Yngrid Machado is a Senior Process Engineer at C-Capture.
Yngrid has over 16 years’ engineering experience working within the oil and gas industry, mainly in refining. She began her career at the Venezuelan petroleum company PDVSA, researching and developing catalyst technology for heavy crude oil conversion. She then joined their engineering projects team as a Process Leader, working with customers and third parties to deliver proposals, feasibility studies and FEED packages.
Yngrid has a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering and a Diploma in Project Management from the Los Andes University in Venezuela. In 2021 she was awarded a British Council Scholarship for Women in STEM to complete the MSc New and Renewable Energy programme at Durham University and achieved a Masters with distinction. Her research focused on the characterisation of desiccant solutions for temperature and humidity control application using absorption technology.