SPE Journal extends its sincere appreciation to everyone who provided a technical review for at least one paper during 2010. Many of our reviewers contributed their expertise to more than one paper during the year. We recognize the time commitment these individuals have made in agreeing to review papers and appreciate the impact that their efforts have had on the published papers throughout the year. Volunteers such as these individuals are essential to assuring the journal publishes manuscripts of high quality and lasting value. Thank you to our dedicated reviewers for their contributions.

Executive Editor: Anthony Kovscek, Stanford University

Associate Editors: Younane Abousleiman, The University of Oklahoma
Yucel Akkutlu, The University of Oklahoma
Faruk O. Alpak, Shell International E&P
Henri Bertin, University of Bordeaux
Lee Chin, ConocoPhillips
Akhil Datta-Gupta, Texas A&M University
Michael Edwards, Swansea University
Russell Ewy, Chevron
Guohua Gao, Shell
Kassem Ghorayeb, Schlumberger
Hussein Hoteit, ConocoPhillips
Matthew Jackson, Imperial College
Behnam Jafarpour, Texas A&M University
Robert Jeffrey, CSIRO Petroleum
Kristian Jessen, University of Southern California
Amy Kan, Rice University
Zuleima Karpyn, The Pennsylvania State University
Gaoming Li, The University of Tulsa
Knut-Andreas Lie, SINTEF
Ning Liu, Chevron
Silviu Livescu, ExxonMobil
Geir Naevdal, International Research Institute of Stavanger
Hisham Nasr-El-Din, Texas A&M University
Srdjan Nesic, Ohio University
Dean Oliver, Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research
Henning Omre, Norwegian University of Science & Technology
Mustafa Onur, Istanbul Technical University
Lincoln Paterson, CSIRO
Mohammad Piri, University of Wyoming
William Rossen, Delft University of Technology
Josephina Schembre-McCabe, Chevron
Randall Seright, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Pingping Shen, Research Institute Petroleum Exploration/Development
Hamdi Tchelepi, Stanford University
Peter Valko, Texas A&M University
Jing Wan, ExxonMobil Development
G. Paul Willhite, The University of Kansas
Yu-Shu Wu, Colorado School of Mines
Burak Yeten, Chevron
Dongxiao Zhang, University of Southern California
Hong-Quan Zhang, The University of Tulsa

Technical Editors: Bernt Aadnoy, University of Stavanger
Hazim Abass, Saudi Aramco
Younane Abousleiman, The University of Oklahoma
Bhargaw Adibhatla, ExxonMobil
Sergio Aguilar, Schlumberger
Ramadan Ahmed, The University of Oklahoma
Serhat Akin, Middle East Technical University
Yucel Akkutlu, The University of Oklahoma
Ghaithan Al-Muntasheri, Saudi Aramco
Abdelsalam Al-Sarkhi, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
Yahya Al-Wahaibi, Sultan Qaboos University
Abdullah Alajmi, Kuwait University
Francisco Alhanati, C-FER Technologies
Stephen Almond, Halliburton
Vladimir Alvarado, University of Wyoming
Kashy Aminian, West Virginia University
Jeffrey App, Chevron
Rosalind Archer, University of Auckland
Annie Audibert-Hayet, Total
Subhash Ayirala, Shell International E&P
Khalid Aziz, Stanford University
Jim Azzola, Thermal Science
Baojun Bai, Missouri University of Science & Technology
William Bailey, Schlumberger
Vemuri Balakotaiah, University of Houston
John Barker, Gaffney, Cline & Associates
Robert Barree, Barree & Associates
Roderick Batycky, StreamSim Technologies
Stephen Baumgartner, Marathon Oil
