Robert Chin
Co-founder Padden Engineering LLCRobert (Bob) Chin, PhD, PE is co-founder of Padden Engineering LLC. He has been providing fluid flow/process services to the petrochemical industry for over 40 years, specializing in multiphase flow, pipeline leak detection, heavy-oil dehydration, and oil/gas separation. Chin co-founded SPE’s global Separations Technology Technical Section, and was its initial chair from 2011 to 2013. He is the originator, a primary author, and editor for SPE’s Savvy Separator Series of articles in the Oil and Gas Facilities magazine. He co-developed SPE’s 2-day training class on separations. Most recently, he developed the SPE’s Savvy Separator Educational Video Series 10-part video series as well as the ShopTalk series.
He consults in gas/liquid/liquid separation processes; design, troubleshooting, debottlenecking, and training. He retired from Shell in 2014, having led R&D teams in separation, EOR facilities, and subsea processing and was their separation SME. He spent more than 5 years in Bakersfield, California, supplying separation expertise for Shell’s heavy-oil fields. During a hiatus from Shell, Chin co-founded CDS Separation Technologies, an international sales and marketing company for pressure-vessel internals, process flow design, and analysis.
