Meet Our Conference Speakers
Maraw Mohammed Al-Harrisi
Petroleum Development Oman
Improved in availability and reduction of losses on a the Kauther Gas Plant TEG unit
Thursday 16 May, 16:00 - 16:30
Marwa Al Harrasi is a Concept Process Engineer with Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) Government Gas Department. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sohar (Oman). Marwa has over 6 years’ experience within the Oil & gas industry with a particular interest in Conceptual process design, Process optimization, Gas plant & Glycol dehydration systems troubleshooting.
Marwa also worked closely with Operation & Maintenance, Quality Control, Project engineering. She developed and executed the business improvement projects to improve the process efficiency, availability and reliability of gas plant.
Ahmed Al-Harrasi
Petroleum Development Oman
Operational Reliability and Improvement through root case analysis of plant trips
Thursday 16 May, 15:30 - 16:00
Ahmed Al Harrasi is Sr Control and Automation Support Engineer with Petroleum Development Oman(PDO) Movement Gas Department. He has over 25Years of experience in Oil and Gas industry. Ahmed’s experience includes working with operation& maintenance in the field , automation support department supporting different DCS and SCADA systems and Gas Asset Automation support. The experience also is covering support different projects and project managements.
Abdulrahman al-Methn
Saudi Aramco
Stabilizer Reboilers Fouling Preventive, Mitigation and Enhancement Efforts
Thursday 16 May, 14:15 - 14:45
My name is Abdulrahman al-Methn Graduated from King Fahad University (KFUPM) as a chemical engineer and joined Saudi Aramco almost 4 years ago (2015) working as a process engineer. Worked in Acid gas enrichment and sulfur recovery unit for 1 and a half year then, moved to worked in Inlet and condensate stabilization unit for almost 1 year. During my career with Saudi Aramco, I handled the risk management and business continuity programs for Haradh gas plant department after obtained the Institute of Risk management Certificate (IRM). Also I am a certified as Energy manager (CEM) and currently holding the energy management program activity for the department.
Muhammad Akiel Anwar
Petroleum Development Oman
Improved in availability and reduction of losses on a the Kauther Gas Plant TEG unit
Thursday 16 May, 16:00 - 16:30
Muhammad Akiel Anwar is a Concept Process Engineer with Petroleum Development Oman (PDO). He holds a Bachelor and Master degree in advance processes design from the University of Engineering and Technology Lahore (Pakistan). He has over 14 years of experience within the Oil & Gas industry. Mr. Anwar’s experience has included feasibility studies, process design, process optimization and operation troubleshooting with the specialism in Glycol dehydration, amine sweetening unit and NGL recovery processes. He has worked in Middle East, Africa and South East Asia.
Christian Bladanet
TechnipFMC
Yamal LNG – A Project Beyond Limits
Wednesday 15 May, 15:50 - 16:30
Christian Bladanet has worked for TechnipFMC since 1996. He has held positions of responsibility on a variety of Gas Processing & LNG projects from conceptual design through to detailed engineering. He has worked in a number of Technip Offices around the world, including Paris, Perth and Kuala Lumpur. He was process manager for the Yamal LNG project. He is now Gas & Fertilizer Department Manager in the Process and Technology Division of Technip France. Christian also holds the title of “Main Expert” for Gas Processing within TechnipFMC’s College of Experts.
Adrienne Blume
Gulf Energy Information
The Insoluble Equation: How to Balance Europe’s Natural Gas Supply and Demand
Wednesday 15 May, 13:45 - 14:25
Adrienne Blume is Editor of Gas Processing & LNG and Executive Editor of Hydrocarbon Processing at Gulf Energy Information in Houston, Texas. She has more than 15 years of experience in energy media. Her areas of focus are the midstream and downstream markets—i.e., gas processing/LNG, oil refining and petrochemicals production.
She speaks and moderates at energy conferences and events around the world, and is published in several industry journals. She sits on the advisory board of GasPro, an annual technology-focused event held in Houston, and provides key support for the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Conference (Cyprus) and Women's Global Leadership in Energy Conference (Houston and Vienna).
