GS Caltex Eyes
Industry's Top Leader

Chairman Hur calls for staff to redouble efforts to realize the goal

GS Caltex Chairman & CEO Hur Dong-soo has urged his executives and staff to employ their full potential to make GS Caltex an industry leader.
GS Caltex Chairman Hur made the remark in his message carried in his company's in-house magazine, saying, "Now is a time when our 1 percent patent capability should be used up to reach the top."He called for his staff to show thorough determination and make strenuous efforts to make GS Caltex Asia's top leader. Chairman Hur noted that GS Caltex could attain a goal of evolving into an industry leader if they join forces and do their best in making the company's biggest investments since its establishment a success. However, Hur warned, "If they rest on their laurels, they could lose the current position."He called for his staff to show a thorough determination and make strenuous efforts to make GS Caltex Asia's top leader.
Chairman Hur noted that GS Caltex can attain a goal of evolving an industry leader if they join forces and do their best in making the company's
biggest investments since its establishment a success. However, Hur warned "If they rest on their laurels, they could lose the current position."GS Caltex decided to pour something between 2.5 trillion won and 3 trillion won, the industry's largest investment to construct the third Heavy Oil Upgrade (HOU) as part of efforts to expand capacity of the Yesou plant in South Jeolla Province.
GS Caltex recently completed the second HOU project two months ahead its original schedule, company officials said.
Chairman Hur praised the company's recording 6 million man-hour industrial accident-free for the first time in the refinery industry. It translates that the Yesou plant with 1,300 executive and staff members is operated accident-free for 806 days.
"It is significant to set a record not only in its history but also in the industry,"said Chairman Hur, adding that he sticks to stern safety regulations whenever he visits the Yesou plant.

FOREIGN TECHNICIANS LEARN LESSONS FROM GS CALTEX. A stream of technicians from China and Oman visit the Yesou plant to gain expertise.
The foreign visitors are engineers and technicians from Sohar Refinery Company with which GS Caltex signed a technical tie-up as well as a Chinese refinery.
The number of visitors on a benchmarking tour totals about 300, including 40 from Sohar Refinery Company who have come here on four occasions.
A team of 12 engineers from Sohar Refinery Company returned home after completing a training program from Aug. 13 and Aug. 24. They held a commencement ceremony after undergoing a one-on-one training program in seven processes, including crude distillation unit (CDU), residue fluid catalytic cracking (RFCC), hydro desulfurization unit (HDS) and utility.
Mohammed Al Hashmi, one of the trainees, who underwent a field study from the RFCC sector, said the training program offered study on both theory and field, so it would help him carry out his duties by experiencing how to tide over and solve problems through the one-on-one program.
A company official said the training program catering to those in production and technology fields of petrochemical and refinery plants in such countries as China and the Middle East will be conducive to not only exporting technology abroad, but also nurturing close relations and bilateral manpower development with foreign countries.
The official said the program is not just a commissioned work, but a buildup of partnership that extends up to manpower development, thus contributing to the exploration of the energy industry in the future. nw

Technicians and engineers from the Sohar Refinery Company in Oman participate in a technical training program from GS Caltex

GS Caltex Chairman & CEO Hur Dong-soo