Chengdong Yuan Editor

Mikhail A. Varfolomeev, PhD, is Head of the Department of Petroleum Engineering and Head of the Enhanced Oil Laboratory of Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia. He has published extensively on heavy oil, in-situ upgrading, and related subjects.

Chengdong Yuan, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Petroleum Engineering, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia. He has published widely on hydrocarbon recovery, in-situ heavy oil upgrading, and related subjects.

Jorge Ancheyta, PhD, is Manager of Products for the Transformation of Crude Oil at the Mexican Institute of Petroleum, where he has worked since 1989, as well as Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering, National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, Mexico City. He has taught and published prodigiously on petroleum refinement, heavy oil upgrading, and related subjects.