Mark A. Brumbaugh, P.E.
Associate Consultant

Mark Brumbaugh is an experienced manager, having more than 30 years experience with Total and Exxon in refining and petrochemicals. He began his career with Exxon at the Baytown, Texas refinery and held positions of increasing responsibility in technical, operations, and short range planning, culminating as manager of half of the fuels operations of this world-scale refinery. He gained heavy oil experience as department head responsible for crude and vacuum distillation, residuum hydroprocessing, Flexicoking, hydrogen generation, and sulfur recovery, all processing heavy California and South American crudes. Mark also served in corporate headquarters, managing supply, commerce, and corporate planning functions. He joined Fina in 1996 as general manager of refining and petrochemical planning and was instrumental in developing billion dollar joint ventures to construct petrochemical facilities at the Port Arthur Refinery. He was a member of the Fina team that developed and presented to PDVSA a proposal to double heavy oil production by expanding the upgrader in Venezuela and Fina's Port Arthur refinery and then served on the joint-venture management committee overseeing the large integrated facility at Port Arthur. Mark has published articles on transfer pricing and has the ability to turn conflict into goal alignment and progress. He has a proven track record at negotiating billion dollar ventures, improving financial performance, providing creative insight into existing management processes, and implementing proven best practices.

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

• Management experience in all major processing operations, including crude distillation, reforming, hydrotreating and hydroprocessing, coking, sulfur conversion, light ends, catalytic cracking, lube base stocks, steram cracking.

• Multiple assignments as manager of short-range, long-range, and strategic planning groups. Evaluation and development of multiple party contracts, investments, startups, and contract dispute resolution.

• Identification and implementation of synergistic opportunities between heavy oil production and refining and between refining and adjacent petrochemical facilities, as well as lubricants and solvents integration.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

1996
ATOFINA Petrochemicals
General Manager

1993-1996
Exxon Supply Co.
Lead Negotiator, Downstream Crude Supply
Senior Advisor, Downstream Planning and Analysis

1986-1992
Exxon Company, USA
Department Head, Fuels Operations
Department Head, Engineering Design

EDUCATION

B.A. Chemical Engineering, Rice University, 1973
Master Chemical Engineering, Rice University, 1974
Marquis Who’s Who in Finance and Industry, 1997

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Registered Professional Engineer, State of Texas, No. 71491