| Dev George, Managing Editor |
Biography
The internationally known petroleum journalist, Dev George, is the editor of Oil and Gas International. He brings more than 20 years of award-winning, professional oil patch editing and writing as well as his personal, in-the-field experience throughout the world to the OGI editor's desk. At OGI, Dev provides an insider's perspective on the events and technologies impacting the worldwide upstream petroleum industry, and shares his insights into issues of strategic importance to petroleum professionals in his From the Editor column on our homepage.
A true Texan, born in Dallas and educated at North Texas University, the University of Texas, and University of Houston, Dev makes his home in Houston, "Oil capital of the world," but has lived and traveled throughout the world. Prior to establishing Oil and Gas International, he was the managing editor of Oil and Gas Online and editor of three of the industry's most prestigious print publications: The Schlumberger Oilfield Review, Offshore Magazine, and Business & Energy International.
Dev's analysis of international concessions and operating conditions in the world's leading petroleum plays are well known and have achieved one of the widest readerships in industry media. His knowledge of petroleum exploration, development, and production and his worldwide popularity as a speaker on these topics have projected him to the podia of numerous international conferences from Houston, Paris, and London to Calgary, Cairo, Tunis, and Singapore. And his leadership on the new Internet information highway as an online petroleum journalist has made him a popular speaker on petroleum industry website topics as well.
He has contributed to such magazines as Oil & Gas Journal, World Oil, Houston Business Journal, Forbes, Houston Chronicle, Saudi Business, Ultra, Arab News, Al-Sharq al-Awsat, Al-Majalla, Prensa Libre, Siempre, Le Monde, and the International Herald Tribune. In addition, he has written numerous films and videos for such companies as Exxon USA, Shell Oil, Curtin Mathison Scientific, Cooper Industries, Western Oceanic, and Rolls-Royce Engines. His books include the Offshore Atlas of World Oil & Gas Theatres, the Worldwide Directory of Petroleum Ministries & National Oil Companies, the Asia-Pacific Petroleum Directory, and the Africa-Middle East Petroleum Directory.
In addition to his journalistic activities, Dev taught at both the University of St. Thomas (Houston) and the University of Houston. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, and the Houston Geophysical Society. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the China Petroleum Society Journal and is an advisor on international boundary disputes for the International Law of the Sea Commission of the United Nations. His complete biography can be found in any recent edition of Who's Who in America.
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