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Israel
2026

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Engineering and Technology

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103
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39844
World Ranking
126
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2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Israel Leader Award
  • 2003 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For the invention and development of well logging, core analysis, and thermal methods of oil exploration and production and for environmental remediation.
  • 1999 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to the science and technology of oil exploration and environmental remediation, particularly thermal methods for extracting hydrocarbons from the ground and for applications of NMR methods to well logging

Overview

Harold J. Vinegar is affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel and conducts research primarily in the fields of engineering and physics and astronomy. Their work emphasizes mechanics of materials, nuclear and high energy physics, geophysics, mechanical engineering, and analytical chemistry.

Their research focuses on several main topics including hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, NMR spectroscopy and applications, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, petroleum processing and analysis, drilling and well engineering, and methane hydrates and related phenomena.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Fuel
  • Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
  • Petrophysics - The SPWLA Journal of Formation Evaluation and Reservoir Description
  • Magnetic Resonance Letters

Co-authors regularly collaborating with Vinegar are:

  • Yunke Liu
  • George J. Hirasaki
  • Philip M. Singer
  • Xinglin Wang
  • Eva G. Vinegar

Recent representative papers authored or co-authored by Vinegar include:

  • "Comparing natural and artificial thermal maturation of a Type II-S source rock, Late Cretaceous, Israel" (2020) published in Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • "Separation of solid and liquid components in organic-rich chalks using NMR relaxation" (2022) published in Fuel
  • "Anisotropy evolution during early maturation of organic-rich carbonates" (2020) published in Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
  • "Significance to hydrocarbon exploration of terrestrial organic matter introduced into deep marine systems: Insights from the Lower Cretaceous in the Levant Basin" (2020) published in Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • "Characterization of kerogen and bitumen in Type II-S organic-rich chalk as a function of maturity using 2D NMR relaxation" (2024) published in Fuel

Among awards received, Vinegar was named a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2003 for contributions including the invention and development of well logging, core analysis, and thermal methods of oil exploration and production as well as environmental remediation.

In 1999, they were recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) for their work in oil exploration and environmental remediation technologies, particularly in thermal methods for hydrocarbon extraction and the application of NMR methods to well logging.

Best Publications

  • Method of selecting a production well location in a hydrocarbon subsurface formation

    Harold J. Vinegar;Meliha Deniz Sumnu-Dindoruk;Scott Lee Wellington;Kevin Albert Maher

  • X-ray computerized tomography

    S.L. Wellington;H.J. Vinegar

  • In situ thermal processing of an oil shale formation using conductive heating

    Scott L. Wellington;Ilya E. Berchenko;Thomas D. Fowler;John M. Karanikas

  • Induced polarization of shaly sands

    H. J. Vinegar;M. H. Waxman

  • NMR imaging of materials

    Harold J. Vinegar;William P. Rothwell

  • In situ thermal processing of a relatively permeable formation while controlling pressure

    Eric Pierre de Rouffignac;Ilya Emil Berchenko;Thomas David Fowler;Robert Charles Ryan

  • In situ thermal processing of a relatively impermeable formation to increase permeability of the formation

    Eric Pierre de Rouffignac;Ilya Emil Berchenko;Thomas David Fowler;Robert Charles Ryan

  • NMR logging of natural gas reservoirs

    Harold J. Vinegar;Ridvan Akkurt;Pierre Nazareth Tutunjian

  • Core Analysis By Low-field Nmr

    Chris Morriss;Dan Rossini;Christian Straley;Pierre Tutunjian

  • Vacuum method for removing soil contaminants utilizing thermal conduction heating

    Harold J. Vinegar;George L. Stegemeier;Eric P. De Rouffignac;Charles C. Chou

  • In situ recovery from a hydrocarbon containing formation using conductor-in-conduit heat sources with an electrically conductive material in the overburden

    Harold J. Vinegar;Ronald Marshall Bass

  • Conductively heating a subterranean oil shale to create permeability and subsequently produce oil

    Peter Van Meurs;Eric Pierre De Rouffignac;Harold Jay Vinegar;Michael Francis Lucid

  • Heat injection process

    Harold J. Vinegar;Eric P. De Rouffignac;Lawrence J. Bielamowicz;Phillip T. Baxley

  • Method of imaging the atomic number of a sample

    Harold J. Vinegar;Scott L. Wellington

  • NMR imaging of materials for transport properties

    Harold J. Vinegar;William P. Rothwell

  • Heat injection process and apparatus

    Harold J. Vinegar;Thomas Mikus;Carlos A. Glandt;John M. Karanikas

  • Method for recovering contaminants from soil utilizing electrical heating

    George Leo Stegemeier;Harold J. Vinegar

  • In situ production of a blending agent from a hydrocarbon containing formation

    Harold J. Vinegar;Scott Lee Wellington;John Michael Karanikas;Meliha Deniz Sumnu-Dindoruk

  • High temperature wellbore cement slurry

    James J. W. Nahm;Harold J. Vinegar;John M. Karanikas;Reece E. Wyant

  • Tomographic calibration apparatus

    Harold J. Vinegar;Scott L. Wellington

  • FREMGANGSMAATE OG APPARAT FOR BESTEMMELSE AV FLUIDUMSFORDELING.

    Vinegar Harold J;O'meara Daniel Joseph;Rohan John Anton

Frequent Co-Authors

George J. Hirasaki
George J. Hirasaki Rice University
Tadeusz W Patzek
Tadeusz W Patzek King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
P.J. Maziasz
P.J. Maziasz Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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