Meet the Speaker
Robin Nelson, Science Director, Concawe
Robin took part in several Panels at ERTC 2018, including “Taking the Pulse” and “Engineering the Future and Creating a United Message for the Downstream Industry”.
In this interview, Robin tells us more about his role at Concawe, how the refinery of the future looks like, how to remain relevant as an industry in a low carbon future, Biofuels and how important it is to appeal to the X and Y generations.
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