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Dr. Yuri Makogon has more than 40 years of experience in education and research for the gas-oil industry. He joined the Texas A&M University in 1993 and the faculty in 1995, where he organized the Gas Hydrate Laboratory. Dr. Makogon is a world renowned expert on hydrates. He was in the State Register of the USSR in 1969 for the scientific discovery of natural gas hydrates and he is the author of six books on gas hydrate problems (four of which have been published in the USA), and he holds 29 patents.
Dr. Makogon has designed original equipment and has been conducting research on the kinetics and morphology of gas hydrates with thermodynamic and kinetic inhibitors. He is studying phase behavior of natural gas-water systems under high pressure and low temperature in static and dynamic conditions. Dr. Makogon has done the very first research hydrate formation and dissociation in pore space and prepared basic recommendations for gas production from hydrate fields. He is developing effective methods for the prevention and removal of large hydrate plugs in wells and pipelines.
Dr. Makogon is a Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Science. Before coming to Texas A&M University, he had already played a major role in the elimination of large hydrate plugs in pipelines in Western and Eastern Siberia, the Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Czechoslovakia, and the North Sea. He was Director of the Institute of Hydrocarbons and Environment from 1991-1998, and has been first chairman of International SPE, Moscow Section from 1991-1993.
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