Bobby D. Poe Jr. is a production and reservoir engineer with more than 30 years of industrial experience in all levels of well stimulation, well performance, and reservoir-engineering analyses. His most recent engineering position is as the production interpretation advisor at Schlumberger in Houston. Poe holds a PhD degree in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University. He has served on a number of SPE Reprint Series and editorial committees, has authored or coauthored numerous technical articles related to production analyses, and coauthored the SPE book Analysis of Production Decline Curves. Poe holds more than a dozen US and international patents related to production-engineering analyses and interpretation techniques.