Ian Buchanan
Director of Technology, Unconventional @PETRONAS Canada
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WORK HISTORY
Director of Technology, Unconventional @PETRONAS Canada
Calgary, AB, CA
Leading a team of technology development engineers and operators to identify, perform techno-economic evaluations on, and test (field and lab) new technologies for PETRONAS international unconventional assets. Also acting as Technical Director for the Carbon Abatement Project at PETRONAS Canada (PECL) to ensure that we meet our 2030 carbon reduction targets.The team continues to adopt an agile engineering approach to all our work, and we prioritize our work based on value to PETRONAS.
EDUCATION
University of Alberta
Bachelor of Science - B.Sc Co-operative Program, Chemical Engineering
SKILLS
ABOUT IAN BUCHANAN
Ian is an innovative and agile Engineering Leader and Process Engineer with over 30 years of experience. Ian has a history of identifying and developing novel, and practical solutions to industry challenges by solving the tough problems that most people give up on.Ian is currently with Petronas Canada working as a Director of Technology for PETRONAS international unconventional assets.Ian has extensive expertise leading and motivating multi-discipline teams of 5-50 people to create extraordinary value. I want to move the needle on GHG emissions and sustainable development.Ian started his career at the AOSTRA Underground Test Facility, was a plant operator in the 90’s, and then spent 12 years at Jacobs Engineering designing and building several major processing facilities. He then spent the next 5 years with Jacobs Consultancy evaluating new technologies for both inventors and operating companies. Ian then spent 8 years at Husky as Director of Operational Excellence, building a high performance technical team, which started up the Sunrise project and debottlenecked the plant by 24% and increase reliability to <97%. Ian then went to Exergy Solutions, where he worked on the development of a number of new technologies and process improvements. The project he is most proud of is when he led an agile team of 17 organizations to design, build, and donate 200 Health Canada approved (made in Alberta) emergency ventilators to Alberta Health Services – all in 106 days.Core competencies: Team Leadership, Agile Engineering, Technology Development, Optimization, Process Safety, Process and Scoping Studies, Process Simulation Modelling, Project Development, Strategic Planning, Business Development, Portfolio Management, Capital Project Management, Operational Engineering, Business Management, Financial Analysis, Lean Six Sigma, Data Analytics
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