Ron Ramsell
Managing Director / Projects Manager
Leads RCSL's projects: planning, site management and supervision of installation, inspection and anchorage work. More than 40 years in the trade, most of it on FCC units.
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A family firm, built on the tools.
Refractory Consultancy Services Limited was founded in 2015 and is run from Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex, by Ron and Andrew Ramsell. We work in the UK and abroad, and the people you speak to run the job.
01 Managing Director
Ron Ramsell
Managing Director / Projects Manager
Ron founded RCSL in 2015 and leads its project work. He served his apprenticeship as a sheet metal worker and welder at North Kent Engineering (1978–1983) and holds City & Guilds 200 and 165 (Parts 1–3).
After eight years on offshore modules he moved into refractory in the early 1990s, and has specialised in FCCU reactors, regenerators, hydrocrackers and transfer lines ever since. With previous employers he led the refractory installation of five new-build FCC units: the Honam refinery FCCU for Hyundai Heavy Industries, South Korea (80 refractory workers over 18 months); a new FCCU for BHPV at Visakhapatnam, India; the Mozyr refinery reactor/regenerator, Belarus; and both new FCC streams at LUKOIL Nizhny Novgorod (FCCU-1, 2008–10; FCCU-2, 2013–14). He has worked in 16 countries and run turnarounds with crews of up to 110.
At RCSL he has led work for LUKOIL, ENI Sannazzaro, Raffineria di Milazzo, TOTAL Lindsey, Phillips 66, Lafarge, ADM and Zampell, and was refractory inspector on the 2024 Phillips 66 Humber turnaround. He still welds: he made the test welds for RCSL's 2019 ASME IX procedure qualifications.
- Telephone
- +44 7581 456802
- ron.ramsell@refcsl.co.uk
Ron's career before RCSL
Honam refinery new FCCU, Ulsan, South Korea (with Hyundai Heavy Industries) · BHPV Visakhapatnam new FCCU, India (1997–98) · BAPCO, Bahrain · QAPCO, Qatar · Qatar Cement · TOTAL Lindsey FCCU turnaround (110 men, 42 days) · FCCU turnarounds at AGIP Sannazzaro, Scanraff (Sweden), Sarpom (Italy) and Kaduna (Nigeria) · plug valve and hydraulic power unit work at Panipat (India) and Elf Feyzin (France) · Mozyr refinery new FCCU reactor/regenerator, Belarus · LUKOIL Nizhny Novgorod new FCCU Stream 1 (2008–10) and Stream 2 (2013–14), with York Linings · Esso Fawley · Texaco Pembroke · Total Milford Haven · BP Grangemouth · Conoco Immingham · Statoil Mongstad · Lafarge Aberthaw and Westbury · Nestlé Hayes · London Waste Edmonton · DSTL Porton Down
With previous employers, including Reintjes, Tapco and York Linings.
02 The team
Who you'll deal with.
A short line between your enquiry and the people who plan and run the work.
Andrew Ramsell
Operations Manager / Refractory Consultant
Joined RCSL in 2018 and runs operations and finance (AAT Levels 2–4). On site he works as contract and quality manager and refractory inspector: daily reporting on the 2018 LUKOIL FCCU turnaround, inspection for Raffineria di Milazzo from 2019, RCSL's scope on FCCU turnarounds at ENI Sannazzaro, LUKOIL (2022) and Phillips 66 (2022 and 2024), hydrocracker supervision for Calderys at LUKOIL Kstovo (2021) and the Lafarge kiln reline in Moldova (2021). Holds the HSE Level 3 NVQ in Site Management Safety.
03 How we work
Safety, quality and plain answers.
Scope first
We start from the equipment, the specification and the reason for the work, so the job is priced and planned on facts.
To the specification
Installation and inspection to the project's lining specification and the codes it calls up, including UOP, API and ASTM.
Safe working
Confined spaces, hot work and work at height are routine in our trade. We plan them that way.
Records you can use
Written reports with photographs and recommendations, so the next shutdown starts with a clear picture.
04 Company details
Refractory Consultancy Services Limited
- Company no.
- 09870178 (England & Wales)
- Incorporated
- 12 November 2015
- Registered office
- 31 Lady Nelson Gardens, Thorpe-le-Soken, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, CO16 0FG
Accreditations & qualifications
Company
- Welding procedures qualified to ASME BPVC Section IXFour SMAW procedures: 304H stainless; 410 stainless; 410 to Cr-Mo steel; 410 to SA-516 Gr 70 carbon steel. Witnessed and certified by Zurich Engineering, April 2019.
- InsuranceEmployers' liability £10m; public and products liability £5m each; overseas work covered (excluding USA and Canada). Valid to 15 May 2027.
People
- Ron RamsellTime-served sheet metal worker and welder · City & Guilds 200 and 165 (Parts 1–3) · British Safety Council Key Supervisors · PBNA health and safety.
- Andrew RamsellHSE Level 3 NVQ in Site Management Safety · AAT Levels 2–4.
Certificates available on request.
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Planning a shutdown or chasing a lining problem?
Tell us the equipment, the site and your dates. We'll tell you how we can help and who will do the work.