Gareth Coetzee

Represents Qatar Energy's interest in providing an oversight role to operating GTL facilities in support of Operational Excellence.

Identification and development of commercial GTL opportunities, using internally developed Low Temperature Fischer-Tropsch technology. Provide direction to technology licensor into technology development plans and GTL business plan. This technology was developed by a joint-venture company consisting of PetroSA, Lurgi and StatoilHydro. The JV designed and operated a 1000 barrels per day demonstration unit at PetroSA's Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) facility in Mosselbay, South Africa. Due to limited opportunities in the GTL commercialisation space and a change in company priorities, I also provide commercial and economic modelling support for the Upstream Exploration and Production division.

Production Manager for process plant consisting of steam-methane reformers, auto-thermal reformers, carbon dioxide removal unit and pressure swing adsorptions unit. Main responsibility was to produce quality products (synthesis gas, HP steam, hydrogen, CO2) as per schedule and specification, in the most cost effective way, with optimum plant and process reliability and with focus on the safety and competencies of employees. Also acted for 14 months as production manager for 1000 bpd Low-Temperature Fischer-Tropsch demonstration unit. This position ran co-currently with the above-mentioned position. Management of multi-disciplinary team, including training & development, budget, SHEQ, shutdown and maintenance planning.

Process engineering support for process plant consisting of steam-methane reformers, auto-thermal reformers, carbon dioxide removal unit and pressure swing adsorptions unit. Main responsibilities were general troubleshooting, production support and plant optimization functions. Main focus area was the interaction with the upstream and downstream units in the Synthesis Gasloop.

Member of Chemicals an Polymers Concept Development team. Main responsibilities included, but not limited to conceptual flowsheet development, piloting & data collection and technical support during basic engineering, execution and startup.

Engineer in Training to Senior Process Engineer in PVC Division. Technical support to Vinyl Chloride Monomer and Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plants. The list of projects that I were involved in ranged from technical investigations and experiments, unusual occurrence investigations and reports, execution and validation of steady state simulations, control studies, Rosemount DCS configuration and programming, environmental (effluent and emission) investigations, plant optimization and debottlenecking, and finally, commissioning of new equipment.

Undergraduate courses in chemical engineering + Post-graduate courses completed in Advanced Process Control, Topics in Process Control and Instrumentation, Multivariable Control System Design, Instrumentation Systems, Advanced Engineering Statistics

Qualification obtained while in operations management (production manager). Qualification assisted with transition from pure technical background to management. Course work consisted of modules in people management, system engineering, operations, finance, project management, maintenance, quality systems, strategic management, decision analysis, new ventures & entrepeneurship, marketing and technology management. Dissertation: "A Technology Readiness Assessment Model for the Process Industry: The Gas-To-Liquids Case Study"