Dr Myers is currently leading the team that is undertaking the major maintenance and upgrade work of the LHC to enable it to run at twice the energy when it turns back on in 2015.
Analysts at Goldman Sachs suspect that many refiners used their spring maintenance cycle to upgrade their equipment in order to handle heavier, dirtier crudes.
He has a good consultant who he pays a thousand bucks a year to support the product, which is significantly less than he would have to pay Sage to upgrade and go on one of their maintenance plans.