Fikri J KuchukFikri J. Kuchuk, emeritus geoscientist fellow, retired from Schlumberger after 35 years as fellow and chief reservoir engineer in the USA, France, and the Middle East. He holds 45 years of experience in reservoir characterization and engineering, paricularly in pressure transient formation and well testing. From 1988 to 1994, Kuchuk was a consulting professor in the petroleum engineering department of Stanford University, where he taught Advanced Well Testing. Kuchuk is a distinguished and honorary member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, from which he has received the following: 1994 Reservoir Engineering Award, 2000 Formation Evaluation Award, and 2001 Regional Service Award. In 2010, he received an honorary membership to SPE. Kuchuk is also a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and the American National Academy of Engineering. He is a two-time recipient of the Henri G. Doll award. Read More Read Less