Joel Wiggins Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Findlay, Ohio, Us

San Ramon, Ca, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Houston, Tx, Us

Completed Rice University Data Analytics and Visualization Bootcamp.

Christiansted, Vi, Vi

Assigned to commercial trading group. Assessed crude and product price differentials relative to market pricing using the LP. Developed crude pecking order lists with most profitable crudes for three month and yearly budget. Identified decision points on price and utilization changes that might affect the order on a weekly basis and reported these to senior leadership in the commercial trading group. Developed optimized start up plans that transitioned to on stream running. Reviewed LP configuration for opportunities on crude composition, blending capability, etc. to improve profitability. Analyzed ongoing analysis of unit margins for both running and potential unit technologies like Isomerization.

Houston, Tx, Us

Process Engineering Team Lead, Port Arthur, TX (10/14-7/20)Assigned to fuels refinery plant site. Led a group of seven charged with developing yield improvements and identifying areas where the LP and production could better align. Created simulations and LP submodels that can be used to update the LP. Assisted finance on price and volume variance reporting and month end refinery site balance. Reviewed gain/losses on shipments and receipts. Led team to improve unit mass balances, develop submodel generation work processes, and tie out meter balances to actualized accounting information. Responsible for energy Intensity Index and yield reporting for Solomon tracking. Intermediate to advanced working knowledge and understanding of Crude Oil measurement and be the subject matter expert of the system and assets.Identifies and assists/solves challenging situations and unusual problems with limited guidance. Uses judgment to work on a team that identifies and analyzes liquid volume, balance, and measurement discrepancies.Performs processing duties involving repetitive/non-repetitive calculations, verifications, and data entry associated with oil measurement ticketing and month-end close activities. • Set the vision to automate tasks that are difficult to retain knowledge on. Developed daily refinery material balance from meter and financial receipts.• Improved coker margin by $75MM/yr by adjusting feedstock strategy with a kinetic model.• Reformer blending rules updated along with finding meter corrections to match reformate and octane performance curve.• Implemented training and process modeling procedures for maintaining and improving kinetic process models.

San Antonio, Tx, Us

Assigned to fuels refinery plant site. Developed daily targets and movements letter from LP optimization cases. Worked with scheduling and operations to adjust as issues arose. Back cast performance vs LP plan and report price and volume variances. Reviewed crude and gasoil blending receipts and shipments for potential blending limit issues. Implement monthly operating plan and operating strategies, review plant operations and laboratory analyses on a daily basis for better efficiency and compliance with operating plans; track and analyze deviations from operating plans daily. Coordinate with commercial and other refineries on supply chain requirements, changes, and needs and optimize intermediate stream dispositions, including quality, quantity, and inventory levels. Manage crude quality monitoring program including tracking lab analyses for crude batches received, updating crude assay library when required, and determining economic impact for quality deviations. Apply LP model for economic evaluation of operating scenarios, optimization of operating plans and back-casting of operations.Assigned to fuels refinery plant site. Performed tech service functions relating to day to day process & project problem solving. Process engineering functions encompassed monitoring unit performance, modeling unit operation, optimizing unit efficiency, originating operating procedures, and troubleshooting unit problems. Project engineering functions encompassed conceiving, justifying, designing, and implementing refinery projects for improving process efficiency, increasing product recovery, and complying with government regulations. Supported turnaround planning & associated shutdown activities as well as HAZOP reviews & associated follow-up actions. Unit assignment included reforming (CCR and multistage), FCC, gasoil hydrotreating, Decoking, and Crude distillation. Generate refinery performance reports, and industry reports.

London, England, Gb

Assigned to fuels refinery/chemicals plant site. Performed functions relating to day-to-day process & project problem solving. Unit assignment included ultraformer, sulfur recovery, and styrene. Unit monitoring, data analysis, KPI reviews and unit optimization. Troubleshoot process operations, equipment and product quality and communicating corrective actions. Provide technical assistance and serve as a back up to Process Supervisors and Lead Engineer. Generate ideas and scope for expense and capital projects. Drive implementation of small projects through all FEL process stages. Overseeing process specifications for equipment and materials and maintaining process optimization. Providing detailed process specifications, P&ID’s and equipment data sheets for projects. Drive closure of open action items, procedure updates, investigations. Complete PSM activities including MOC, PHA’s and LOPA for assigned units and new projects. Participate on teams associated with larger projects, business improvement, optimization, reliability, safety, turnarounds, and environmental compliance activities. Monitor and evaluate compliance with best practices through collaboration with internal and external networks. Provide process engineering support for startup, shutdown, and turnarounds. Actively promote the latest technologies and problem-solving solutions. Share and leverage technical expertise across other sites and forums. Establish and validate priorities, deliverables, and deadlines with supervision. Manage competing priorities, projects, and assignments. Manage time to deliver on assignments and commitments.

Data Analytics And Visualization

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemical Engineering