EXPERT WITNESS

Petroleum refining is an extremely complicated, hazardous and highly technical business.  Let me help you with your litigation in this industry.   

• Well qualified - BS and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering and 29 years experience in virtually all aspects of petroleum refining 
• Excellent communicator - experienced and adept at breaking down complex technical information by use of analogy, visualization and humor - crude oil can be characterized by boulders, rocks, marbles and sand
• Legal and expert witness experience - depositions, interrogatory development, organizing and analyzing mountains of highly complex discovery
• Safety - I leverage my first hand experience with PSM and OSHA audits (PQV's) to know what good...and bad looks like
• Other experience - Business Interruption cost, Refinery Acquisitions and Patent Infringement

Blending Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Workshop

• "How to Blend Gasoline and Diesel in Refineries" - a two Day Class in Houston TX October 26-27, 2021​
• Also Available as a Private Class at Your Site
• Crude oil Characteristics
• Gasoline and Diesel Properties/Specifications
• Linear and Nonlinear Blending
• ​Blend Economics and Optimization
• Many Hands On Exercises
• Learn  netBlend.com - Advanced Web Based Blending Software
• Soft Skills - How to Implement Your Ideas
• Career Tips - How to Leverage Blending to Advance Your Career​

REGISTER FOR "hOW TO bLEND
​GASOLINE AND DIESEL IN rEFINERIES"

REGISTER FOR "HOW TO BLEND
​GASOLINE AND DIESEL FOR TRADERS"

Blending Bunker Fuel Class

• 1 Day Class in Houston TX October 25, 2021
• Also Available as a Private Class at Your Site
• Crude oil Characteristics
• Bunker Fuel Properties/Specifications
• Linear and Nonlinear Blending
• ​Blend Economics and Optimization
• Many Hands On Exercises
• Learn  netBlend.com - Advanced Web Based Blending Software
• Soft Skills - How to Implement Your Ideas
• Career Tips - How to Leverage Blending to Advance Your Career​

REGISTER FOR "HOW TO
​BLEND BUNKER FUEL"

Refining Planning and Economics Best Practices

• 3 Day Private Class at Your Site
• Excellent Training for a New Planning Engineer
• Determine Areas for Improvement
• Crude Oil Quality - Are Your Assays Accurate?
• Economic Modeling - Does Your LP Represent the Current Refinery Constraints?
• ​Crude Selection - Substitution vs Incremental
• Crude/FCC/HDC Curves - Calc $/BBL vs Rate and How to Understand Break Points
• Utility Curtailment - You Lost a Boiler/Sulfur Plant/H2 Plant...Now What? 
• Income Forecasting - Month, Year, 5 Year Plans
• Unit Shut/Slowdown Cost Estimation - Should We Clean Those Heat Exchangers?
• Blending - LP vs Reality
• Backcasting - Is Your LP Accurate?
• Operational Decay - Exchanger Fouling, Catalyst Aging
• Soft Skills - How to Implement Your Ideas
• Career Tips - How to Leverage P&E to Advance Your Career​