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Customer LoginsRichard Charlesworth, Ph.D.
Managing Director, Chemical Consulting, IHS Markit

He brings more than 20 years of petrochemical industry experience
in all aspects of the business; financial, commercial, operations,
research, design and business planning, as well as consultancy. He
has led many projects across different petrochemical streams that
have included market studies, feasibility studies, technology
selection studies, feedstock sourcing and pricing studies,
marketing strategies, logistics reviews, capital estimates, and
integration assessments. He has executed numerous market and
technical due diligence projects on behalf of lenders as well as
full financial modeling and production cash cost comparisons of
facilities. He began his career in 1996 with BP Chemicals in Hull,
UK, where he worked for five years as a process engineer on acetic
acid and vinyl acetate manufacturing plants and pilot plants. In
2001 he moved into the commercial side of the company and held
various financial analyst positions in solvents and industrial
chemicals and was logistics performance manager for BP's European
polymer and solvents assets. He worked for Nexant, selling and
executing single and multiclient consulting services where he
worked on feasibility studies, feedstock strategy projects,
independent technical consultant assignments and company
refinancing projects. He also worked for Ineos Olefins' financial
and planning group and was responsible for the short, medium and
long term financials for all Ineos' steam crackers in Europe.
During this time, he was the lead in developing the Olefins
long-term strategy financials, the financial lead for due diligence
for the acquisition of a steam cracker complex and led the Olefins
annual financial planning process. Dr. Charlesworth graduated from
University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK with MEng Chemical and
Process Engineering and Ph.D. in Chemical and Process Engineering.

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