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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Djebbar Tiab is the Senior Professor of Petroleum Engineering at the
University of Oklahoma, and Petroleum Engineering consultant. He received his
B.Sc. (May 1974) and M.Sc. (May 1975) degrees from the New Mexico Institute of
Mining and Technology, and his Ph.D. degree (July 1976) from the University
of Oklahoma-all in petroleum engineering. He is the Director of the University
of Oklahoma Graduate Program in Petroleum Engineering in Algeria.
At the University of Oklahoma, he taught fifteen different petroleum and
general engineering courses including: well test analysis, petrophysics, oil
reservoir engineering, natural gas engineering, and properties of reservoir fluids.
Dr. Tiab has consulted for a number of oil companies and offered training
programs in petroleum engineering in the USA and overseas. He worked for over
two years in the oilfields of Algeria for Alcore, S.A., an association of Sonatrach
and Core Laboratories. He has also worked and consulted for Core Laboratories
and Western Atlas in Houston, Texas, for four years as a Senior Reservoir Engineer
Advisor.
As a researcher at the University of Oklahoma, he received several research
grants and contracts from oil companies and various U.S. agencies. He supervised
23 Ph.D. and 94 M.S. students at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of
over 150 conference and journal technical papers. In 1975 (M.S. thesis) and 1976
(Ph.D. dissertation) he introduced the pressure derivative technique, which
revolutionized the interpretation of pressure transient tests. He developed two
patents in the area of reservoir characterization (identification of flow units).
Dr. Tiab is a member of the U.S. Research Council, Society of Petroleum
Engineers, Core Analysis Society, Pi Epsilon Tau, Who is Who, and American Men
and Women of Science. He served as a technical editor of various SPE, Egyptian,
Kuwaiti and U.A.E. journals, and as a member of the SPE Pressure Analysis
Transaction Committee. He is a member of the SPE Twenty-Five Year Club.
He has received the Outstanding Young Men of America Award, the SUN Award
for Education Achievement, the Ken-McGee Distinguished Lecturer Award,
the College of Engineering Faculty Fellowship of Excellence, the Halliburton
Lectureship Award, the UNOCAL Centennial Professorship, and the P&GE
Distinguished Professor. Dr. Tiab has been elected in October 2002 to the Russian
Academy of Natural Sciences as a foreign member because of “his outstanding
work in petroleum engineering.” He was also awarded in October 2002 the

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