Brigitte Bazin, IFP Energies nouvelles
Richard Beier, Oklahoma State University
Hadi Arbi Belhaj, The Petroleum Institute
Ian Benson, Chevron
Roman Berenblyum, International Research Institute of Stavanger
Eric Bhark, Texas A&M University
Gregg Birrell, Tullow Oil International
Martin Blunt, Imperial College
Suhas Bodwadkar, Schlumberger
Igor Bondino, Total
Curtis Boney, Schlumberger
Amina Boughrara, Schlumberger
Bernard Bourbiaux, IFP Energies nouvelles
Kyrre Bratvedt, Schlumberger
Marten Buijse, Shell E&P
Thomas Byer, Saudi Aramco
Michael Byrne, Senergy UK
Eduardo Camponogara, Federal University of Santa Catarina
Hui Cao, Schlumberger
Bill Carey, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Bruce Carey, Imperial Oil
Andrew Carnegie, Woodside
Louis Castanier, Stanford University
Frank Chang, Schlumberger
Cheng Chen, University of Southern California
Guizhong Chen, Chevron
Qing Chen, ConocoPhillips
Shi Chen, ConocoPhillips
Yan Chen, Chevron
Hao Cheng, Chevron Pacific Indonesia
Lee Chin, ConocoPhillips
Doreen Chin, Shell International E&P
Jonggeun Choe, Seoul National University
Yildiray Cinar, University of New South Wales
Faruk Civan, The University of Oklahoma
Peter Clark, The University of Alabama
Tanja Clees, Fraunhofer Institute SCAI
Sandra Cobianco, Eni E&P
Ian Collins, BP Exploration
Michael Conway, Stim-Lab
Dustin Crandall, National Energy Technology Laboratory
Brian Crawford, ExxonMobil
Jefferson Creek, Chevron
Abhijit Dandekar, University of Alaska
Swapan Das, Marathon Oil
Akhil Datta-Gupta, Texas A&M University
Mojdeh Delshad, The University of Texas at Austin
Zhou Dengen, Chevron North America E&P
Milind Deo, University of Utah
Yuan Di, Peking University
David DiCarlo, The University of Texas at Austin
Didier Yu Ding, IFP Energies nouvelles
Thomas Doe, Golder
Ali Dogru, Saudi Aramco
Mingzhe Dong, University of Calgary
Yan Dong, Repsol
Yannong Dong, Shell International E&P
Hong'en Dou, Research Institute for Petroleum Exploration & Development
Liangui Du, Hess
Mingqin Duan, Chevron
Shengkai Duan, Chevron
Fred Dupriest, ExxonMobil
Michael Economides, University of Houston
Neil Edmunds, Laricina Energy
Michael Edwards, Swansea University
Yalchin Efendiev, Texas A&M University
Patrick Egermann, GDF Suez
Ola Eiken, Statoil
Mikal Espedal, Saudi Aramco
D. Nicolas Espinoza, Georgia Institute of Technology
Geir Evensen, Statoil
Steinar Evje, University of Stavanger
Russell Ewy, Chevron
Ali Fadili, Schlumberger
Yuri Fairuzov, Multiphase Engineering & Consulting
Gioia Falcone, Texas A&M University
Yongqian Fan, ConocoPhillips
Rouhollah Farajzadeh, Shell
Ebrahim Fathi, The University of Oklahoma
Martin Ferno, University of Bergen
Abbas Firoozabadi, Reservoir Engineering Research Institute
Niall Fleming, Statoil
Kristin Flornes, International Research Institute of Stavanger
Scott Fogler, University of Michigan
Peter Fokker, TNO Built Env and Geosciences
Bjarne Foss, Norwegian University of Science & Technology
Joe Fram, Chevron
Ted Frankiewicz, Spec Services
Ted Frauenfeld, Alberta Research Council
Wayne Frenier, Frenier Chemistry
Kenji Furui, ConocoPhillips
Darrell Gallup, Chevron
Guohua Gao, Shell
Shuqiang Gao, Shell Global Solutions
Ian Gates, University of Calgary
Sebastian Geiger, Heriot-Watt University
Roger Ghanem, University of Southern California
Marie Ann Giddins, Schlumberger
