Dave McCaskill is responsible for managing DeWitt’s global Methanol Services with individual emphasis on methanol and downstream derivative activities in the America’s. Dave offers support to DeWitt’s MTBE & Fuel Service, as well as coordinates the annual Methanol/Fuel Conferences offered around the world each year.

Dave has nearly 35 years of experience in the petrochemical industry, beginning his stint with Celanese Chemical Company as a rookie chemical engineer in Pampa, Texas. Roles included engineering, capital planning, hydrocarbon purchasing and operations planning/support. Dave served in field sales before assuming business management of the Celanese ethylene oxide/ethylene glycol product area and then Business Manager for their methanol and formaldehyde product line.

Post time with Celanese, Dave served as Global Business Director of Methanol & Derivatives for another well established private petrochemical consulting firm for almost 10 years. Dave has extensive knowledge of the methanol industry, including global supply and demand, trade flows and has authored numerous World Analyses. Dave is also well grounded in the manufacturing cost structure of methanol plants across the globe, as well as participating in many methanol industry conferences sharing his views of the methanol industry.

Dave holds an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kansas.