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2022 SPE Outstanding Associate Editor Award Recipients

The SPE Outstanding Associate Editor Award is presented to those who have distinguished themselves as high-performing associate editors for SPE’s peer-reviewed journals. Twenty-three SPE members have been named as recipients this year.

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The SPE Outstanding Associate Award is presented to those individuals who have distinguished themselves as high-performing associate editors with respect to their overall responsiveness, quality of reviewer feedback, and ability to manage a paper’s timeliness during peer review. This year, the following 23 associate editors from SPE’s peer-reviewed journals have been named as recipients of the award.

SPE Drilling & Completion

Roman Bulgachev, BP Exploration
Evren Ozbayoglu, The University of Tulsa
Junichi Sugiura, Sanvean Technologies

SPE Journal

Yucel Akkutlu, Texas A&M University
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Pennsylvania State University
Sanbai Li, Southern University of Science and Technology
Silviu Livescu, The University of Texas at Austin
Ryosuke Okuno, The University of Texas at Austin
Randall Seright, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology
Carl Thaemlitz, Thaemlitz Consulting
Denis Voskov, Delft University of Technology
Miao Zhang, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

SPE Production & Operations

Yiyan Chen, SLB
Y. Doreen Chin, Yunka Energy
Gabor Takacs, Miskolc University

SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering

Emad Al-Shalabi, Khalifa University of Science and Technology
Abdulkareem AlSofi, Saudi Aramco
Anil Ambastha, Chevron Technology Centre
Bailian Chen, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peter Clifford, BP
Eric Delamaide, IFP Technologies Canada
Catherine Laureshen, University of Calgary
Jasper Ring, Chevron