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Houston, TX, US

Houston, Texas, United States

Following a corporate restructure, appointed to lead a new portfolio comprising sourcing of major raw materials for North America operations, and supply planning and marketing & sales for regional products (ethylene, cracker co-products and glycols). Manage approximately US 1.5 billion of raw materials, catalysts and chemicals purchases and $ 500 million.

Houston, Texas, United States

Early in 2020, financial difficulties in the company prompted an aggressive divestment program, with a big focus on joint venturing the newly-completed cracker and polyethylene units. Following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, I was appointed to lead the effort in-country in the USA. I put together a small PMO team and worked with the M&A team and.

Houston, Texas, United States

Led the M&SE team to develop and manage a project “funnel” for Chemicals, supporting a roadmap for continuous improvement and transformation with a strong focus on digital innovation and digital enablement. Internally, built networks with stakeholder groups to understand pain points and opportunities to streamline and optimize systems, processes and ways.

Houston, Texas Area

Sasol is constructing a US$ 10 billion plus world scale ethylene and derivatives complex in Lake Charles, Louisiana, with startup planned in 2018. Leading a multi-disciplinary project effort to achieve business and operations readiness, with an Owners Cost budget >US$ 1 billion. Managing a core team of 8 plus a virtual network of 20 plus. Reporting into a.

Houston, Texas Area

Sasol Polymers expanding in preparation for the start-up of new production facilities in mid-2016 and end-2017. With more than 50% of output from these facilities (or a total production of 1 million tons per annum) expected to be exported, appointed to manage all export activities, as well as to provide overall market analysis capacity for the Marketing.

Houston, Texas, USA

Responsible for SSI global GTL marketing activities, with a focus on setting up a marketing organisation in North America to take Sasol's US GTL project into market towards the end of the decade. Also responsible for SSI's global strategy and business development activities.

Houston, Texas Area

Led feasibility studies for two large Sasol projects in North America; an ~100,000 bpd GTL facility and a 1,5 million tpa world scale ethane cracker. Both to be co-located at Sasol's Lake Charles, Louisiana site. Both are multi-billion US$ investments. Delivered Board approval to proceed into Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) phase.

Mumbai Area, India

Managed Sasol in-country office and project team to develop a ~US$10 billion Coal-to-Liquids project in conjuction with joint venture partner (Tata). Took the project through a two year pre-feasibility phase.

Led the joint venture company, with a charter to explore and develop opportunities based on Sasol's gas-to-liquids technology in commercial circumstances globally.

Led the global GTL new business team, with active investigations in Australia, Russia, Indonesia and USA (Alaska), and screening studies elsewhere.

Set up and led a marketing team to evaluate and develop GTL products, applications, and potential markets globally, and to provide a full suite of marketing services to equity projects. Progressed projects in Qatar and Nigeria through to final investment decisions, with Oryx GTL (Qatar) starting up in 2007. Developed and implemented a global marketing.