Teus Gijzel graduated in 1974 in civil engineering from Technical University Delft and worked for 33 years in the dredging, marine and offshore industry in Europe, Canada, and Russia. In 1997 he joined Van Oord and since then has been Project Manager for Phase I of the Sakhalin-2 project, the installation of the platform Molikpaq offshore Sakhalin in the Sea of Okhotsk, and Tender Manager for the Sakhalin-1 project. From 2004 to date he has been working as Area Project Coordinator for the Sakhalin-1 project for Van Oord Offshore B.V. in Gorinchem with regular trips to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.