Dariusz Jacek Krawiec was appointed the President of the Management Board of PKN ORLEN on September 18th,2008. Mr. Krawiec is a graduate from the Poznan University of Economics, faculty of Economics and Organization of the Foreign Trade (1992). In his professional career Mr. Krawiec among other positions has worked for financial institutions, incl. Nomura International plc London where he specialized in investment banking. Mr. Krawiec has also specialized in corporate finance (Price Waterhouse sp. z o.o.). Between 1998 and 2008 Mr. Krawiec hold the positions of the President of the Management Board and General Director of Impexmetal S.A., the President of the Management Board of Elektrim S.A., the Managing Director of Sindicatum Ltd London, the President of the Management Board of Action S.A., and a Vice President of the Management Board of PKN Orlen. Mr. Dariusz Jacek Krawiec was the Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of the following companies: Huta Aluminium “Konin” S.A., Metalexfrance S.A. Paryz, S and I S.A. Lozanna, cemarket.com S.A. and the Member of the Supervisory Boards of the following companies: Impexmetal S.A., Elektrim S.A., PTC Sp. z o.o. (ERA GSM), Elektrim Telekomunikacja Sp. z o.o., Elektrim Magadex S.A., Elektrim Volt S.A. and PTE AIG, Polkomtel S.A. (active).

Jean-Jacques Mosconi, 49, is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de la rue d’Ulm and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, both in Paris. From 1983 to 1988, he was Research Manager in the Economic Research Department at French utility Electricité de France. He joined Total’s Strategy Department in 1988 and in 1990 was appointed Operations Manager of the Donges refinery. In 1995, Mr. Mosconi was named President of Elf Italy and in 1998 was appointed President, Lubricants. He has been Senior Vice President Strategy, Development and R&D of Refining & Marketing, since January 2002. He has been a member of the Group Management Committee for Total since May 2006. On April 16, 2007, Jean-Jacques Mosconi was appointed as Senior Vice President Strategic Planning for the Total Group.

Mr. Napadovskiy graduated from he Institute of Petroleum, section of Oil Refining and Gas Processing Chemical Technology, in Grozny in 1972. After the Institute of Petroleum, he joined Kirishy Refinery, Leningrad Region. In 1982, moved to Komsomolsk-on-Amur and was appointed Director of Komsomolsk Refinery. In 1999, moved to Rosneft headquarters in Moscow where he currently works in the capacity of the Director of Department.

Willem Kuijl is currently Special Advisor to the British Petroleum Fuel Value Chains. After attaining a Masters degree in mechanical engineering in 1978, Willem worked as a process engineer for German contractors. In 1991 he joined VEBA Oel AG where he held various posts including, process engineering team leader, asset management, downstream business optimization and risk management; from 2001 Kuijl was responsible for VEBA Oel’s integration into British Petroleum, in 2002 Willem-Arie was appointed regional manager of IST (BP’s trading organization). Prior to his recent appointment, Willem was Business Unit Leader at BP’s Refinery Rotterdam for six years, where he brought the refinery to delivering solid safety and commercial results. Willem-Arie is a Dutch national. He is married to Cornelia, and they have two children.

Mr. Honkamaa joined Neste Oil in 1987. Currently he is responsible for renewable diesel production, marketing, and sales. Served as Executive Vice President, Oil Refining (2005–2007), Vice President, Wholesale and Supply (2000–2004), and Vice President, MTBE Business Unit (1996–2000). Member of the Board of Directors of the Finnish Oil and Gas Federation.

Kuwait National Petroleum Company’s (KNPC) Shuaiba (SHU) Refinery is the oldest of the three refineries operated by KNPC and was commissioned in 1968. Its crude refining capacity is 200,000 bbls/day and is complex in nature with Two stage Hydrocrackers, H-Oil ( Heavy oil cracking) units and Kerosene/Diesel Hydrotreaters. This refinery had a setback in sustaining operations starting from the year 2004 onwards due to frequent unscheduled shutdowns and reliability issues, resulting in reduced on-stream factor and product commitments. To improve the reliability and sustain continuous safe operations of the refinery , Operations Excellence Programs were initiated from 2004. The paper deals about various operational excellence programs implemented starting from the year 2004.

