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| ResModTec's staff reflect the modern trend for globalized implementation of advanced technologies. We have a diverse cultural heritage – Canadian, Egyptian, Algerian, American, British, Indian and Austrian. There are core staff members as well as associates who participate in certain specialties. Our instructors combine both academic and practical experience. They worked at various universities including the University of Texas at Austin, Arkansas, Missouri, Windsor, Leeds, Imperial College, Newcastle, United Arab Emirates, Cairo and Algerian Institute of Petroleum. Several instructors have published books in their area of expertise and are previous or current editors for the most refereed journals in the world. Most of our consultants have at least one post-graduate degree and a minimum of eleven years of experience with major oil companies and service companies. Among these companies are: BP, AMOCO, ARCO, Gulf Canada, Repsol, NorskHydro, Unocal, Apache, SONATRACH, Halliburton, Landmark, RC_Squared and Veritas DGC. |
ResModTec Core Staff:
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Dr. Abou Sayed, Mohamed Salah has 29 years experience in the industry with international oil companies (BP and Gulf Canada) and universities (Windsor, Ontario and U.A.E.). He holds a Master and PhD. degrees in basin analysis and reservoir characterization, respectively. During the last 12 years, Dr. Abou Sayed has worked as a technical advisor for Landmark (Austin,TX) , RC_Squared (Denver, CO) and VERITAS (Abu Dhabi) and has been involved in many reservoir characterization & modeling projects at every single country in the Middle East and North African region . He is the founder and president of Gulf Reservoir Modeling Technology. He is the author and/or co-author of 39 papers in the most broadly-accessed and applied bulletins and journals and has reviewed several papers and books for AAPG, SPE and GeoArabia.
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Dr. Adams, Roy is a petroleum geologist, sequence stratigrapher, and sedimentologist with a broad professional background that includes exploration, exploitation, consulting, research, and training experience in the petroleum industry; university research and teaching; and state and federal government positions. Roy has worked for Exxon, the Utah Geological Survey, the Energy & Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah, Saudi Aramco, and now runs his own consulting business, A & R Resources LLC. In addition to a Ph.D. in geology, Roy earned a B.S. from the University of California at Riverside (1974) and a M.A. from Rice University (1979), both in geology. He has also been adjunct faculty at the University of Utah and at Westminster College in Salt Lake City.
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Dr. Ahr, Wayne received his B.S. degree in Geology from the University of Texas-El Paso, his M.S. in Oceanography from Texas A&M University, and his Ph.D. in Geology from Rice University. He is currently a Professor of Geology and Geophysics in Texas A&M University. He has been selected by the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies (GCAGS) to receive the 2008 GCAGS Outstanding Educator Award. The award recognizes outstanding contributions in the education and training of geologists through teaching, research, and publications. His research has contributed greatly to further scientific understanding of carbonate stratigraphy, sedimentology, diagenesis, and reservoirs.
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Dr. Al-Qayim, Basim had received his B.Sc. in geology in 1972, and his M.Sc. in petroleum geology in 1976 from the University of Baghdad . He got his Ph.D. in stratigraphy from the University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A. in 1983. Currently, he is working as a professor of geology at the Sulaimania University of Iraq. Since 1983 His career is centered around the academic arena where he taught different geological courses at different Middle Eastern universities. Published 50 papers on the geology of Iraq and Yemen . Currently is involved in research projects on carbonate reservoir characterization of some oil fields from north Iraq . Editorial board member of the “ Geology and Mining ” Journal of the geological survey of Iraq.
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Dr. Jorge Salgado Gomes has 30 years experience in the industry with several companies (Selection Trust, BP Minerals, EDMA, PARTEX, QGPC, Hot Engineering-RC2 Group and ADCO) and academia (The Petroleum Institute). He holds a Master of Science in Geology from Oporto University (Portugal) and a MEng and PhD degrees in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh). He has been involved in many field development studies integrating static and dynamic data. Currently, Dr. Gomes is a PARTEX Chair Professor at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi. He is a member of SPE, AAPG, EAGE, SCA, and ESG. He is the co-author of a university textbook about the oil & gas industry (ISBN 978-972-31-1228-3) and has published several papers in technical conferences. Dr. Gomes was a 1992-recipent of the SPE Award (1st prize) for the best technical paper among all the European participants and also the 1991-recipient of the Petroleum Institute (UK) award for the outstanding research project in the Petroleum Engineering (MEng) program.
