Professional Profile

• 15+ years of broad based international oil industry experience gained in reservoir simulation, production optimization, well-performance, field development planning, reservoir surveillance, reservoir management, wellsite operations and working in integrated multi-disciplinary study teams through employment with majors (Saudi Aramco, Schlumberger, Arco, Oil India Limited) and service companies.

• Taught 5 undergraduate senior-level course (both in current role and as Senior Lecturer at the Indian School of Mines in 1988), and 7 industry short courses.

• Taught course on scripting & programming and their use in reservoir engineering.

• Mentored 10 Saudi engineers on basic reservoir engineering aspects and how to employ it in understanding simulation results.

• Designed training programs. An extensive “hands-on” production optimization & reservoir engineering.

• Expert in single well models (PROSPER), and simulation model construction.Worked 1 summer for ARCO Exploration & Production Technology, Plano. Texas

Key Skills

• Reservoir experience covers a wide range of petroleum systems (oil, condensate and gas) in both clastics and carbonate reservoirs, at various stages of their development (prospects, developing ‘green fields’ and mature ‘brown fields’).

• Geographical experience covers the USA, UK (Cambridge), Middle East (Saudi Arabia/UAE), Russia (Siberia), South America (Venezuela) and India (Assam).

• Mentoring national engineers on basic reservoir engineering aspects and how to employ it in understanding simulation results.

• An extensive “hands-on” reservoir simulation background.  Expert in simulation model construction, gas/condensate/black oil simulation, integrated surface-subsurface modelling and the evaluation of reservoir data (PVT/SCAL).

• Expert in the use of various industry standard packages for PVT characterisation (PVTi), well test analysis (Weltest 200), material balance analysis (MBAL), nodal analysis (Prosper, VFPi), assisted history matching (Enable) etc.

• Fully aware of multi-disciplinary reservoir study work-flows and the required integration of geo-science and engineering data to maximise asset value.

• Practical experience of wellsite operations, drilling, data acquisition and well testing.

Born in 7th February 1963 Nationality: American

Office

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM)

Building 3 Room 209

Phone # + 966 3 860 2524

Fax # + 966 3 860 4447

Mail Address

Department of Petroleum Engneering P. O. Box 2020, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran 31261 Saudi Arabia