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Study Group: Oil and Gas Refining Experts (North America)(?)

Council Members in this Study Group: 143

This study group may include experts knowledgeable on topics such as aerospace & defense, building materials, chemicals, construction, oil & gas, timber & forest products, utilities & power generation, mining, agriculture, industrial equipment and transportation, among others.

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Thomas Shewski
Owner
High Energy Services

Thomas Shewski is the Owner of High Energy Services, a firm providing fuel, transportation, emissions, and power plant services to existing and proposed generating plants. Mr. Shewski is currently involved in buying fuel, transportation, and emissions allowances for several generating units across the...


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Jeff Moser
Global Market Manager
Dow Automotive

Mr. Jeff Moser is the Global Market Manager for Dow Automotive, a unit of Dow Chemical. Dow is a leading supplier of plastics, adhesives, sealants, structural enhancements, acoustical materials, films, and fluids for the global automotive industry. Mr. Moser has 20 years of experience in the autocatalyst,...


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Gary Castellaw
President
Premier Financial Consulting Group

Gary Castellaw is the President of Premier Financial Consulting Group, an international firm providing services and consulting. The firm specializes in the industrial and agricultural chemicals, fertilizer, seed, biofuels, and equipment industries. Formerly, Mr. Castellaw was Director of Planning and...


Michele Acerra, Independent Consultant, Michele AcerraMichele Acerra
Independent Consultant
Michele Acerra

Michele Acerra is an independent consultant with Engineering & Construction (E&C), environmental, refinery, petrochemical, and power expertise. Mr. Acerra has more than 35 years of experience in the E&C Industry with Foster Wheeler (FWLT) where he held a number of executive positions in E&C, environmental,...


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Eric Smith, Professor and Associate Director, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane UniversityEric Smith
Professor and Associate Director
A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University

Eric Smith is a Professor and Associate Director of the Entergy-Tulane Energy Institute at A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. Mr. Smith has experience in conducting market and economic analysis of offshore construction and drilling operations world wide and directing feasibility studies...


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Phil Eiserloh, President, Petrochemical Consulting of San AntonioPhil Eiserloh
President
Petrochemical Consulting of San Antonio

Phil Eiserloh is the President of Petrochemical Consulting of San Antonio, a firm providing consulting services in the chemical industry. Mr. Eiserloh has more than 32 years of experience in the chemical industry...


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Ron Kosage
Independent Consultant
Ron W. Kosage

Ron Kosage is an independent consultant providing consulting services to the industrial, municipal, private water, wastewater, waste to energy, and biodiesel industries. Mr. Kosage has more than 40 years of experience in management, supervision, environmental analysis, research, design, construction...


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Hans Linhardt, President, LTDI, Inc.Hans Linhardt
President
LTDI, Inc.

Hans Linhardt, PhD, is President of LTDI. Dr. Linhardt is in charge of energy project developments for the industrial gases, refinery, and power industries. He has more than 47 years of experience in managing energy, business and technology development, and business development operations in aerospace,...


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Occidental EOR leads the way for CCS | 07-04-2008
Analysis of: Occidental Petroleum Strikes Texas Deal | online.wsj.com
Author: Hans Linhardt, President, LTDI, Inc.

Occidental Petroleum plans to spend $1.1 billion to extract oil from the aging Texas Permian Basin.  For this purpose Occidental is teaming with natural gas (NG) producer SandRidge Energy to build a gas processing plant, separating a high CO2 content for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and sell the...

Barter, Not Dollar | 07-01-2008
Analysis of: OPEC Leader Khelil Says Dollar Will Drive Oil to $170 | www.bloomberg.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

What we shall see soon is the Chinese sending goods to Saudi Arabia and the Aramco crude as well as oil product go to China.  Currency will not apply directly as this is barter.  These folks (Arabs and Chinese) have ancient cultures that used barter so it is not unexpected.  In fact they...

China will master wind turbine power | 06-30-2008
Analysis of: China wind power capacity growing | uk.reuters.com
Author: Hans Linhardt, President, LTDI, Inc.

China is working all avenues of energy supply, ranging from coal fired, nuclear and giant hydroelectric plants with crude crude imports from the Middle East and LNG from Asia Pacific.  In addition China will increase wind power from 10 GW to 20 GW in the near future, requiring 70% domestic content...

Reliable wind power turbines in demand | 06-30-2008
Analysis of: Edison Unit Cancels Suzlon Order | online.wsj.com
Author: Hans Linhardt, President, LTDI, Inc.

After numerous wind turbine blade failures (cracking) of their Suzlon (India) wind turbines , Mission Energy, the non-regulated arm of Southern California Edision cancelled a follow-on order of wind turbines from Suzlon. Since Suzlon delivered the previous order of their turbines with warranties and...

LNG to fill the time gap between clean coal and nuclear power | 06-30-2008
Analysis of: CO2 emissions policy to affect LNG imports, report says | www.ogj.com
Author: Hans Linhardt, President, LTDI, Inc.

Booz & Co. warns that European LNG import terminal investments may not pay off in case LNG from the Middle East and North Africa are redirected towards the US due to NG shortages for clean power generation. 

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