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PRINCIPAL AUTHORS

Frank Jahn has worked as a Petroleum Geologist in Brunei, Thailand, the Netherlands, the UK
and Australia. After 11 years with a multinational oil company he co-founded TRACS
International in 1992. He has designed and teaches multidisciplinary training courses related
to oil and gas field exploration and development worldwide, particularly graduate
development programmes. He is now based in Perth, Australia where he works as a
petroleum consultant.
Mark Cook joined the oil industry in 1981 as a reservoir engineer, and worked for 11 years in
a multinational oil company in the Netherlands, Oman, Tanzania and the UK. In 1992 he
co-founded TRACS International, where he is currently CEO, based in Scotland. His
specific technical interests lie in petroleum engineering, risk analysis and economics, and he
remains involved in training course development and delivery.
Mark Graham has 29 years of oil industry experience, working initially as a wireline logging
engineer with Schlumberger in the Middle East, followed by more than 10 years with a
multinational oil company in both operations and petroleum engineering positions in the Far
East and North Sea. He co-founded TRACS International, where he is a Director, currently
responsible for general business development in addition to working as a petroleum engineer,
economist and project manager.

We thank Fiona Swapp for support in the graphics and publishing of this book, and for technical
updates provided by TRACS International team members, particularly Liz Chellingsworth, Bjorn
Smidt-Olsen, Jonathan Bellarby and Jenny Garnham.
TRACS International Training Ltd., and TRACS International Consultancy Ltd., can be
contacted through:-
Tel: +44 (0)1224 321213
Fax: +44 (0)1224 321214
email: tracs@tracsint.com
website: http://www.tracs.com
Address: Falcon House,
Union Grove Lane,
Aberdeen, AB10 6XU,
United Kingdom

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