About Us

OUR STORY

Modular Plant Solutions (MPS) was born over a dinner conversation. Our co-founders were chatting about an opportunity to turn unusable stranded natural gas into a profitable commodity. That’s when the idea for MeOH-To-Go® (also known as Methanol-to-Go®), our small-scale methanol plant, was born. We wanted to figure out a way to convert the stranded natural gas into something transportable and profitable, even though the gas was in a remote location, not easily reachable nor near a pipeline.

That’s what led us to found MPS in 2016 and develop the design for MeOH-To-Go®, a small-scale, easily transportable, modular plant that uses stranded gas to produce market-ready, Grade AA methanol. We designed the plant modules with the patent-pending idea that the frames are ISO-1496/CSC-container compliant, so they can be shipped via container ship, rail and truck, and reassembled quickly into a complete plant in the field.

Since then, we’ve expanded on our original design to allow for a variety of front-end feedstock options and process technologies, as well as back-end add-on technology processes, including Gasoline-To-Go® and DME-To-Go®.

Our team of highly experienced engineers, operators and industry experts, bring the best-in-class plant solutions and hands-on experience for a variety of processes for the oil and petrochemical industries.

OUR TEAM OF EXPERTS CAN HELP YOU PLAN, DESIGN, AND EXECUTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUR MODULAR FACILITY, NO MATTER THE TYPE.

  • Russell Hillenberg
    President and CEO, Co-Founder image description
  • David Townsend, P.E.
    Vice President of Engineering (Co-Founder of Modular Plant Solutions) image description
  • Heather Bennett
    VP, Business Development image description
  • Tony Hopkins
    VP, Finance image description
  • Joel Hendricks
    Vice President of Project Management image description
  • Sid Mowbray
    Vice President of Operations image description
  • Knox Rider
    Instrumentation Engineer image description
  • Mark Peterson
    Mechanical and Construction Engineer image description
  • Nathan Nagel
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  • Ken Fischer, P.E.
    Rotating Equipment Engineer image description
  • Bob Bryce
    Electrical Engineer image description
  • Bob Thompson, P.E.
    Civil and Structural Engineer image description
  • Mary Jean Naugle Phillips
    B.S.M.E. from Texas A&M University image description
  • Monica Cervantes P.E.
    Senior Electrical Engineer image description
  • Mark Medley
    Technical Specialist image description
  • Steve McMillan
    Principal Process Analyzer Engineer image description
  • Oscar Garza
    Commissioning and Startup Specialist image description
  • Tommy Doggett
    Commissioning, Startup, and Operations Manager image description
  • Steve Clifford
    Commissioning and Startup Specialist image description
  • Ken Windhorst
    Industrial Chemist image description
  • Terry Sanders
    Rotating Equipment Specialist image description
  • Jim Curtis
    Process Safety Engineer image description
  • Bob Lampton
    Environmental Engineer image description
  • Ashok Rakhe
    Corrosion and Materials Engineer image description
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MPS values

Integrity

We hold ourselves and our work to the highest standards and principles.

Partnership

We work with you to create a solution and plan that works best for all parties.

Quality

We provide world-class products and solutions.

Dependability

We are good stewards of money, time, and talent.