Bipin Patel

Bipin brings more than 30 years of experience leading international oil, gas and chemical projects to his role as Vice President of Engineering at Oberon Fuels. He is an innovative, hands on player-coach with a proven ability to provide the leadership necessary to generate and deliver strategic and effective solutions in highly competitive, rapidly changing business environments.

Bipin leads in-house technology development and application of Oberon’s technology for the company’s California Energy Commission (CEC) project and other projects in the pipeline. In addition, he led the demonstration plant commissioning and the production of the first renewable DME fuel in the United States. He continues to assess third-party technologies on an ongoing basis and integrate innovation solutions into the Oberon product offerings.

Prior to joining Oberon Fuels, Bipin was Chief Technology Engineer at Siluria Technologies, a company whose technology transforms methane into transportation fuels and commodity chemicals, where he led the development of the commercial units focused on its OCM and ETL technologies.

Before joining Siluria, he was a project engineering manager at KiOR where he oversaw the execution of Front End Engineering Design (FEED) for converting 1,500 tons per day of wood chips into 3,000 barrels per day of naphtha and distillate.

Earlier in his career he held consulting, management and engineering positions with LINC Energy, Fluor Enterprises, Foster Wheeler, Shell Global Solutions, Qatar Petroleum and Suncor Energy where he led and oversaw engineering, procurement, constructions and operation of various projects.

Bipin holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Leeds University in the U.K.