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Kermit E. Brown Measurement has gone from the strapping of tanks to meters, lease automatic custody-
transfer units, and, most recently, to intricate chemical fingerprint and compositional
measurements with physical attribute identification.
H.R. (Randy) Crawford While much early production flowed naturally, more advanced means of artificial lift have
become necessary to extract fluids with increasing efficiency.
Stimulation methods have gone from bullet perforation, through the use of nitroglycerin,
Robert S. Schechter to acid and other chemical means. It now includes various forms of hydraulic fracturing,
gravel packs, and the like. The latest means are taking advantage of more sophisticated
fluids and proppant materials, as well as more precise measurement and placement
Robert C. Earlougher Jr. methods.
It includes development and utilization of secondary and tertiary means of recovering
hydrocarbons, including waterflooding, steam injection, chemical floods, surfactant
C.M. (Mel) Hightower floods, and microbial injection, to name a few techniques. There is no doubt that
advances in these methods have greatly improved the profitability of many a firm.
As the costs of power and scarcity of labor continue their rise, production and operations
Harry O’Neal McLeod Jr.
personnel have used their innovative senses to stay ahead of the curve. New techniques
and a “can do” attitude have resulted in many creative ideas, turning into items that the
industry now simply cannot do without.
Joe Mach
The legends, and countless others like them, are quite special. They may be known
as petroleum engineers. However, much like the makeup of SPE, there may be a little
mechanical, chemical, electrical, civil, or industrial engineer in them, too, as well as an
understanding of geosciences, operations management, and economics.
The JPT Legends of Production and Operations program recognized remarkable
achievements and eight extraordinary people—people who deserve our gratitude
for making our jobs easier and everyone’s life better through their efforts to improve
productivity. Our hats are collectively off to you.
James Pappas
2009 SPE Technical Director, Production and Operations
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Brill
A Passionate Pursuit
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Brown
Contributions in Artificial Lift
Kermit E. Brown says that his passion is teaching. But he I decided to do it and I completed my PhD in June 1962.” He
was not always involved in academia, and his experience in continued to work as a research consultant in the areas of gas
the field led him to become a noted authority on artificial lift lift and multiphase flow for Otis Engineering during the 1950s
and changed the way the industry viewed that technology.
and 1960s.
Artificial-lift methods became Brown’s specialty, and he
“Teaching has been my main objective most of my life,” says
Brown. “It is something that I have enjoyed more than anything wrote numerous books on the topic as well as many technical pa-
else I have done.” Brown enjoyed a long career in academia, pers that were published in SPE journals. Brown views the books
from an assistant professor and later associate professor in the that he published as his favorite accomplishment. Among them
Petroleum Engineering Department at the University of Texas at are Gas Lift Theory and Practice and The Technology of Artificial
Austin beginning in 1955 to his retirement as professor in the Lift Methods.
Petroleum Engineering Department at the University of Tulsa in Brown was soon viewed as the gas-lift authority in the in-
1990. In 1966, Brown had moved to Tulsa to become professor dustry, and he credits his book titled The Technology of Artificial
and head of the Petroleum Engineering Department as well as Lift Methods–Volume 4: Production Optimization of Oil and Gas
associate dean of the College of Engineering and Physical Sci- Wells by Nodal Systems Analysis as one of the most important
ences at the University of Tulsa. He later became vice president of efforts in which he was involved. Joe Mach, another of this year’s
Research and chairman of the Resources Engineering Division.
JPT Legends of Production and Operations, was a coauthor for
Brown did his undergraduate studies at Texas A&M Univer-
this book for the section on nodal-systems analysis. The book is
sity and his graduate work at the University of Texas. “I’m just a
still being used by the industry as well as by many students.
mixed-up Aggie,” he says. Between his studies, he did a stint as a
World War II pilot. “I have published other books that have been sold to the oil
But Brown was not always in academia. His postgraduate industry, and believe it or not, I am still selling books,” Brown said.
work overlapped some of his teaching years. Among the com- “But the most important one was on nodal analysis.”
panies for which he worked, Brown was a petroleum engineer Brown has been an active SPE member since the 1960s,
for Stanolind Oil and Gas Company and Garrett Oil Tools. He serving on numerous committees as well as guiding several SPE
also worked for the US Atomic Energy Commission as a research sections. He was chairman of the Balcones Section during 1965–
engineer. In 1956, when he was a gas-lift engineering consultant, 66, an executive committee member of the Mid-Continent Sec-
he began writing portions of the Gas Lift Manual that transformed tion in 1968, and served on the SPE Board of Directors during
the way the industry viewed that technology. 1970–71.
