About: Alan Foster

Mr. Alan Foster is a training consultant with John M Campbell and Company; he is based in the UK. Mr. Foster spent 25 years with Petrolite Corporation and Baker Petrolite, involved in oilfield and refinery operational problems and their resolution by chemical treatment programs. Mr. Foster has developed and taught courses on oilfield water treatment and oilfield corrosion control, since 1978. Other courses included oil demulsification, paraffin and asphaltenes, oilfield microbiology (and MIC) and refinery technology. He was also qualified by the original training company in its field, to teach their project management course. For 25 years he was a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and reached Fellowship status in the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Mr. Foster received his B.S. in Applied Chemistry from Portsmouth Polytechnic (UK) and his MBA from Leeds University.