Paul Allen is an internationally recognized geophysical expert in seismic data acquisition and processing technologies in a variety of geographical, geological and environmental areas. He is recognized for assessing not only technical but economic impacts of different technologies and their cost-benefits in hydrocarbon exploration, development and production scenarios. Paul believes that experience and theory always need to be reconciled; otherwise poor results occur because of bad design or implementation, not because of noise, the traditionally blamed culprit.

Paul worked thirty-six years for Mobil Oil Corporation in a variety of technical and management positions, of which the last eight years as the most senior geophysical corporate consultant in the company. In this capacity, he helped direct corporate upstream R&D efforts, focus geophysical R&D on a small number of projects with potentially high technical and economic impact, reviewed the implementation of new geophysical developments both internally and with joint venture partners, and assisted numerous E&P affiliates to overcome their most challenging geophysical imaging problems.