Brown began teaching petroleum engineering courses in the
Among Brown’s many honors and awards is the SPE John
mid-1950s at the University of Texas at the same time he began
Franklin Carll Award that he received in 1983. Brown also be-
work on his MS degree. “Otis Engineering provided me a pro-
came an SPE Distinguished Member in 1983 and an Honorary
ducing well in Bay City, Texas, to install gas-lift equipment and
instruments to record gas and liquid flow rates, pressures, and Member in 1990.
temperatures. I used that field data for my MS and PhD research,” He became a member of the US National Academy of En-
Brown said. gineering in 1987. “You won’t find many petroleum engineers in
His graduate adviser told Brown that he must complete his the organization but there are four from the University of Tulsa,”
PhD if he wanted to continue teaching.“It was a tough go, but he says.
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Schechter
Advances in Production Methods
Robert S. Schechter began his academic career as a clas- Since these deposits are often found in permeable sands, he
sically trained chemical engineer focused on research and worked on a process to pump a solution into the sand and
teaching about process control of chemical plants. One recover the uranium. “After the Three Mile Island disaster in
year, early in his career, he needed summer employment
the 1970s, uranium was no longer of much value and solu-
and found work at the Humble (now ExxonMobil) Oil
Research Center in Houston. tion mining was no longer of interest,” he said.
Among his significant achievements, Schechter lists his
“It was the start of my relationship with the oil industry work in acidizing to stimulate oil wells and the development
and my interest in the methods of production,” Schechter ex- of surfactants for EOR. He and Professor William H. Wade
plained. “The Production Research Laboratory was an exciting developed a method for measuring the interfacial tension be-
place in those years. I was a consultant for Esso from 1959
tween oil and water called the spinning-drop technique.
through1973.
“A solution-filled tube was spun on its axis at extremely
“There were many technical advances stemming from
the research at the laboratory,” he continued, “and the high speed,” Schechter explained. “The shape of the oil drop
gratifying thing was, if you did something worthwhile, the tells you the interfacial tension. Those machines are available
industry would adopt it immediately. They were receptive to throughout the oil industry today.”
new technology.” Among the honors and awards he received during his
Schechter earned a BS degree in chemical engineering
career was the Improved Recovery Pioneer Award in 1996 at
from Texas A&M University in 1950 and a PhD degree from
the SPE Improved Recovery Symposium. He is also a recipient
University of Minnesota in 1956. In between, he was a First
Lieutenant in the US Army’s Chemical Corps. After earning of the SPE John Franklin Carll Award in 1994 and became
his PhD, he began as an assistant professor, then became an SPE Distinguished Member in 2008. Like many of the JPT
associate professor, and then professor at the University of Legends in Production and Operations, Schechter is a mem-
Texas at Austin. His focus was on fluid mechanics, transport ber of the US National Academy of Engineering.
phenomena, surface phenomena, optimization, variational He has authored five books and published more than
principles, oil-well stimulation, and enhanced oil recovery
190 technical articles and reports. Among his books is Oil
(EOR). He retired from the university in 1997 and is professor
emeritus of Chemical Engineering and Petroleum and Geo- Well Stimulation published in 1991. The textbook deals with
systems Engineering. formation damage, perforating, fracturing, acidizing, and
During his tenure at the University of Texas, he was sand control. Schechter, with Maurice Bourrel, published
chairman of the Chemical Engineering Department dur- Microemulsions and Related Systems in 1991. This mono-
ing 1970–73 and chairman of the Petroleum Engineer- graph deals with the formulations, structures, and physical
ing Department during 1975–78. Additionally, he was
properties of blends of surfactants, oils, and water that form
the director of the Center for Thermodynamics and Sta-
tistical Mechanics at the university during 1968–74. homogeneous phases. The single-phase blends are known as
Among his work and research, Schechter holds a pat- microemulsions. An understanding of these systems is crucial
ent for extracting uranium from subsurface roll-front deposits. for devising surfactant systems used for EOR.
