{"id":12702,"date":"2017-02-28T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=12702"},"modified":"2017-04-20T08:39:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T07:39:40","slug":"ichara-dr-mark-josiah","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ichara-dr-mark-josiah\/","title":{"rendered":"ICHARA, Dr. Mark Josiah"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Eng, MS, Ph.D, petroleum engineer, university teacher, born September 2, 1946, Ikot Udo, Ika, Abak, Akwa Ibom State; married Christiana Abiah 1973, twosons, threedaughters; Education: Qua Iboe Mission Secondary School, Etinan, 1959-65, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1969-72, University of Tuiss, Oklahoma, USA, 1976-77, University of Texas, Austin, USA, 1978-80; Career: Appointed Senior Field Operations Supervisor, Production De partment, Shell, Port Harcourt, 1972-75; As sistant\/associate Professor of Petroleum En gineering, Louisiana University, USA, 1980- 82;Senior Lecturer, Department of Petroleum Engineering, University of Port Harcourt, 1987; Reservoir Engineering Specialist for Schlumberger, Paris, France, 1982-84; Senior Interpretation Development Engineer, Schlumberger, Houston. Texas, USA, 1984- 86; member, Institution of Mechanical&#8217;Engi neers, London, 1974; member. Society of Pe troleum Engineers, 1975; member, National Society of Professional Engineers; member, Texas Society of Professional Engineers; member, PI Epsilon Tau, (Honour Society of Petroleum Engineers), 1977; Publications: Contributed a Chapter in: Well Evaluation, Schlumberger, Paris, 1983; and numerous technical papers in scientific journals; Hob bies: tennis, soccer, photography, reading ; Official Address: Department of Petroleum Engineering, University of Port Harcourt, P.O. Box 7631, Choba, Port Harcourt; Home: Units, Praia Crescent (W) Ali Cape-Verde, University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,2400],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-12702","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-engineering"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/12702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12702"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=12702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}