37 years of experience in exploration and development geophysics and geology at all Egypt provinces ( GOS, WD, Nile Delta, ED and Sinai)
Worked for different scales companies Phillips, Apache, Phoenix, Shell, WEPCO, Khalda, Qarun and IPR.
Team leader for true oil finder team including building the team members, purchasing the soft and hard wares, training new hires, supervising and mentoring the interpretation, building the exploration portfolio, presenting the work for partners and drilling the wells.
Intensive experience in both structural, stratigraphic, and QI seismic interpretation.
Extensive exposure to complex clastic and carbonates Exploration.
Quantifiable track record with discoveries and increased reserves.
Specialist skills in velocity modelling.
Confident Team leader, mentor and reservoir characterization team member.
Special skills on economic investment for Oil and Gas.
Petrel, Landmark, and IESX super user.
Outcome focused.
Multilingual: English, Arabic.
Experience in all farm in and farm out processes.
Very solid bridge with EGPC senior managements
Experience in JV related subjects
Experience in teaching at Cairo UNV, Alex UNV, Sues Canal UNV and British UNV in Cairo for both Undergraduate and postgraduate.
AAPG and IBA official contributor and mentor.
Publications
2014 Geophysical Workflow for Detection of meandering channels at Abu Roash E member Western Desert, Egypt.
2010 Using Spectral Decomposition and Curvature for detecting stratigraphic traps, Western Desert, Egypt. Paper presented at EPEX meeting.
2009 Inverted basins and deepest discovered oil in the WD of Egypt. Paper presented at the AAPG workshop hole in Cairo for the Mesozoic of the WD.
2005 Mature Field Development Geology of a Complex Estuarine-Shallow Marine Reservoir: Bahariya and Abu Roash “G” Formations, Western Desert, Egypt. Paper presented on the AAPG conference, Paris.
2002 Integrated Reservoir Characterization Studies in the Khalda Concession, Egypt. Paper presented at the AAPG conference, Egypt 2002.
2002 Application of 3D versus 2D Velocity Model, implications of depth conversion, Hayat-Yasser-Knz Fields, Khalda Concession , Western Desert, Egypt. Paper presented at the AAPG conference, Egypt 2002.
1993 Experienced 3D seismic, umbarka field, Western Desert, Egypt. Paper presented at the OAPEC conference, Paris, France, 1993. The same paper presented at the EGPC-SEG conference 1992, Cairo and awarded the prize for the best presented paper.
1990 Wrench faulting and its implications for hydrocarbon accumulation, Alamein-Yidma fields, Western Desert, Egypt. Paper presented at the 10 th EGPC exploration conference. Cairo 1990.
1988 Optimizing some shooting parameters, Western Desert, Egypt. Paper presented at the EGPC ninth Exploration and production conference, Cairo.
Chronology
2017-Present
CEO, Rockserv For Petroleum Services
2017-Present
Lecturer, American University in Egypt
2012-2016
RWFPG Consultant, Shell Egypt
2006-2012
Regional Exploration Manager, IPR Group of companies