Michiel Spoor

Michiel Spoor serves as a Principal Energy Consultant at KBC (A Yokogawa Company). He brings nearly three decades of experience in the global downstream business. A culturally sensitive professional, his clients include national and multinational energy companies, independent energy firms, investors, and governments.

He is passionate about energy efficiency and energy transition. Michiel combines experience, training, and technology to help clients develop decarbonization strategies that conserve the plant's operating costs, while also sustaining long-term emission reduction targets. In addition to American and Eurasian oil refineries, Michiel also has experience in the petrochemical, fertilizer, and LNG industry.

Michiel is known internationally as an authority on refinery energy efficiency due to his numerous papers and contributions to conferences and is currently the author of the “Energy Saver” column in Chemical Processing Magazine. He holds a master’s degree in Chemical Process Technology from the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands.