Grant Jacobson

Grant Jacobson is a Chemical Engineer with expertise in process engineering and operations management and he is a member of API SCHTE (subcommittee on Heat Transfer Equipment)Grant has experience in design, operation, optimization of process equipment and operations management of cross-functional teams. Prior to joining Becht, he was at Valero Energy, where he led multiple operational practices improvement focusing on equipment preparation and troubleshooting as well as building toolsets and polices to facilitate continued operational excellence. With ExxonMobil while supporting refinery units as a process engineer, he helped develop and lead strategic, quick payback projects to help reinforce refinery profitability during poor market conditions. He has extensive process engineering experience coupled with hands on, in the field, operational know how to drive elegant and practical solutions. He has supported or operated every major refinery process unit across his years of industry experience which he leverages to support holistic solutions for solving the most challenging problems on Fired Equipment. Grant received his Bachelors of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Nebraska.

Abdulaziz Doukhi

An Engineer who graduated from Arizona State University, USA in 2017 with a BSc of chemical engineering. Expanded the academic career and graduated with MSc in Advanced chemical engineering from Leeds University, UK in 2019. Working as a Delayed Coker Unit operation engineer in Kuwait National Petroleum Company, MAA since 2021.

Abirmoy Ghosh

Bonny Saikia

Bonny is currently working as Senior Manager at Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., with more than 14 years of experience in both Refining sector and R&D activities. Experienced in technology, design, troubleshooting and revamp of 2 Delayed Coker units and one Fluidized Catalytic Cracking (INDMAX) unit and on-site field activities like procurement, tendering, support for construction activities, pre-commissioning, commissioning and turnaround assistances. He has a diverse background encompassing crude distillation unit, hydrotreating unit, biotechnologies, bulk petroleum storage & transportation facilities and other refining processes. His major field of expertise includes designing reactors and columns for various refining processes, mechanical design of two Coke Drums, equipment layouts, piping Stress Analysis, etc. Bonny is a Mechanical Engineering Graduate, with additional qualifications of post-graduate diploma in Renewable Energy & Energy Management; MBA in Operations Management; Master of Science in Mathematics. He is also a Certified Energy Manager cum Energy Auditor, under the aegis of Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Govt of India. Beyond his professional assignments, he enjoys painting, singing, listening to music, exploring new places and food, spending time with friends and family, etc.

Ali Sinan Erçil

Ali Sinan has been working at TUPRAS in operations for 7 years

Daniel Diaz Lopez

Evan Hyde

Evan Hyde is the Director of Field Operations for Coking.com Inc. Formerly he was president of Telaxe, a coker consulting firm. He previously was president of C2 Nano Technology where they researched surface treatments to combat fouling and corrosion issues in cokers and other petrochemical process units. He was a Senior Engineering Advisor for Becht Engineering Co., Inc. New Jersey. He has consulted on processing improvement and reliability initiatives for delayed coking clients around the world. He also participated in onsite peer assessments of Coker Units at eight refineries which included improvements in maintenance work practices, process enhancements, and turnaround scope optimization. Prior to joining Becht, Evan worked for ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, as a process engineer, with assignments in research, and troubleshooting for heavy oil upgrading equipment. He holds a B.S. of Chemical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.

Marijana Dragić

Marijana Dragić is Technologist/ Process Engineer of Delay Coker and Hydrocracker complex with extensions in NIS Oil Refinery in Pančevo, Serbia. During 12 years of experience working in NIS Refinery was part of startup team of Hydrocracker/HPU/Sulphur production unit. Worked as process engineer since detail design of new DCU Complex and member of startup team.  Involved in development of OTS for DCU and training of operators before the unit first start up.

Ozan Deniz Tunca

Ozan Tunca is a chemical engineer with 5 years of experience in the oil & gas industry. He has started in his career as process safety engineer and now he has been working as process engineer at Tupras responsible for FCC, DCU, NHT and Merox units.

Alex Berry

Alex has over 15 years of experience in petrochemicals & oil refining, with significant hands-on field experience in the design, fabrication, maintenance and repair of pressure equipment. Alex’s main areas of expertise are Fitness-for-Service assessments, design & troubleshooting of bolted flanged joints, coke drum integrity management and repair of ageing plant. Alex has expertise in welding and materials engineering, completing his diploma with The Welding Institute. Alex is the author/co-author of several papers & technical presentations in the field of coke drums and bolted flanged joints. A Chartered Engineer with the IMechE, he drives improvements in mechanical integrity through speaking at conferences and developing younger engineers.

