Energy • Chemicals • Commercial Damages

Industry experience that connects operations to damages.

Quincy J. Jones is a Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting with nearly 30 years of experience across refining, petrochemicals, industrial gases, LNG, natural gas and related infrastructure.

His dispute work integrates engineering, operating realities, market economics, and commercial and contractual analysis to test whether assumptions concerning utilization, throughput, pricing, operating costs, investment expectations and market conditions are consistent with industry realities.

Quincy J. Jones, Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting
Quincy J. Jones, MBA-FinanceSenior Managing Director
FTI Consulting • Houston
Nearly 30 yearsEngineering, industry and advisory experience
Patented Process TechnologyNamed co-inventor on five process-related patents covering olefins production, C4 upgrading and hydrocarbon processing and separation technologies.
Testifying ExperienceNorth America, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Latin America
Thought LeaderLexology Index — Energy, 2026
Industry experience

Experience grounded in operating assets and markets

Quincy’s work spans the technical, operating and commercial issues that arise across refining, petrochemicals, LNG, natural gas, pipelines, terminals and other capital-intensive industrial assets.

Petrochemical and refining industrial complex
Chemicals & refiningProcess operations, feedstocks, utilization, reliability, product markets and margins.
LNG and natural gas storage infrastructure
LNG & natural gasSupply, processing, storage, transportation, operating performance and commercial obligations.
Industrial energy infrastructure along a waterway
Midstream, terminals & infrastructureThroughput, logistics, storage, terminals, capital projects and industry custom and practice.
What differentiates the work

Industry + engineering + economics + damages

Industrial damages are often only as reliable as the assumptions underneath them. Quincy’s work focuses on connecting the damages model to how a plant, pipeline, terminal, market or commercial arrangement actually operates.

Operations

Technical and operating reality

Facility configuration, throughput, utilization, reliability, feedstock, operating constraints, product quality, maintenance, process technology and prudent-operator considerations.

Industry expertise →
Markets

Commercial and market context

Supply, demand, pricing, contract structures, market indices, margins, logistics, competitive dynamics, capital investment and commercial optimization.

Damages approach →
Disputes

Expert testimony and arbitration

Litigation and international arbitration involving contract disputes, lost profits, business interruption, force majeure, project delays, cost overruns and operational performance.

Arbitration experience →
Selected sectors

Capital-intensive industries

PetrochemicalsRefiningLNGNatural GasPipelinesTerminalsIndustrial GasesHydrogenFertilizersPolymersSpecialty ChemicalsCapital Projects
“An absolute expert in chemicals.”Market-source feedback published by Lexology Index, Energy 2026

Lexology Index recognizes Quincy as a 2026 Thought Leader in Energy — Experts.

Representative matters

Experience across technical, commercial and damages issues

Selected examples illustrate the breadth of issues evaluated. Matters that are not independently verifiable in public sources are anonymized. The complete FTI biography contains additional representative experience.

Midstream Pipeline, Storage & NGL Processing Dispute

Pipeline, storage and fractionation operations, product-volume shortfalls, prudent-operator considerations and damages.

Refined Products Terminal & Storage Dispute

Tank operations, product specifications, blending, vessel loading and discharge, inter-terminal transfers and terminal operating requirements.

Oil Sands / Bitumen EPC Dispute

Construction delays, cost overruns, deferred production and the economics of a major in-situ bitumen processing facility.

Pipeline Blending & Logistics Dispute

Pipeline operations, gasoline blending, storage and logistics, product specifications, pricing spreads and damages.

LNG Joint-Venture Operations Dispute

LNG operations, commercial agreements, budgeting, co-owner conduct and industry custom and practice.

Offshore Drilling Economics & Valuation

Rig utilization, day rates, capital and operating costs, contracts and valuation across offshore drilling scenarios.

Complex industrial disputes require industry reality.

Quincy Jones combines engineering, operations, market economics and damages analysis across energy and chemical-industry matters.

Contact Quincy at FTI