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“I view myself as an engineer and scientist, and hope to be Earlougher has emphasized the importance of training and
so remembered,” he says. mentoring during his career, and has been very active in SPE.
During his 35 years at Marathon, Earlougher held a series He served on or chaired many committees, served on the Board
of research positions at the company’s Petroleum Technology of Directors in the early 1980s, and was an officer for the SPE
Center in Littleton, Colorado. In 1977, he was appointed man- Denver and London sections. He received the Lester C. Uren
ager of the Engineering Department. He later served as Mara- Award in 1979 and the John Franklin Carll Award in 1990. He
thon’s division reservoir engineer in Casper, Wyoming, and then became an SPE Distinguished Member in 1983 and an Honor-
as production manager in Bridgeport, Illinois. ary Member in 1997.
Earlougher is a member of the US National Academy of
In 1988, he was appointed coordinating manager for
Engineering and holds several patents. He is the author or coau-
Production UK and transferred to London. Two years later, Ear-
thor of more than a dozen technical papers.
lougher was named manager of the Brae projects. He returned
“Without a doubt, though, what I am most proud of is my
to the US in 1994 as manager of Business Development for
monograph, Advances in Well Test Analysis,” Earlougher said. “It
Worldwide Exploration, settling in Houston, and was appointed
was published in 1977 and recently saw a fourth printing, selling
vice president of International Production that same year, a posi-
over 40,000 copies in that 30-plus years.”
tion he held until his retirement in 2000.
The monograph was the standard text for well-test analysis
Earlougher has seen a lot of ups and downs during his classes at several universities, including Stanford University for
career. “In the 35 years I have been in the industry, it has been nearly 20 years.
cyclic: fun, then pain, then fun again. Now retired, he and his wife Evelyn enjoy traveling to such
“I tried to flow with the cycles as my career moved from re- locales as China, Peru, Egypt, and Guatemala. His main inter-
search to production, then to operations and construction, and est has been anything associated with the Rocky Mountains of
then into management,” he said. “Initially, I worked in oil recov- Colorado, including downhill and cross country skiing, hiking,
ery and quickly learned that USD 3/bbl oil just could not carry and mountain climbing. “By the mid-1970s I had scaled all of
the cost of production.” Colorado’s 14,000 ft peaks, many of them more than once.”
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Hightower
Champion of Coiled-Tubing Drilling
C.M. (Mel) Hightower worked as a reservoir engineer at before signing on with Arco, where he became more involved in
Chevron, and then had a successful chapter at Exxon, coiled-tubing work. Hightower performed operations-engineer-
where he implemented more than 900 through-tubing ing programs in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, including many through-
and conventional workovers and championed the benefits tubing applications. He also provided engineering support for
of coiled tubing. But it was at Arco where he left his legacy coiled-tubing projects including extensive window milling tests.
in production and operations by pushing the concept of
He was Arco’s representative on a deepwater coiled-tubing drill-
coiled-tubing drilling.
ing feasibility and technical study.
He soon became involved with and was an early member
Hightower earned his BS degree in petroleum engineering
from Louisiana State University in 1962. “I had a good friend of the International Coiled Tubing Association (ICoTA). He was
who was in petroleum engineering and it appealed to me be- chairman of the 1999 SPE/ICoTA Coiled Tubing Roundtable.
cause it offered a lot of outdoor work but yet it was an engineer- While at Arco, Hightower was a coinventor on six down-
ing job,” Hightower said of his degree choice. hole-related patents, mainly dealing with through-tubing and
He went to work for Chevron as a reservoir engineer, plan- coiled-tubing technologies and applications. “Quite a few of the
ning drilling and workover operations. He had already had a coiled-tubing and through-tubing patents came from technolo-
taste of the oil and gas industry during several summer jobs dur- gies used by Arco in Prudhoe Bay,” he says.
