Worldwide independent consultant to the
hydrocarbon processing and energy
intensive industries

DUNCAN SEDDON BSc, PhD, FRACI, CChem, MSPE

What I do

Worldwide independent consultant to the hydrocarbon processing and energy intensive industries

Commercial Due Diligence

Analysis of present and emerging technology. Valuation of uncommitted and discovered resources

Technical and economic Assessment of:

  • Petrochemical and refining operations
  • Coal and gas to liquids and chemicals
  • New and emerging energy intensive technology
  • Comparison of competing technology
  • Analysis of patents in the oil, gas and petrochemical Industries

What for?

  • Private investment
  • Bank lending
  • Expert witness testimony in litigation
  • Patent attorneys
  • Resource development

Specialist courses and Master-Classes

Coal and gas to oil, fuels and chemicals - focus on project development

Petrochemicals Economics - focus on optimising profits

Bio fuels and alternative fuels - focus on hurdles to adoption

Who for?

  • Refinery and Petrochemical operators
  • Suppliers and financiers of refineries and petrochemical plants
  • Project developers and business development

Recent publications

  • Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) A Guide to Current Technology - download guide

  • "The Hydrogen Economy - Fundamentals, Technology, Economics", World Scientific Publishing, 2022, ISBN 978981124854-2 (download publication intro)

See all publications

To find out more please get in touch:

Contact: mail@duncanseddon.com
Tel: +61 (0)408 140 537

Helping clients across a range of industries:

  • Coal Conversion
    • Technology
    • Economics
      • Capital costs
      • Operating costs
    • Gasification
  • Gasifier
    • Moving bed
    • Fluid Bed
    • Entrained bed
  • Syn gas
  • Synthesis gas
    • Clean-up
    • Cost of clean-up
    • Water clean up
  • Conversion
    • Fischer-Tropsch
    • Methanol
      • DME
      • MTG
      • MTO
      • Acetic acid
        • Ethanol
    • Ammonia
    • AN
    • Urea
    • DRI (iron ore)
  • Pyrolysis
    • Product value
  • Hydropyrolysis
  • Hydrogenation
    • Product Value
    • Capital costs
  • Gas Conversion
    • GTL
    • Technology
    • Economics
      • Capital costs
      • Operating costs
    • Gasification
      • Steam reforming
      • Partial Oxidation
      • Autothermal reforming
      • Secondary reforming
  • Synthesis gas
    • Clean-up
    • Cost of clean-up
    • Water clean up
  • Conversion
    • Fischer-Tropsch
    • Methanol
      • DME
      • MTG
      • MTO
      • Acetic acid
        • Ethanol
    • Ammonia
    • AN
    • Urea
    • DRI (iron ore)
  • LNG
    • CNG
    • Economics
      • Capital Costs
      • Operating Costs
    • Coal seam gas
      • Costs
      • Water
  • Small Scale GTL
  • Petrochemicals
  • Feedstock
  • Gas
    • Ethane
    • Propane
    • Butane
      • Technology
      • Production costs
      • Shale gas
      • Natural gas
    • Ethylene
      • Yield
      • Costs
  • Naphtha
    • Gas oil
    • Ethylene
      • Yield
      • Capital Costs
      • Operating Costs
    • Propylene
    • Butadiene
    • Butene
  • Technology
  • Technology
  • Economics
    • Steam cracking
    • Dehydrogenation
    • Metathesis
    • MTO
    • Cat cracking
    • Catalytic cracking
  • Chemicals
  • Market Prices
    • Ethylene
    • Propylene
    • Butene
    • Butylene
    • Butadiene
    • Aromatics
      • Benzene
      • Toluene
      • Xylene
      • Cumene
      • Styrene
    • Wax
      • Microcrystalline wax
      • FT waxes
    • Methanol
      • DME
    • Ethanol
    • Propanol
    • Isopropanol IPA
    • Acetone
    • Butanediol BDO
    • Butyl acetate
    • Acrylate
    • Polymers
      • polyethylene
      • polypropylene
      • HDPE
      • LDPE
      • LLDPE
      • PP
  • Fuels
  • Market Prices
    • Naphtha
    • Gasoline
    • Jet
    • Kerosene
    • Gas oil
    • Diesel
    • Fuel oil
  • Fuel Properties
    • Gasoline
      • Composition
      • Blends
    • Diesel
      • Biodiesel blends
      • Ethanol blends
    • Biodiesel
      • FAME
      • Sources
        • Soybean
        • Rape
        • Tallow
        • Algae
    • Green diesel
  • Fuel Production
    • Costs
      • Refineries
      • biofuels