Martin E ChenevertMartin E. Chenevert is The Sylvain Pirson Centennial Lecturer of pe-troleum engineering at the U. of Texas, where he earned MS and PhD degrees in petroleum engineering. He also holds a BS degree in petrole-um engineering from Louisiana State U. Cheneert is a member of the Distinguished Author Series Committee and the Education and Profes-sionalism Technical Committee and is a student-chapter faculty sponsor at the U. of Texas. He was chairman of the 1977-78 Textbook Commit-tee and was a member during 1975-78. He also served as a member of the 1971 Annual Meeting Drilling Technology Technical Commit-tee. Chenevert has presented the SPE Drilling Fluid and Wellbore Sta-bility short courses since 1975 and is the author of the SPE videotape text course on Petroleum Drilling Fluids. Before joining the U. of Texas, Chenevert was employed by Exxon Research Co., was an associate professor at the U. of Oklahoma, and served as the president of his consulting firm. Read More Read Less