A three page article in the February 2002 issue of
SPE Review summarized and discussed a
lecture that Dr. Mark McCaffrey presented to the London SPE section
on December 15th. Dr. McCaffrey is a 2001-2002 SPE
Distinguished Lecturer, and the presentation to the London section
was given as part of his SPE speaking tour to 31 cities in 16
countries. SPE Review is the newsletter
of the London and Aberdeen sections of the Society of Petroleum
Engineers.
The article was written by Mark Young, a member of the London
section of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. It includes a
variety of color figures drawn from the lecture.
The lecture is titled "Using Petroleum Geochemistry to Solve
Field Development and Production Problems". A list of the lecture
locations and the talk abstract can be viewed here.
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