ing college, including working on a seismic-survey crew and as Hightower has been an SPE member since 1960 and was
an offshore roustabout. Later, he worked in the Rocky Mountains recognized as a Senior Member in 2002. He has written numer-
in Colorado and Wyoming. After a brief period with BJ Services ous technical papers and presented at various SPE conferences
in engineering support for cementing operations and thermal and other industry meetings.
well stimulation, he landed with Exxon. Following his retirement in 1999, Hightower became a
It was there that he planned and implemented more than consulting engineer, advising and planning workover, comple-
900 through-tubing and conventional onshore and offshore tion, and coiled-tubing projects around the world. He consulted
workovers. He also planned, prepared text, and taught a com- for Halliburton in Oklahoma, conducting training courses in
panywide production- and subsurface-engineering school. It was coiled-tubing systems and drilling operations, and also worked
also at Exxon where he became interested in coiled tubing and
for Maurer Engineering as a coiled-tubing consultant. He also
its benefits to the industry.
consulted for BP, traveling to Venezuela for workover operations.
“I worked with coiled tubing in Lafayette, Louisiana,” High-
He retired from consulting in 2003.
tower said. “It was really pioneering in those days. We did some
“Pushing the coiled-tubing concept is probably the most
things that were a stretch for the quality of pipe then.”
significant thing that I have done,” Hightower said. “I was not the
Hightower noted that the early coiled tubing was poor qual-
ity with small diameter and thin walls. “It had a terrible reputation only one; there was a group of us promoting coiled-tubing drill-
because it was either constantly leaking or falling apart. It was ing in the industry and making a lot of presentations with various
limited mainly to pumping nitrogen into the wells to lift them. groups to share and advance the technology.
“The other application where coiled tubing was used was “We did not invent coiled tubing at Arco, but we felt that if
to pump acid into the well,” he continued, “and believe me, acid we promoted the technology, there would be more developments
and thin wall pipe were not always compatible.” that would benefit the industry,” he continued, “and I am proud
He subsequently did completion and workover engineering that I was advocating coiled-tubing use, especially drilling, dur-
for Superior Oil in Lafayette and Mark Producing in Houston ing that technology’s relatively early stages in the industry.”
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Mach
Nodal Analysis
Breakthrough
It did not take long for Joe Mach to triumph over the only
job he was offered after graduation—a position at Gulf
Oil as a roustabout. The next year he worked on rigs un-
til he was finally promoted as production engineer. This
hands-on experience from optimizing production and
gas-lift systems formed the foundation of his career.
42 JPT S P E C I A L S E C T I O N
Robert S. Schechter
Matrix Acidization with Highly Reactive
Acids, 1971. Coauthor: J.A. Guin.
Spontaneous Emulsification—A Possible
Mechanism for Enhanced Oil Recovery,
1975. Coauthors: R.L. Cash Jr.,
J.L. Cayias, Michael Hayes, D.J. MacAllister,
T. Schares, and W.H. Wade.
Modeling Crude Oils for Low Interfacial
Tension, 1976. Coauthors: J.L. Cayias
and W.H. Wade.
On the Mechanism of Foam Formation in
Porous Media, 1976. Coauthor: M. Kanda.
Surfactant Aging: A Possible Detriment
to Tertiary Oil Recovery, 1976.
Coauthors: R.L. Cash, J.L. Cayias,
M. Hayes, D.J. McAllister, T. Schares, and
W.H. Wade.
Thermodynamic Limitations in
Organic-Acid/Carbonate Systems, 1976.
Coauthors: J.C. Chatelain and
I.H. Silberberg. Schechter (right)
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Optimization of Uranium Leach Mining, Steady Adiabatic, Two-Phase Flow of Multiphase Flow Through Chokes, 1969.
1982. Coauthor: Paul M. Bommer. Steam and Water Through Porous Media, Coauthors: R. Omana, C. Houssiere Jr.,
1990. Coauthor: J. Michael Sanchez. James P. Brill, and Richard E. Thompson.
The Effect of Several Polymers on the
Phase Behavior of Micellar Fluids, Optimizing Sandstone Acidization, 1992. New Emphasis in Engineering Schools
1982. Coauthors: Gary A. Pope, Coauthors: Eduardo Ponce da Motta and on Graduate Education, 1969. Coauthors:
Kerming Tsaur, and Ben Wang. Benjamin Plavnik. Thomas F. Staley and Gordon W. Thomas.