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Dr. Dee, Stephen completed his Ph.D. at Southampton in 1991 in structural geology and worked on projects involving fault-seal studies, fracture logging from core and image log data sets and fault population analysis. He started his career with the oil industry specializing in the analysis of small scale structures and integration of sub-seismic faults and fractures into the broader scale. Dr. Dee is currently a senior structural geologist with Badleys Geosciences. He taught several courses on the structural geology and the fault seal analysis as well as the hydrocarbon trapping mechanisms. He has been involved in numerous interpretation projects ranging from regional studies to detailed production problems. He has special interests in fault-seal analysis, and in fault and fracture characterizing from core, borehole imagery, seismic and field data
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Dr. Freeman, Brett received his PhD in structural geology in 1985 from Nottingham University. He moved to Newcastle University for 5 years, where he taught structural geology and computing courses. In 1988, Dr. Freeman joined Badleys and has been involved in several basin analysis projects at several oil and gas basins in the world. He is currently the Director of Software Development group in Badleys Geosciences. Dr. Freeman has published several papers and presented at international conferences on the structural geology and the fault seal analysis techniques.
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Dr. Kellogg, James has 30 years experience in regional tectonics, satellite geodesy, structural modeling, and potential field studies. He is a Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences and Director of the Andean Geophysical Laboratory, at the University of South Carolina, Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of South American Earth Sciences, and Co-Director of the GEGEO program, a geoscience and engineering training program with Equatorial Guinea. He obtained his M.A. (1978) and Ph.D. (1981) in geology and geophysics at Princeton University. In 1987 he joined the faculty of the University of South Carolina as professor of applied geophysics. He has coordinated regional geophysical basin studies for petroleum exploration using seismic, well, gravity, and magnetic data. He has published over 60 papers and taught short courses in volume balanced structural and seismic interpretation, potential field modeling, 3-Dimensional modeling, and regional tectonics.
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Dr. Kendall, Christopher received his BA 1st class (1962) and MA (1965) from trinity College Dublin, Eire and a Ph. D (1966) from Imperial College of London, UK. He is currently a Professor of geological and marine sciences with University of South Carolina. He worked and taught several courses at several universities and search centers, among them; Ohio State University, production research, University of south Carolina, Gulf research in Pittsburgh, university of Sydney in Australia and university of Texas, Austin. His research and teaching focus is on sedimentary stratigraphy and the effects of relative sea level rise and fall on the sediments of marine and coastal settings and its relationship to the occurrence of petroleum.
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Dr. Klotz, Rolf is a Professional Geophysicist with 28+ years of experience in oil and gas exploration, working in Australia, USA, SE Asia, UAE, Pakistan, and UK on a large variety of projects. Experienced in land, marine and transition zone seismic data processing and interpretation, attribute analysis, inversion, 2D, 3D, 4D, prestack migration, sub-salt depth imaging, velocity analysis, reflection and refraction statics, signature deconvolution, multiple attenuation, survey design, geo-statistics, structural and stratigraphic geologic interpretations, multi-component, and VSP data. A proven general and R&D manager, technical presenter at geophysical conferences, inventor with several US patents, seismic applications computer programmer, and area geophysicist consulting on challenging data acquisition, processing and interpretation issues. An in depth understanding of complex seismic data processing and velocity measurement issues, exposure to a worldwide assortment of prospects and different plays along with a solid background in sedimentology, lithology, stratigraphy and structural geology often provides unique insights to solve the most challenging technical issues in oil and gas exploration.
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Dr. Wittemen, Frank has thirty-four years of international technical experience in petroleum exploration. Frank has been involved in consulting project at several areas (Asia, Middle East, Africa & Europe). He has extensive experience in petrophysics, log analysis, and well site geology of onshore/offshore exploration projects. Skilled in onsite computer generated petrophysical analysis and "Bird-dogging" open and cased hole, wireline-logging operations. SPWLA Director Asia/Australia, 2002-2003.
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Dr. Yielding, Graham undertook his Ph.D. at the Bullard Labs in Cambridge, working on the active tectonics of the Algerian Atlas Mountains and producing several highly cited papers. He worked for Britoil in 1984 as exploration geophysicist and moved to Badleys Geosciences in 1988. Currently he is the technical director of Badley Geoscience Limited. He has a special interest in structural interpretation and analysis, seismic interpretation and fault seal analysis. His seismic interpretations and presentation skills are of sufficient elegance that in 1987 he was asked to demonstrate them to the Queen.
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Professor Aadnoy, Bernt is a professor of drilling engineering at Stavanger University in Norway. He holds BSc. and MSc. Degree in mechanical control and petroleum engineering from University of Wyoming Norway and the University of Texas, and the PhD. Degree in Petroleum Rock Mechanics from the Norwegian Institute of Technology. He started working for Phillips petroleum in Odessa, Texas in 1978, and has since also worked for Statoil and Saga petroleum for a number of years. Most of his work relates to drilling and completion. He is also advisor for Rogaland research. He developed the well design manual used by Statoil, Norsk hydro and saga petroleum, and has written more than 100 technical papers and several books and hold several patents.
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Dr. Aggour, Mohamed is currently a professor at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi. He received his PhD. in 1978 from the University of Manitoba in Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Aggour has thirty eight (38) years of diversified experiences in academia, industrial research, petroleum industry, training and consultation, in the fields of production and petroleum Engineering. His main interests cover heavy oil recovery, multiphase flow, heat transfer, multiphase flow metering, horizontal well performance, improved oil recovery, sand consolidation, stimulation and applications of artificial neural networks.
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Dr. Bassiouni, Zaki is a Professor Emeritus of Petroleum Engineering, Louisiana State University. He was a professor and chair of the Craft and Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering from July 1983 to June 2004 and Dean of the College of Engineering from 2004 to 2008. Dr. Bassiouni received a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Cairo University, a diploma in Geophysics from the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Petrole et des Moteurs of Paris, France, and an M.S. (DEA) and Ph.D. (Docteur Es Sciences) from the University of Lille, France. Dr. Bassiouni is an active member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). He was selected by the society as Distinguished Lecturer for the 2004-05 season and 2008-09 season .He is the author of the Society of Petroleum Engineers Textbook Series Vol. 4 "Theory, Measurement, and Interpretation of Well Logs." Dr. Bassiouni was also selected as the 2006 recipient of the SPE Formation Evaluation Award. This award recognizes outstanding achievements and contributions to the advancement of petroleum engineering in the area of formation evaluation.
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Dr. Bratli, Rolf received his M.Sc. Engineering Geology from University of Trondheim in Norway. He is currently a Managing Director at Applied Rock Mechanics LLC (ARM). He has 3 years University teaching, 10 years petroleum related industrial research, 5 years oil industry consulting, 10 years oil company experience within well site geology, rock mechanics applied to: well bore stability, reservoir compaction, perforation optimisation, field stress analysis, development of rock mechanics data base, industrial seminars. He also has more than 50 publications at several referred journals.
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Dr. Langlinais, Julius received his PhD. in Physics from Louisiana State University. He is a recently retired Professor from the Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering, Louisiana State University. His specialty areas are Casing Design, Tubing Design, Artificial Lift, and Nodal Analysis. He also served as the Associate Dean for the College of Engineering for 15 years while maintaining teaching responsibilities in the department. He has taught short courses over the years, both within the U. S. and internationally, such as Brazil, Bolivia, and the former Yugoslavia.
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Dr. Paul La Pointe Principal and Manager of Petroleum Services Golder Associates. Dr. La Pointe has nearly 30 years of experience in the geological and engineering analysis of fractured rock. Prior to joining Golder in 1992, Dr. La Pointe worked as a Senior Engineer, Principal Geologist, and Research Director for ARCO Oil and Gas in Dallas, Texas, specializing in fractured reservoir basin studies and resource appraisal. Since joining Golder, he has managed and served as technical lead in fractured reservoir studies in Columbia, Venezuela, the United States, Canada, Vietnam, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Norway, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, China, India, Albania, Bahrain and Dubai, to name a few. Dr. La Pointe has authored or co-authored more than 90 papers and book chapters, as well as publishing three books on the characterization of fractured rock and geological analysis. Dr. La Pointe is a member of AAPG (member of the Resource Evaluation Committee), SPE, AGU, ARMA (elected Board of Directors member), ISRM, and has served as associate editor for the International Journal of Rock Mechanics.
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Dr. Marouf A. Majeed is a registered consulting engineer with over 40 years of diversified experience in oil and gas production engineering, artificial lift and facilities design. He was a resident manager for a Dallas based engineering company implementing major US AID gas injection project. For 7 years he was supervising the design and implementation of a major production facility in Abu Dhabi. Mr. Marouf has conducted several production facility studies and artificial life evaluations. He instructed several courses in petroleum production engineering and facilities design in Egypt, Jakarta, Perth, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Emirates, Syria, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar.
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RESERVOIR ENGINEERING
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Dr. Ajufo, Austin Graduated with B.S. and M.S. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1981. He has over twenty-five years experience in a variety of engineering and management positions at Amoco Production Company, Core Laboratories, and Petroleum Services, Inc. (PSI). He has extensive experience in petrophysics, formation damage evaluation, core analysis, and flow through porous media from many projects for major and international oil companies, and has conducted numerous technical workshops on core and special core analysis, reservoir description and formation damage assessment.
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Dr. Gupta, Anuj received his PhD Degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas in Austin. He is a registered professional Engineer in the State of Oklahoma. His accumulated faculty experience includes teaching and conducting independent/collaborative research, including supervision of student thesis research. He has served as the chairman of the Continuing Education Committee of SPE and the chairman of the Missouri Oil & Gas Council. He also serves as an editor for the SPE Reservoir Engineering and Evaluation Journal. He has maintained a focused theme of research on the characterization and scaling of reservoir wettability, multiphase fluid distribution and flow. He has taught courses in well logging, reservoir engineering as well as drilling and well completions. He has been active in publishing, with over sixty publications.
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Dr. Macary, Sameh held a BSc. in Petroleum Engineering from Cairo University in 1981. He was granted a M.Sc. and PhD. in Integrated Reservoir Management and enhancing forecasts from Azerbaijanian Institute Of Oil & Chemistry, Baku in 1985 and 1989, respectively. Dr. Macary has served as a technical consultant for Gulf of Suez Petroleum Company (GUPCO, IPR) and Schlumberger. Currently, He is the Head of Production Department in Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute (EPRI). He has instructed several production, and reservoir engineering courses to various international and national oil companies in the Middle East and North Africa region.
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Professor McCain, WIlliam received his MSc and PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology and BSc from Louisiana State University. He is currently a visiting professor at TEXAS A&M University. He held several positions at; Schlumberger, Holdich-Reservoir Technologies, Esso Research Laboratories & Cawley, Gillespie. Professor McCain taught at several universities, e.g., Georgia Institute of Technology, Louisiana State University and Texas A&M. His interest covers: Reservoir engineering, management and simulation, especially design of water flooding and miscible displacement, Production of volatile oils and gas condensates, Reservoir fluid properties, Reservoir rock properties. He published several books and tens of papers on the art of PVT.
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Mr. Murray, Mark earned a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1983. He designed mechanical hardware for patented computerized well testing equipment, and invented, designed, tested, and implemented other key well testing equipment for improved data quality and equipment reliability. He designed and authored ARCO's internal decline curve application as well as creating a library of reservoir fluid property functions to be used in other in-house applications. Mark provided training and technology transfer to the ARCO operating companies by conducting well testing training seminars. Mr. Murray has well testing experience in most of the oil basins in the world.
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Dr. Roger, Steve received his BSc. from the University of Keele with PhD in rock mechanics from Nottingham University in 1991. Steve worked for the British Geological Survey principally involved in various aspects of the UK Radioactive waste disposal program which aimed at finding a safe disposal location in the fractured basement rocks of NW England. During this he was responsible for the interpretation and integration of borehole imaging and core data along with other wire line geophysical measurements. Steve has also been involved in well testing of fractured formations; detailed mapping of fracture outcrops and over the last 3 years has been modeling fractured reservoirs using Discrete Fracture Network modeling and simulation tools for Golder Associates.
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Mr. Zeglam, Salem has 30 years of practical and industrial experience in the petroleum industry with international and national oil companies (ESSO, ENI, Sirte Libya and national oil corporation). Mr. Zeglam received his BSc. in petroleum engineering from university of Texas in 1973. His main interest cover reservoir management, natural gas production and utilization, corporate planning, project management and follow up, hydrocarbon resources planning, economics and management. He has instructed several courses to various international and national oil companies in Europe, Middle East and North Africa.
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Mrs. Samah Abu Radi – Office Manager |
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Mr El Haj, Salah – Marketing Officer |
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Ms Jennifer Sadie – Training Coordinator |
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Mrs Marwa Al Said – Special assignments |
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Ms Maricris Malayang – Secretary |
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Mrs El Ghazawy, Dalal – Financial Controller |
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Mr Aamer Younas – IT Consultant |
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