Gustavo Garcia

Gustavo Garcia has been around bottom of the barrel processing technologies over the last29 years and since 2017 is the Coking and Visbreaking Technical Advisor at BP, providing technical and operational support and oversight on heavy oil technology to 6 operating sites across the world. Prior to that he held different Operations, Process and Project Engineering roles at BP’s Castellon Refinery in Spain and in Venezuela with Petrolera American and PDVSA. Gustavo is a Chemical Engineer from the Central University of Venezuela.

Jean-Gael le Floch

Jean-Gaël has 30 years' experience, with a wide range expertise including due diligence and business analysis for M&A, refinery configuration studies, supply chain & logistics optimization, margin improvement, crudes evaluation, operational excellence and performance benchmarking.

Sanjay Lodha

Sanjay Lodha is a Global Business Director for TUBACOAT, a subsidiary of Tubacex Group, Spain.  

Sanjay brings with him more than 26 years of progressive experience in commercial sales, business development, management, licensing technology and process engineering in refining and chemical industry across the U.S., Middle East, India and other international markets.  

Prior to joining Tubacex, he worked with Shell USA, Chevron USA and Evonik USA, where he acquired a vast knowledge and exposure to the Refining and Petrochemical Industry. Sanjay holds an MS in chemical engineering from the U.S. and Executive Management from MIT.  He is currently based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.    

Kaitlin Gebbie

Kaitlin joined CRU in 2021 and is an experienced cross-commodity project manager who has led multiple studies on long-term strategy and market entry decisions, financial due diligence, and detailed greenfield research programmes for a global client base. Kaitlin has a strong knowledge base in the technical carbon value chain and has executed all of CRU’s studies on the impacts of renewable energy uptake on the oil and petroleum products industry. Kaitlin holds an MSc in Sustainable Resources from University College London (UCL) and a BSc in French and Business Management from the University of Southampton.  

Mitch Moloney

Mitch graduated from Princeton University in 1979 with a BSc in Chemical Engineering and is a registered PE in Texas. He worked with ExxonMobil for 40 years, retiring in 2019. He has worked as a consultant with Becht for over three years as a process engineering and resid upgrading specialist.  He has been married to his wife Laura for 41 years, has two children in their 30’s and 2 grandchildren.  He started his career at Bayway Refinery in NJ, then joined the resid upgrading world in 1989, and has focused on delayed coking, visbreaking and resid upgrading for 34 years. Highlights were serving as the process start-up lead for the Venezuelan Cerro Negro Upgrader in 2001 and the Antwerp DCU in Belgium in 2018.  He enjoys delayed coking, languages (Spanish, Dutch, French), art, sports and Belgian beers, not necessarily in that order.

Vineet Sharma

Corrosion & inspection personnel with 17 years of experience in Refining of the Petrochemical industry. Currently working as Head of inspection in Reliance SEZ Refinery

Demir Kalić

Demir Kalić is employed in NIS Oil Refinery in Pančevo, Serbia. During 14 years of carrier worked as operator and shift supervisor at sulfuric acid Alkylation unit complex, SRU, SWS and ARU. As shift supervisor worked on precommissioning / commissioning and startup of new Delayed Coker unit complex in 2020. Since 2021, Demir is DCU Plant Manager. Extremely passionate about process control of unit, unit optimization, commissioning activities and preparing units for turnaround activities. Married and have two children. Loves to play guitar and fishing on rivers and seas.

Victor Martinez

PhD, MSc Metallurgical and Mining Engineering. More than 25 years of experience related to materials, inspection, pressure vessels and steel construction. After working with ARCELOR Mittal and LRQA, since 2009 joined IDESA, being at present Operations & R&D Director

Pablo Gonzalez

Over forty years of experience in project implementation, consultancy, management and supervisory roles within operating companies, engineering contractors and OEM organizations. Currently engineering consultant at DeltaValve supporting the design and construction of facilities associated with coke drum unheading facilities.

Prasanjeet Singh

Rick Torres

Vasile Buga

Vasile has more than 30 years of experience in the Rompetrol Refinery in Navodari, Romania. During this time, he has been involved in various modernization projects in Delayed Coker, Amine and Sulphur Recovery Units. He is currently the Senior Process Control Engineer