Michael Robbins is president and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Energy Compression Services (BHE Compression Services). Mike is a co-founder of TCB Energy Services, a company providing professional services and contract operations that formed in January 2019. Prior to that, Mike was vice president and general manager for USA Compression from 2011 to 2018. He was responsible for leading new market entry and product development. From 2005 to 2011, Mike worked as vice president and general manager at Universal Compression and Exterran in compression fabrication and operations. Mike began his career in the oil and gas industry working for Red Cedar Gathering from 1998 to 2005, gaining experience in operations, engineering, construction and management at the startup company. Mike pursued a degree in Electrical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines.
Tal Centers is senior vice president and COO of Berkshire Hathaway Energy Compression Services. Prior to joining BHE Compression Services he served over 37 years at CenterPoint Energy and its legacy companies in various technical and operational executive positions including VP of Engineering, VP Gas Operations, VP of Mobile Energy Solutions, and VP Environmental Health and Safety. His extensive experience spans gas pipeline engineering design, gas control, LNG operations, CNG delivery, corrosion, measurement, environmental and safety, as well as gas utility P&L in Texas and Minnesota. Tal is an innovative leader having brought industry leading advanced leak detection, gas automation, and measurement to the gas utility sector with a focus on customer service and safety. Tal has spent his career promoting and supporting the gas industry with leadership roles at AGA, SGA, and TGA.
Tal began his career with Entex (a CenterPoint Energy legacy company) in 1985 as a Mechanical Engineer from Texas A&M. Tal earned his Executive MBA from Texas A&M in 2006 and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Texas.
Peter Strezo is vice president, technology and environmental, for BHE Compression Services and a co-founder of TCB Energy Services. Prior to joining BHE Compression Services, Pete was director of business development for USA Compression’s turnkey compression facilities business. Pete also worked at Exterran, formerly Universal Compression, for more than a decade. He was responsible for developing both of their core businesses, compression package fabrication and contract compression fleet management.
Pete began his professional career as a machinery engineer for KBR, formerly M.W. Kellogg, an EPC firm in the petrochemical industry. Pete earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering technology at Purdue University.