Bailey	Brannon
Collins	Ghalambor
Striz	Wehunt

Senior Technical Editor: Ibrahim Abou-Sayed, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co., Houston

Executive Editor: Syed Ali, Chevron Energy Technology Co., Houston

Review Chair: William J. Bailey, Schlumberger, Ridgefield, Connecticut

Technical Editors:Marc Allcorn, Schlumberger, Sugar Land, Texas; Michael Bast, ChevronTexaco ETC, Houston; Curtis G. Blount, ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc., Anchorage; Alasdair S. Brown and Piyush Shah, Landmark Graphics Corp., Houston; Richard S. Buell, Chevron Corp., Coleville, California; James N. Collins and Shauna G. Noonan, ConocoPhillips Co., Houston; Robert J. Holtslag, TracsConsult, Moscow; Gordon Mackenzie, Baker Oil Tools, Houston; Mark W. Mahoney, Harbison-Fischer Manufacturing Co., Fort Worth, Texas; Jennifer Miskimins, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado; Arvil Mogensen, Zed I Solutions, Calgary; Kenneth R. Newman, CTES, Conroe, Texas; Mark J. Ogier, Chevron Corp., Houston;  Liang-BiaoOuyang, Chevron Energy Technology Co., Houston; AndrewE. Patterson, BP Exploration, Aberdeen; Jorge Pinedo, Santos Ltd., Brisbane, Australia; Peter D.Pomeroy, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Lance N. Portman, BJ Services Co., Singapore; Kenneth J. Saveth, Centrilift, Tulsa; Jose R. Solares, Saudi Aramco, Udhailiyah, Saudi Arabia; Donald D. Uphold, Chevron Corp., Bellaire, Texas; Michael L. Wiggins, U. of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma; and Michael Zettlitzer, RWE DEA A.G. Wietze, Germany.

Review Chair: Harold D. Brannon, BJ Services Co. USA, Tomball, Texas

Technical Editors: Hazim H. Abass, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Stephen W. Almond, Halliburton Co., Spring, Texas; J. Ernie Brown, Schlumberger, Sugar Land, Texas; Steven L. Bryant, U. of Texas, Austin, Texas; Leland B. Carroll, EOG Resources Inc., Houston;  Craig L. Cipolla, Pinnacle Technologies, Houston; Peter E. Clark, U. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama; WolfgangF. Deeg, Shell E&P Co., Houston; Robert J. Duenckel, Carbo Ceramics Inc., Irving Texas; Yong Fan, Chevron Pacific Indonesia, Singapore; Jay M. Foreman, Williams Production RMT, Denver; D.V. Gupta, BJ Services Co., Tomball, Texas; Phil Harris, Halliburton Energy Services Group, Duncan, Oklahoma; R. Henry Jacot, H-Frac Consulting Services, New Philadelphia, Ohio; Dick Krabbendam, Statoil, Hafrsfjord, Norway; Henry D. Lopez, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado; Charles F. Magnani, Consultant, Placentia, California; Michael J. Mayerhofer, Pinnacle Technologies, Houston; Jakob Monberg, Maersk Oil & Gas, Copenhagen, Denmark; Karen E. Olson, BP E&P; Houston; Peggy Rijken, Chevron Corp., Houston; Golchehreh Salamat, Schlumberger, Sugar Land, Texas; Subhash Shah, U. of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma; Raymond J. Tibbles, Schlumberger, Kuala Lumpur; Porter J. Underwood, Halliburton Energy Services Group, Bakersfield, California; Thomas J. Van Akkeren, Production Technology Assoc., Houston; and Christopher Wright, Pinnacle Technologies, San Francisco, California.

Review Chair: Ian R. Collins, BP Exploration, Sunbury-on-Thames, U.K

Technical Editors: Stephan Allenson and Michael Poindexter, Nalco Energy Services Div., Sugar Land, Texas; Keith A. Bartrip, Baker Petrolite Corp., Sugar Land, Texas; Brigitte Bazin, Inst. Francais du Petrole, Rueil Malmaison, France; Joel Carpenter, Abemarle Corp., Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Sebastiano Correra, EniTecnologie, San Donato, Italy; Dwyann Dalrymple and Larry S. Eoff, Halliburton Energy Services Group, Duncan, Oklahoma; David Davies and Eric Mackay, Heriot-Watt U. Edinburgh, U.K.; Neil Feasey, Nalco Co., Southampton, U.K.; Wayne W. Frenier, Schlumberger, Tulsa; Naval Goel, consultant, Palo Alto, California; Gordon M. Graham, Scaled Solutions Ltd. Livingston, U.K.; Neil Grainger, Uniqema, Cleveland, U.K.; Jim Hardy, Amerada Hess U.K. Ltd., Aberdeen; Donald G. Hill, Nalco Co., Sugar Land, Texas; Charles J. Hinrichsen, Chevron Corp., Houston; Avraham Hirschberg, Eindhoven U. of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;  Christian Hurtevent, Total S.A., Pau, France; Richard Hutchins, Schlumberger, Sugar Land, Texas; Abul K. Jamaluddin, Schlumberger, Rosharon, Texas; Myles M. Jordan, Nalco Co., Aberdeen; SunilKokal, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Istvan J. Lakatos, U. of Miskolc, Miskolc, Egyetemvaros, Hungary; Bernhard Lungwitz, Schlumberger, Sugar Land, Texas; Marek Pakulski, BJ Chemical Services, Tomball, Texas; Arvind D. Patel, M-I Drilling Fluids Co. LLC, Houston; PaulRavenscroft, BP Research, Windsor, U.K.; Probjot Singh, ConocoPhillips, Bartlesville, Oklahoma; David D. Smith, Occidental Permian Ltd., Houston; Robert Sydansk, Sydansk Consulting Services, Centennial, Colorado; MasonTomson, Rice U., Houston; Alberto Valdes, GE Energy Oil & Gas, Houston; Michael L. Walker and MingdongYuan, Baker Petrolite Corp., Sugar Land, Texas; and Pacelli L. Zitha, Delft U. of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.

Review Chair: Ali Ghalambor, U. of Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana

Technical Editors: Mahmoud Asadi, ProTechnics, Houston; Annie Audibert-Hayet, Inst. Francais du Petrole, Rueil Malmaison, France; Michael T. Byrne, Corex (U.K.) Ltd., Aberdeen; Frank F. Chang and Craig A. Graham, Schlumberger, Rosharon, Texas; Thomas F. Clancy, Conoco Venezuela C.A., Houston; Sandra Cobianco, EniTecnologie, Milanese, Italy; H. Mitchell Cornette, Chevron Corp., Houston; Jose G. Flores, Schlumberger, Quito, Ecuador; William E. Foxenberg, M-I LLC, Houston; Joe Fram, Chevron Corp., Bakersfield, California; Ali A. Garrouch, Kuwait U., Kuwait; JoyceHoltzclaw, Berry Petroleum Co., Bakersfield, California; Paul R. Howard, Schlumberger, Sugar Land, Texas; PierreLeschi, Total S.A., Pau, France; Mark R. Luyster, M-I SWACO, Houston; Paul McElfresh, Baker Hughes, Spring, Texas; Liz Morris, Schlumberger, Aberdeen; Hisham Nasr-El-Din, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; ReinaldoNavarrete, Akzo Nobel Surface Chemistry LLC, Dobbs Ferry, New York; Philip D. Nguyen, Halliburton Energy Services, Duncan, Oklahoma; Mehmet Parlar, Schlumberger, Sugar Land, Texas; Claas Van der Zwaag, M-I SWACO, Stavanger, Sanjay Vitthal, Shell Intl. E&P, Houston; David J. Wagner, Chevron Energy Technology Co., Houston; and Russell B. Watson, Reslab, Trondheim, Norway; Karim S. Zaki, Advantek Intl. Corp., Houston.

Review Chair: Elise A. Striz, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Norman, Oklahoma

Technical Editors: Eric J. Daniels, ChevronTexaco ETC, Richmond, California; Alex Guild, Chevron Corp., Bellaire, Texas; John Hall, Halliburton Energy Services, Houston; Catalin D. Ivan, M-I LLC, Houston; Paul Mayer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Norman, Oklahoma; Francis McEwan, Schlumberger, Dubai, UAE: JamesRay, Oceanic Environmental Solutions, Spring, Texas; Joseph Smith, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co., Bellaire, Texas; and Marilyn Wolff, Bandicoot Environmental Consulting, Houston.

Review Chair: C. Dean Wehunt, Chevron Energy Technology Co., Houston

Technical Editors: Abdullah M. Al-Dhafeeri, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Kirk Bartko, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; John Bagzis, Mark Looney, and Matthew B. Zielinski, Chevron Corp., Houston; CurtisBoney and Murtaza Ziauddin, Schlumberger, Sugar Land; Marten A. Buijse, Shell E&P, Rijswijk, The Netherlands; Gerald R. Coulter, Coulter Energy Intl., Gainesville, Texas; Ronald Dusterhoft and Mary Van Domelen, Halliburton Energy Services Group, Houston; Christopher Fredd, Schlumberger, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Bala Gadiyar, Schlumberger, New Orleans; Brian Gross, Chief Oil and Gas LLC, Dallas;  A. Dan Hill, Texas A&M U., College Station, Texas; Jerald J. Hinkel, Special Products, Houston; Alfred R. Jennings, Enhanced Well Stimulation, Inc., Athens, Texas; Leonard Kalfayan, BJ Services Co., Tomball, Texas; Matthew J. Miller, Schlumberger Oilfield Services, Moscow; Lee Morgenthaler, Shell E&P Co., New Orleans;  Mohan K.R. Panga, Schlumberger, Kuala Lumpur;  Michael J. Pitts, Maersk Oil Qatar AS, Doha, Qatar;  Zillur Rahim, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Mathew Samuel, Schlumberger, Kuala Lumpur; Kevin C.Taylor, Taylor Industrial Research Inc., Victoria, British Columbia; Thomas D. Welton, Halliburton, Duncan, Oklahoma; Ding Zhu, Texas A&M U., College Station, Texas; and Diederik van Batenburg, Shell E&P Co., Rijswijk, The Netherlands.