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OBJECTIVE
Senior Exploration/Development Geophysicist
Canadian Citizen
B.Sc. Geology (1975) Ein Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Over 25 years of exploration and development experience in the Middle
East, North and East Africa, Europe, New Zealand, South America and
Canada.
- Have a good track record of play concept development and prospect/ lead generation within a teamwork environment.
- Structural seismic interpretation in rift basins, overthrust belts and wrench controlled areas using both 2D and 3D seismic.
- Stratigraphic seismic interpretation using both sequence stratigraphy and trace attributes identifying both clastics and carbonates anomalies.
- Experienced in various interpretation workstations, e.g. Landmark, IESX, SeisX, and Winpics. Also experienced in various mapping systems, e.g. Zmap+, Petrosys, GES, and Surfer.
- Generating structural and stratigraphic maps, isopach and time thickness maps, velocity maps. Depth conversion using geostatistics and mapping systems.
- Tying synthetic seismograms and VSPs to seismic.
- Time Lapse (4D) seismic interpretation and analysis.
- Performed AVO studies and pre stack depth migration. Seismic Inversion using Hampson-Russell Strata.
- Geostatistical integration of seismic attributes with petrophysical parameters.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
-Presentations to management, partners, governments and to farminees.
-Experienced in both structural and stratigraphic modeling.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2002 – Present Qatar Petroleum Doha, Qatar
Senior Geophysicist
-Worked on field development of the North Gas Field (900+ TCF)
-Structural and sequence stratigraphic seismic interpretation of the Khuff.
-Attribute extraction, geostatistically tying with petrophysical parameters.
-AVO studies, and VSPs (zero, offset, and walkaway).
-Acoustic/Elastic Inversion (post/pre stack)
2000 – 2002 Gulf/Conoco Calgary, Alberta
Senior Geophysicist
-Worked on Surmont Oil Sands (2D, 3D and 4D seismic). Analaysed time lapse seismic over pilot area.
-Worked on Kerrobert and Saleski areas.
-Worked on Fenn Big Valley, Ghostpine and Three Hills Creek areas
(Central Alberta West 4)
1998 – 2000 Antrim/Petrel Robinson Calgary, Alberta
Consulting Exploration Geophysicist
-Worked on East Midlands UK, Larne Northern Ireland, Tanzania, Eritrea, Taranaki Basin New Zealand, Putumayo Basin Colombia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Tunisia, and Southern and Central Alberta. Structural interpretation of Rimu prospect, in New Zealand, which lead to a discovery. Worked on Mackenzie Delta.
1997 – 1998 Wascana Energy Calgary, Alberta
Consulting Exploration Geophysicist
-Interpretation of Fort St. John, Peace River Arch in NE BC. Applying trace attributes to stratigraphic interpretation.
1996 – 1997 AlConsult International Calgary, Alberta
Consulting Exploration Geophysicist
-Worked on East Africa CIDA project covering Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mauritius and Senegal. Also worked on Egypt Isran Field in the Eastern Desert, Said Zoraba, Babasi field evaluation in Syria, Hamza field evaluation in Jordan, Cosmos and Yasmin Fields offshore Tunisia, Onshore and offshore Cuba.
1995 – 1996 Integra Geoservices Inc. Calgary, Alberta
Processing Geophysicist
-Seismic data processing, mainly land data using both ITA and ProMax packages. Giving a lot of presentations to clients
1995 – 1995 Signal Estimation Technology Calgary, Alberta
Consulting Processing Geophysicist
-Specialized processing for post stack signal enhancement.
1993 – 1994 KUFPEC Kuwait
Senior Exploration Geophysicist
-Worked on Yemen (Total Block), Pakistan (Kadanwary Field), Egypt (Amal Field Gulf of Suez) and Tunisia (Sidi El Kilani field). Structural and stratigraphic interpretation using both Charisma and Landmark workstations, depth conversion, well tying and map generations. Also looked after pre and post stack modeling, AVO studies, reprocessing project, and QC'd land acquisition. Responsibilities included presentations to management, partners and government. Also responsible for farmout campaigns which included Europe and North America
1988 – 1992 Crescent Petroleum Sharjah, UAE
Senior Exploration/Development Geophysicist
- Structural and stratigraphic interpretation on Yemen (blocks 2 and 9),
Egypt (South Tarek Block Western Desert). QC'ing processing performed in UK. Presentation to partners.
- Exploration Manager. Running the office in Sanaa and supervising the heliportable seismic crew.
- Structural and stratigraphic interpretation. Worked on Yugoslavia (Montenegro onshore, overthrust regime), Egypt (Western Desert, South Tarek Block), Pakistan (blocks A and B with Amoco), Yemen (blocks 9 and 2, Vibroseis acquisition and processing). Mubarek field (development, depth conversions, reprocessing, and detailed interpretation). Tunisia (block evaluation, attended exploration seminar). Responsibilities included presentations to management, partners and government. Also responsible for farmout campaigns which included Europe and North
America
1983 – 1988 International Petroleum Corp. Dubai, UAE
Senior Exploration Geophysicist
-Structural and stratigraphic interpretation. Worked on Onshore and offshore Dubai, Saleh field (development), Offshore Ras Al Khaimah, Bukha concession offshore Oman, Musandam block offshore Oman, East coast of Oman, RomPetrol Block Syria, Onshore Somalia (new acquisition and interpretation), Offshore India (Krishna-Godavari basin), Offshore Somalia and Yemen (Regional Studies for government), SE Turkey ( Diarbakyr area), SE Italy. Responsibilities included presentations to management, partners and government. Also responsible for farmout campaigns which included Europe and North America.
1982 – 1983 Gulfstream Resources Cairo, Egypt
Senior Geophysicist
-Structural interpretation. Worked on Sinai, Gulf of Suez and Western
Desert.
1980 – 1982 Shell Winning NV Cairo, Egypt
Staff Geophysicist
Structural interpretation. Worked on the Western Desert (Sitra and Badr El
Din blocks where both subsequently lead to discoveries) and Gulf of
Suez.
1975 – 1980 Union Oil Cairo, Egypt
Senior Geophysicist
-Structural interpretation. Ras Banas concession in the Red Sea, Gulf of
Suez. Spent the whole of 1979 in the US to supervise reprocessing of
1000 km of marine seismic.
Education
1971 – 1975 Ain Shams University Cairo, Egypt
B.Sc. Geology
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
AAPG, EAGE
References
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