Five Questions with a Chemical Engineer

Five Questions

Chemical Engineer, Kevin Bourke, is asked five questions by Sancta's Academic Head for Engineering, Naomi Li.
Kevin Bourke is a Chemical Engineer who is currently working on the design and construction of the Port Kembla Gas Terminal as their Instrument, Control and Electrical (ICE) Engineer.
Kevin was initially lucky enough to be awarded a cadetship in chemical engineering by CSR Ltd when he left school. With CSR, he worked in the sugar industry while completing his undergraduate degree. Upon graduation, he joined Caltex at their Kurnell Oil Refinery in Sydney where he soon began to specialise in automation and process control.
In the 1990s, he worked at the ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries) at Botany Industrial Park in petrochemicals (this site is now run by Qenos), before returning to Caltex as their Process Control Superintendent in 1999. When the refinery closed in 2014, Kevin became the Automation Team Lead for Chevron’s Gorgon LNG plant in Western Australia where his team commissioned Australia’s largest LNG plant including the world’s largest carbon sequestration facility.
This episode was recorded on the land of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation, and we pay our respects to Elders past and present. We acknowledge the Country you are joining us from and pay our respects to any Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People who are listening.
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This episode was produced, mixed and edited by Hayden Edwards and Mia Trinidad, and hosted by Naomi Li.