Gas Station Expert Witnesses

This expert has extensive experience in fuel system design, storage, and dispensing systems. He has spent many years as a gas station expert, constructing gasoline service stations for major oil companies and public agencies. He has been involved with numerous societies in the gas station safety/construction industry, and is certified to handle all gas station related materials. Currently, this expert consults on fuel system installation, design, and safety at his own firm.

This expert specializes in gas station and convenience store operations, management, and safety, with specific focus on site valuations, operating procedures, capital and expense management. He earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and a MBA in Finance from Drexel University. He has 37 years of experience in the downstream petroleum refining and marketing industry with ARCO and BP. As President of BP West Coast Products, LLC and Vice President Retail Operations, he had responsibility for ARCO gasoline retail sales and AMPM operations worldwide, consisting of the C-Store business with 700 franchisees, 3000 convenience stores, and $3 billion in revenue.

This highly qualified chemical engineer has more than 40 years of experience in the design and operation of petroleum refineries, oil terminals, and petrochemical plants. Much of his work originates at executing process simulators, including simulations in petroleum refining, ethylene, fine chemicals, reforming processes, dehydration, distillation, and gas processing. For the past 30+ years, this expert has been the President, Owner, and Engineering Manager for a large chemical process design firm that analyzes chemical processes, petrochemical plant safety, and a variety of facets in the industry.

This qualified expert has more than 20 years of experience in safety compliance with more than 10 years in managing supermarket and retail location safety. He previously worked at Winn-Dixie Stores as a District Manager and Division Safety Director. He holds several certifications from various associations including the National Association of Safety Professionals and the National Safety Council in Principles of Occupational Safety & Health. He was also formerly acted as Corporate Safety Director for Piedmont Service Group. He currently works as President of a retail safety, compliance, and indoor air quality consulting firm.

This expert has over 36 years of experience in petroleum, biofuel, and chemical engineering. A senior member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, he has delivered over 50 presentations and speeches across the globe at conferences such as the World Fuels Conference. As a Product Manager with Crown Iron Works Company, this expert led their biodiesel initiative to position the company as a top firm in the biodiesel process technology market. At Delta-T Corporation, he led the Biodiesel Team by assisting financial institutions with due diligence on biodiesel investments and assisted engineers for biodiesel plant designs. Currently, this expert operates his own consulting firm, where he provides expert engineering and financial analyses for the petroleum refining and chemical industries.

This expert has over 25 years of experience, transitioning through the professional disciplines of accounting, tax, law and finance, including public accounting and private law practice, as well as legal and corporate finance executive positions with Oryx Energy (now Anadarko Petroleum), Verizon and GreenTech Petroleum. He leverages on multi-disciplinary skill-sets in overseeing capital structure, determining the optimum mix of debt, equity and internal financing, building complex economic & financial models, performing the budgeting and forecasting function, developing strategies to improve economic efficiencies on capital deployed, managing complex tax issues and litigation and understanding and resolving financial and accounting questions. He is highly experienced at preparing and communicating business plans and strategies and preparing professional finance packages for qualified projects. He has a heavy international background, including mergers and acquisitions, and all types of domestic and cross-border transactions, with countries such as Russia, China, and Kazakhstan, among many others. He has been published in multiple national journals such as Business Week and the Journal of Corporate Taxation. He has also successfully testified as a finance expert witness in major commercial litigation (involving hundreds of millions of dollars) in venues including state and county courts, U.S. Federal District Court and U.S. Tax Court. Given his diverse background and global experience, he offers a unique blend of business acumen and legal knowledge in negotiating complex transactions, working with integrated teams of professionals from tax, accounting, finance, legal, engineering, geology, and operations departments of companies.

This highly qualified gas station expert has 25+ years of industry experience. Currently, he is the founder and owner of a gas station consulting service that specializes in service station construction, conversion of bays to c-stores, and franchise valuation. He served for 20 years as a Mobil Oil retailer with whom he earned the 42nd highest gasoline volume service station ranking as well as numerous awards for excellence and station appearance. This expert is a member of several professional organizations and has authored numerous publications in the field. Currently, this expert is the Executive Director of an independent gasoline and automotive service dealer as well as the Founder and Owner of a gas station consulting service.

This expert has thirty plus years of environmental and water resource engineering experience throughout the Americas. Exceptional skills in several water resource and environmental specialties including surface-water and groundwater hydrology, hydrogeologic characterization, surface-water/groundwater interaction, contaminant fate and transport in the subsurface and aquatic environment (special emphasis on PCBs, petroleum compounds, industrial chemicals, and mining-related contamination), limnology, water quality, aquatic ecology, aquatic organism passage. Served as an expert witness for varied cases since 1989. Proficiently team with legal professionals to achieve goals.

This expert is a graduate of Texas A&M University with a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering. He has comprehensive hands-on experience in drilling and production operations both onshore and offshore. His background, with major oil companies and independent producers, includes direct responsibility for drilling, production, equipment selection, facility design, and more. He has held top positions at such companies as Comstock Resources, Nexen Petroleum, and Hunt Exploration. Currently, this expert is a Senior Petroleum Engineering Consultant at a private firm.

