Meet The Speaker
Tracy Ellerington, Director, Europe and Russia Operations, Solomon Associates
Tracy spoke at ERTC 2018 on the World’s Best Refineries.
In this Interview, Tracy tells us more about the 11 World's Best Refineries and what makes them the best: they're good at energy efficiency, reliability, they have high operating availability and they invest in the right technology. She also says that the best refineries are quicker at improving their energy efficiency and at reducing the amount of fuel oil that they produce.
About Tracy Ellerington
Tracy Ellerington, Director of Europe and Russia, Operations is based in Solomon’s European office in the UK. Her responsibilities include supporting the myriad of Solomon Competitive Performance Analysis studies in Refining, Chemicals and in Upstream as well as conducting Advisory Service assignments across the Solomon portfolio.
With more than 25 years in the hydrocarbon business, Tracy has experience in operations, cost reduction and profit improvement, and human performance improvement.
Prior to joining Solomon, Tracy spent 17 years with KBC Process Technology Ltd, where she was responsible for conducting numerous optimisation and improvement consulting assignments in a wide range of globally to improve performance, reduce costs and optimise their operations.
Tracy started her career in this industry working with Esso Petroleum Ltd at their Fawley UK refinery. She has a Master of Engineering degree in Chemical Engineering from Cambridge University, UK.
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