ir. Roland F. Broos  (Owner / Consultant)

Graduated Chemical Engineer (ir) , Delft Technical University, The Netherlands (1977) 

Current:  RFB Consult, Director and independent consultant in process engineering & process safety and risk analysis for the oil and gas industry.

Recent: Advisor to the Georgian Oil & Gas Corporation (GOGC) for the conceptual and front-end design of a new Underground Gas Storage near Tblisi in Georgia.

NEN, Chairman of the Dutch Oil & Gas Standards Committee.

Shell E&P Europe, Chief Process Engineer , managing the process engineering discipline, provide process engineering expertise support for projects and operations, highest technical authority of Shell E&P Europe in the area of process engineering and process engineering safety. Major process safety reviews including the Bacton Gas plant facilities and the Gannet offshore facilities.

Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij (NAM, Assen , a 50/50 Shell/Exxon E&P joint venture) - Gas Capacity Planner for NAM's gas production system. Member of the International Gas Union (IGU) , Chairman of the Underground Gas Storage Studies for the World Gas Conference in Nice (2000), Head Technical Expertise & Skillpool Management(Schoonebeek), Reorganisation and implementation manager of NAM's reorganisation into assets, Staff Resourcing & Development Manager.

Al Furat Petroleum Company (Damascus) - Gas Project Manager , development and safe operations of the Omar gas system & infrastructure.

Shell International E&P (The Hague) - Head of Process Engineering Technology Development , responsibility for transfer & application of process technology research in Shell E & P Operating Companies.

Petroleum Development Oman (Muscat) - Head of Process & Mechanical Engineering , Head of Engineering Services.

Aramco Overseas Company (The Hague) - Process/project engineer with varied process engineering and project engineering assignments e.g in Saudi Arabia, USA, The Netherlands and the UK. Senior process engineer for Phase 2 of the Saudi Master Gas Program. Manager of the first Safety Quantitative Risk Analysis team in AOC. Risk analysis of major gas plant facilities e.g. the Berri gas Plant in Saudi Arabia.