Eduardo Gildin, Texas A&M University
Bin Gong, Peking University
Olivier Gosselin, Total
Malcolm Greaves, University of Bath
Reid Grigg, New Mexico Tech
Marcel Grubert, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
Yaqing Gu, BP America
James Gunning, CSIRO
Anshul Gupta, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
D.V. Satya Gupta, BJ Services
Paul Hagin, Chevron
Hugh Hales, Brigham Young University
Charles Hammond, Sasol North America
Paul Hammond, Schlumberger Cambridge Research
Remus Hanea, TNO
Kirk Hansen, Shell International E&P
Peringandoor Hariharan, Shell
Satya Harpalani, Southern Illinois University
Jeffrey Harwell, The University of Oklahoma
Rashid Hasan, University of Minnesota
Rainer Helmig, Stuttgart
Charles Hinrichsen, Chevron
George Hirasaki, Rice University
Class Holger, Institut für Wasserbau
Florian Hollaender, Schlumberger
Jonathan Holmes, Schlumberger
Mehdi Honarpour, Hess
Hussein Hoteit, ConocoPhillips
Joakim Hove, Statoil
Lin Hu, ConocoPhillips
Haiying Huang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Tianping Huang, Baker Hughes
Chun Huh, The University of Texas at Austin
Mun-Hong Hui, Chevron
Olaf Huseby, Institute for Energiteknikk
Richard Hutchins, Schlumberger
John Hutchison, Stepan Company
Dilhan Ilk, DeGolyer & MacNaughton
Behnam Jafarpour, Texas A&M University
Hamid Jahangiri, University of Southern California
Ahmad Jamili, Colorado School of Mines
Jan-Dirk Jansen, Delft University of Technology
Robert Jeffrey, CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering
Raman Jha, Chevron
Liping Jia, ConocoPhillips
Abraham John, Shell International E&P
Russell Johns, The University of Texas at Austin
Stephen Johnson, The University of Kansas
Jeffrey Jones, Nations Petroleum
Myles Jordan, Nalco
Shah Kabir, Hess
Dick Kachuma, Total E&P UK
Qinjun Kang, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Apostolos Kantzas, University of Calgary
Zuleima Karpyn, The Pennsylvania State University
Danial Kaviani, University of Calgary
Hossein Kazemi, Colorado School of Mines
Stephen Kimminau, Steve Kimminau Consulting
Michael King, Texas A&M University
Vegard Kippe, Statoil
Robert Kleinberg, Schlumberger
Frans Klever, Shell International E&P
Hector Klie, ConocoPhillips
Mark Knackstedt, Australia National University
Myron Kuhlman, MK Tech Solutions
Cor Kuijvernhoven, Shell
Tara LaForce, Imperial College
Sadok Lamine, Shell E&P
Robert Lane, Texas A&M University
Julius Langlinais, Louisiana State University
Alex Lapene, Stanford University
Mickaele Le Ravalec-Dupin, IFP Energies nouvelles
Gaoming Li, The University of Tulsa
Kewen Li, Stanford University
Xin Li, Knowledge Reservoir
Zhuoyi Li, Texas A&M University
Jenn-Tai Liang, The University of Kansas
Knut-Andreas Lie, SINTEF
Wenjuan Lin, Chevron Energy Technology
Niels Lindeloff, Maersk Oil
Jishan Liu, The University of Western Australia
Kai Liu, ExxonMobil Upstream Computing
Ning Liu, Chevron
Shunhua Liu, Occidental Oil & Gas Corporation
Yinghui Liu, Baker Hughes
Shuren Liu, China University of Petroleum
Silviu Livescu, ExxonMobil Upstream Research
Chuan Lu, EGI
Meng Lu, CSIRO
Pengbo Lu, ExxonMobil
Bernhard Lungwitz, Schlumberger
Giuseppe Maddinelli, Eni Spa
Hassan Mahani, Shell International E&P
Bradley Mallison, Chevron
Ivan Mantilla, Chevron
Renato Markovinovic, International Research Institute of Stavanger
