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London, England, Gb

Responsible and held accountable for managing the blending of various naphtha oils into finished gasoline products for the Midwest region of the United States of America. Work closely with commodity traders to maximize gross margin of the whiting refinery by optimizing the product slate and advantaged grade volumes of gasoline production from the refinery.Contribute to the near term (3-month) refinery production planning process. Identify planning constraints, risks, and opportunities. Develop an operating strategy to maximize gross margin while managing operational and product quality risk.Coordinate with midstream and trading businesses to build a product schedule that supports the refinery production planCommunicate the operating strategy to operations and technical teams and provide operating targets for operations to execute dailyTroubleshoot constraints and adjust the blend plan as necessary during unplanned events and changing market conditions. Communicate plan changes with supply to manage impact to customers.

London, England, Gb

Continue to support the Day-to-day operations and long term strategic planning of the bp whiting: Cyclic Catalytic Reformer Naphtha hydrotreater Blend Oil Ultrafiner - a Diesel/Jet/Gasoil swing hydrotreater Aromatic Recovery Unit Flare gas recovery unit. Help maintain Kanban boards, timelines, features, and retro. Help develop main unit operational objectives as it pertains to process engineering. Collaborate with catalyst vendors and BP global support teams to optimize current catalyst life and identify opportunities for future outages.Providing guidance to long term strategic maintenance planning as the subject matter expert in the units I am responsible for including RBI (risk based inspection) frameworks for future operational cycles.Process Engineering lead for a 27 day Non-cycle ending TAR on the Blend oil ultrafiner hydrotreater.Technical contact for select unit HAZOP/LOPA PHA revalidations.

London, England, Gb

Supported various process units in the Whiting refinery. Naphtha hydrotreaterNaphtha Cyclic Reforming unit Distillate hydrotreaterJet hydrotreaterGasoil hydrotreaterFlare Gas Recovery (FGR)Oil Movements Naphtha/Butanes/LPG (OMD)Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP)Interim waste management SME (5 months)Backfill for Natural Gas Liquids product scheduling (NGLs)Daily optimization and troubleshooting for Gasoil, Distillate, Jet, Naptha Hydrotreating, Naphtha reforming, Fractionation trains, and Flare gas recovery systems. Support the only cyclic reformer in bp. Process Engineering lead for one cycle ending TAR and various unit outages, had to manage TAR time pressures and engineering support on opposite shift.Short and long term unit health monitoring done on a routine basis.Work closely with other process engineers and product schedulers to deeply understand the complexity of the Whiting refinery naphtha system.Developed the 2021 waste budget for the refinery ($15MM).Mentor younger engineers by allowing them to backfill my role, giving an opportunity for moreaccountability and learning opportunities.Delivered ~$500,000 in economic delivery by optimizing gasoline blenders over the time in role.Supported a Clarifier turnaround at the Waste water treatment plant.

An in house project design engineer focused on developing and evaluating new processes at the Saraland oil processing facility.

Houston, Texas, Us

In the field working on drilling rigs supporting operations and being the customer facing representative for Halliburton while executing oil well cement jobs in New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona.