Dr. Ahmed Taha El-Sayed

Petrophysical Consultant

Biography

Dr. Ahmed Taha Amin specialises in formation evaluation, core analysis and reservoir modelling. He is formerly a Senior Lecturer (Prof.) in Petrophysics in the Department of Physics at the Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt, and Geological Department at Cairo University, Senior Instructor for many in house and international courses in Petrophysics with major international training companies (NEXT, PetroSync, ResmotTec, OGS, RPS, TPS, Geopex, etc.). Training courses for RPS, London, UK, Cepsa, and Repsol, Madrid, Sasol, SA, East – Asia Oil Companies in KL, El-Furat, Syria Sudapet, Sudan, Venezuelan in Venezuela KOC in Kuwait and he was a Senior Advisor Petrophysicist in Apache Egypt Companies. He has spent over 39 years in industry, principally in log analysis and Formation Evaluation in various technical and managerial positions for Gupco (Cairo, Egypt), Adco and Adnoc (Abu Dhabi, UAE), QGPC (Doha, Qatar), Apache (Cairo, Egypt), RPS Energy (in UK) and CEPSA in Egypt.

Publications

“Estimation of Formation Characteristics From Nuclear and Other WellLogs” M. Sc. Thesis, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, (Cairo, Egypt, 1985)
“Accurate Estimation of Water Saturation in Complex Carbonate Reservoirs” presented in the “2^nd Abu Dhabi Petroleum Conference”, (Abu Dhabi, April 1986)
“Accurate Estimation of Water Saturation in Complex Carbonate Reservoirs” SPE 15714 presented in the fifth SPE Middle East oil show (Bahrain, March 1987)
“Estimation of Formation Characteristics From Neuclier and Other Well – logs” M. Sc. Thesis, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, (Cairo, Egypt, 1987)
“Petrophysical Model Evaluation of Arab–D in Satah Field, Arabian Gulf, Using Modern Logs and Techniques” Ph.D. Thesis, Faculty of Science,
Ain Shams University, PP. 212 (Cairo, Egypt, 1995)
“The Use of Well Logging Analysis in Identifying The Bitumen Occurrences and Determining Their Effects on The Reservoir Characteristics in Satah Field, Arabian Gulf” presented in the “GAW-4” (Geology of Arab World), (Cairo University, Feb., 1998).
“Lithofacies Identification in Satah Field, Arabian Gulf, Using Well Log Analysis and Modern Technique of Multi-Well Data Base” presented in the EGPC 14^th Petroleum Conference (Cairo, Oct. 1998).
“Reservoir Petrophysical Modeling of Arab–D in Satah Field, Arabian Gulf,
Using Multi-Well Data Base and Modern Techniques” presented in the EGPC 14^th Petroleum Conference (Cairo, Oct., 1998).
“Application of Modern Techniques and Data Base for Reservoir Petrophysical Modeling” presented in the “MOC 2002” (Mediterranean Offshore Conference & Exhibition), (Alexandria, April 2002).
Numerous internal studies in petrophysics were done for GUPCO (Egypt), ADCO and ADNOC (Abu Dhabi) and QGPC (Qatar).

Chronology

2009-Present

President, GODOMEX

2009-2012

Associate Principle Petrophysicist with RPS, CEPSA Egypt

2007-2009

Exclusive Associate Principle Petrophysicist, RPS Energy

1997-2007

Senior Petrophysical Advisor, Apache Egypt

1996-1997

Chief Petrophysicist, QGPC Doha

1987-1997

Senior Petrophysicist, ADNOC

1982-1987

Senior Petrophysicist, ADCO

1975-1982

Section Head, GUPCO