Acoustic and Vibrational Enhanced Oil Recovery (eBook)

George V. Chilingar, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of petroleum, civil and environmental engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in petroleum engineering, and PhD in Geology at the University of Southern California. Professor Chilingar is Academician, USC International Ambassador, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, founder and past President of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences USA Branch, Honorary Professor of Gubkin University, Russia, and Honorary Consul of Honduras in Los Angeles, CA. In 2021, Professor Chilingar was given the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Honorary Membership award in Dubai for outstanding service to SPE and distinguished scientific and engineering achievements. The results of his investigation are presented in over 500 research articles and 73 books in the fields of petroleum and environmental engineering and petroleum geology. Kazem Majid Sadeghi, PhD, has a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), a Master of Science in environmental engineering from the University of Southern California (USC), an Engineer Degree in Civil Engineering USC, and PhD in geography from UCSB. Professor Sadeghi has been researching and teaching for many years at UCSB and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He has over 30 years of civil and environmental engineering and consulting experience, including hazardous waste management, pollution prevention assessments, design of industrial wastewater pretreatment facilities and gas collection/treatment systems, treatment of carbonaceous materials, soil remediation, and enhanced oil recovery. Oleg Leonidovich Kuznetsov, Grand PhD in Engineering, is a graduate from Moscow Geological-Prospecting Institute. Upon graduation he worked at the Institute of Geology and Mining of Fossil Fuels of the Academy of Sciences and All-Union Institute of Nuclear Geophysics and Geochemistry. He worked in the All-Russia Institute of Geosystem and is a professor at M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. In addition, he is a professor at Dubna State University working on research development and teaching. Professor Kuznetsov is President of Russia's Academy of Natural Sciences. He is the author of a number of papers and books on applied geophysical technology and several monographs.