Oil refineries must operate on emerging requirements.

Byline: KHALIL AHMED

Profile:

Mr. Kalim A Siddiqui is a former Managing Director of Pakistan State Oil and former President of Byco Petroleum. He holds a Bachelor's in Chemical Engineering from the University of Bradford in England (UK) and a Master's in Chemistry from Karachi University and has broad-based, global experience by working in the USA, UK, Australia, Vietnam and Pakistan for over 36 years.

He is an enthusiastic and highly accomplished Executive with 36 years of extensive fuels/lubricants business expertise in marketing, sales, operations management and system re-engineering in the oil industry by running supply chains, streamlining processes, hunting for new business and growing top producing accounts. He has experience in developed and emerging markets/cultures. He is a collaborative Leader with an aptitude to achieve change, excite the organization, infuse new ideas and deliver dramatic, bottom-line outcomes; recognizes to accomplish multiple customer-specific priorities with competence, exemplary follow-up and interpersonal abilities. He is highly expert in high-level market segments, top-down selling and vertical market mastery.

He has served as Chairman Oil Companies Advisory Committee (OCAC) and has held directorships in various reputable companies and professional and educational institutes including Pakistan Refinery Limited, Pak-Arab Pipeline Company, Asia Petroleum Limited, Pak-Grease Manufacturing Company Limited, Petroleum Institute of Pakistan, Pakistan Advertisers Society and Lahore University of Management Sciences.

Before joining PSO in 2001, he had served in Caltex (now Chevron) for over 20 years locally as well as internationally. International assignments were located in the USA, Australia and Vietnam. In a longer spell of over 20 years in Caltex, he had dealt with fuels, lubes and LPG in all aspects like product development, product engineering, supply chain, operations, production/manufacturing and sales/marketing.

His three years of work in the UK was with Howden Engineering Company, Burmah-Castrol refinery, North West Water Authority and A.P.V Company before coming back to Pakistan in 1980.

PAKISTAN and GULF ECONOMIST had an exclusive conversation with Mr. Kalim A Siddiqui about oil refineries in Pakistan. Following are the excerpts of the conversation:

The oil refineries have been running well below their design capacities. This under-utilization, if resolved, could give the government an opportunity to...