Petroleum Refining Expert in Economics, Cost Controls, Competitive Analyses, Acquisitions & Divestitures

Technical Consultant #1726

Professional chemical engineer with over 40 years of experience in the petroleum refining, chemical and petrochemical industries.
Extensive technical engineering and business skills with strong emphasis towards economics and cost controls, competitive analyses, project management, acquisitions and divestitures. project management.

Undisclosed Company, President, 1978 - Present

Completed project development, project management and environmental programs for many world-scale chemical, petrochemical and refining facilities.
Providing technical, economic and financial assessments to several major acquisition and facility expansion programs.
Completed numerous market assessments, competitor evaluations and plant improvement programs for the refining and petrochemical industries.
Extensive experience in cumene / phenol / bisphenol-A / Polycarbonate / epoxy resins industry.
Technology evaluations and selections, engineering for cost assessment, plant improvements and modernizations, expansions, competitive analyses and acquisition programs.
Extensive experience in propylene oxide technology, operations and economics.
Extensive experience in chlorine and derivatives technology, operations and economics.

Gulf Oil Corporation, U.S. and Korea, 1966 - 1978

Serving several positions:

Economics Advisor and Chairman of New Business Team Houston, TX , 1976 - 1978
Technical and Economic Advisor to Korea Oil Co., Ulsan, Korea, 1974 - 1975
Technical Advisor Chemicals Co. Houston, TX, 19711 - 1973
Unit Foreman, Port Arthur, TX Refinery, 1969 - 1970
Process Engineer, Port Arthur, TX Refinery, 1966 - 1968
Refining and chemical operations; refining assignments included operating responsibilities for gasoline blending, lube oil operations, olefins operations, and aromatics feedstock production.
Worked in the planning and economic function for both refining and chemicals and as Gulf's technical advisor to the Korea Oil Corporation.
Leader of project teams for several major petrochemical expansion projects.
Became the chief economics' advisor for petrochemicals and chairman of a new phenol business committee.

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