MAR 5 & 6 2025

Miami Beach Convention Center

Sam Thigpen: Speaking at the Disasters Expo Miami

Sam Thigpen

Sapphire Gas Solutions

The Role of Virtual Natural Gas Pipelines in Emergency Preparedness

Emergency energy solutions are becoming increasingly important for domestic infrastructure support. It is crucial to have a well-planned emergency response strategy that includes both power and natural gas.

Virtual natural gas pipeline supply is a reliable and flexible alternative to pipeline-delivered natural gas. State and Federal agencies, as well as commercial and industrial companies, can depend on virtual pipeline natural gas delivery during emergency curtailments and to meet ESG standards even during emergencies.

About Sam Thigpen

Sam Thigpen, the Founder and CEO of Sapphire Gas Solutions, is a recognized entrepreneurial leader and avid outdoorsman. He is a 2021 winner of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award for the Gulf Coast region and attributes his entrepreneurial success to the field and operations experience gained early in his career. Having been in the natural gas industry for 26 years, Mr. Thigpen has spent two-thirds of that time as an entrepreneur. Since founding, what is now, Sapphire Gas Solutions in 2005 the company has been recognized as an Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Company twice. Mr. Thigpen’s background is one of vast natural gas industry experience. It spans working in natural gas processing, SCADA system installation and maintenance, offshore production service, upstream oil and gas operations, international petrochemical and LNG plant service, natural gas pipeline operations, pipeline and facility construction, gas pipeline auditing, CNG/LNG/RNG fueling station construction, CNG/LNG/RNG virtual pipeline operations, and finally, executive management and
strategic leadership.
Outside of business, Sam is an avid offshore fisherman and outdoorsman. Intellectually, Mr. Thigpen is a member of MENSA and the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry. He is also a Texas Freemason and a member of the Woodlands Church, in The Woodlands, TX.