Yanmin Zhou Editor & Author

Tao Lu, PhD, Vice President, China Oilfield Services Limited, leads the company’s logging and directional well R&D activities, also heading its formation testing research, applications and marketing efforts. Mr. Lu is recipient of numerous awards, including the National Technology Development Medal, National Engineering Talent and State Council Awards, and several COSL technology innovation prizes.

Xiaofei Qin graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology with a M.Sc. in Mechanical Science and Engineering. At China Oilfield Services Limited, he is engaged in the research and development of petroleum logging instruments and their applications. Mr. Qin has published twelve scientific papers and obtained twenty patents.

Yongren Feng is a Professor Level Senior Engineer and Chief Engineer at the Oilfield Technology Research Institute of China Oilfield Services Limited. He has been engaged in the research and development of offshore oil logging instruments for three decades, mainly responsible for wireline formation testing technology, electric core sampling methods and formation testing while drilling (FTWD) tool development.

Yanmin Zhou received her PhD in geological resources engineering from the University of Petroleum, Beijing and serves as Geophysics Engineer at COSL. She participated in the company’s Drilling and Reservoir Testing Instrument Development Program, its National Science and Technology Special Project, and acts as R&D engineer for national formation testing activities.

Wilson Chin earned his PhD from M.I.T. and his M.Sc. from Caltech. He has authored over twenty books with Wiley-Scrivener and other major scientific publishers, has more than four dozen domestic and international patents to his credit, and has published over one hundred journal articles, in the areas of reservoir engineering, formation testing, well logging, Measurement While Drilling, and drilling and cementing rheology. Inquiries: [email protected].