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Five Minutes with

Chia Yoo Soon

General Manager, Finished Lubricants – Marine, Chevron Marine Lubricants

OK. Full disclosure. We spent more than ‘Five Minutes’ on the phone with Chia Yoo Soon, General Manager,

Finished Lubricants – Marine, Chevron Marine Lubricants. But given that we are based in New York and he is based in Singapore, the time difference mandated an ef? cient conversation for both. Without overstating the obvious, ship owners are under tremendous pressures. A relentless regulatory hammer continues to pound out new and ever stricter environmental and emission rules, while at the same time many sectors are in the midst of a historic and prolonged slump. Relief can be hard to ? nd, and owners increasingly turn to their suppliers for answers. So the leader of Chevron’s global marine lubricants division seemed a natural for topical insight and perspective regarding the new IMO fuel rules coming in 2020.

BY GREG TRAUTHWEIN

I have your biography, but please brief- ly describe how you came to a career in the lubricants business.

Chevron believes in investing in its people, and it is common to move people across business units for career and lead- ership development. Lubricants are not new to me. Thirty-one years ago I started my career in the oil industry in the lubri- cants business (in automotive and indus- trial lubricants).

What brought you to this position in

Make sure your crew is equipped to maritime.

perform maintenance at any time!

The move came about as a part of a wider leadership change within Chevron in 2016, and a point was to provide more focus to the Asia Paci? c region in terms of marine. Chevron deceided to move the global marine leadership role, which

I hold, to Singapore in 2016.

What are some of the main differences

Ultrasonic Cylinder pressure Fuel injector Cylinder liner and similarities in the lubricants busi- cleaning monitoring testing maintenance ness when comparing different trans- port modes?

The main difference is the product

The Optimum Solution range. Aviation is relatively straight for 2-stroke & 4-stroke Diesel and Gas Engine Maintenance forward and simple: it’s jet fuel. On the www.chris-marine.com marine lubricant side there is a lot more complexity in the product range, and www.marinelink.com 25

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