Chris Gilbert

Chris Gilbert has 40 years industry experience covering the upstream, chemicals and refining sectors. For 24 years, Chris worked for Phillips 66 in the UK, Germany and the US. From 2019, Chris was Technical Manager and UK Decarbonisation Lead at The Humber Refinery, one of the most complex in the UK. The facility is positioning itself as the Refinery of the Future, such as processing used cooking oil at scale to produce sustainable aviation fuel with other waste feedstocks trialled. Furthermore, the refinery is unique in Europe as the only producer of specialty graphite coke, a critical mineral in the production of electric vehicle batteries. As well as implementing projects to lower the carbon intensity of finished products, Chris and his team identified pathways to achieve a 90+% reduction in operational emissions. This involved cross-cluster collaboration though the Humber region, participating in Humber Zero to capture and sequestrate CO2, and several blue and green hydrogen projec