Dallas Section Meeting | AIChE

Dallas Section Meeting

Tuesday, January 23, 2024,
6:30pm to 8:30pm
CST
In-Person / Local
Two Guys from Italy
11637 Webb Chapel Road
Dallas, 75229
United States

TOPIC: Natural gas industry dynamics

The goal of this presentation is to provide a broad base understanding of the Natural Gas Industry. The scope will focus on North America with the continent’s continued development of natural gas. With abundance, Natural Gas provides low-cost, clean energy for the US and Canada, as well as advantaged refining/petrochemical feedstock. The discussion covers background chemistry, geochemistry, and geology. With this backdrop, then the thrust of the developments of world-wide natural gas trade, especially Liquified Natural Gas (LNG).

The future of natural gas will be surprising!

SPEAKER: Joe Barth, Consultant

Joe Barth does management consulting assignments for petroleum refining and petrochemicals Supply Chain, including Organization and Best Practices Audits, and benchmarking. He has more than 33 years of petroleum refining and petrochemicals industry experience with ExxonMobil in all aspects of processing and planning. Joe then worked for HSB Solomon Associates as a Senior Consultant for fourteen years. For the past 25 years he has specialized in Planning and Optimization (P&O) for integrated refining/petrochemical sites, linear program (LP) modeling, and model support best practices. He has completed major studies, conducted training seminars, presented papers, and developed best practices on P&O and scheduling processes.

Joe has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Auburn University and a M.S. in Engineering from the University of Houston. He is a licensed PE in Texas.