The Topology of Phase Boundaries for The Optimum Injection Rate for Matrix Application of Systems Analysis Can
Oil/Brine/Surfactant Systems and Its Acidizing of Carbonate Formations, Increase Production by 200 Percent in High
Relationship to Oil Recovery, 1982. 1993. Coauthors: Y. Wang and A.D. Hill. Volume Gas Lift Wells, 1971. Coauthor:
Coauthors: M. Bourrel, C. Chambu, Doyle L. Jones.
Designing Effective Sandstone Acidizing
and W.H. Wade.
Treatments Through Geochemical Attacking Those Troublesome Dual Gas Lift
Binary Surfactant Mixtures for Minimizing Modeling, 1997. Coauthors: M. Anthony Installations, 1972. Coauthor: Jerry B. Davis.
Alcohol Cosolvent Requirements, 1983. Quinn and Larry W. Lake.
Future Trends in Petroleum Engineering
Coauthors: C. Lelanne-Cassou, I. Carmona,
Reaction Rate and Fluid Loss: The Keys Education, 1976.
L. Fortney, A. Samii, W.H. Wade,
to Wormhole Initiation and Propagation
V. Weerasooriya, and S. Yiv. A Nodal Approach for Applying Systems
in Carbonate Acidizing, 2000.
Analysis to the Flowing and Artificial Lift
Mobilization of Residual Oil Under Coauthors: T. Huang and A.D. Hill.
Oil or Gas Well, 1979. Coauthors: Joe Mach
Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium
and Eduardo Proano.
Conditions, 1983. Coauthors:
Andrew C. Lam and William H. Wade.
Kermit Brown Economic Approach to Oil Production and
Evaluation of Valve Port Size, Surface Gas Allocation in Continuous Gas Lift,
Phase Partitioning of Anionic and Nonionic
Chokes and Fluid Fall-Back in 1981. Coauthors: Eni P. Kanu and Joe Mach.
Surfactant Mixtures, 1983. Coauthors:
Intermittent Gas-Lift Installations,
Christos Koukounis and W.H. Wade. Overview of Artificial Lift Systems, 1982.
1962. Coauthor: Frank W. Jessen.
The Phase Behavior of Simple Salt-Tolerant Nodal Systems Analysis of Oil and Gas
Prediction of Pressure Gradients for
Sulfonates, 1983. Coauthors: Y. Barakat, Wells, 1985. Coauthor: James F. Lea.
Multiphase Flow in Tubing, 1963.
L.N. Fortney, C. LaLanne-Cassou,
Coauthor: George H. Fancher Jr.
W.H. Wade, U. Weerasooriya, and S. Yiv.
The Effect of Liquid Viscosity in Two-
Robert C.
Optimal Injection Strategies for the
Propagation of Surfactant Mixtures
Phase Vertical Flow, 1964. Coauthor:
Alton R. Hagedorn.
Earlougher Jr.
Through Porous Media, 1984. Coauthors:
Pressure Distributions in Rectangular
Jeffrey H. Harwell and William H. Wade. Experimental Study of Pressure Reservoirs, 1968. Coauthors: H.J. Ramey
Relative Permeabilities of Surfactant/ Gradients Occurring During Jr., F.G. Miller, and T.D. Mueller.
Steam/Water Systems, 1984. Coauthors: Continuous Two-Phase Flow in Small-
Diameter Vertical Conduits, 1965. Some Practical Considerations in the
Armando Monsalve and W.H. Wade.
Coauthor: Alton R. Hagedorn. Design of Steam Injection Wells, 1969.
The Effect of Trace Quantities of
Superior Teaching, 1965. Performance of the Fry In-Situ
Surfactant on Nitrogen/Water Relative
Combustion Project, 1970. Coauthors:
Permeabilities, 1986. Coauthors:
J.R. Galloway and R.W. Parsons.
J.M. Sanchez and A. Monsalve.
Estimating Drainage Shapes from
Optimization of Vertical Acid Fractures in
Reservoir Limit Tests, 1971.
