Tutor Biographies

George Blair

Dennis Wood is a Director and Senior Consultant of DCW Refining Consultancy Limited. He has over 35 years experience in the oil refining and allied industries from research, refinery configuration studies using Linear Programming, refinery production planning, crude oils/cutting tool systems, and training. He has worked for various divisions of BP and UOP before setting up his own consultancy company carrying out both training and consultancy projects. Within BP he was involved in many refinery configuration and planning studies generally using LP models to optimise the refinery economics. He managed the Production Planning group at BP’s Gothenburg refinery (now Preem) gaining hands-on experience. He has been involved in training for the last 16 years including running the BP Refinery Business course, the UOP Refinery Business Economics course, and lecturing on many other courses. Consultancy work within both BP and UOP has included carrying out Refinery Improvement studies in many different parts of the world specialising in production planning and product blending. Dennis has a Ph.D in Organometallic Chemistry from Bristol University, and a B.Sc Hons. in Chemistry again from Bristol University, UK.