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Michael has been involved in the gas processing industry for 43 years. He has a long history of expertise in training operators and engineers in gas processing as well as troubleshooting all aspects of upstream gas treating processes. More recently, he has focused on dehydration and amine sweetening as a senior principal engineer for both Amine and Dehydration Experts. He is one of the Principal Speakers of the Amine Experts’ 5-day Amine Treating and Sour Water Stripping Technical Training Courses, as well as the 3-day Dehydration Course.

Jan Kiebert has B.Sc. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Business Economics. He has over 20 years of experience and has been directly involved in all aspects of the process engineering inspections, design evaluations, testing and optimization projects for a wide range of facilities and clients. Jan is one of the primary speakers at our world-recognized Sulphur Recovery Technical Training Courses.

Ben is a Petroleum Engineer with over two decades of experience providing technical support to the amine industry as an operator, technical specialist, and consulting engineer. Ben is one of the primary speakers at Amine Expert’s world-recognized Amine Treating Technical Training Course and heads our amine service practice area. He is responsible for aligning our amine services with customer needs and ensuring our position as a world leader in this area is maintained. Engineer Spooner is the key technical contact for clients seeking information and support on amine-related issues.

A chemical engineer by training, since 2004 Joe has specialized in sulphur recovery and tail gas treating, as well as amine treating and sour water stripping. His experience includes project review and approvals, plant design and construction, commissioning and start-up, turnaround planning, and execution, failure investigations, as well as running plant optimization. He is a co-presenter of Sulphur Experts’ Sulphur Recovery Technical Training Course and provides virtual and on-site training for engineers and operators around the world.

James assumed the position of President of Sulphur Experts in August 2014 and is responsible for all aspects of corporate performance. He is intimately familiar with all aspects of the process engineering consulting work conducted by the company and is still actively involved in sulphur recovery-related projects. James has a master’s degree in chemical engineering and nearly 30 years of experience in the petroleum industry. He joined Sulphur Experts in 2003 following careers in the environmental service industry, facility operations and instrumentation, and controls system design.

Drew is a Red Seal Journeyman Millwright with 15 years of experience in the natural gas compression and process industry. Early in his career, Drew was intensively involved in the maintenance and overhauling of low/high-speed natural gas engines and compressors. Drew gradually worked into more gas processing systems (Amine, Dehydration, Refrigeration, Frac trains), and later attended the GPO (Gas Process Operations) course offered at SAIT polytechnic. Being a process specialist, Drew has been involved globally in a variety of gas processing plants. These responsibilities included construction, pre-commissioning, commissioning, general operations, and troubleshooting. His focus is to help troubleshoot and optimize TEG/DEG, EG-Refrigeration, Mole sieve, and fractionation systems.

Steve is a Chemical Engineer with 13 years of experience in gas processing. He has been involved in natural gas projects all over the world providing knowledge and training in hydrate control, gas dehydration, gas sweetening amine, and glycol reclamation, and liquids recovery. Steve has supported these areas with expertise in plant simulation, process design, operation troubleshooting, and start-up support. Steve has been involved in the advancement of glycol reclamation technologies through research and patent development.

Leah Goettler is a Chemical Engineer graduate from the University of Alberta with 4 years of experience as a Process Engineer-in-Training at Sulphur Experts. During that time, she has been directly involved in more than 35 different sulfur recovery plant projects, with work ranging from testing and optimization to design evaluations across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Eastern Mediterranean. She co-authored “The Impact of Biofeed Co-processing on Conventional Refinery Amine, Sour Water Stripping, and Sulphur Recovery Units”, and presented that paper at the 2021 Advanced Amine Treating and Sulphur Recovery Technical Training Course.

Eduardo has worked successfully on more than 80 different projects located over 5 continents performing environmental evaluations, SRU, amine and SWS, technology assessments, emissions control, troubleshooting, capacity evaluations, energy assessments and optimization, operator and engineer training. He has written publications related to process failures and has presented our papers at international conferences. Eduardo is a high-performance process engineer, focused and ready to work under pressure accomplishing challenging tasks and high standard objectives in areas related to Operations, Commercial, Engineering and Environment. He has led operation teams for 3 years and has worked very closely with petroleum, hydrotreating, natural gas facilities and SRU unit operations for over 10 years. Eduardo is leading our Business Development in Latin America providing full bilingual technical and commercial coverage around the region.