Gabor Takacs

Gabor Takacs is a professor and Head of the Petroleum Engineering Department at the University of Miskolc, Hungary and holds MS and PhD degrees in Petroleum Engineering from the same institution. He has more than 30 years of teaching and consulting experience in the production engineering field. He taught as Visiting Professor at Texas Tech University, USA in 1988/89 and at the Mining University of Leoben, Austria in 1995. In 1995/96 he was selected SPE Distinguished Lecturer, was Outstanding...See more

Gabor Takacs is a professor and Head of the Petroleum Engineering Department at the University of Miskolc, Hungary and holds MS and PhD degrees in Petroleum Engineering from the same institution. He has more than 30 years of teaching and consulting experience in the production engineering field. He taught as Visiting Professor at Texas Tech University, USA in 1988/89 and at the Mining University of Leoben, Austria in 1995. In 1995/96 he was selected SPE Distinguished Lecturer, was Outstanding Technical Editor for the SPE journal Production and Facilities 1992-2003 and chaired the Artificial Lift TIG of SPE in 1997-2003. Dr. Takacs authored the books Modern Sucker-Rod Pumping and Sucker-Rod Pumping Manual, both published by PennWell Books, and more than 80 technical papers. Dr. Takacs is a well-known consultant and instructor on production engineering and artificial lift topics. Also available by Gabor Takacs, PhD: Sucker-Rod Pumping Manual (PennWell, 2003) See less