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September 2015

Mike Neill

Mike Neill is the President of Petrotechnics USA. With more than 35 years of experience, Mike has helped to improve safety and performance management for companies in hazardous industries around the world. Prior to joining Petrotechnics, Mike held roles in Operations, Drilling and Petroleum Engineering for BP Upstream, in Scotland, Norway, the South of England, and Egypt.

Mike holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering, MSc in Petroleum Engineering from Imperial College of Science and Technology at the University of London, and an MBA in Strategic Management from the Peter F. Ducker...Read more

John Mayes

John Mayes is Director of Special Studies at Turner, Mason & Company.  He joined TM&C after careers with Gulf Oil, BP, Ultramar, and Fina/Alon. He is a graduate from Texas A&M University with a degree in Chemical Engineering.  He is experienced in refinery-planning and economics, linear programming, wholesale and retail fuels-marketing, product-trading, pipeline and terminal economics and operations, and crude oil evaluations.  He is a key contributor to virtually all of TM&C’s Outlook and industry studies....Read more

Bart de Graaf

Bart de Graaf is FCC R&D director for Johnson Matthey. Prior to joining the former Intercat business in Savannah he joined Johnson Matthey in the UK working on bio feedstock conversion processes. Previously he worked in FCC R&D and technical services for Albemarle catalysts. Bart holds a M.Sc. in chemical engineering and a Ph.D. In heterogeneous catalysis and chemical processes.Read more

Abyar Aejaz

Abyar Aejaz, E.I.T., is a Senior Chemical Engineer at Burns & McDonnell in the P&ID Group in Houston, Texas.  She has worked extensively in various aspects of process engineering including relief valve and relief systems, process simulation, and in the design of crude preheat trains processing tight oil.  Ms. Aejaz holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston and has 10 years of experience in process engineering....Read more

Dominic Varraveto

Mr. Varraveto is currently Chief Process Engineer and Director of Process Technology for Burns & McDonnell’s P&I Division in Kansas City, MO responsible for overseeing Process Technologies and Strategic Planning for Oil, Gas and Chemical projects in the P&I.  Prior to this current role he was Refinery Process Manager focusing on revamp and expansion of existing refinery process units and infrastructure to meet Clean Fuels Regulations including gasoline benzene reduction to meet  MSAT 2 requirements, Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel, ULSD,  and Low Sulfur Gasoline,...Read more

Jack Adams

Jack Adams is a chemical engineer with 40 years of process engineering, project management, and project development experience.  Experience includes process design, design oversight, and management of refining, coking, and LNG projects.

Adams received a Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from Arizona State University and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Science from Rockhurst College.  He is a Professional Engineer in Texas....Read more

Srinivas Karra

Srinivas Karra is an application engineer at ExxonMobil Beaumont Chemical Plant. He has six years of experience in Advanced Process Control implementation on industrial systems, two years in operation of chemical process Industry.  He holds a Doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering from Texas Tech University. His expertise lies in the areas of classical and advanced control strategies, system identification, advanced optimization, multivariate data analysis and statistical process control as applied on large scale industrial systems in refining, petrochemical, pulp and paper...Read more

Ken McCarley, P.E.

Ken became the Technical Director for Fractionation Research, Inc. following R&D experience with ConocoPhillips and Alstom Power.  His previous work focused on petroleum refining, carbon capture and gas treating applications. Ken has experience with several chemical separation technologies, including distillation, extractive distillation, absorption, adsorption and membranes.  Ken is a registered Professional Engineer in Oklahoma, holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from California State Polytechnic University, as well as a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Colorado School of...Read more

Frank Seibert

Frank Seibert is the Technical Manager of the Separations Research Program at The University of Texas at Austin.Read more

Izak Nieuwoudt

Izak Nieuwoudt is the R&D Director and Chief Technology Officer at Koch-Glitsch.  He is based in Wichita, KS and has been working in the field of separation technology since 1987.  He holds BS, MS and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering.  Izak has authored more than 70 papers in journal, conference proceeding and text books.  He is listed as the inventor on 20 patents – several of which are being commercially exploited.  Izak is a member of the technical committee of FRI and the chairman of the steering committee of the STAR separation technology...Read more

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