Young Professional Speakers
Professor Nick Amott
Senior Fellow and Process DIrector, Fluor Ltd.
Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage, is it the Holy Grail toward a sustainable energy system?
Tuesday 14 May, 13:20 - 14:05
Professor Nick Amott is a Fluor Senior Technical Fellow and Process Director with Fluor Ltd in the UK. Nick has been with Fluor for 37 of his 41 years in the Industry. He is an experienced Process Manager on “mega” Projects, specialising in Oil & Gas Production facilities around the world for many Clients including a recent major sour Oil & Gas Project.
Nick is a Director of GPA Europe and a Fellow of the IChemE. Through his interest in higher education, both in the UK and Kazakhstan, he is a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey.
Bart Beuckels
Senior Process Engineer Gas Processing & Treating Technologies, Honeywell UOP, Belgium
Tuesday 14 May, 15:15 - 15:55
Bart Beuckels is working with UOP since 8 years, based in the Antwerp office in Belgium. UOP is a Honeywell company with headquarters in Chicago, USA. Within UOP, Bart is a technical lead for the Gas Processing Technologies for the EMEA+FSU region (Europe, Middle East, Africa and FSU). Bart has extensive experience in natural gas and syngas processing developed in technology development, process simulations and system design, with a special focus on UOP’s absorption and adsorption based technologies.
Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage, is it the Holy Grail toward a sustainable energy system?
Tuesday 14 May, 13:20 - 14:05
Dr. Javier Fernandez is a Junior Process Engineer at Fluor B.V. (the Netherlands). He completed his M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering at Valladolid University (Spain) in 2012. Thereafter, he joined the Ph.D. Graduate Program at Delft University of Technology where he received his Doctoral Degree in Chemical Engineering (2017) focused on the application of microwave plasma technology to convert carbon dioxide into high value products. Before joining Fluor, he worked for nearly 1 year at a chemical company located in Rotterdam where he explored alternative production routes for commonly produced chemicals using non-fossil fuel (bio) raw materials. In 2018, he joined Fluor and since then has been involved in projects such as revamping a Diesel Hydrotreating Unit and executing front-end engineering services for a major chemical project in Antwerp area.
Adrian Finn
Costain
Low Temperature Process Design (2019)
Tuesday 14 May, 14:05 - 14:45
Adrian Finn (adrian.finn@costain.com) is Process Technology Manager at Costain, Manchester, UK with responsibility for gas processing technology development and commercialisation.
He has supervised nearly one hundred feasibility studies, Pre-FEEDs and FEEDs on international cryogenic gas processing projects with energy majors, including on ultra-deep NGL extraction, natural gas liquefaction, nitrogen rejection, synthesis gas processing and refinery and petrochemical offgas processing.
He has authored over fifty technical papers and holds over twenty granted patents. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, a Chartered Engineer in the UK, a Member of GPA Europe Management Committee and authored Section 16, on “Hydrocarbon Recovery”, in the latest GPSA “Engineering Data Book”.
Peter Kauders
CDE Projects Limited
A Method of Predicting Transient Pipeline Holdup and Liquid Outflow
Tuesday 14 May, 11:00 - 11:40
Peter Kauders read Natural Sciences and Chemical Engineering at Cambridge, and worked in the UK chemical industry, before embarking on a career in engineering and construction with Stone & Webster, McDermott and Bechtel. In 2012 he started developing conceptual design emulation (CDE), a computer system which uses mathematics and logic to mimic the steps taken by an engineering team in process plant design. An article about CDE was published in The Chemical Engineer in May 2014. Current research interest is into the barriers to undertaking preliminary engineering design directly from a process simulator.
Jan Kiebert
Sulphur Experts
Sulphur Plants, The Seven Deadly Sins
Tuesday 14 May, 15:55 - 16:35
Jan B. Kiebert, B.Sc. (Mechanical Eng)
Manager – Europe, Middle East & Asia (Senior Engineer)
Since the beginning of 2005 Jan is Manager Europe, Middle East & Asia for Sulphur Experts. Jan is involved in all aspects of the operations support and process engineering consulting work conducted by Sulphur Experts, Amine Experts and Dehydration Experts
managing the activities of Sulphur Experts in the European, Middle East and Asian market. He has provided expert advice and consulting services in the area of SRU and TGTU reliability studies, troubleshooting, revamps, plant testing and plant optimization for the sour gas and oil refining industries. Jan is one of the primary speakers at the
internationally-recognised Sulphur Recovery Technical Training Course and has conducted over one hundred on-site training courses. Since joining Sulphur Experts Jan has worked in more than 40 countries.
Jan graduated at the Haarlem Polytechnics and holds a bachelor degree in Mechanical
Engineering.
Matt Mardell
Shell Global Solutions International BV
Affordable Carbon Dioxide Capture in the Middle East
Tuesday 14 May, 11:40 - 12:20
Matt Mardell completed a Masters in Chemical Engineering at the University of Bath (UK), before joining the Shell Global Solutions Gas Processing team in 2016, based in Amsterdam. His time in the Gas Processing department has been split between two teams; Technology Maturation and Design Integration. During that time, Matt has assisted deployment of both the JEFFTREAT® ULTRA selective solvent and the Shell Turbo Trays, two of Shell’s new proprietary technologies. He has also delivered major sour gas licensing projects including the Ruwais Gas & Liquid Treating Debottlenecking and the Hail & Ghasha Front End Engineering Design.
Kindra Snow-McGregor
PetroSkills | John M Campbell
European Gas Industry: Where are we going?
Tuesday 14 May, 09:10 - 09:50
Mrs. Kindra Snow-McGregor is the Technical Director of Oil and Gas Processing with
PetroSkills | John M Campbell. She has a master’s and bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Refining from the Colorado School of Mines, and over 21 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. She has been with the company for over 11 years, and has served in several positions including manager of consulting, senior staff engineer and instructor, and discipline manager for the Oil and Gas Processing Discipline. Prior to joining
John M Campbell & Company in 2008, she served in technical manager, process engineering manager, and lead process engineering roles in the oil and gas engineering, procurement and construction business.
She has served as the technical lead on several significant projects in the industry for clients such as BP,
ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Occidental, QatarGas, and XTO. Mrs. Snow-McGregor has been active in the gas processing / midstream industry for many years, and currently serves on theBoard of Directors for the GPSA Midstream. In addition, she is on the editorial review board for the GPSA Engineering Data Books. She has published eight technical papers at international conferences and is co-inventor on two technology patents in the gas processing industry.
Barry Weightman
KBR
Successful Projects - a Contractor’s view
Tuesday 14 May, 09:50 - 10:30
Barry has more than 40 years of experience in the chemical plant contracting industry, with more than 25 years in process technology and management roles with responsibility for the process engineering activities on projects through all design phases. He has specific design and operating experience of olefins, syngas, methanol, petrochemicals, and speciality organic chemicals plants, together with offsite and utility facilities. This expertise is complemented by his knowledge of technology licensing, business development, on-site commissioning, and small project/study management for conceptual studies and revamp/expansion contracts. Barry is now the Training and Development Manager for KBR’s EMEA Engineering Operations.