Inderscience is delighted to announce that Professor Brian F. Towler (http://wwweng.uwyo.edu/chemical/faculty/towler.html), CEAS Fellow for Hydrocarbon Energy Resources in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Wyoming, has taken on responsibility for the development and publication of the International Journal of Petroleum Engineering. Professor Towler will announce the formation of his new Editorial Board in due course.