Dr. Rush Khan served five years with the U.S. Department of Energy and thirteen years with Texaco, Inc. developing clean energy. He took assignments with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and served as an adjunct professor at Vassar College. He’s an inventor of thirty patents. As a Society of Petroleum Engineers Distinguished Lecturer during 2006–2007, Dr. Khan made presentations on Innovation around the world including India, Thailand, the Philippines, Austria, Italy, Croatia, and Hungry, and also at Harvard (Kennedy School of Government), Rice University and MIT. He was the Champion for Solar Energy Research for a major organization. He has considerable experience in Intellectual Properties and commercialized a series of technologies. Dr. Khan published nearly 200 journal papers and by networking with industry experts written/edited several books used in universities and industry: Designing Fuels for the Environment, Clean Energy from Waste & Coal and Conversion and Utilization of Waste Materials.

Gaetano graduated in Chemical Engineering from Naples University in 1989.Gaetano has been Vice President of Technological Services in ENI Refining&Marketing Division since April 2009 . He joined the ENI group in July 1989, working in technical department, as an FCC expert, In 1995, Mr. De Santis became technical manager in the ENI Gela (south of Sicily) refinery, and then Production manager of Utilities and Power Plants. From 2003 to 2004 Gaetano was the Gela refinery site director.

In his current role, he is responsible for part of the CO2 programme in the Royal Dutch Shell, with focus on the CO2 efficiency of the company. Dr Lestak has 25 years experience with the oil and gas industry, he started his career as a lecturer at the University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology. He spent nearly ten years with front-end design of refinery, LNG, ammonia and ethylene plants at MW Kellogg Ltd. in London, where as a Technology Manager he set up an Advanced Chemical Engineering group, commercialised a number of modern design methods and a high efficiency distillation apparatus. Prior to joining Shell he worked as a Process Integration manager in BOC, developing integrated commercial solutions for large-scale industrial applications

Slawomir Jedrzejczyk was appointed to the position of a Vice-Chairman of the Management Board of PKN ORLEN in 2008. Mr. Jedrzejczyk is also a member of the Board of Directors of Orlen Lietuva (Lithuania), a Vice-chairman of the Supervisor Board at Unipetrol (Czech Republic) and a member of the Supervisory Board at Polkomtel S.A. In 2008 his focus was on developing a new 5-year strategy of ORLEN Group. In 2009 his priority has been to improve financial standing by securing financing and implementation of numerous operational improvement projects focused on cash flow generation. Mr. Jedrzejczyk is a graduate of Lodz University of Technology in Poland. He also holds a certificate of Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. Between 2005 – 2008 Mr. Jedrzejczyk was a Chairman of the Management Board and CEO of TP Emitel. In his professional career, prior to 2005, Mr. Jedrzejczyk among other positions has worked for Telecom Poland S.A., Impexmetal S.A. and Price Waterhouse.

Dr. Alfred Leodolter graduated from the University of Vienna in 1977 with a PhD in Organic Chemistry. Between 1980-2001 Dr. Leodolter worked at OMV in the Schwechat Refinery. There he started as a Process Engineer moving to the roles of Operations Unit Manager, Refinery Operations Manager and later Deputy General Manager. Between 2001 and 2003 Alfred worked as the General Manager of the Pak-Arab Refinery in Pakistan. In 2003 he joined ROMPETROL SA, as Deputy CEO at the Petromidia Refinery. Dr. Leodolter later joined PETROM SA in 2005. Here he worked as the General Manager at the Petrobrazi Refinery. He was also the Programme Director for the Vision 2010 Project. Currently Dr. Leodolter is the Director for Refinery Projects within PETROM SA.

Skip York has almost 20 years of worldwide experience across the energy value chain. He has deep expertise in petroleum market economics specializing in strategy, commercial optimization (including asset valuation and transaction support), and market price-setting mechanisms. Skip has led a number of projects involving feasibility studies, valuations, and transaction due diligence projects across the petroleum industry. In particular, he has experience in valuing non-fungible crudes across a number of markets, such as supporting transactions involving Canadian oil sands assets and target refineries. Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie, Skip worked for ExxonMobil in a variety of strategic planning assignments. He held roles as the global expert on joint venture negotiation best practices, managing new business development downstream opportunities in Asia Pacific, and leading research teams on studies of the economic impact of large-scale oil investments on the economy of Russia. He also has consulted for clients at McKinsey & Company and Charles River Associates. Skip holds a PhD Economics from the University of Virginia, as well as, a Masters of Science and Bachelor of Science also in Economics from the University of Wyoming.

Antony Francis is working as General Manager in EPS (Economics, Planning and Scheduling) of Supply and Trading department of RIL Petroleum Business. His qualifications are B Chem Engineering (ICT Mumbai) and MBA Finance(JBIMS Mumbai). Francis has 23 years of experience in the Refining and Petrochemicals industry in the fields of Unit operations, Technical services and Planning areas.

Peter Bost started his career with Shell in 1979. Most of his career he has worked in the area of Supply Chain Management, in various disciplines. He started of in Research and later he became Development Engineer. He worked as Economist and Refinery Planner in one of Shell’s largest refineries in Germany. During assignments in Manufacturing and Shell Global Solutions, Peter Bost participated in Supply Chain improvement projects in more than 25 countries. Currently he is working for Shell’s Project and Technology Department as Team Lead Supply Chain Planning and Scheduling. In that function he is responsible for all Supply Chain Planning and Scheduling consultancy services in Europe , Middle East and Africa. These services are provided to Shell, Shell JV’s and selected 3P customers and encompass business processes redesign, tools development and implementation, information management and competence development of staff.

Richard Herrle began his career with Union Carbide Corporation in Plant Operations and Design, specializing in plant start-ups. He moved to USS Chemicals which later became Aristech Chemical Corporation, developing and launching a line of compatibilizers for the automotive, fibers and recycling industries. He moved into the high tech industry as a marketing manager and helped take Troy Systems International public. He held various positions in the medical device field specializing in new product development and launch. At Ventyx, he is responsible for identifying market opportunities and long term vision for the eSOMS Suite software line. He holds degrees from the University of Pittsburgh in Chemical Engineering , an MBA from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and is a US Patent holder.

Fabrizio is currently working as Marketing Manager worldwide, for the Central Organization of Alfa Laval., within the Refinery Market Unit. He started his activity for Alfa Laval in 2001, as Sales Manager for the Process Industry in Italy; from 2007, he moved to the Central Organization of Alfa Laval, based in Paris, France. He contributed to the increase of the using of CHE –Compact Heat Exchangers- within Refineries, coordinating the activities of Alfa Laval towards the Endusers, the Process Licensors and the EPC’s.

Norman Byrne is the R&D Director for Dow Oil & Gas, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company. He is responsible for the worldwide R&D efforts in Exploration, Production, Refining and Gas Processing. Current projects involve specialty chemicals and engineering solutions for a variety of oil and gas industry needs, including CO2 capture from flue gas. Norm spent most of his career at Nalco, working in the Oilfield Chemical Flow Assurance Research group. Most recently, he led that group, which is a worldwide leader in Capex Deepwater and Heavy Oil production solutions. He also has extensive experience in other applications, including emulsions, corrosion control and oil treatment strategies. He has been actively involved in the industry by chairing Society of Petroleum Engineers Advanced Technology Conferences. Norm has also taken leadership roles in various industry associations including the European Offshore Specialty Chemical Association and the Royal Society of Chemistry Energy Sector Board. Norm holds a B.S. in Chemistry and a MS/PhD in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from Rice University.

Maarten Martens studied Business Administration and has spent the biggest part of his working career in developing advanced solutions for different businesses. As the general manager of Aggreko Process services he is responsible for delivering the companies services to refineries and chemical plants. A comment from Mr. Martens when we wrote this profile for him was: ‘what is interesting for me to do is creating a service to our customers that seems to be organic with the organization of the customer’. According to Mr. Martens it is only worth wile delivering technical solutions (especially to refineries) if the customer has a direct benefit that sits on the bottom of his P&L. ‘Customers are not so interested these days in pieces of steel or consulting services – the bottom line is what counts’ according to Mr. Martens.

Harald Linga has been responsible for technology development within ProPure since the start-up in 1999, and is now leading the product development within the Pure Group, comprising the sister companies ProPure (Norway), ProSep (US), Pure Group Asia Pacific (KL) and TORR Canada. He has 25 years experience within research and product development for the oil and gas industry, and has held positions with SINTEF, Christian Michelsen Research and Framo Engineering. His main focus has been related to multiphase flow, gas conditioning, mass transfer and separation. He holds a M.Sc. in technical physics and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from The Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Fabio Nicolò, Associate Partner for Tefen Italy, has more than 12 years of management consulting experience. He joined Venture Consulting from the time of its establishment, and then TEFEN at the time of the Venture Consulting acquisition in 2007. Previously Fabio has worked for other leading management consulting firms. He is responsible for business development and delivery in strategic management and operational excellence engagements across different industries, both national and international, with a focus on Energy & Utilities, Chemicals, media and High Tech. His expertise is in business, corporate, and Blue Ocean Strategy, Building Market Focused Organization, Market Entry strategy, business model design and implementation, due diligence and financing projects, process and product innovation, and large operational excellence initiatives in service, process and manufacturing industries. Fabio holds a degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business for an Executive Master, and a degree in Electronic Engineering from University “La Sapienza” of Rome.

