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Dr. Uriel Oko is the proprietor of Corrosion Services. With more than thirty years of experience in various facets of metallurgical, environmental and chemical engineering, he offers depth of knowledge and design capabilities. He graduated with bachelors and masters degrees from McGill University, Montreal, Canada and a Ph.D. in metallurgical engineering from the University of Missouri, Rolla.

Dr. Oko began his working experience as a student co-oping as a mill hand with Quemont Mining Corporation, Rouyn-Noranda in Northern Quebec. Upon graduation, he worked for the Canadian National Railways. During more than four years with Supreme Precision Castings, Montreal, he supervised the metallurgical investment castings foundry. He then worked for International Investment Castings in Belleville, Ontario before attending graduate school.

Upon graduating with a Ph.D., Dr. Oko returned to the mining industry, working for Falconbridge Nickel Mines Corporation in Sudbury, Ontario. He then joined the Acres Consulting Group and moved to the United States. He worked for Union Carbide Linde Division as a metallurgical engineer developing the PUROX system for converting domestic refuse into combustible gas. After four years with Union Carbide, he joined Cities Service Oil Company where he developed several processes for converting heavy oils and coal into gasoline. When Occidental Petroleum purchased Cities Service, Dr. Oko was engaged in problems related to deep well drilling and enhanced oil recovery.

Dr. Oko moved to Albany, New York in 1990. He obtained NACE qualifications as Senior Corrosion Technologist in 1996 and commenced a consulting practice. His projects include cathodic protection of tanks, concrete structures and water mains. His clients include industrial and commercial enterprises as well as numerous attorneys who call on his chemical engineering and metallurgical expertise.

Dr. Oko is a Lab Associate with The M&P Lab. View the company brochure (PDF format).

Dr. Oko is an author of five patents and numerous scholarly articles on the production of alternative fuels from coal and fuel cells. His two most recent publications explore the removal of PCBs from the Hudson River. He has also published articles relating to disposal of mine spoils and water purification.

During the last several years, Dr. Oko has given presentations to numerous forums of northern New York engineering societies on the topic of cathodic protection of steel in concrete, soil, and structures such as geothermal wells, water tanks and sewage plants.

Clayton Fuller is CEO of North County NDT, with more than 24 years of industrial experience. He worked for more than 10 years first as a technologiet and later as a certified nondestructive inspector serving paper mills, hospitals, gas stations and tank farms. Prior to 2000, he worked as a millwright and a welder.

Clayton is a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) small unmanned aircraft pilot holding a CFR 14 rule 107 certificate. Clayton serves Eastern New York with areal surveys of stacks, building roofs and facades and industrial installations.

Clayton holds Level 2, Ultrasonic Testing certification from Hellier Technical Training & Consulting Company. North Country NDT with Clayton are ISN-TAPPI safety trained for serving the pulp and paper industry in the USA.

Dan Yarom is the Owner and CEO of C.D.S.P. Corporation of White Plans, N.Y. Mr. Yarom specializes in all htmlects of installing and maintaining underground storage tanks for gasoline stations. A former owner of more than 20 gas stations in Brooklyn and Long Island, Mr. Yarom established C.D.S.P. Corporation in 1987 to serve gas stations in the New York City, Long Island and Westchester County (Yonkers) Metropolitan Areas.

Mr. Yarom has more than twenty years of consulting and hands-on expertise in:

• Underground storage tanks installation
• Underground storage tanks testing for leaks
• State I and II vapor recovery testing and installation
• Installation and testing of cathodic protection systems (sacrificial and impressed current anodes)
• Environmental remediation (Phase I, II and III)
• Installation and maintenance of controls, alarms, and data recorders for gas stations and fuel depots

C.D.S.P installs, maintains and inspects pipes, tanks, vapor recovery and cathodic protection systems. It owns a vacuum drilling rig and light duty excavation equipment designed specifically for easy access to gas stations that are located in congested city environments.