About the Author
A. Daniel Hill is professor and holder of the Noble Endowed Chair in Petroleum Engineering in the Harold Vance Department of
Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University. He joined the Texas A&M faculty in 2004. Previously, he taught for 22 years at the
University ofTexas at Austin, after spending five years in industry. Hill holds a BS degree from Texas A&M University, and MS and
PhD degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, all in chemical engineering. He is author of the Society of Petroleum Engineering
(SPE) monograph, Production Logging: Theoretical and Interpretive Elements; co-author of the textbook, Petroleum Production
Systems, 1st and 2nd editions; co-author of the SPE book, Multilateral Wells; and author of more than 200 technical papers and five
patents. Hill has been an SPE Distinguished Lecturer, has served on numerous SPE committees, and was founding chairman of the
Austin SPE section. He was named a Distinguished Member of SPE in 1999, received the SPE Production and Operations Award in
2008, was one of the first two recipients of the SPE Pipeline Award in 2012, received the SPE Regional Distinguished Achievement
Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty for the Gulf Coast North America Region in 2013, received the SPE John Franklin Carll
Award in 2014, and was named an Honorary Member of SPE and AIME in 2020. From 2014 to 2017, Hill was a member of the SPE
Board of Directors. In 2019, he was named a Regents Professor by the Texas A&M System Board of Regents. Hill is an expert in the
areas of production engineering, well completions, well stimulation, production logging, and complex well performance (horizontal
and multilateral wells), and he has presented lectures and courses and has consulted on these topics throughout the world.
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