Steering Committee 2024

Chairman

Mr Bruno MartinDear valve industry peers,

In the 20 years that I have participated in VW conferences, I have always appreciated their excellent level of technical content, but also the quality of exchanges.

The world is changing. We see these changes most clearly in the world of energy, but the need for valves remains. The valve industry must adapt and face many challenges. New players are emerging, as well as new needs, such as a very high demand for cost reduction.

The Valve World conference is a unique place of exchange between end users, manufacturers, and engineers. This year, the topics will revolve around the three highlights: energy transition, standardisation, and digitalisation.

I would like to invite and encourage all of you in the valve industry to send in your abstracts and ideas and think of suitable topics that are important to you.

We’ll make sure that the Valve World 2024 conference will maintain its exceptionally high quality.

Best regards,

Bruno Martin,
Technip Energies

Below you will find the Steering Committee of the Valve World Conference 2024.

Mike Austin

Mike Austin

Position: University College London
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Mike has a wide engineering experience from a long career the oil and Gas industry both in office and global work sites. Mike has worked for several major contracting companies but principally at KBR on multi-varied projects and CTE roles involving piping stress and materials. In addition to consultancy work and engineering lecturing, Mike was made an honourary professor of piping technologies at UCL. Mike has joined the conference team to create new links between the valve industry and academia.

Mike Austin

University College London

Mike has a wide engineering experience from a long career...

Masayuki Ono

Masayuki Ono

Position: JGC Corporation
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Masayuki Ono

JGC Corporation

Muktiadi Rahardjo

Position: Shell Nederland Raffinaderij BV
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Adi is one of Jack of All trades in valve. Originated from Indonesia, graduate from Mechanical Engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology, kick started his career in valve industry starting as a Product Engineer for AkerKvaerner Subsea specializing in Wellhead design; later followed up by gaining field and repair experiences during his tenure as field Engineer for Geographe Energy (now Schlumberger – Cameron Valve Service) covering various offshore/onshore facilities in Southeast Asia. ‘Get first time right without rework’ is his motto.

At one point he was also accredited safety valve assembler for Farris Engineering. Posses also Project Management skills through his time at Pertamina (Indonesian state oil company) and TetraPak Stainless Steel Equipment.

Since 2014, he has been valve’s subject matter expert for Shell Nederland Raffinaderij, biggest and complex refinery in Europe. Shell Pernis is now becoming Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam, heading towards net zero emission.

On his spare times, Adi also enjoys refurbishing vintage bikes.

Muktiadi Rahardjo

Shell Nederland Raffinaderij BV

Adi is one of Jack of All trades in valve....

Marc Simoëns

Position: Dow Benelux
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QA/QC Inspector for The Dow Chemical Company plant in Terneuzen, The Netherlands. For more than 38 years.
Responsible for Incoming Quality Control activities, performing Shop Inspections and Quality audits at manufacturers and suppliers of Valves, Pipe, Flanges, Fittings and PCE equipment.
Preparing procedures for inspection, organizing PIM’s etc. to make sure the delivered goods are in compliance with the specifications and the applicable International standards.
Member of the Dow Global Valve team.
Educational background:

  • Graduated from school in 1979 (mechanical engineering) and started as mechanical draftsman/designer at an engineering office.
  • Started at Dow in 1980 as a contractor, helping to set up the “Material Quality Control” department at DOW in Terneuzen.
  • Joined Dow permanently in 1985 as an Inspector for PVF components. (Pipe, Valves & Fittings).

Attended courses for Internal and External Auditing, Statistical Quality Control, Materials Science, Non Destructive Examinations, etc.
Graduated as a certified SNT-TC-1A Level 2 Inspector in 1999.
Special interest in Valves: All facets of valves as used on the Dow sites with all possible related problems.
Member of the Valve World Steering Committee since 2011.

 

Marc Simoëns

Dow Benelux

QA/QC Inspector for The Dow Chemical Company plant in Terneuzen,...