Michael Marshall

Mike has 40 years experience working in the downstream, midstream and petrochemical industries. While working first with Chevron (10 years) and then Marathon Petroleum Company (23 years - retired), he progressed through various in-plant and corporate engineering, operations, maintenance, and equipment inspection/reliability supervisory and managerial positions. It was Mike’s many years of hands-on experience in areas of equipment reliability and mechanical integrity while serving in frontline engineering, operations and maintenance roles which instilled in him the importance of properly designed process risk minimization and management systems, performance metrics and KPIs. He has unique insight and expertise in areas of risk-based equipment and mechanical design relative to loss of primary containment damage mechanisms, safety systems and overpressure protection. Mike has developed and is marketing a time-tested process optimization methodology which utilizes root cause failure analysis (RCFA), reveals process safety opportunities and quantifies the economic impacts ($’s lost profit opportunity LPO) of equipment anomalies, LOPC incidents and upset/malfunction operating conditions. Such a RCFA approach is key to analyzing and trending cost minimization, driving asset/process optimization and maximizing process safety performance in the refining industry.Mike is frequently invited to speak at industry conferences and continues to advance and present white paper ideas relative to petrochemical process safety management, mechanical integrity and equipment reliability. Mike has attained industry recognition with white paper presentations at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers conferences and the Mary Kay O'Conner process safety symposium, and committee participation for the American Petroleum Institute. Mike graduated from Purdue University in 1981 and is a licensed Professional Engineer.