Wolf Koch has managed technology development programs for over three decades on environmental, safety and intellectual properties issues related to petroleum product distribution. He managed petrochemical and petroleum processing technology development for a major oil company and has collaborated with regulatory agencies at the Federal, State and local levels and with industry groups and associations. He is the inventor or co-inventor on 26 patents and has authored over 40 publications covering topics in biomedical engineering, catalysis, environmental engineering and intellectual properties. Koch holds Ph.D. and bachelor degrees in chemical engineering and a master’s degree in biomedical engineering. He served as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force, four years as a weapons and explosives safety officer in Germany and six years as a reservist in the Air Force Intelligence Service, covering technology issues for the Foreign Technology Division.

Since January 2009, Alain Floutier is in charge of the new DS Industry Marketing activity, within the Global Marketing group. He develops the Marketing programs around the Multibrands DS products portfolio, tailored to specific Industry or sub Industry sectors. From 2006 to 2008, Dassault Systèmes promoted Alain Floutier to Director of its Mediterranean Channel, with responsibilities including the development of indirect sales in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Israel. In this role, Mr. Floutier supports DS’ full brand portfolio. Dassault Systèmes hired Mr. Floutier in February 2005 to serve as Business Development Director for EMEA. Prior to joining DS, Alain Floutier worked in the United States for 7 years as Matradatavision’s Country Manager, and as Product Marketing Manager for CISIGRAPH, where he also worked in pre-sales for 10 years. Just before joining Dassault Systèmes, Mr. Floutier worked for RAND as its EMEA Marketing Director. Alain Floutier graduated with a concentration in Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing from France’s Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs in 1981.

Graeme Ellis is a Principal Safety Consultant with ABB Engineering Services based in Warrington, UK. He has a Process Engineering background and 29 years experience in the process industry previously with MW Kellogg, Hercules and ICI Acrylics. Graeme trained as an ICI hazard study leader in 1988 and has worked as a Process Safety Consultant in all sectors of the Process Industry since 1994. His main areas of work are consultancy and training for hazard identification and risk assessment, with responsibility for ABB’s Process Hazard Review methodology for the cyclic review of existing facilities.

Hans Romansko, General Manager of Industrial Automation Partners (IAP), the Netherlands is active in the field of industrial automation since 1983. During the period 1983 up tm 1998 he worked for Honeywell and Elsag Bailey, currently part of ABB. During these years Mr. Romanesko gained a lot of knowhow with reference to process control systems and process automation in general. In 1998 Mr. Romanesko founded IAP, an independent supplier of industrial automation services and solutions. Supporting different control systems and process knowhow are the key elements of this organization. The delivery of information solutions and services related to process environments are also part of the scope of IAP. For this the company delivers of the shelf solutions for Oil & Chemical Terminal Management, Digital logbook and SHEQ solutions.

Graduated Bachelor Degree polytechnical Institute Utrecht, The Netherlands. Started his career with Getronics in Industrial Automation followed by a Sales Support Engineer position with Yokogawa Netherlands for sales and project execution of Distributed Control Systems for oil & gas, petrochemical and refinery applications. Joined Fluor Corporation Haarlem The Netherlands office responsible for staffing. Founding managing partner of Global Energy Services in 2000 responsible for project services for the oil & gas, refinery and petrochemical industry. Successfully provided teams for owner operators and engineering contractors. Typical Operations & Maintenance contracts as for Foster Wheeler Midor Refinery Egypt grass roots refinery and Technip Italy Petrovietnam Phy My Fertilizer Project in Vietnam. The last five years focusing on PMC Project Management and Commissioning Startup and Initial Operations services for typical clients as Petro Rabigh High Olefins FCCU refinery and Vietnam's first Binhson Refinery in Dung Quat. Responsible for developing and marketing of Global Energy Pre-Commissioning, Commissioning and Startup philosophy.

