Senior Technical Editor:Yannis C. Yortsos, U. of Southern California, Los Angeles

Executive Editor: Dean Oliver, U. of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

Editorial Board Members: B.S. Aadnoy,Stavanger U. College, Stavanger; S.I. Aanonsen, U. of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; M.A. (Tony) Addis, Shell Intl. E&P, Rijswijk, The Netherlands; F. Omer Alpak, Shell Intl. E&P Inc., Houston; Hans Bruining, Delft U. of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands; J.S. Buckley, New Mexico Petroleum Recovery Cener, Socorro, New Mexico; Lee Chin, ConocoPhillips Petroleum Co., Bartlesville, Oklahoma; Michael A. Christie, Heriot-Watt U., Edinburgh, U.K.; Akhil Datta-Gupta, Texas A&M U., College Station, Texas; M.G. Edwards, U. of Wales, Swansea, U.K.; Russell T. Ewy,GeoMechanics, Chevron ETC, San Ramon, California;Abbas Firoozabadi, RERI, Palo Alto, California; Aly A. Hamouda, Stavanger U. College, Stavanger; Matthew D. Jackson, Imperial College, London; Robert G. Jeffrey Jr., CSIRO, Upper Ferntree, Australia; Mazen Y. Kanj,Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia;Kenneth Kibodeaux, Shell Technology E&P, Rijswijk, The Netherlands; Trond Mannseth, RF-Rogaland Research, Bergen, Noray; K.K. Mohanty, U. of Houston, Houston; D.S. Oliver, U. of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma; Henning Omre,Norwegian U. of Science & Technology, Trondheim, Norway;Mustafa Onur, Istanbul Technical U., Istanbul, Turkey; Lincoln Paterson , CSIRO Petroleum, South Clayton, Australia; U.B. Sathuvalli; Blade Energy Partners, Frisco, Texas; Subhash N. Shah, U. of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma; Pingping Shen,Research Inst. Petroleum Exploration & Development, Beijing, China; H.A. Tchelepi, ChevronTexaco EPTC, San Ramon, California; W.H. Thomason, ConocoPhillips Petroleum Co., Bartlesville, Oklahoma; Carlos Torres-Verdin , U. of Texas at Austin; S.K. Verma , ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co., Houston; M.P. Walsh, PETROTEL Inc., Plano, Texas; G.P. Willhite , U. of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas; Yu-Shu Wu, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California; and D. Zhang, U. of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma.