TRAINING COURSES AND SEMINARS

Aman Amanpour has been an independent petrochemicals & energy consultant since April 2010 after retiring from Shell. His clientele consists of major petrochemicals and energy corporations, as well as renowned companies providing key services to these industries.

His last two positions in Shell were President Shell Chemicals Middle East and thereafter Group General Manager for Shell Upstream New Business for the Middle East, Caspian and South Asian region. Aman, with a distinguished career of 37 years, has attained deep and broad expertise and network across the different regions and sectors of the whole Hydrocarbon Value Chain.

Aman is a recognized expert and leader in the Petrochemicals and Energy industries with many awards and success stories in the areas of: major new investments, asset development, new business, joint venture set up management, leadership of global business units, key account management and marketing and sales.

Aman holds Master degrees in Chemical Engineering as well as in Computer Aided Engineering, he has completed several Business, Management and Leadership programs and is fluent in several languages. He has authored many publications, given public speeches and award winning industry contributions and has led top-ranking public and in-house management training programmes.

Training Programmes:

• Masterclass and Strategic Management in Petrochemicals
• Strategic Management in Petrochemicals

Paul Rijks is widely recognised for successfully guiding global safety, technical and operational strategy in the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors of the oil and gas industries to achieve capital and operational expenditure optimisation.

He possesses demonstrated talent for leading Operational Excellence management programmes related to Asset Integrity, Health, Safety, Security and Environment management.

He is an expert manager with extensive cross-cultural and international work exposure; able to forge solid relationships with partners and build consensus across critical stakeholder levels.

Training Programme:

• Operational Excellence Strategies in Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals

Bernard started his career as Research Engineer for an 8-year period (metallurgy, then energy).

At that time he moved to the Refining and Petrochemicals Industry for a 30 years’ period where he held several positions in numerous aspects of refining such as production, accounting, performances follow-up, planning & scheduling, crude purchase, operations, energy management, technical support and synergies development between refining and petrochemicals. He also worked in many countries (mainly in Europe, Texas, Middle East…).

Today, retired from TOTAL, he manages his own consulting and training company continuing to work in the field of refining, petrochemicals and energy, including mainly the Refining/Petrochemicals synergies as well as the material & energy balance and loss control in downstream plants.

Training Programmes:

• Refinery Reconciled Material Balance
• Synergies Between Refining & Petrochemicals Activities

Marc M. Valleur is the former Head of the Advanced Systems Business line of TECHNIP France. He was also a member of the College of Experts for the TECHNIP Group.

During his 45 years career, Marc has worked as Manager of Operations of UPM Computer Center in Dhahran, computer Analyst at IFP and has completed many decision support systems in various countries, including Russia, Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE), Western Europe (France, Austria, Germany, UK, Belgium, Italy, Spain), Brazil, Africa (South Africa, Nigeria, Angola, Morocco), Australia and South East Asia (Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam).

Marc has worked on gas and oil fields, oil refineries, gas plants, ethylene plants and GTL plants.

Marc is a graduate Engineer of Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris and of IFP School. He is a referee for ASTM on scheduling, an associate Professor at ECE Paris and has published 24 articles and books chapters.

Training Programmes:

• Performance Management Systems
• Advanced Technology Systems

Michel H. Buffenoir is former Senior Vice-President, Ethylene Business Unit, for the entire Technip Group. His responsibilities covered the worldwide management, business development, technology expansion and coordination of all the steam-cracking activities executed by the various entities of the Group.

During Michel’s 45 year career, he has held various positions, starting as a process engineer, and then gaining increasing responsibilities up to Executive Project Director of mega projects, and finally, Senior Vice-President of the Technip Group.

His experience covers project management, PMC services, FEED development, contract negotiation and construction supervision for the oil and gas, chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, environmental and energy-related industries. In addition to his deep involvement in ethylene technologies, he has also been managing projects in the oil and gas fields (Coker plant, LNG) and in the pharmaceutical industry. Two thirds of experience was gained mainly in USA (15 years), Iran, Japan and South East Asia (Malaysia, Taiwan) and Western Europe.

Michel H. Buffenoir is a Graduate engineer (M.Sc. 1966) of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie, Lille, France

Training Programmes:

• Defining & Developing Project Proposals
• Effective Management & Execution of Major Projects

Paul Hill CEng, FIChemE is an Associate Consultant at Euro Petroleum Consultants. He is based in the UK but provides his expertise around the world to clients. He graduated from Surrey University with an honours degree in Chemical Engineering in 1982. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers.

He has over 36 years of experience working in process, safety and environmental engineering, offshore and onshore operations, maintenance and project management, process safety engineering and a consultant. Paul has worked during his career for AMEC, Foster Wheeler, Fluor, Jacobs, KBR, CB&I, Shell International, Shell Exploration and Shell, BP UK, BP Oman, British Gas, Exxon, Total, TNK-BP, Chevron, Total, SABIC, Saudi Aramco, SIPCHEM, Wood Group and many other organisations.

Paul has applied this experience in the last 15 years in providing PHA’s, including HAZID, HAZOP, LOPA, SIL, risk assessment modelling and application of computational fluid dynamics to solve engineering issues in the oil gas and petrochemical and other industries. He provides best in class facilitation with operational experience and is approved by the organisations listed above.

Training Programmes:

• Excellence in Process Safety Management
• HAZOP Study

Zoe Young is an experienced chemical engineer with a strong background in oil and gas consultancy with a thorough knowledge of gas monetisation process and economics.

She has been an advisor to private companies and government ministries, an expert witness (including testimony at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes) and is an experienced lecturer having taught at Cass Business School and on energy training courses for the Energy Institute, Malta Petroleum Training Academy and Oxford Princeton Programme.

Zoe began her career with ExxonMobil, based at the Fawley Refinery in the UK. Following numerous roles she joined the international consultancy firm of Gaffney, Cline and Associates. Projects here included an analysis of technical and economical characteristics of gas monetisation projects for JOGMEC, lead author on a multi-client study looking at practical ways to monetise gas, analysis of methanol and LNG investments in Equatorial Guinea, a global LNG study and a strategic review of options for promoting a new GTL technology. Zoe has also worked on the development of a number of Gas Master Plans.

Since 2013 Zoe has worked as an independent contractor and lecturer. Recent projects have included the appraisal of a potential ammonia and urea investment in the Middle East and a review of gas contracts and gas utilisation investments in a north African country.

Training Programme:

• Monetising Stranded Gas Resources