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JOSEPH G. RICHARDSON
Pages 220-225

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... Final Tribute Vol 13.indd 220 3/23/10 3:42:30 PM
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... , radar school at Eastern Signal Corps Training Center, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, and antiaircraft artillery school at Camp Davis, North Carolina. Joe served as a radar maintenance and repair officer, Harbor Defenses of Balboa, 221 Final Tribute Vol 13.indd 221 3/23/10 3:42:30 PM
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... to his testimony before the famous Prudhoe Bay Arbitration Panel (1983–1985) , which was convened when the owners could not agree on equity involving 10 billion barrels of oil and 27 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
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... Joe was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988 "for pioneering studies of oil recovery by water flooding and water imbibition, and for development of broadly applicable reservoir engineering technology." Unfortunately, by that time in his life, he was not very mobile. I remember well how he struggled up the steps to the podium with the help of his cane during the induction ceremony, his face flushed with physical effort.
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... These three papers laid the foundation for understanding how oil recovery from water floods in large reservoirs is impacted by interactions of reservoir and fluid properties and flooding rate. These early, related publications established Joe as a world-class expert in reservoir engineering.
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... Final Tribute Vol 13.indd 225 3/23/10 3:42:31 PM
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