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Expert in Petroleum Refining and Petrochemical Operations
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Summary of Expertise:
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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.
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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.
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Expert'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.
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A petroleum refinery or petrochemical complex may consume up to 10% of the charge as fuel. Expert has rendered consulting services to improve efficiency and reduce the costs of such operations.
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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.
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1949
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BS (Hons.)
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Physical Chemistry
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University of Glasgow, Scotland
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1976 to
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MANAGEMENT
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PRESIDENT
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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.
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1968 to 1976
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Commonwealth Petroleum Company
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Management
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President
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Managed all operations of a refining company together with the world's largest aromatics production complex and associated satellit operations.
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1968 to 1976
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COMMONWEALTH OIL REFINING CO
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Executive
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Vice President
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In addition to serving as president of the petroleum company Expert was a vice president of the parent company
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1963 to 1968
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Hess Oil and Chemical Corp
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Refining
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Vice President
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Managed the three Hess refineries. Managed the construction of the first Virgin Islands refinery
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1952 to 1963
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Universal Oil Products Co
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Service
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Service Coordinator
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Expert managed the startup of numerous UOP process units and was later "Office Expert" for FCC and alkylation.
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1949 to 1952
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Trinidat Leashold (Texaco)
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Refining
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Assistant Superintendent
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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.
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Associations/Societies
AIChE.
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Licenses/Certifications
PE - Several States
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Publications and Patents Summary
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.
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Selected Publications and Publishers
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- Oil and Gas Journal
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- National Petrochemical & Refiners Association
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- Marcel Dekker John J. McKetta editor
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- Hydrocarbon Processing
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| Selected Consulting Examples: |
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Expert has extensive "hands-on" experience and has visited over 50 refineries and petrochemical plants.
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Recent Client Requests:
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Recent Litigation Client Requests:
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Hydrofluoric acid expert for consulting on HF alkylation neutralization process failure issues.
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Expert for consulting on Oil refinery tank leak in waste water causing personal injury.
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Expert in petroleum for consulting on petroleum litigation.
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1949 to
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General
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Expert has extensive overseas experience. This includes Europe, South America, Japan, Indonesia, Etc..
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French
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Expert's French is pretty rusty.
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| Additional Skills and Services: |
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Supplier and Vendor Location and Selection Expert has knowledge of petroleum and petrochemical process licensors.
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