ALAN A. ALLEN

Mr. Al Allen, doing business as Spiltec, has over 38 years experience as a technical advisor and field supervisor involving hundreds of oil spills around the world. He has developed specialized strategies and equipment for the prevention, surveillance and control of oil spills; and he has conducted many hundreds of oil spill training courses under arctic, temperate and tropical conditions. A few of the offshore spills, on which he has worked, include the Santa Barbara blowout (1969), the Mizushima tank failure in Japan (1974), the Ixtoc blowout off Mexico (1979), the Exxon Valdez grounding (1989), the Gulf of Arabia war-related spills (1991) and the Sea Prince grounding off South Korea (1995). Some of the more recent inland and onshore spills include mystery spills to the Detroit River (2002); Michigan gasoline and diesel spills to wetlands in Utah (2000 & 2002); and the release of crude oil from a tanker to the inland and near shore waters of Puget Sound, Washington (2004).

Mr. Allen has provided operational guidance for government and industry organizations involving critical on scene decisions related to the use of mechanical cleanup, the application of chemical disperse and the use of controlled burning. He has spent approximately 25 years developing in-situ burn and dispersant application techniques and equipment. He has coordinated the physical removal, chemical treatment and controlled burning of spilled oil under a broad range of conditions throughout the world. Special assignments have included the preparation of oil spill contingency plans and training programs for offshore exploration and production facilities, pipelines, marine terminals and tanker operations in such locations and the United States, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Kazakhstan, Africa, Japan, Australia, Taiwan and Sahkalin Island.

Mr. Allen is recognized as a leading consultant and trainer involving waterborne petroleum fires and their control, the application of chemical dispersants on offshore oil spills and the containment, recovery and/or combustion of spilled oil under arctic and sub-arctic conditions.

Mr. Allen is listed as a technical advisor for emergency response to oil spills on numerous emergency response plans worldwide and he continues to serve as a consultant to most major oil companies involved with the production, processing and transport of petroleum products offshore and onshore.

Mr. Allen is the author of more than 100 publications and technical reports, many of which can be found under "Publications". He holds 3 patents dealing with mechanical cleanup, burning and the application of chemical dispersants.