Steady-State Flow, 1987. Coauthors:
S.D. Sevougian and K. Sepehrnoori. Comparing Single-Point Pressure
Buildup Data With Reservoir Simulator
Partitioning of Nonionic and Anionic
Results, 1972.
Surfactant Mixtures Between Oil/
Microemulsion/Water Phases, 1987. Field Examples of Automatic Transient
Coauthors: A. Graciaa, J. Lachaise, Maurice Test Analysis, 1972. Coauthor:
Bourrel, Irvin Osborne-Lee, and W.H. Wade. Keith M. Kersch.
44 JPT S P E C I A L S E C T I O N
James Brill
Practical Use of Recent Research in
Multiphase Vertical and Horizontal
Flow, 1966. Coauthors: T.D. Doerr,
A.R. Hagedorn, and K.E. Brown.
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Two-Phase Flow Through Chokes, 1986. Intelligent Utilization of a Unified Flow Effect of Completion Geometry and
Coauthors: R. Sachdeva, Z. Schmidt, and Pattern Prediction Model in Production Phasing on Single-Phase Liquid Flow
R.M. Blais. System Optimization, 1991. Coauthors: Behavior in Horizontal Wells, 1998.
S. Arirachakaran, D.A. Papadimitriou, Coauthors: Hong Yuan and Cem Sarica.
Casing Heading in Flowing Oil Wells,
L.L. Jefferson, and O. Shoham.
1987. Coauthors: A.J. Torre, Z. Schmidt, Characterization of Oil-Water Flow
R.N. Blais, and D.R. Doty. Transient Analysis of Point Arguello Patterns in Vertical and Deviated
Gas Pipeline Behavior, 1991. Coauthors: Wells, 1999. Coauthors:
Liquid Holdup in Wet-Gas Pipelines,
C. Sarica, O. Shoham, and Y. Taitel. Jose G. Flores, X. Tom Chen, and
1987. Coauthor: K. Minami.
Cem Sarica.
Two-Phase Flow in Low-Velocity Hilly
Multiphase Flow in Wells, 1987.
Terrain Pipelines, 1991. Coauthors: Comprehensive Mechanistic
Analysis of Computational Procedures C. Sarica and O. Shoham. Modeling of Two-Phase Flow in
for Multicomponent Flow in Pipelines, Deviated Wells, 1999. Coauthors:
Experimental and Theoretical
1988. Coauthors: J.C. Goyon and A.S. Kaya and C. Sarica.
Investigation of Two-Phase Flow in
O. Shoham.
Horizontal Wells, 1992. Coauthors: Effect of Perforation Density on
Dynamic Simulation of Slug Catcher Masaru Ihara and Ovadia Shoham. Single Phase Liquid Flow Behavior in
Behavior, 1988. Coauthors: H. Genceli, Horizontal Wells, 1999. Coauthors:
State of the Art in Multiphase Flow,
K.A. Kuenhold, and O. Shoham. H. Yuan and C. Sarica.
1992. Coauthor: S.J. Arirachakaran.
Prediction of Dispersion Viscosity of Crude Oil-Natural Gas Two-Phase
Hilly Terrain Effects on Slug Flow
Oil/Water Mixture Flow in Horizontal Flow Pattern Transition Boundaries
Characteristics, 1993. Coauthors:
Pipes, 1988. Coauthors: A.E. Martinez, at High Pressure Conditions, 2001.
Guohua Zheng and Ovadia Shoham.
S. Arirachakaran, and O. Shoham. Coauthors: R. Manabe, H.Q. Zhang,
A Comprehensive Mechanistic Model for and E. Delle-Case.
Study of Subcritical Flow Through
Upward Two-Phase Flow in Wellbores,
Multiple-Orifice Valves, 1988. Experimental Study of Low-Liquid-
1994. Coauthors: A.M. Ansari,
Coauthors: D.W. Surbey and B.G. Kelkar. Loading Gas-Liquid Flow in Near-
N.D. Sylvester, and O. Shoham.
Horizontal Pipes, 2001. Coauthors:
An Analysis of Oil/Water Flow
Influence of Wellbore Hydraulics on Weihong Meng, Xuanzheng T. Chen,
Phenomena in Horizontal Pipes, 1989.
Pressure Behavior and Productivity of Gene E. Kouba, and Cem Sarica.