Ms. Blume previously worked as Managing Editor at Hydrocarbon Publishing Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She holds an MA degree in English and Publishing from Rosemont College in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, as well as BA degrees (hons) in English and Anthropology from Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Robert Broad
GESMEX
Design Emulation and Its Uses in Project Planning, Cost Estimating and Plant Optimisation
Friday 17 May, 11:45 - 12:15
Cinzu Czenn
Sulzer
Compact and Light Weight Boil Off Gas Management
Thursday 16 May, 12:15 - 12:45
Cinzu Czenn implements her knowledge in the Chemtech division in static mixing technology and provides support and solutions to end customers, EPCs or licensors as early as at FEED stage or any phase until final step of a project.
Cinzu grew up in Taiwan and completed International Business study, adding some years of work experience, before pursuing a Chemical Engineering degree in the USA. She has accumulated professional experiences across Asia, America and now Europe in assisting customers identifying the most feasible solutions in fluid handling for their specific processes, such as gas scrubbing, liquid dispersing, mass transfer, fluid phases optimization, boil-off gas condensation in Oil & Gas practices, the industry of focus.
Marcus England
KBR
Prevention of Flare Overload During Emergency Depressurization
Friday 17 May, 09:00 - 09:30
Marcus is a Process Leader at KBR. He is chartered engineer and member of the Institute of Chemical Engineers. Marcus graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2005 with a first class master’s degree in Chemical Engineering with Fuel Technology. He joined M.W. Kellogg in Greenford the same year before moving office locations to KBR in Leatherhead in 2012. Marcus has experience on all project design phases from conceptual level through to detailed design and brownfield work. Marcus has worked across a broad range of oil and gas technologies and has specialism in LNG and FLNG design. He is a subject matter expert for steady state simulation and has experience in transient surge modelling and analysis. Marcus has been a STEM ambassador and is a registered IChemE mentor.
Bill Howe
Gasconsult Limited
Zero Refrigerant Liquefaction – developments in the ZR LNG Technology
Thursday 16 May, 11:15 - 11:45
Bill Howe graduated from the University of Birmingham with a degree in chemical engineering. He subsequently accumulated over 30 years experience in the E&C sector. He was CEO and party to a Management Buyout of Foster Wheeler’s South African operations and was subsequently appointed Director of Sales at Foster Wheeler Reading UK. On leaving Foster Wheeler he was CEO of Quadrise Fuels, an oil-in-water emulsion fuel company, and instrumental in their stock exchange listing on the London AIM market. Currently he is CEO of Gasconsult Limited actively commercialising an advanced methane cycle LNG liquefaction technology.
Peter Kauders
CDE Projects Limited
Design Emulation and Its Uses in Project Planning, Cost Estimating and Plant Optimisation
Friday 17 May, 11:45 - 12:15
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
Thursday 16 May, 13:45 - 14:15
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.
Andrew Lewis
Augmented Engineering
Using Artificial Intelligence to Optimize Pipeline Network Design
Friday 17 May, 09:30 - 10:00
Andrew Lewis has 15 years’ experience working in the Oil and Gas design sector. For much of his career he has focused on Process Design and Field Development. Although a Chemical Engineering graduate, he has also maintained a keen interest in Computer Science since his youth. The Oil and Gas industry’s recent surge of interest in digitalization is something he has been eagerly awaiting. He is passionate about leveraging digital technologies to maximize value to the sector, through digitalization of engineering workflows and automation of optimization.
Mishar Kumar Paul, Msc.Eng.,P.Eng.,FS Eng (TÜV)
Saudi Aramco
Stabilizer Reboilers Fouling Preventive, Mitigation and Enhancement Efforts
Thursday 16 May, 14:15 - 14:45
I am working as a lead process engineer in Hawiyah NGL and Haradh Gas plant of Saudi Aramco for more than 4 years. I have more than 23 years of extensive experience in plants operation, process design for medium and large projects and operations in the gas processing, fertilizer industries and industrial working experience in Canada, Japan and Bangladesh. My experiences with chemical processes engineering, operation and process design have helped me to develop strong capabilities in the areas of:
Plant operation trouble-shooting and Investigation Report writing, Supervising/mentoring process engineering team, leading OME team activities, working together with multidiscipline, process simulation modeling (ProMax, Hysys, VMG Sim), detailed design and design review and upgradation including debottlenecking study of the existing Gas and NGL plants. Flare Stack, Relief & Blowdown system design and calculations, detailed process design and hydraulic calculations, review PFDs and P&IDs and process control & instrumentation, heat exchangers rating, tank farm blanketing calculations.
Functional safety for PH & RA, SIL determination (HAZOP, LOPA) & SIL Validation (PFD), technical presentations, environmental protection, safety and pollution mitigation.
