Book description
Written by some of the world's most renowned petroleum and
environmental engineers, Petrophysics: The Fundamentals of Oil and
Gas Revervoirs is the first book to offer the practicing
engineer and engineering student these new cutting-edge techniques for
prediction and forecasting in petroleum engineering and environmental management.
Leonid Buryakovsky, PhD, is a well-known specialist in
petroleum geology, geophysics, petrophysics, geochemistry, and
mathematical geology. For twenty-five years, Dr. Buryakovsky was the
head of the Department of Petrophysics and Well Log Analysis and
Interpretation at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. He was
a professor at the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy in Baku, Azerbaijan,
and he has published over 420 scientific and technical papers and
twenty-two books. He has six patents and many awards to his name.
George V. Chilingar, PhD, is an Emeritus Professor of
Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He
is one of the most well-known petroleum geologists in the world and
the founder of several prestigious journals in the oil and gas
industry. He has published over seventy books and 500 articles and has
received over 100 awards over his career.
Herman H. Rieke, PhD, is a Professor of Petroleum Engineering
and Geology at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He has
authored or coauthored seven technical books and over 120 technical
papers. His accomplishments include many international honors from
governments and academies.
Sanghee Shin is a Research Associate of Rudolf W. Gunnerman
Energy and Environment Laboratory, University of Southern California,
Los Angeles. He is the author of ten articles in the fields of
electrokinetics and environmental science.