Coauthors: S. Arirachakaran,
Horizontal Gas Wells, 1994. Coauthors:
K.D. Oglesby, M.S. Malinowsky, and Mechanistic Modeling of Two-
Cem Sarica, Mustafa Haciislamoglu, and
O. Shoham. Phase Flow in Deviated Wells, 2001.
Rajagopal Raghavan.
Coauthors: A.S. Kaya and C. Sarica.
Prediction of Slug Length in Horizontal,
An Experimental Study of Two-Phase Slug
Large-Diameter Pipes, 1989. Coauthors: A Mechanistic Heat Transfer Model
Flow in Hilly Terrain Pipelines, 1995.
Stuart L. Scott and Ovadia Shoham. for Vertical Two-Phase Flow, 2003.
Coauthors: G.H. Zheng and Ovadia Shoham.
Coauthors: Ryo Manabe, Qian Wang,
Simulation of Downhole Heater
An Experimental Study on Downward Hong-Quan Zhang, and Cem Sarica.
Phenomena in the Production of
Slug Flow in Inclined Pipes, 1996.
Wellbore Fluids, 1989. Coauthors: Improvements in Single-Phase
Coauthors: P.M. Roumazeilles, J. Yang,
Yugdutt Sharma and Ovadia Shoham. Paraffin Deposition Modeling, 2003.
C. Sarica, X. Chen, and J. Wilson.
Coauthors: O.C. Hernandez, H. Hensley,
Study of Multiphase Critical Flow
A Study of Oil/Water Flow Patterns in C. Sarica,M. Volk, and E. Delle-Case.
Through Wellhead Chokes, 1989.
Horizontal Pipes, 1997. Coauthors:
Coauthors: D.W. Surbey and B.G. Kelkar. Probabilistic/Mechanistic Modeling
J.L. Trallero and Cem Sarica.
of Slug Length Distribution in a
A Comprehensive Mechanistic Model
Characterization of Oil–Water Flow Horizontal Pipeline, 2003. Coauthors:
for Two-Phase Flow in Pipelines, 1990.
Patterns in Vertical and Deviated Wells, E.M. Al-safran, C. Sarica, and
Coauthors: J.J. Xiao and O. Shonham.
1997. Coauthors: Jose G. Flores, H.Q. Zhang.
A Nonintrusive Flowmetering Method X. Tom Chen, and Cem Sarica.
Unified Model of Heat Transfer in
for Two-Phase Intermittent Flow in
Techniques for Measuring Wax Thickness Gas-Liquid Pipe Flow, 2004. Coauthors:
Horizontal Pipes, 1990. Coauthors:
During Single and Multiphase Flow, 1997. H.Q. Zhang, Q. Wang, and C. Sarica.
Gene E. Kouba and Ovadia Shoham.
Coauthors: X.T. Chen, T. Butler, and M. Volk.
Mechanistic/Probabilistic Modeling
Complete Multiplatform Networking
A Study of Slug Characteristics for of Slug Initiation in a Lower Elbow
Integration in a Petroleum Research
Two-Phase Horizontal Flow, 1998. of a Hilly-Terrain Pipeline, 2006.
Environment, 1991. Coauthors:
Coauthors: R. Marcano and C. Sarica. Coauthors: E.M. Alsafran, C. Sarica,
L.L. Jefferson and S. Arirachakaran.
and H.Q. Zhang.
An Analysis of Weep Holes as a Product-
Detection Device for Underground, Unified Model of Heat Transfer in Gas/
Compensated LPG-Storage Systems, 1998. Liquid Pipe Flow, 2006. Coauthors:
Coauthors: Cem Sarica and H.M. Demir. H.Q. Zhang, Q. Wang, and C. Sarica.
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C.M. Hightower
Innovative Technology in Producing
Operations, 1988. Coauthors:
D.D. Hearn, C.G. Blount, D.R. Coleman,
B.L. Carlberg, N.O. Wolf, C.K. Clayton,
B.A. Blevins, J.M. Turner, R.M. Knight,
J. Nethers, W.D. Eatwell, D.R. Craig,
P. McClintock, L. Krause, J.H. Andrew,
J.W. Hall, and A.A. Hamouda.
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