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“Finding the right priorities
for urgent action, defining the strategies and contributing to the improvement journey are highly motivating work.
– Rod”ney Youldon
The Commercial department is responsible for the Single Buoy Mooring off Reunion Rocks where about 85% of South Africa’s crude oil is imported. The SBM is operated by a SAPREF contractor.
Commercial
The Commercial department includes Marine, Technical Auditing, Business Improvement, Performance Review, Margin Growth, LP Modelling, Economics and Scheduling, Hydrocarbon Accounting, and the Durban Dig-out Port (DDOP) Project.
The Commercial department is relatively new, having been created following the reorganisation of Leadership Team responsibilities in 2011. The department of 32 people was launched early in 2012.
Rodney Youldon, Commercial Manager, outlines some of the challenges: “From Solomon benchmarking, SAPREF is a
mostly fourth-quartile refinery needing significant improvement in many areas to be internationally competitive and thus assured of a long-term future. This is a challenge but also an exciting journey to be part of. Finding the right priorities for urgent action, defining the strategies and contributing to the improvement journey are highly motivating work.
“This longer-term vision and view of company performance is counter-balanced
by the highs and lows of daily refinery performance and the obligation to deliver on the product supply and margin commitments to our shareholders. Other on-going challenges are managing the SBM, its strategic national importance and the impact that this has on SAPREF’s reputation, and the impact the DDOP has on the SBM and the refinery.”
The Commercial department is responsible for:
• Profitability awareness for the company; • Production planning, scheduling, margin
delivery and margin growth;
• Product quality, supply and refinery
performance interface with the
shareholders;
• Accounting for all hydrocarbons and
managing loss;
• Providing monthly refinery mass balance
and split of entitlement to products and
crude per shareholder;
• Production-related regulatory reporting; • Business Improvement Initiative oversight
company-wide, including externally
benchmarked performance analysis; • Business management system and ISO
standard accreditation;
• Management of the SBM and Island
View co-owned tanker-berth facilities
for industry partners, whilst providing marine technical expertise within SAPREF and key marine interface stakeholders; and
• Leading the engagement with Transnet regarding the development of the DDOP.
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