ABOUT OCC
DR.ED OWENS
Dr. Owens is the President of Owens Coastal Consultants and is an internationally recognized expert on oil spill shoreline response. He has conducted oil spill related missions as a United Nations Expert Consultant for the International Maritime Organization on (IMO) projects in the Caribbean, South America, and Africa and was a technical consultant for the UN Claims Commission on the 1991 Gulf War claims.
He has acted as a consultant for the World Bank and the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, and was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Science Oil Spill R&D Committee.
Dr. Owens has worked on spill-related projects throughout North and South America, the Middle East , as well as Russia, the Caspian, Australia and has developed area-specific response strategies for pipeline projects and other operational activities in the Arctic, North-South America, Africa, and Russia. He has over 40 years of experience in spill response and training. Click here for full resume
Technical support provided for the response operations below:
- T/V Arrow (Canada, Nova Scotia)
- Hasbah 6 blowout (Arabian Gulf)
- Nestucca (Canada, British Columbia)
- T/V Exxon Valdez (USA, Alaska: during which he was the architect of the SCAT concept)
- Arabian Gulf/Desert Storm (Bahrain, Qatar)
- T/B Fred Bouchard (USA, Florida)
- Morris J. Berman (Puerto Rico)
- Komineft pipeline (Russia)
- M/V Iron Baron (Australia, Tasmania)
- T/V Estrella Pampeana (Argentina, River Plate)
- M/V New Carissa (USA, Oregon)
- Desaguadero River (Bolivia, Altiplano)
- M/V Selendang Ayu (USA, Alaska)
- Wabamun Lake derailment (Canada, Alberta)
- M/V Cosco Busan spill (USA, California)
- Technical Advisor to BP for Shoreline Response and the Shoreline Cleanup Assessment Technique (SCAT) program in the Gulf of Mexico Macondo oil spill