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.

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.

Born the june 16th 1964, graduated in Chemical Engineering in Naples University, 1989, since april 2009 is Vice President of Technological Services in ENI Refining&Marketing Division. He joined ENI group in July 1989, in Priolo refinery (Syracuse, Sicily), working in technical department, as FCC expert, in production as manager of several process units, and manager of logistics department. In 1995, december, became technical manager in ENI Gela (south of Sicily) refinery, and then Production manager of Utilities and Power Plant before, and refinery units subsequently. From 2003 to 2004 was Gela refinery site director. From 2004 to april 2009 was refinery site director in ENI Taranto refinery.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mike is Head of Global Downstream Oil Consulting and a senior member of the Energy Consulting Team. He joined Wood Mackenzie in 1991 taking global responsibility for the development of the downstream oil consultancy practice and publications business. Since early 1997 his focus has been on developing the firm’s corporate/strategic consultancy business. Mike has led numerous consultancy assignments including industry/market studies and asset valuations, as well as providing strategic and transactional advice for companies such as AgipPetroli, Caltex, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil, KPC, MOL, PDVSA, Petrogal, Petroplus, Preem, Sasol, Tesco, Texaco and Total. Prior to 1991 Mike was at BP where he held various positions in research, strategic and financial planning followed by four years commercial experience as a crude and then product trader. Mike has an honours degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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).