Maximize refinery profitability with novel RFCC technologies

Shukhrat Abdurashitovich Danbay is the Chairman of the managing board for Atyrau Refinery LLP. Throughout his career, he has headed large commercial structures for the supply and refining of oil: he previously served as General Director of Gelios LLP; General Director of the Fuel Energy Complex of Kazakhstan LLP; Deputy General Director of Pavlodar Petrochemical Plant LLP for economics and finance; Executive Director of the oil refining and petrochemicals unit of NC JSC KazMunayGas; General Director of Pavlodar Oil Chemistry Refinery LLP; and Managing Director for oil refining of JSC NC KazMunayGas. Mr. Danbay graduated from Kainar University with a degree in international economic relations and from the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration with a degree in business administration. He also received an Executive Master of Business Administration Energy Leadership from the Russian State University of Oil and Gas.

Erkin Borisovich Suleimenov serves as the First Deputy General Director for production—Chief Engineer of Atyrau Refinery LLP, and is also a Member of the managing board. He began his career as an operator of a technological unit at the Atyrau Refinery LLP, and has held various positions, including Head of plant installations, Deputy Head of a workshop, Head of a technical department, Chief Technologist-Head of a technical department, Director of an oil refining department, Deputy Chief Engineer for technology and production, Deputy Chief Engineer for technology, Director of the department for reliability and mechanical integrity of production assets, Managing Director for technology, and First Deputy General Director for production. In August 2019, he was appointed First Deputy General Director for Production–Chief Engineer of Atyrau Refinery LLP. Mr. Suleimenov graduated from the Atyrau Institute of Oil and Gas with a degree as an Engineer Chemist-Technologist and received an MBA from the non-governmental educational institution Almaty Management University.

Adilet Shoshanbasov is the Chief Technologist for Atyrau Refinery LLP. He has worked at the Atyrau Refinery since 2003, and spent 4 yr in the oil refining department of JSC KazMunayGas. He took part in the reconstruction and modernization of the Atyrau refinery in 2003–2006, as well as in the construction of the complex for the production of aromatic hydrocarbons and the complex for deep oil refining. Mr. Shoshanbasov graduated from the Kazakh National Technical University.

Oleg Samarkin is the Managing Director for commodity production and internal logistics for Atyrau Refinery LLP. He has worked at the Atau Refinery since 2005, and took part in the reconstruction and modernization of the Atyrau Refinery, as well as the startup and adjustment of the catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) and deep conversion complex. Mr. Samarkin graduated from South Kazakhstan State University in Shymkent.

Dmitry Makeev is Director of the technical development department for KazMunaiGas. He began his career at the Atyrau Refinery in 2005 as a Process Unit Operator. Later, he held various positions, including: Senior Operator, Shift Supervisor, Head of the technological unit, and Head of the project and development center. From 2010–2012, Mr. Makeev worked at the Petromidia Refinery (Romania, near Constanta) as Deputy Manager of the process engineering department. He returned to the Atyrau Refinery as the Chief Technical Manager in the construction and startup of the aromatics production complex and the deep oil refining complex, and was then appointed Director of the production department of the Atyrau Refinery. Mr. Makeev graduated with honors from the South Kazakhstan State University with a degree in chemical technology of organic substances and materials, with a specialization in oil and gas refining, and earned an MBA degree. He is the author of several articles and has made presentations at numerous professional conferences.

Aleksey Popov is the Technical Service and Sales Manager, Russia and CIS, for Grace. He began his career in the refining industry in JSC “Slavneft YANOS,” where he served in various positions in the FCC unit, including as Chief Deputy and within the operative planning department. In 2014, he joined Grace as a Technical Service Engineer and moved to Technical Sales Manager in 2018, where he is responsible for providing FCC units technical service and sales in Russia and CIS countries. Mr. Popov is the co-author of several publications in the FCC industry and earned a BS degree in economics and an MS degree in oil chemistry.

Rafael González Sáchez is Regional Marketing Manager EMEA for Grace Refining Technologies. He joined Grace as an R&D researcher leading new FCC catalyst and additives developments before moving to Regional Technical Sales Manager to provide FCC technical service to refineries prior to current position. Dr. González has more than 14 yr of extensive multidisciplinary experience in catalyst design and development, as well as FCCU technical service. He earned an MS degree in chemical engineering and a PhD in engineering and advanced technologies from Barcelona University, Spain. His thesis topic was heterogeneous catalysis developments for the refining industry. Dr. González is the co-author of several publications in the FCC industry field.

Vladimir Jegorov is the Sales and Technical Service Director for CIS accounts for Grace. He joined GRACE GmbH & Co.KG, Refining Technologies Europe, in 1996 as Regional Technical Service Engineer in the Moscow office. Prior to joining GRACE GmbH & Co.KG, Refining Technologies Europe, Jegorov worked in FCC units as a Process Engineer and Chief Technologist Deputy at the Mazheikiai refinery. He graduated from the Novopolotsk Polytechnical Institute, specializing in refining and gas processing.

Nicolas Lambert manages the team of technologists in charge of fluidized catalytic cracking, residue hydrotreatment and sweetening technologies in Axens’ Middle Distillates & Conversion Business Line. He joined Axens in 2002 as Process Engineer and has successively served as Project Manager for aromatics, reforming and FCC technologies, then as an FCC Technologist before attaining his current position in 2017. Mr. Lambert is an engineering graduate from Arts & Métiers ParisTech (ENSAM).

Jean-Michel Besnault is a Technologist for fluidized catalytic cracking and sweetening technologies for Axens. He started his career at TOTAL Feyzin Refinery as an FCCU, VDU and Claus units Process Engineer in 2011. He moved to IFPEN in 2013, where he was involved in FCCU R&D projects before joining Axens in 2014 as a Technologist. Mr. Besnault is an engineering graduate from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Ingénieurs en Arts Chimiques et Technologiques (ENSIACET).