Stephan Matthai, Montanuniversität Leoben
Christian Mayer, ExxonMobil Upstream Research
C. Stanley McCool, The University of Kansas
Mike McCormack, Fractical Solutions
Paul McElfresh, Frac Tech Services
Bruce McGee, E-T Energy
Michael Michelsen, DTU
Martin Mlacnik, ConocoPhillips
Kishore Mohanty, The University of Texas at Austin
Franck Monmont, Schlumberger Cambridge Research
Gordon Moore, University of Calgary
Ahmad Moradi, ConocoPhillips
George Moridis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Tapan Mukerji, Stanford University
Inge Myrseth, Norwegian Computing Center
Geir Nævdal, International Research Institute of Stavanger
Rajesh Nair, Chevron
Tawfik Nasr, ConocoPhillips
Hisham Nasr-El-Din, Texas A&M University
Hadi Nasrabadi, Texas A&M University, Qatar
Mohammad Nassir, University of Calgary
Dan Nichita, University of Pau
Jennifer Niessner, Universität Stuttgart
Brandon Nuttall, University of Kentucky
Eguono Obi, Schlumberger Information Solutions
Kolawole Ojo, Apache
Hiroshi Okabe, Waseda University
Dean Oliver, Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research
Jon Olson, The University of Texas at Austin
Mustafa Onur, Istanbul Technical University
Franklin Orr, Stanford University
Lukas Ostrowski, Baker Hughes
Liang-Biao Ouyang, Chevron
Erdal Ozkan, Colorado School of Mines
Mayur Pal, Shell International E&P
Emilio Paladino, Federal University of Rio Grande de Norte
Terrence Palisch, CARBO Ceramics
Ian Pallister, Schlumberger
Jorge Palomino Monteagudo, ConocoPhillips
Feng Pan, Halliburton
Yan Pan, Chevron
Lincoln Paterson, CSIRO Petroleum
Anthony Peirce, University of British Columbia
Tawatchai Petchsingto, Argonne National Laboratory
Hemant Phale, The University of Oklahoma
Guillemette Picard, Schlumberger
Evgeny Pimonov, Schlumberger
Mohammad Piri, University of Wyoming
Maša Prodanović, The University of Texas at Austin
Rajagopal Raghavan, Phillips Petroleum (retired)
Sheik Rahman, The University of New South Wales
Varagur Rajan, Alberta Innovates Technology Futures
Saikiran Rapaka, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peng Ray, Chevron
Sonja Richter, Institute for Corrosion and Multiphase Flow
Jose Roberto P. Rodrigues, Petrobras
Cindy Ross, Stanford University
William Rossen, Delft University of Technology
Douglas Ruth, University of Manitoba
Fredrik Saaf, Shell E&P
Pierre Samier, Total
Peter Sammon, Computer Modelling Group
Gary Sams, NATCO
Robello Samuel, Halliburton
Luigi Saputelli, Hess
Pallav Sarma, Chevron
Kenneth Saveth, Weatherford International
Thomas Schaaf, GDF Suez
Josephina Schembre-McCabe, Chevron
Paul Scott, ConocoPhillips
Randall Seright, New Mexico Tech
Antonin Settari, University of Calgary
Mukul Sharma, The University of Texas at Austin
Hua Shi, BP America
Bor-Jier Shiau, The University of Oklahoma
Mahdy Shirdel, The University of Texas at Austin
Vijay Shrivastava, Computer Modelling Group
Shameem Siddiqui, Texas Tech University
Richard Sigal, The University of Oklahoma
Dmitriy Silin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Arne Skauge, Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research
Svein Skjæveland, University of Stavanger
Arne Skorstad, Norwegian Computing Center
Jackie Smith, Stress Engineering Services
Ken Sorbie, Heriot-Watt University
Mirano Spalburg, Shell E&P
Nicolas Spycher, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jorn Stenebraten, SINTEF Petroleum Research
