Wolfgang Hofer

Wolfgang Hofer holds a MS degree for mining and mine surveying from the Montanuniversity Leoben/Austria and joined OMV 1995 in the technology department. Till 2010 he was involved in numerous upgrading and optimization projects in all refineries of OMV as a project manager in the project definition phase. The project scope was up to 1 billion EUR and he was coordinating/coaching multicultural teams on various locations. He has a broad experience in all different “classical” refinery processes as well in innovative approaches. Since 2010, he leads the new technology group in the Refinery Innovation Department of OMV. The main tasks are the enlargement hydrocarbon based feedstock for Refining (e.g. anthropogenic residues, Bio-waste) as well as CO2 conversion and upgrading to advanced fuels. He is the mastermind/inventor of the ReOil® technology, which was his first innovation project. Currently he is technical Advisor at the Plastic to Oil group, to develop the business and the roll out.