This highly qualified expert has more than 40 years of international experience in the development and implementation of occupational health, safety, and environmental (HSE) management systems within the petroleum, petrochemical,manufacturing, and construction industries. He is an advisor to management on regulatory compliance with worldwide agencies such as BSEE, EC, OSHA, HSE, PSA, SSM, DEA, USCG, MSHA, MMS, NOPSA and other applicable industry standards and codes. He is experienced with ISO, ISM, Injury Incident Free (IIF) culture building, root cause analysis, and behavior based safety; including 24 years experience with stringent safety requirements of the North Sea regulatory agencies.

This expert obtained his BA in Enviromental Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, his MS in Environmental Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D from the University of Washington. He has over twenty years experience conducting remedial investigations, risk assessments, and developing cleanup programs for sites containing petroleum hydrocarbons, chlorinated solvents, pesticides, radioactive waste, PCBs, PAHs, dioxins/furans, volatile and semi-volatile organics, perchlorate, heavy metals, asbestos, PFOA, unusual polymers, fuel oxygenates (MTBE), and odors. He conducts contaminant fate and transport modeling in all environmental media and is a specialist regarding the analysis and modeling of airborne contaminants. He has evaluated and modeled emissions from oil and gas facilities, natural gas and fracking sites, industrial boilers, incinerators, confined animal feeding operations, rendering facilities, and various other industrial and agricultural sources. He is currently a Consultant at a Private Firm.

This qualified expert of Fracking Tools & Applications obtained his BS in Chemistry from Oklahoma State University and is a member of multiple Chemistry and Petroleum Professional Societies. This expert has more than forty five years of experience in both research, development, and field use of acidizing and fracturing fluids. He has worldwide experience in fracturing and acidizing stimulation, completion, well control operations, and knowledge of equipment and tools utilized in completion techniques unique to the oil field industry. He has published 70 Articles on Petroleum and Fracking and is currently the President of an Oil and Fracking Consulting Firm.

This expert is a health & safety expert in oil and gas, construction and mining drawing on his advanced education and about 20 years experience teaching safety practices and techniques reducing incidents and reducing costs/losses. He has worked at a variety of mining, petroleum, and construction companies as their lead environmental health and safety specialist. He has extensive experience drafting and implementing safety and environmental programs and field safety audit systems that comply with OSHA and MSHA standards.

This retail security professional joined Walmart in 1980 and held increasingly senior loss prevention and security positions until leaving the company in 2016. Most recently, he was the Senior Director of Global Security Services, in charge of managing safety and security of 20,000 employees and 250,000 customers at U.S. locations. The expert is a member of the American Society of Industrial Security's Retail Loss Prevention Council and is an ASIS Certified Protection Professional. Currently, he runs his own retail security consulting business. He earned his B.S. in Criminal Justice from Missouri Southern State University.

This expert is the Chair in Petroleum and Natural Gas Economics at a major university in the western US. He is an internationally trusted scholar of environmental and resource economics, having served as the managing editor of the top global journal in this field. His current research interests include modeling prices for crude oil and natural gas, the role of delivery infrastructure in natural gas markets, and motivations to hold fossil fuel stockpiles. He holds a BA and PhD in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley; he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the role of regulation and information in the American uranium industry.

This active consulting petroleum engineer has extensive experience in the drilling, completion, and operational planning on hundreds of vertical and horizontal wells. He earned his BS in Petroleum Engineering Technology from Oklahoma State University and began his career with Chevron. He then worked as a Drilling Rep & Production Engineer for Mesa Petroleum Co. and as a Operations Manager for Foran Oil Co. The expert spent 23 years with Read & Stevens, where he eventually served as President. During this time, he oversaw 200 operated wells producing 4,400 BOE per day and numerous nonoperated properties.

This expert specializes in safety/loss prevention, training and facility maintenance, safety program design & development, and retail management. He has more than 20 years of experience serving with retail/wholesale industry leaders, including The Home Depot, Sears, Kohl's, and C&S Wholesale Grocers. Currently, this expert is the owner of a private retail safety consulting firm.

This highly qualified expert in oil and gas earned his BS from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and two MS degrees from the University of Manchester and the University of London. He has over 30 years of experience in petroleum engineering and has published over 20 papers related to the oil and gas industry. He is a certified engineer and is a member of various professional societies, including the Energy Institute and the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers. Formerly, he has held roles as a planning engineer at Foster Wheeler, a senior planning engineer at Bechtel, a petroleum engineer at Marathon, and as a chief development engineer at Tricentrol. Currently, this expert is the managing director at a petroleum development consultancy.

This highly qualified expert has over 25 years of experience in economic damages. He received his BS in petroleum engineering from the University of Oklahoma before earning his MM in managerial economics from Northwestern University. He is a non-attorney member of the State Bar of Texas and a member of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration. He has served as a consultant for Putnam, Hayes, & Bartlett, Arthur Andersen Business Consulting, and LECG. Currently, this expert serves as the managing director of a strategic and financial consulting firm in Texas.

This expert is an industrial designer with over 50 years of experience in the field. His expertise ranges from retail store planning and product management to exhibits and design management. He earned his BA in industrial design from Pratt Institute and is active in his field as a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. For many years, he served in a retail safety and merchandising capacity. He has also worked with the U.S. government and various design firms as an industrial designer and design manager. This expert taught for twelve years at Pratt Institute, holding such positions as professor of industrial design and head of the design management and cultural management programs. Currently, he is a consultant for a design consultancy in New York.