John W. Ruth provides petroleum industry experience in refinery operations, home office planning, and economic activities. John gained his professional experience with Gulf Oil, where he spent 17 years at the Philadelphia Refinery, and at the home office in Pittsburgh, and with Sunoco, Inc. in Philadelphia where he was involved for 23 years in various petroleum and petrochemical departments.
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Refinery Planning. At Gulf, John was a member of the Refinery Administration staff in Pittsburgh, where he developed capital and expense budgets for the western hemisphere refineries. As manager, Planning and Economics for Sunoco, Inc., John developed capital and expense budgets for six refineries. Refinery Processes. As Supervisor, Operations in Gulf's Philadelphia Refinery, he supervised groups of process units in Light Oil, Cracking, and Electric and Steam Generation Departments. He gained experience in crude distillation, reforming, catalytic cracking, desulfurization, alkylation, steam generation, and power plant operation, and was involved in the startup of many new units. Refinery Performance Assessment. John compiled refinery cost, staffing, and production data for use in Solomon Associates Comparative Refinery Performance Surveys. He interpreted and disseminated survey results and managed follow up work to improve refinery performance, based on the survey results. Fuels Planning. As Senior Technical Advisor for the fuels operations, John coordinated the gasoline blending operations for all of Sunoco's six refineries. In this position, his work involved discussion with refinery operations and technical personnel to improve yields, lower operating costs or upgrade product values. He made use of the refinery Linear Programs (LP's) to follow the effects of operating changes such as increasing reformer severity, benefits of increasing FCC gasoline octane by selection of improved catalysts, and treatment of feedstock and products for quality improvement. He analyzed the results and determined cost-effectiveness of potential improvements, determined whether there were environmental concerns regarding compliance with air, water, and solid waste regulations, and identified the potential for other problems that could occur that might exceed the worth of the proposed change.
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