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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book was made possible by many contributors; we cannot name every-
one but below are some special contributors:
• Doug Johnson, CEO, Optimal Decision Strategies, Inc., was guest coa-
uthor of Chapter 2, Instrumentation and Measurement and Chapter 3,
Data Filtering and Conditioning.
• Satyam Priyadarshy, Chief Data Scientist at Halliburton, was guest coa-
uthor for Chapter 2’s section on cyber security.
• Chapter 9 on the future of the digital oil field had a number of industry
experts who agreed to be interviewed or provide feedback in a survey.
For contributions to Chapter 9, we acknowledge: Raed Abdallah, CEO
of Evinsys; Kunal Dutta Roy, VP, and Senthil Arcot, Director, both of
Technical ToolBox; Chris Lenzsch, Solutions Manager Big Data and
Analytics and IoT, Dell Inc.; Steve Dietz, CEO and Cole Wiser, Direc-
tor, both of 900LBS of Creative; Anthony McDaniel, CEO of Rare
Petro Technologies, Inc.; Pallav Sarma, Chief Scientist, Tachyus; Vasilii
Shelkov, CEO of Rock Flow Dynamics; Vasily Demyanov, Professor,
Heriot Watt University; and Mohammad Askar, Petroleum Engineering
Specialist at Saudi Aramco.
• The authors thank Donna Marcotte for editorial services, and Kattie
Washington and Kattie Hammon of Elsevier, for their support through-
out the process. Special thanks to Philip Embleton of Saudi Aramco for
review and edits of the manuscript.
We acknowledge the many institutions, companies, and individuals who
provided permission to use photos and graphics from technical papers, white
papers, websites, etc., who are acknowledged within the text.

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