Dr. Birol Dindoruk is a professor and AADE-endowed professor in petroleum engineering at the University of Houston, United States. He was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for his significant theoretical and practical contributions to EOR & CO2 sequestration in 2017. Dr. Dindoruk is an honorary member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), serves as an editor-in-chief of SPE Journal, and in the past served as an editor-in-chief of Elsevier’s Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering and Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. Dr. Dindoruk previously worked at Shell for 23 years as a chief scientist of reservoir physics, one of seven allotted in the company.
In the first chapter of Geothermal Energy Engineering published by Elsevier, we explore the origins, historical development, and various types of geothermal systems, along with the…
