Pat Swafford joins Haverly Systems!

Please join us in welcoming Pat Swafford as the newest member of the Haverly Systems team! As Commercial Director, Pat is responsible for managing commercial operations of Haverly Systems' planning and optimization products. Using his 35 years of process industry experience, Pat will help our clients implement solutions to business problems while also providing a valuable contribution to the software development process.

Pat comes to us with valuable refining experience. Throughout his career, he has held positions focused on blending, scheduling, crude assay management, planning and optimization in multiple refineries across the United States. Pat also has worked as a consultant to the refining industry and helped many clients with economic optimization, project evaluation and strategic planning projects.

Most recently, Pat worked as the Senior Manager of Economics and Planning with CVR Energy in the Wynnewood, Oklahoma. At CVR Energy, He was responsible for directing commercial operations of the Wynnewood, Oklahoma refinery, including crude evaluation and selection, product mix optimization and overall refinery operating plan development. He also led economic evaluation of multiple small, medium and large-scale investment projects, including multiple refinery debottlenecking projects, benzene removal, hydrogen manufacturing and renewable diesel production projects. At CVR Energy, Pat also developed a strategic plan for renewable fuels conversion investments in the Wynnewood refinery, utilizing LP technology to develop profitability forecasts and financial models to evaluate profitability of investment options.

Pat has served for two years on the board of directors for the Crude Oil Quality Association (COQA) and has been an active participant in the COQA organization for nineteen years. In this role, he has actively participated as an member of the COQA’s Domestic Sweet Subcommittee, which was the primary driver for recommending and implementing specifications for NYMEX Domestic Sweet crude.

Pat is an experienced refinery professional with multiple years of experience working with Haverly Systems software and has been a regular user conference attendee for the past several years. We are certain that Pat’s extensive experience will be a great asset to Haverly Systems and to our users and partners.