Taras Makogon is currently a Principal Flow Assurance Consultant with the Wood Group. He is a technical contributor and manager with over twenty years in upstream petroleum industry and technology primarily in flow assurance and production chemistry in Deepwater, onshore and unconventional shale. He has strong project management, international operations, and commercial delivery of results and patents in process optimization, multiphase flow and molecular modeling chemical design to control solids crystallization and deposition in conduits. He has a Doctorate in Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Refining from the Colorado School of Mines, U.S.A., and an MBA in Finance from the Houston Baptist University.