EPC Energies Training Academy

Dr Telen is an experienced manager with more than 25 years of operational experience in the downstream Oil & Gas industry. She is a recognised expert in conventional, biofuels and alternative fuels with extensive experience in crude selection process and formulation of finished products including product portfolio strategy, product quality road mapping and benchmarking. Sanda is a long time laboratory manager with comprehensive experience in laboratory processes, including financing, benchmarking, efficiency improvement and total quality management processes.

Training Programmes:

• Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Blending
• Additives and Additive Selection
• Refining Blending
• Fuel Quality Management

Ray Fletcher is a co-founder of InovaCat, deploying a new fixed bed naphtha-to-olefins process for maximizing propylene. He also conducts FCC training for engineers and operators. With over 32 years of refining experience, he has worked nearly every process in a typical fuels-based refinery and spent 19 years with Albemarle and Johnson Matthey focusing on FCC troubleshooting, optimization, and catalysis. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington.

Deryck Coetzer has a Higher National Diploma in Chemical Engineering with 40 years of experience in a wide variety of projects at various stages of development in the petrochemical industry. He spent most of his career working for Sasol, first as a process engineer and later as an engineering manager on projects. He spent a large portion of his career in developing, optimising, and supporting process utility systems. Deryck has taught various courses in the Middle East and South Africa.

Freek van Heerden is a registered professional engineering with a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering and MBA diplomas from the Columbia Business school (New York) as well as from the Institute of Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland. Early in his professional career he participated in developing a curriculum for a South African National Higher Diploma in Chemical Engineering and he was the lecturer for the Engineering design courses. He also lectured various courses at the University of Potchefstroom as well as being external examiner for a number of years.
His industrial career started off in plant support capacities initially being responsible for plant troubleshooting, operation improvements and general support. He then moved to operations manager responsible for operations and maintenance, moving more and more into project activities as engineer, project manager and engineering manager. During his career he also spent time in company strategic planning, capital project portfolio management, information management and developing and setting up systems including standardisation and ISO accreditation and the training and change management thereof.