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Kapista gold Medal of Honor for “his outstanding contributors to the field of
engineering.” He received the prestigious 1995 SPE Distinguished Achievement
Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty. The citation read, “He is recognized for
his role in student development and his excellence in classroom instruction. He
pioneered the pressure derivative technique of well testing and has contributed
considerable understanding to petrophysics and reservoir engineering through
his research and writing.” He is also the recipient of the 2003 SPE Formation
Evaluation Award “For distinguished contributions to petroleum engineering in
the area of formation evaluation.”
Erle C. Donaldson began his career as a pilot plant project manager for Signal
Oil and Gas Research in Houston, Texas. Later he joined the U.S. Bureau of Mines
Petroleum Research Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, as a project manager of
subsurface disposal and industrial wastes and reservoir characterization; when
the laboratory was transferred to the U.S. Department of Energy, Dr. Donaldson
continued as chief of petroleum reservoir characterization. When the laboratory
shifted to private industry for operations, he joined the faculty of the School of
Petroleum and Geological Engineering at the University of Oklahoma as associate
professor. Since retiring from the university in 1990, he has consulted for various
oil companies, universities, and U.S. agencies including: the Environmental
Protection Agency, the U.S. Navy Ordinance Center, King Fahd Research Institute
of Saudi Arabia, and companies in the U.S., Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia, and
Thailand.
Dr. Donaldson has earned four degrees: a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from
the University of Tulsa, an M.S. in organic chemistry from the University of South
Carolina, a B.Sc. in chemical engineering from the University of Houston, and
a B.Sc. in chemistry from The Citadel. He has served as chairman of committees
and sessions for the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the American Chemical
Society, as well as other national and international conferences. He is a member
of the SPE Twenty-Five Year Club, and is currently the managing editor of the
Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering.

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