Abbas Firoozabadi is an internationally known expert in petroleum reservoir engineering. The director of Reservoir Engineering Research Institute (RERI) in Palo Alto, California, he also teaches at Imperial College in London, U.K. He has taught at Stanford University and the University of Texas, Austin. Author or coauthor of more than 100 technical papers, he has consulted on petroleum engineering projects in a number of countries, including the United States, Norway, and Iran.