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PREFACE / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IX

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The author wishes to express his thanks to SIPM for so readily granting permission to
publish this work and, in particular, to H. L. Douwes Dekker, P.C. Kok and C. F.M.
Heck for their sustained personal interest throughout the writing and publication, which
has been a source of great encouragement.

Of those who have offered technical advice, I should like to acknowledge the
assistance of G.J. Harmsen; L.A. Schipper; D. Leijnse; J. van der Burgh; L. Schenk; H.
van Engen and H. Brummelkamp, all sometime members of Shell's reservoir
engineering staff in the Hague. My thanks for technical assistance are also due to the
following members of KSEPL (Koninklijke Shell Exploratie en Productie Laboratorium)
in Rijswijk, Holland: J. Offeringa; H.L. van Domseiaar; J.M. Dumore; J. van Lookeren
and A.S. Williamson. Further, I am grateful to all former lecturers in reservoir
engineering in Shell Training, and also to my successor A.J. de la Mar for his many
helpful suggestions. Sincere thanks also to S.H. Christiansen (P.D. Oman) for his
dedicated attitude while correcting the text over a period of several months, and
similarly to J.M. Willetts (Shell Expro, Aberdeen) and B.J.W. Woods (NAM, Assen) for
their efforts.

For the preparation of the text I am indebted to G.J.W. Fransz for his co-ordinating
work, and particulariy to Vera A. Kuipers-Betke for her enthusiastic hard work while
composing the final copy. For the drafting of the diagrams and the layout I am grateful
to J.C. Janse; C.L. Slootweg; J.H. Bor and S.O. Fraser-Mackenzie.

Finally, my thanks are due to all those who suffered my lectures between 1974 and
1977 for their numerous suggestions which have helped to shape this textbook.

L.P. Dake,
Shell Training,
The Hague,
October 1977.