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Dr Jim Bown
General Director
Dr Jim Bown is the owner and General Director of The Deane
Group (Ukraine), which is a Ukrainian company established in
June 2000.
He has extensive experience in the global energy industry, having
worked for more than 25 years with British Petroleum (BP) in the
international oil and gas sector. During this time he gained
extensive operational experience with BP’s major oil and gas
projects/installations both offshore in the UK North Sea and
onshore in Prudhoe Bay Alaska and the Sullom Voe Oil Terminal in
the Shetlands. He was involved for 4 years in BP’s business
development activities in Azerbaijan (1993-97) during which the first
of the major Caspian Sea oil production sharing contracts was
signed with the Azeri Government. Following this in April 1997 he
moved from Baku to establish BP’s new corporate offices in Kyiv
and to become the BP Group Chief Representative in Ukraine.
From 1997 to 2000 he was involved in the development and
implementation of BP’s upstream oil and gas investment strategy
for Ukraine, the principal focus of which was the exploration and
development of potentially very large on-shore natural gas
resources in Ukraine’s Dnipro-Donets Basin. He retired from BP in
March 2000 to establish The Deane Group (Ukraine), his energy
industry consultancy business located in Kyiv where he is now
resident.
He helped to establish and was the first foreign co-chairman of the
Oil and Gas Working Group of the President’s Foreign Investment
Advisory Council (FIAC) in Ukraine. He is also Honorary Secretary
of the Ukraine Association of Independent Oil and Gas Producers
(UAIOGP).
He is a member of the Board of Directors of Ukraine’s International
Centre for Policy Studies and he is currently serving as Chairman
of the British-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce.
He has a Doctorate in Engineering Science (Manchester, UK) and
he is a Chartered Engineer (UK). He is a Professional Member of
the British Chartered Management Institute and a Professional
Member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (UK). He
is also a Fellow and Past-President of the Institute of Corrosion
(UK)
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