Three publications were published in different internationals Journals.
1. “A STUDY OF THE AIR POLLUTION OF DHAKA CITY”, Published in CHEMCON, India, International Journal, 2002.
2. “A STUDY OF ARSENIC WASTE DISPOSAL SYSTEM BY SUBLIMATION PROCESS” Published in IICHE International Journal, Bangladesh, 2003.
3. “GASEOUS EMISSION CONTROL OF A BASIC CHROME SULFATE PLANT BY AN INNOVATIVE METHOD TO MEET ENVIRONMENTAL
Lars Odeskaug
Front Energy
Confront – Improved hull design leads to greater stability, better economics for FLNG
Thursday 16 May, 11:45 - 12:15
Lars Ødeskaug is the founder and CEO of Front Energy AS. He is a Norwegian citizen and has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland. He started his career with Brown & Root in 1977, and has held senior management positions in oil-service and technology companies since 1994, including Managing Director of Hitec Marine and CEO of TORP LNG. He has held several board positions, has given numerous presentations at international energy conferences and has written many articles related to innovation in the oil and gas industry.
Bart Prast
Twister B.V.
Increasing the efficiency and capacity of two-phase separators
Friday 17 May, 11:15 - 11:45
Bart has over 20 years industry experience, including 15 years with Twister. After 5 years with oil services company Stork, Bart joined the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) group within Twister, playing a crucial role in developing the modeling tools behind Twister technologies. Bart developed the company’s CFD aided design capability and has headed the Design group since 2010. Bart holds a MSc in Applied Physics and a Professional Doctorate in Engineering in Computational Mechanics, both from the Technical University of Eindhoven.
Eric Puik
Senior Energy Adviser at Shell
Sky: A scenario to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement
Thursday 16 May, 10:00 - 10:40
Eric Puik, Senior Energy Analyst in Shell's Scenarios team helped to develop the Sky Scenario.
David Simmonds
Simmonds Energy Ltd
Pursuing Local Content in a sustainable fashion
Wednesday 15 May, 15:10 - 15:50
David Simmonds is a semi-retired professional with extensive project and asset management experience.
After four years working for a UK contractor, David joined Shell in 1978 where his international career included assignments in Malaysia, Netherlands and Gabon. While working back in London, in 1998, David was Chairman of GPA’s European Chapter.
Joining BG in 2000, David managed their Group project portfolio and Kazakh interests, before moving to Nigeria and later Egypt in senior management roles during Niger Delta and Arab Spring incursions.
Retiring in 2013 David took the unusual step to volunteer with VSO Tanzania, working for two years as an advisor assessing jobs and business opportunities.
More recently David established his own consultancy and completed studies for an O&G independent. However David’s goal in this changing world is to ensure projects are developed and executed for the benefit of all stakeholders. Profits from his consultancy are being used to support Imperial College and Manchester University scholarship programmes.
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Geoff Skinner
Gasconsult Limited
Zero Refrigerant Liquefaction – developments in the ZR LNG Technology
Thursday 16 May, 11:15 - 11:45
Geoff graduated from Oxford with a BSc and an MA in chemistry. From 1958 to 1965 he worked for Humphreys & Glasgow (now part of Jacobs Engineering), while taking a postgraduate course in chemical engineering at Battersea Polytechnic. He joined the Process Department of Foster Wheeler in 1965. From 1981 to 1986 he was Technical Director of Foster Wheeler Synfuels Corporation in Livingston, New Jersey, USA working mainly on the IGT U-Gas coal gasification process and on development of the Carbogel coal-water fuel technology.
After his return to the UK in 1986, Geoff worked on a variety of hydrogen and syngas related technologies. From 1998, Geoff acted as a consultant to several multinational companies and was a co-founder of Gasconsult. He has registered a number of patents including LNG liquefaction processes and ZR-LNG.
Eirini Skylogianni
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Process intensification: H2S and hydrate control for subsea application
Friday 17 May, 10:45 - 11:15
Eirini is a young process engineer pursuing a doctoral degree within Gas Purification. After obtaining her master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, she worked for one year as a Research Laboratory Engineer within Gas Treatment Technologies department of Statoil’s Research Center in Norway. Currently, as a PhD candidate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, she further enriches her knowledge in the area of gas processing by investigating the feasibility of the simultaneous gas sweetening and hydrate inhibition of natural gas for subsea application.