Acknowledgments
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Published:2021
"Acknowledgments", Wireline Formation Testing: Hardware, Pressure Transient Testing, Interpretation and Sampling, Fikri J. Kuchuk, T. S. Ramakrishnan, Mustafa Onur
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We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Schlumberger and Tulsa University for giving permissions to publish and allowing us the time and the use of their facilities to write this book.
We are grateful to Hafez Hafez and Hussein Badaam, Salem Al-Matroushi, ADCO; Mohamed Hashem, Shell; and Ail Al-Shahri and Ridvan Akkurt, ARAMCO for sharing data and discussions on interpretation.
We are also grateful to Professor Atilla Aydin of Stanford University and Artur Stankiewic of Schlumberger for reviewing Chapters 2 and 3, respectively, and making constructive suggestions, and also William J. Bailey of Schlumberger, steering editor, for helping on the nomenclature for the book.
Much of the fundamental work expounded in this book was undertaken together with our colleagues. In particular, we are indebted to our collaboration with Bertrand Theuveny, Denis Biryukov, David Wilkinson, Florian Hollaender, John Sherwood, Michael Prange, Paul Hammond, Tarek Habashy, Peter Goode, and Peter S. Hegeman. We thank the following current and former Schlumberger reservoir engineers who conducted many WFT transient tests and shared data with us: Adil Gurkan Ceyhan, Andrew Carnegie, Arash Boustani, Cheng-Gang Xian, Cosan Ayan, Francois Dubost, Hani Elshahawi, Ihsan M. Gok, Jichao Chen, John Zaggas, Khong Chee Kin, Michael O’Keefe, Murat Zeybek, Ozgur Karacali, Pierre-David Maizeret, Richard Jackson, Saifon Daungkaew, Samir Magdi, Shahid Azizul Haq, Stefano Cantini, Sukru Sarac, the late Frank Halford, Vinay K. Mishra, Vladislav Achourov, Amine Ennaifer, Yahia Mahmoud, Yves Manin, and geologist Mahmood Akbar.
We also thank the following organizations for giving permission to use many figures and some text in this book: Elsevier Publishing Company, Schlumberger, Oilfield Review of Schlumberger, Schlumberger Middle East & Asia Reservoir Review, and Society of Petroleum Engineers. We also thank TES Technical Editing Services, particularly Dominic Haughton, for redrawing several figures and illustrations.
