About the Author
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Mark J. Kaiser is Marathon Professor and Director of the Research
and Development Division at the Center for Energy Studies at
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, where he has worked
since 2001. His research interests cover the oil, , and
refining industry, cost estimation, economic evaluation, fiscal
analysis, infrastructure modeling, and regulatory policy. Dr
Kaiser has authored over 200 academic publications and has
secured grants of several million dollars over his career. He is
the author of four research monographs: Offshore Wind
Installation and Decommissioning Cost Modeling (Springer-Verlag
2012), The Offshore Drilling Industry and Rig Construction in the
United States (Springer-Verlag 2013), Offshore Service Industry
and Logistics Modeling in the Gulf of Mexico (Springer-Verlag
2015), and Decommissioning Forecasting and Operating Cost
Estimation (Elsevier 2019). He has also developed several
commercial reports on offshore decommissioning, and serves on the
editorial boards of over two dozen academic journals, his
favorites being Energy, Journal of Petroleum Science and
Engineering, and Petroleum Science and Technology. Dr. Kaiser
occasionally consults and serves as technical expert to
government agencies and private firms, and in the first part of
his career worked in the fields of convex geometry, geometric
optimization, and computational metrology. Dr. Kaiser received a
Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering in 1991 from Purdue
University.
Arno de Klerk is the Nexen Professor of Catalytic Reaction
Engineering, and the NSERC/Nexen-CNOOC Ltd Industrial Research
Chair in Field Upgrading and Asphaltenes Processing at the
University of Alberta, Canada. He grew up in South Africa, where
he spent part of his early career as a forensic analyst, and from
1995 to 2008 worked as a process engineer in the Research and
Development Center of Sasol in refinery conversion processes and
catalysis. His refining work focused mainly on transportation
fuel and petro production starting from synthetic oil
from Fischer–Tropsch synthesis and oil from coal pyrolysis. It
led to the monographs Catalysis in the Refining of
Fischer–Tropsch Syncrude (Royal Society of Chemistry 2010) with
Edward Furimsky, and Fischer–Tropsch Refining (Wiley-VCH 2011).
In 2009, he took up a position in the Department of and
Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta working on the
conversion of heavy oils and oil sands bitumen, and remaining
active in the fields of synthetic fuel production and refining.
He is editor-in-chief of the journal Applied Petro
Research (Springer). He holds degrees in analytical chemistry and
in engineering from the University of Pretoria, and is a
registered professional engineer in Alberta.
James H. Gary was born in 1918 and lived 93 years. He graduated
from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1942, served in the army
in New Guinea during World War II, married in 1945 upon his
return to the states, and obtained a Master of Science degree
from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, where he learned to like
teaching as a teaching assistant. He took a job with Standard Oil
of Ohio in Cleveland so he could study for his doctorate at
night, and completed his PhD at University of Florida before
returning to Standard Oil of Ohio for two years. Jim was an
Assistant Professor at University of Virginia from 1952-1956, and
an Associate Professor at University of Alabama from 1956-1960.
In 1960, Dr. Gary came to the Colorado School of Mines as
Professor and Department Head of Engineering and
Petroleum Refining, a position he held until 1972. In 1972, Dr.
Gary served as Vice President for Academic Affairs, and in 1979
returned to the department and taught until his retirement in
1986. Jim was principal investigator for research projects on
nitrogen and sulfur removal from liquid hydrocarbons and
processing of heavy oils, and also organized the Colorado School
of Mines Annual Oil Shale Symposium. Gary wrote several dozen
publications in technical journals and held many patents in fuels
and fuels processing. Jim consulted for refining companies and
regularly taught a popular short course on petroleum refining.
Jim was an inspiration to his many students and colleagues over
the years.
Glenn E. Handwerk graduated from Lehigh University in 1948 with
a degree in Engineering. His first job was with Gulf Oil
working in processing s in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Hobbs,
New Mexico. After four years he went on to a position with
Blawknox in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and then to Stearns–Rogers
in Denver, Colorado, working in process design. He worked on
numerous s and refineries in both Canada and the U.S.,
and became Chief Process Engineer for Stearns by the mid-1960s.
In 1967, Glenn left Stearns-Rogers to become a consultant in
processing and refining, and became widely known and respected in
the industry. He had many clients over the years, including Dome
Petroleum, Colorado Interstate , Pacific Petroleum and Western
Resources. Glenn was an active member of the Producers
Association and organized the Annual Conditioning Conference.
Glenn taught short courses at the Colorado School of Mines and he
continued his work until he was almost 80.
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