief Operating Officer based in Singapore. Luke will be responsible for commercial excellence of Liberty Energy’s businesses and realizing operational synergies across the group companies. Luke will report to the Chairman of Liberty Energy’s Board of Directors. He will also join the PEC Board as a Director, replacing Paul DeMand. Paul will continue in his role as Director of Liberty Energy helping to drive group success.
Luke is joining Dean Bell as a Chief Operating Officer of Liberty Energy. Dean will continue to oversee Liberty Energy operations with CR3 and ZymeFlow. Dean is based in Abu Dhabi for Liberty Energy and is focusing on growing the integration of MidEast and Indian operations as well as the development of decontamination products and services in the US serving customers around the world.
Luke brings nearly three decades of industrial services leadership across EPC project delivery, maintenance services, corporate strategy, and post-acquisition integration in the energy and infrastructure sectors.
Most recently, Luke was COO of Altrad Australia, a business of roughly AUD 600 million in revenue and about 3,000 employees. Luke was asked by the founder to turn around two struggling acquisitions, AusGroup and Valmec. He renegotiated and completed eight loss-making lump-sum EPC contracts, integrated three organizations into one platform, and delivered the company’s strongest EBITDA and free cash flow in a decade. He also secured over AUD 1 billion in new awards from clients including Woodside, Shell, Chevron, Exxon, and BHP. Before that, he was CEO of Altrad Babcock’s International Division, leading about 5,000 people across nine countries and managing shareholder and banking relationships while keeping EBIT positive through COVID. He began his career in on-site engineering roles at Babcock, later Doosan, and progressed through its corporate strategy function, where he led M&A integration contributing about USD 1 billion in group revenue and the merger of two loss-making divisions into one profitable entity.
Luke holds an MBA, a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing, and a BSc (Hons) in Management Science from Loughborough University and has extensive board experience.
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About Liberty Energy Solutions
Liberty Energy Solutions (libertyenergy.group) is a global leader in specialized engineering services with proprietary products and solutions to the oil and gas (“O&G”), petrochemical, clean energy, and chemical sectors. Liberty Energy Solutions operates across Southeast Asia, India, North America, and the Middle East and has decades of industry expertise with over 200+ patents, experience with over 200+ annual plant turnarounds, and a workforce of over 15,000 employees. Liberty Energy Solutions supports a wide range of blue-chip clients including Shell, Exxon, Reliance, SPRC, Neste, Chevron, and Petronas delivering end-to-end solutions including facility and equipment maintenance, specialized industrial services, engineering fabrication, and decontamination products and services.
Liberty Energy is well respected for handling mission-critical services including reactor catalyst change outs in refining, chemical, fertilizer, and heavy industrial plants for customers in energy production, chemical processing, and power generation. Liberty also offers equipment and plant maintenance including mechanical, rotary and electrical maintenance, pipeline and process services, as well as management of shutdowns and turnarounds. Liberty Energy Solutions has major offices in Singapore, Houston, Abu Dhabi, and Mumbai and through its three subsidiaries:
- CR3 Pte Ltd (www.CR3.group): Founded in 1991, CR3 provides energy engineering solutions across India, Southeast Asia and the Middle East from facilities in Singapore, Thailand, India, Malaysia, and the UAE. CR3 is well known for handling mission-critical reactor catalysts used in refining, chemical, fertilizer, and heavy industrial plants for asset-intensive industries such as energy production, chemical processing, and power generation. CR3 also offers equipment and plant maintenance, pipeline and process services, shutdowns and turnarounds, and engineering, procurement, and plant upgrades.
- PEC Ltd (www.peceng.com): Founded in 1982 and headquartered in Singapore, PEC is a well-established provider of maintenance service (including machinery, structural, civil, electrical instrumentation and insulation) and engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services for the oil & gas and petrochemical industries in Asia and the Middle East. PEC has partnered with many of the industry’s leading companies and has received numerous awards in operational excellence.
- ZymeFlow Inc (www.ZymeFlow.com): With over 35 years of experience ZymeFlow is a pioneer in the innovation of chemical decontamination solutions that are highly effective and environmentally friendly enabling clients to meet sustainability goals, reduce down time and lower costs across refinery, petrochemical and LNG facilities both onshore and offshore in over 55 countries.
For more information, please contact:
Joycelyn Ong, Chief Strategy Officer at joycelyn@libertyenergy.group