1. Petroleum Composition and Properties2. Refinery Products and By-Products3. Introduction to Petroleum Biotechnology4. Biorecovery of Crude Oil5. Biorefining of Crude Oil6. Biodegradation7. The Future of Petroleum Biotechnology
Learn the basics of petroleum biotechnology, including the latest advances for both upstream and downstream oil and gas operations
Dr. Speight has more than fifty years of experience in areas
associated with the properties and processing of conventional and
synthetic fuels. He has participated in, as well as led,
significant research in defining the use of chemistry of tar sand
bitumen, heavy oil, conventional petroleum, natural gas, coal, oil
shale, and biomass as well as work related to corrosion and
corrosion prevention. He has founded and/or edited several
international journals, most recently the Proceedings of the Oil
Gas Scientific Research Project Institute, Azerbaijan, and
Petroleum Science and Technology (Taylor & Francis, until
2020).
Dr. Speight is an author/editor of several databases and
encyclopedic works. He has also authored more than 95 books as well
as more than 400 publications, reports, and presentations detailing
these research activities, and has taught more than eighty related
courses. Nour El-Gendy is currently the head manager and research
analyst of the petroleum microbiology lab at the Egyptian Petroleum
Research Institute in Cairo. She is a part time lecturer at the
Menoufia University in Egypt. Nour has worked as a lecturer and
researcher for other universities and corporations including Cairo
University and the National Research Center in Cairo. She has
organized and spoken at several conferences worldwide on the topics
of petroleum biotechnology and authored and co-authored over 70
publications in multiple technical journals. Nour is active in many
organizations like SPE and the Association of Environmental Health
and Sciences Foundation, and she is currently Editor on 13
international journals. She earned a BS in Chemistry, a Masters in
Biochemistry, a MSC and a PhD degree, all from Cairo University.
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