Hydrocracking and Hydrotreating, Commissioning and Start-Up, Operational Readiness, Process Safety Management, Turnarounds, Operator Training, Competency Assurance

Joby Chacko is a chemical engineer and refinery operations leader with more than 30 years of international experience across Canada, the Middle East, and India. He has over 20 years of specialized experience in hydrocracking and hydrotreating, encompassing field and console operations, shift supervision, unit leadership, maintenance coordination, troubleshooting, commissioning, start-ups, shutdowns, and turnarounds. His extensive refinery and upgrader background also includes hydrogen production, sulfur recovery, amine regeneration, sour water stripping, saturated gas and light-ends recovery, LPG Merox, and air separation units.

Joby has contributed to the commissioning and start-up of two grassroots refinery and upgrader projects in Alberta. He has extensive experience in Process Safety Management, operational readiness, operating-procedure development, incident investigation, Alarm Management , operator-training simulators, workforce development, and competency assurance.

Joby holds a Master of Engineering in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alberta, Canada; a Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering from the University of Calicut; and an Alberta Third Class Power Engineering Certificate. Contact Joby.