Eissa Al-Safran is an associate professor of petroleum engineering and former vice dean for research and academic affairs at the College of Engineering and Petroleum at Kuwait University, and a visiting research professor at the petroleum engineering (PE) department at the University of Tulsa (TU). He is currently a visiting professor at the nuclear science and engineering department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Al-Safran is the founder and director of the Kuwait University Production Research Center and cofounder and associate director of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Production and Drilling research consortium.

James Brill is a professor emeritus of petroleum engineering at TU. He formed the TU Fluid Flow Projects in 1973 and the TU Paraffin Deposition Projects in 1995 to fund experimental research on multiphase flow in pipes and flow-assurance problems. Multiphase-flow experimental data and prediction models developed by Brill and his colleagues and students have played a significant role in offshore and Arctic facilities design.