Eur. Ing. Doug Crawford, B.Sc., C.Eng., F.I.Chem.E., M.Inst.Pet.

Doug Crawford (56) has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering and is a Chartered Chemical Engineer with over twenty years extensive experience in oil refining with British Petroleum, ranging from operations management and commissioning to process engineering and project development. With BP, he was latterly Business Services Manager responsible for third party oil refineries in Singapore and Cyprus before which he held senior Operations Management and Technical positions in BP's complex upgrading the refinery at Grangemouth in Scotland. His experience at Grangemouth also included three years as Operations Manager for the Kinneil Terminal processing all the off-shore Forties Field crude, a site of UK Strategic Importance.

The development of Doug's career from process engineering responsibility for Hydrocracking, HF Alkylation, Fluid Catalytic Cracking and Reforming through to managing refinery operations, has included implementation of Safety & Loss Management, ISO 9000 Quality, Re-engineering and Culture Change initiatives. At Grangemouth he co-ordinated refinery plant and Forties Field turnarounds, chaired the Safety and Hazop Review Committees and was refinery representative on the Scottish Branch of the Institution of Chemical Engineers. In London he co-ordinated BP's technical support for the Singapore Refining Company's Residue Catalytic Cracking Project and was refinery adviser on the Graduate Technical Career Development Team. Since joining Suregrove Limited he has specialised in Risk Engineering Surveys on refinery and petrochemical locations, and also light/heavy engineering risks.

He has been undertaking surveys and valuations at Suregrove Limited for the past 9 years worldwide.