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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

John R. Fanchi
John R. Fanchi is a professor in the Department of Engineering and Energy Institute
at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. He holds the Ross B. Matthews
Professorship in Petroleum Engineering and teaches courses in energy and engi-
neering. Before this appointment, he taught petroleum and energy engineering
courses at the Colorado School of Mines and worked in the technology centers of
four energy companies (Chevron, Marathon, Cities Service, and Getty). He is a
Distinguished Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and coedited the
General Engineering volume of the Petroleum Engineering Handbook published by
the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He is the author of numerous books, including
Energy in the 21st Century, 3rd Edition (World Scientific, 2013); Integrated Reservoir
Asset Management (Elsevier, 2010); Principles of Applied Reservoir Simulation, 3rd
Edition (Elsevier, 2006); Math Refresher for Scientists and Engineers, 3rd Edition
(Wiley, 2006); Energy: Technology and Directions for the Future (Elsevier‐Academic
Press, 2004); Shared Earth Modeling (Elsevier, 2002); Integrated Flow Modeling
(Elsevier, 2000); and Parametrized Relativistic Quantum Theory (Kluwer, 1993).

Richard L. Christiansen
Richard L. Christiansen is an adjunct professor of chemical engineering at the
University of Utah in Salt Lake City. There, he teaches a reservoir engineering course
as well as an introductory course for petroleum engineering. Previously, he engaged
in all aspects of petroleum engineering as the engineer for a small oil and gas explo-
ration company in Utah. As a member of the Petroleum Engineering faculty at the
Colorado School of Mines from 1990 until 2006, he taught a variety of courses,
including multiphase flow in wells, flow through porous media, enhanced oil