About Us
Company Profile
Protos Consulting is an Independent Consultancy, founded in 1996, offering operations analysis, project development and technical services to the natural gas, oil refining, petrochemicals, alternative fuels, renewable energy and minerals processing industries worldwide.
Independent Consulting Services
Extensive industry experience, with contacts and associates in China, SEAsia, Middle-East, Australia, Europe and the United States, ensures a wide range of assignments can be undertaken. These include market analysis, feasibility and techno-economic evaluations, optimisation systems development and services for process simulation and front-end design.
Consulting services are also provided for oil movement, process automation, and refinery blend management projects, with expertise available for data reconciliation systems, yield accounting and company-wide commercial applications.
Expertise is also available for supply chain optimisation and crude oil & product trading applications, refinery optimisation, decision-support applications, strategic planning studies and industry surveys and benchmarking.
Specialist Services
Protos Consulting offers services to industry clients, information technology companies, engineering firms, government departments and agencies, industry regulators, insurance companies, law firms, trade organisations and NGOs. Specialist services include troubleshooting and technical investigation, technical assistance, expert witness, and independent industry opinion.
Project Management
Protos Consulting also offers project development, project management and client representation services for studies, surveys, and licensor / technology evaluations. Services range from specific custom decision-support requirements to company-wide supply chain initiatives.
A "Protos Revenue Improvement Survey" is offered to clients for an independent review of business operations. The survey methodology uncovers synergies and opportunities to increase Gross Margin at oil refineries, petrochemical plants, gas processing and minerals processing facilities. The survey also provides an action plan to improve supply chain management and facilitate supply chain optimisation initiatives.
Training courses and seminars are available for oil refining and petrochemicals economics, process technology, investment analysis and environmental issues. Courses and seminars are customised to individual client requirements.
Protos Consulting International offices are located at Central Park in the central business district of Perth, Western Australia.
Personal Profile
C.M. (Costa) Tsesmelis
BScTech(Hons) PGDipBus CEng MIChemE CPEng MIEAust
Director / Principal Consultant
Costa Tsesmelis is a chemical engineering consultant with over 30 years technical, managerial and commercial experience gained with major oil companies, independent refiners, international consulting firms, engineering contractors and clients in the US, Europe, Middle-East, Australia, China, and SEAsia. Costa is the founder and Director / Principal Consultant of Protos Consulting.
Costa's process design and project experience covers natural gas and refinery gas plants, LPG and condensate recovery, gas treatment, crude oil distillation, reforming, cracking, aromatics production, Fischer-Tropsch GTL, and naphtha gasification facilities.
He is an expert in the use of decision-support applications and the development of optimisation systems in the downstream oil industry. His experience includes technology evaluation, expert witness, technical investigations, market analysis & industry studies, refinery operations & technical services, supply chain management, products trading, marketing, distribution and strategic planning support.
In recent years Costa has project managed software development and information integration projects at refineries in Europe, and has been involved in supply chain improvement projects with major oil companies internationally. His expertise and interests include audit and due diligence support services, refinery & process plant revenue improvement surveys, fuel & loss studies, and project development in the areas of alternative fuels, renewable energy, health and environmental protection. In addition to oil & gas, Costa's experience extends to Alumina processing and Nickel refining, and he has worked on important assignments for these industries in Western Australia. He has also developed and presented seminars on energy conservation, oil refining and petrochemicals economics, process technology, investment analysis and environmental issues.
References
Mr. Gregory C. Steinepreis
Partner, Minter Ellison Lawyers
Level 51, 152-158 St.George's Terrace
Perth, Western Australia WA 6000
Tel: +61 8 9429 7444 Fax: +61 8 9429 7666
Mr. David J. Adams
Manager, Honeywell Process Solutions
Bahnhofstrasse 44-46, Wiesbaden, Germany
Tel: +49 611 16030 Fax: +49 611 160325
Partial list of Clients
Dolphin Energy, Abu Dhabi - Honeywell Middle East
WA Department of Environment and Conservation
m:pro IT Consult GmbH - Hart/IRI Information Services (Washington DC)
Wood Mackenzie - OMV Australia - Thornton Energy Consultants
Ministry of Fair Trading, WA Government - WA Department of Industry & Resources
Environment Australia, Canberra - Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC)
Duke Energy International - SINOPEC / Honeywell Beijing
Brunei Government, Petroleum Unit - Qatar Petroleum / Honeywell Singapore
