|
|
Expert in Petroleum Refining and Petrochemical Operations
Available for your Consulting and Expert Witness Needs
|
|
|
 |
| Summary of Expertise: |
 |
Primary Expertise Areas:
(links show more experts in each area)
|
Expertise Description: |
|
catalytic cracking expert
crude distillation expert
petrochemical expert
petrochemical operations expert
petrochemical-related design expert
petroleum processing expert
petroleum refinery expert
petroleum refinery design review expert
petroleum refinery evaluation expert
refined fuel expert
refinery expert
refining expert |
PETROLEUM REFINING; PETROLEUM PROCESSING; PETROCHEMICAL OPERATIONS AND DESIGN. Expert spent 12 years with a petroleum refining/petrochemical research and design company, and 13 years in operations management as a vice president of manufacturing for two oil companies. He has spent the last 20 years as an independent consultant, and has approximately 15 clients worldwide. His company renders services relating to the organization, management and control of petrochemical companies. He has hands on experience with the design and operation of the following processes: crude oil distillation; vacuum distillation; catalytic cracking; gas recovery; alkylation; polymerization; hydrocracking; catalytic reforming; hydrodesulfurization; and viscosity breaking. |
|
alkylation expert |
Expert has worked with alkylation processes for 50 years. Was process coordinator to UOP on HF alkylation and consultant to Stratco on the sulfuric acid process. |
|
fluid catalytic cracking expert
fluid catalytic cracking unit expert
fluid catalytic cracking unit equipment expert |
Gerry's primary area of consulting has been in the design, operation, and economics of fluid catalytic cracking units and downstream processes. His company licenses a computer program for the off-line and on-line simulation and optimization of the cracking process. |
|
energy-efficient petroleum refining expert |
A petroleum refinery or petrochemical complex may consume up to 10% of the charge as fuel. Gerry has rendered consulting services to improve efficiency and reduce the costs of such operations. |
| Show Secondary and Basic Areas of Expertise |
Localities:
Expert may consult nationally and internationally, and is also local to the following cities: Tampa, Florida; Saint Petersburg, Florida; Clearwater, Florida; Cape Coral, Florida; Lakeland, Florida; Largo, Florida; Boynton Beach, Florida; and Sarasota, Florida.
|
| Year |
|
Degree |
|
Subject |
|
Institution |
|
|
1949
|
|
BS (Hons.)
|
|
Physical Chemistry
|
|
University of Glasgow, Scotland
|
|
| Years |
|
Employer |
|
Department |
|
Title |
|
Responsibilities |
|
1976 to
|
|
(Undisclosed)
|
|
MANAGEMENT
|
|
PRESIDENT
|
|
Expert has provided design and consulting services to the oil refining and petrochemical industries. Emphasis has been on Fluid Catalytic Cracking and associated processes and aromatic production.
|
|
1968 to 1976
|
|
Commonwealth Petroleum Company
|
|
Management
|
|
President
|
|
Managed all operations of a refining company together with the world's largest aromatics production complex and associated satellit operations.
|
|
1968 to 1976
|
|
COMMONWEALTH OIL REFINING CO
|
|
Executive
|
|
Vice President
|
|
In addition to serving as president of the petroleum company Expert was a vice president of the parent company
|
|
1963 to 1968
|
|
Hess Oil and Chemical Corp
|
|
Refining
|
|
Vice President
|
|
Managed the three Hess refineries. Managed the construction of the first Virgin Islands refinery
|
|
1952 to 1963
|
|
Universal Oil Products Co
|
|
Service
|
|
Service Coordinator
|
|
Expert managed the startup of numerous UOP process units and was later "Office Expert" for FCC and alkylation.
|
|
1949 to 1952
|
|
Trinidat Leashold (Texaco)
|
|
Refining
|
|
Assistant Superintendent
|
|
Expert started his refining career in 1949 supervising crude distillation and,later alkylation, units. He assisted in the startup of the UOP Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit.
|
Associations/Societies
AIChE.
|
Licenses/Certifications
PE - Several States
|
Publications and Patents
Expert has hold 6 US patents in Catalytic Cracking and Alkylation and has published numerous technical papers. A mathematical model of the FCC process has received wide acceptance.
|
Expert has extensive "hands-on" experience and has visited over 50 refineries and petrochemical plants.
|
As a member of the Intota consultant network,
Expert is a specialist who provides technical consulting to corporate, legal and government clients. Expert provides professional consulting as a Petroleum Refining Consultant and Petrochemical Operations Consultant. Expert may consult as an independent consultant or as a member of a consultancy, consulting company,
or consulting firm. Consultants service will be covered by a consulting contract.
Ask an expert initial screening questions and ask the experts services particulars, by simply submitting
an expert request.
|
Intota experts can serve as expert witnesses or litigation consultants offering expert testimony, expert advice, litigation support,
forensic services, and related expert witness services. Expert can serve as an expert witness or litigation consultant in intellectual property (patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright),
product liability, and insurance matters. Expert may provide forensic expert witness testimony, litigation consulting services, forensic investigation,
and forensic testing if appropriate in litigation areas as a Petroleum Refining Expert Witness and Petrochemical Operations Expert Witness.
Intota provides attorneys and legal professionals the opportunity to ask an expert initial screening questions and
ask the experts services particulars by submitting an expert request.
|
| International Experience: |
|
| Years |
|
Country / Region |
|
Summary |
|
1949 to
|
|
General
|
|
Expert has extensive overseas experience. This includes Europe, South America, Japan, Indonesia, Etc..
|
| Language Skills: |
|
| Foreign Language |
|
Description |
|
French
|
|
Gerry's French is pretty rusty.
|
|
Expert serves as a resource to
Intota Market Research Services
for customized marketing research in industries or areas related to
Petroleum Refining and Petrochemical Operations.
Experts are an invaluable source of overall industry insight as well as insight into specific companies and firms for
custom business to business (b2b) and industrial market research. Intota uses analyst and
consultant resources from Guideline whose Research Directors manage the research and analysis of the qualitative
and quantitative data as well as report writing for the custom studies. The methods and tools
used by Intota market research combine the insights of technical experts and industry insiders with secondary
research to provide the custom b2b and industrial market research you need.
|
| Additional Skills and Services: |
|
|
Supplier and Vendor Location and Selection Expert has knowledge of petroleum and petrochemical process licensors.
|
|
Expertise
