Steve Beeston

Vice President - Technology Licensing, Wood PLC

Steve Beeston is Wood’s Vice President of Technology Licensing.  Steve manages Wood’s process technology business line for its proprietary Foster Wheeler technologies.

The Foster Wheeler technologies include delayed coking, solvent deasphalting, visbreaking, hydrogen production, and sulfur recovery.

Steve has 40 years of experience involving technology applications for refining and petrochemicals projects.  He has worked for BP as a process engineer supporting refinery operations, for UOP where he licensed UOP’s refining and petrochemicals technologies worldwide and for 3 Houston based engineering companies (Mustang, Washington Group International and SNC-Lavalin).  Steve joined Wood in 2008.Steve is a graduate from the University College of London and holds an honors bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering.