George V. Chilingar

George Varos Chilingar , also Chilingarian , (born July 22, 1929 in Tbilisi ) is an American petroleum geologist, sedimentologist and professor of civil engineering, petroleum engineering and petroleum geology at the University of Southern California (USC).

Chilingar, who has Armenian roots, studied petroleum engineering at USC with a bachelor's degree in 1949 and a master's degree in 1950, where he received his doctorate in geology in 1956. From 1954 to 1956 he headed the petroleum and chemistry laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base . From 1956 he was assistant professor, then associate professor and from 1970 professor of petroleum engineering at USC. In addition, he was active as a consultant worldwide and founded his own companies to evaluate his inventions.

Chilingar has experience as a chemist and has developed chemical methods in oil exploration and exploration. His method of searching for oil from the proportion of magnesium to calcium in drill cores was, for example, successful in the search for oil in Iran. He was instrumental in building up offshore oil exploitation in Thailand. He dealt experimentally with the behavior of sediments under pressure, particularly with regard to their porosity and storage capacity.

Chilingar is the editor and founder of Sedimentary Geology . He wrote a number of books on sedimentary geology and petroleum technology, many of which have been translated into Russian.

He has very good contacts in Russia, is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Armenian Academy of Sciences and has received high honors in Russia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Taiwan, Honduras, El Salvador and Armenia. From 1967 to 1969 and 1978 he was a consultant for petroleum technology at the UN.

Web links

• Homepage at the Viterbo School of Engineering, USC

Individual evidence

1. ↑ life data according to Pamela Kalte u. a. American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004