Emily Walt
About Emily Walt
Emily Walt is a Gulf of Mexico Flow Assurance Operations Support Engineer at Chevron, specializing in hydrate treatment optimization and remediation.
Current Role at Chevron
Emily Walt is currently employed as the Gulf of Mexico Flow Assurance Operations Support Engineer at Chevron, based in Covington, Louisiana. In this role, she specializes in hydrate treatment optimization and remediation in flow assurance operations. Her experience also includes extensive work on hurricane response and pigging campaigns, alongside developing and implementing chemical flushing plans and troubleshooting procedures.
Previous Roles at Chevron
Before her current role, Emily Walt served in several key positions at Chevron. She was the Industry Participation Standardization Engineer in Houston, Texas for 8 months from 2018 to 2019. She also worked as the Process Automation Organizational Capability Technical Director from 2017 to 2018, and as the Process Simulation (PS) Community of Practice (CoP) Co-Founder and Leader from 2016 to 2018. Additionally, she held the role of Modeling and Simulation Engineer from 2016 to 2019 in Houston, Texas.
Early Career and Internships
Emily Walt's career began with various internships and early roles. She worked as a Chemical Engineering Intern at Chevron in 2015 for 3 months. Prior to this, she was a PDP Intern at BASF in Newport, DE for 3 months in 2014, and an Upstream Process Intern at Wood Group Mustang in Houston, Texas in 2013. She also held a Calling Position at Friends of Alec from 2013 to 2014 and interned at Wood Group Mustang as an Engineering and Design Intern from 2011 to 2012.
Academic Background
Emily Walt holds a Master's in Business Administration from The University of Texas at Austin, earned between 2020 and 2022. She also achieved a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering with a Business Foundations Certificate from the same institution, graduating in 2016. During her undergraduate studies, she also worked as an Academic Tutor at the Sanger Learning Center from 2014 to 2016.
Technical Skills and Expertise
Emily Walt is skilled in using Aspen HYSYS for process simulation and optimization. Her technical expertise in the field includes developing and implementing chemical flushing plans, troubleshooting procedures for flow assurance, and handling response strategies for hurricanes and pigging campaigns. She has a strong focus on hydrate treatment optimization and remediation in flow assurance operations.