Economic Analysis of Oil and Gas Engineering Operations

About Hussein K. Abdel-Aal

Hussein K. Abdel-Aal is Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Refining NRC Cairo Egypt. He received his BS in Chemical Engineering in 1956 from Alexandria University and MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering in 1962 and 1965 respectively from Texas A&M University College Station. Prof. Abdel-Aal joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at KFUPM Dhahran Saudi Arabia (19711985). He was the head of department for the period 19721974. He was also Visiting Professor with the Chemical Engineering Department at Texas A&M (19801981). In 19851988 he assumed the responsibility of the head of the Solar Energy Department NRC Cairo before rejoining KFUPM for the period 19881998. Prof. Abdel-Aal conducted and coordinated projects involving a wide range of process development feasibility studies industrial research problems and continuing education programs for many organizations including Suez Oil Processing Company Petromin in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) Arab Petroleum Investment Corp in Dhahran (Saudi Arabia) Hagler-Baily & Company Washington DC Mobil/Esso oil companies in Libya and Kuwait oil companies. Prof. Abdel-Aal has contributed to more than 90 technical papers is the editor of the book Petroleum Economics & Engineering Third Edition and is the main author of the textbook entitled Petroleum and Gas Field Processing Second Edition. Both books were published by Taylor & Francis Group/CRC Press. Prof. Abdel-Aal is a member of AIChE Sigma Si and Phi Lambda Upsilon. He is a fellow and founding member of the board of directors of the International Association of Hydrogen Energy.