LSB Industries Inc., Oklahoma City, has appointed Hector Miravete as Director of Clean Energy, effective May 3, 2021. This newly created position is intended to lead the development and execution of LSB’s recently launched Green Ammonia initiative.
LSB said Miravete is a chemical engineer with more than 20 years of experience in the petrochemical industry, including a strong commercial, supply chain, and process engineering background in nitrogen-based technologies.
From 2014 to 2021, he was with KBR Inc., Houston, where, since 2016, he served as Global Technology Business Director for the nitrogen-based technology portfolio, which included nitric acid, ammonium nitrate, and urea ammonium nitrate manufacturing technologies. Miravete has also served as Global Commercial Director for Kalex Fibers and Global Product/Integrated Supply Chain Director for Dow Chemical Co.
Miravete holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, and an MBA from Tecnologico de Monterrey. He also attended executive leadership programs at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and The Stanford Graduate School of Business.