Karl Stephen, Heriot-Watt University
Andreas Stordal, International Research Institute of Stavanger
Hariprasad Subramani, Chevron
Ronald Sweatman, Halliburton
Gabor Takacs, Miskolc University
Guo-Qing Tang, Chevron
Yula Tang, Chevron
Kevin Taylor, Taylor Industrial Research
Gary Teletzke, ExxonMobil Upstream Research
Catalin Teodoriu, Clausthal University of Technology
Marco Thiele, Streamsim Technologies
Karsten Thompson, Louisiana State University
Hakon Tjelmeland, Norwegian University of Science & Technology
Bahman Tohidi, Institute of Petroleum Engineering
Emmanuel Toumelin, Chevron North American E&P
Rich Treinen, ConocoPhillips
Jyun-Syung Tsau, The University of Kansas
Ioannis Tsimpanogiannis, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Simant Upreti, Ryerson University
Randi Valestrand, International Research Institute of Stavanger
Peter Valko, Texas A&M University
Lubertus van der Meer, TNO
Abdoljalil Varavei, The University of Texas at Austin
Omar Varela, ExxonMobil Upstream Research
Bolivia Vega, Stanford University
Rama Venkatesan,Chevron
Adi Venkitaraman, Chevron
Martin Verlaan, Delft University of Technology
Jany Vielma, Multiphase Systems Integration
Rossmary Villegas, The University of Manchester
Olga Vizika, IFP Energies nouvelles
Thomas von Schroeter, BP Exploration Operating
Shapour Vossoughi, The University of Kansas
Fazrie Wahid, Schlumberger
John Wallis, Wallis Consulting
Richard Wan, University of Calgary
Jianxin Wang, Chevron
Norman Warpinski, Pinnacle Technologies
James Watts, Landmark Graphics
Upali Weerasooriya, The University of Texas at Austin
Xian-huan Wen, Chevron
Mary Wheeler, The University of Texas at Austin
Lee Whitebay, Whitebay & Associates
Hege Widerøe, Statoil
G. Paul Willhite, The University of Kansas
Michael Williams, Schlumberger Cambridge Research
Shaochang Wo, University of Wyoming
Nick Wolf, Retired
George Wong, Shell
Ron Wong, University of Calgary
Bailin Wu, CSIRO
Bisheng Wu, CSIRO
Nenyou Wu, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xianping (Sean) Wu, Smith International
Xiao-Hui Wu, ExxonMobil
Jonathan Wylde, Clariant Oil Services
Tim Wynn, AGR Petroleum Services
Chongwei Xiao, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology
Yuxing Xiao, BP America
Hui Xu, Consultant
Qiang Xu, Chevron
Tianfu Xu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Wei Yan, CERE
Calvin Yao, Anadarko
Burak Yeten, Chevron
Xiaolong Yin, Colorado School of Mines
Yannis Yortsos, University of Southern California
Alain Zaitoun, Poweltec
Sohrab Zendehboudi, University of Waterloo
Zhengwen Zeng, University of North Dakota
Jianguo Zhang, BP America
Keni Zhang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Min Zhang, Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures
Tianhua Zhang, Schlumberger
Tuanfeng Zhang, Schlumberger-Doll Research
Yanfen Zhang, The University of Oklahoma
Yongli Zhang, The University of Tulsa
Litong Zhao, Canadian Natural Resources
Yong Zhao, ConocoPhillips
Yunxu Zhou, National Oilwell Varco
Ding Zhu, Texas A&M University
Zhouyuan Zhu, Stanford University
Murtaza Ziauddin, Schlumberger
Aaron Zick, Zick Technologies
Robert Zimmerman, Imperial College
Pacelli Zitha, Delft University of Technology
Mark Zoback, Stanford University
John Zuta, International Research Institute of Stavanger