Francisco Blanco Email & Phone Number

Houston Tx

Houston, Texas Area

• Supporting the corporate Mid Office General Department as Crude Supply Supervisor.• Developing and optimizing reliable tools to monitor the refinery operational performance as part of the corporate management control process.• Coordinating/Leading the Crude Trader Daily Report generation as part of the process of monitoring commodity transactions and risk control.• Commanding/Developing the Crude and Product Price Set Analysis as part of the Transfer Price project.• Managing the Intelligence Information Researches.• Supporting the corporate strategic planning for middle and long term plan.• Provide assistance on commercial and business environment knowledge, as well as strategic planning know-how across CITGO business units. • Responsible of middle term plan pricing forecasts for refining market key prices.• Monitoring the monthly refining key prices and refining spread cracks.• Leading business opportunities analysis and competitor analysis.• Leading market analysis for crude oils, feedstocks, products and by-products for the domestic refining industry.• Coordinating technology selection projects for refining catalytic processes.• Lead R&D projects related to the design, preparation, characterization, and testing of FCC and HDT catalysts with responsibility for design, economic feasibility, and performance analysis.• Direct technical personnel on test procedures for analyzing components, materials, and processes and conduct analysis of test results.• Leading/Coordinating the ISO/IEC 17025 Quality Management CITGO’s Lab Accreditation Projects.• Command technical support on catalyst replacement projects among CITGO’s refineries • Conducting research on technology information intelligence to support the front-end development processes of capital projects for the whole corpoartion.• Coordinating the shipment processes of feedstock and catalyst samples among CITGO refineries and catalyst providers.

Houston, Texas Area

• Provided strategic analysis and support to the supplier corporate contracts with active participation in the bidding and procurement processes. • Granted the properly maintenances and control of the supplier agreements as part of the strategic procurement plan.• Managed processes of international procurements required for PDVSA refinery laboratory facilities and PDVSA research Centers.• Conducted international procurement processes of bidding, selection, and placing of purchase orders of materials and equipments for the refining industry.

Venezuela

• Leading Researches & Developments of process and catalyst development projects (hydrotreating and fluid catalytic cracking).• Commanding commercial catalyst evaluation projects.• Technical support in designing, preparing, characterizing and testing new materials with catalytic properties to improve the quality of heavy and light fuel oils.• Developed, characterized and tested the performance of solids for heavy oil upgrading process.• Conducted characterization and performance evaluation projects of commercial Fluid Catalytic Cracking and Hydrotreating catalysts. • Coordinating pilot plant studies for catalyst screening and selection• Designed, built, and operated micro test plants to conduct catalytic activity assessments of new catalyst development and commercial catalysts.• Knowledge in heavy oil upgrading methods and crude oil and refined products analyses and testing.• Commanded technical projects to support technical and troubleshooting requirement in PDVSA refineries.• Led/Coordinated catalyst research projects in multidisciplinary professional team.• Managed laboratory and technician personnel.• Commanded catalyst research projects by computer chemistry tools.• Developed computer chemistry tools to evaluate, characterize and simulate catalyst and catalytic processes.• Performed catalytic research projects to establish structure-function relationships of new catalytic material.• Writing technical reports, technical notes, and conducting technical presentation.• Participated actively in the scientific community through training courses, workshops, conferences and seminars in the catalytic area.

Msc. Degree In Chemestry Equivalence - Phd Chemical-Physics Studies (Pending)

Licentiate In Chemistry