Graduated associate degree level in process operations. Started his career in operations for Kuwait Petroleum Europoort and Exxon Aromatics Rotterdam. Joined Global Energy ten years ago as Lead Commissioning Engineer promoted as Commissioning Manager on hire to EPC Managing Contractors responsible for Mechanical Completions Co-ordination and Managing the Pre-Commissioning and Commissioning of Refinery projects. Assigned to clients as Commissioning Manager for Fluor Corp (Gdansk Refinery Poland), Aker Solutions (Statoil Mongstad Refinery for HDS - Clean Fuels and SMIL Projects, BP Gelsenkirchen Naphtacracker project, Sipchem BDO-Plant Project Saudi, Yansab Olefins Saudi), Jacobs Engineering (ConocoPhilips Whitegate Refinery, HDS-Clean Fuels Project), Technip France (Turkmenibashi Refinery RFCCU-Complex) and Technip Italy (Petrochemia Refinery, RFCCU Complex Poland).

Ben O'Berry joined BASF FCC Refining Catalysts in 2009 as the Regional Technical Sales Manager for the UK, Scandinavia, the Netherlands and S. Africa. Ben graduated from North Carolina State University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering (2000). Shortly after graduating he began work with UOP Hydroprocessing Research and Development department where he conducted catalyst development and demonstration trials. In 2002 Ben joined UOP’s Field Operating Service department as a Technical Advisor. In the UOP advisor role Ben was the Chief Technical Advisor for UOP technologies globally managing teams to deliver projects from construction to production. His projects include: Lukoil Bourgas, Bulgaria (FCC), INA Sisak, Croatia (FCC), Mozyr Refinery, Belarus (MSCC), Giant Refining, USA (FCC), Total Petrochemicals, Belgium (MTO), SEEF, Qatar (aromatics extraction), BP Cherry Point, USA (isomerisation), IndianOil Corporation, India (aromatics extraction), Texas Petrochemicals, USA (oligomerization).

As Business Development Manager, Eric Jan Kwekkeboom manages European- and African market development for Yokogawa in oil and gas downstream, especially with refinery and petrochemical industry segments. He holds bachelor degrees in process engineering and chemical engineering and graduated in business to business marketing. Eric Jan has more than twenty years experience in several oil and gas segments and in various disciplines, starting in 1988 as a specialist for process equipment, moved on to process instrumentation and process analyzers in 1990 and was appointed Industry Marketing Director for process automation solutions in 1999. He finally joined Yokogawa Europe in 2008. Appointed to his present position, he develops strategies and plans for all Yokogawa products, solutions and services related to the oil and gas downstream industries. Based in Yokogawa Europe Headquarters in Amersfoort, The Netherlands, together with his team, he provides industry solution support to the company’s sales offices and distributors in Europe and Africa.

Bernard Haigh acts as consultant during both the pre-sales and implementation stages of MES projects carried out by Yokogawa companies all around the world. Recent activities have included an oil movements monitoring application for use in refinery offsite areas, a mass and energy balancing project for a Russian oil refinery, and an energy efficiency project for a Brazilian iron and steel works. He holds a master degree in engineering from Cambridge University, together with a doctorate in geophysics from Durham University. During a lengthy career in industrial computing applications, Bernard has built up a wide-ranging experience while fulfilling various roles in a large number of projects. These projects have covered many industries including refining, oil & gas exploration, nuclear power station monitoring, iron and steel, aircraft manufacture, food processing, and automated engineering component testing. Typically these projects have covered the gap between control systems and ERP systems – i.e. the layer nowadays identified as the MIS/MES domain

Rutger de Mare is a consultant in the field of Operations Research in the Oil, Gas and Energy industry. He studied Econometrics and Operations Research at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. In 2005, Rutger joined ORTEC, and further specialised in the oil and gas analytic consultancy. He has set up optimisation projects in crude planning and scheduling, product blending, LNG portfolio optimisation, and downstream distribution. ORTEC is one of the largest providers of advanced planning and optimisation software solutions and consulting services. ORTEC has over 1250 customers worldwide, 700 employees and several offices in America, Europe, Asia and the Pacific Region. In the oil- gas- and chemicals industry, ORTEC delivers consultancy services to various multinationals. ORTEC and Shell have collaborated for over twenty five years, in the areas of supply chain planning and scheduling, benchmarking, and cost-estimating.