Saudi Arabia

Saudi Aramco   2013–2017

• Petrophysicist (Petroleum Engineering Specialist) 2013–2015

  • Assigned to Northern Area Petrophysical Unit (NAPU)

  • Development Petrophysicist, wireline & LWD, for operated offshore wells.

    • Marjan, Safaniya, Zuluf, Manifa, Abu Sa’fah, Berri

  • Development petrophysicist for operated onshore wells

    • Shaybah, Qatif, Khursaniyah, Fadhili, Abu Hadriya

  • Liaised with contractors and recommended open hole formation evaluation programs covering wireline, PCL and LWD conveyance

  • Clastic analysis included deterministic and probabilistic techniques as well as saturation height analysis and covered conventional sands, shaly sands and thin bedded sections

  • Carbonate analysis included deterministic and probabilistic techniques, core - log facies analysis and covered conventional carbonates, low porosity tight carbonates and low resistivity pay carbonates.  Two specific field studies undertaken to address this issue

  • Core-log integration studies.  Lead petrophysicist for study on the identification of clay types and their effects on facies and reservoir properties in a clastic reservoir

  • Formation pressure data acquisition planning and interpretation

  • Qualified, to Saudi Aramco standards, Baker Hughes TesTrak and Halliburton MCI tools

  • Mentoring graduate petrophysicists
     

• NAPU Team Leader   2015–2017 

  • Supervised the petrophysicists working for the Northern Area development fields by carrying the responsibility for ensuring interpretations delivered to clients were correct and timely.  This involved providing quality control on the interpretations, assigning rigs and managing their workloads.

  • Mentoring graduate petrophysicists

  • Liaising with contractors.

  • Troubleshooting: analyses, software issues, contract issues, personnel issues.
     

• Instructor  2015-2017

  • Assigned instructor for 5 day Saudi Aramco course – Openhole Logging Tools and Applications.  Presented four times over two years