Mr. Salem Al Sabea - President

Salem Al-Sabea is Specialist Petrophysicist with Kuwait Oil Company(KOC). He received a BSc degree in Geology from Kuwait University in 1990. The following year he joined KOC as a Wellsite Geologist. Since 1994 Salem has worked as a Petrophysicist in the Field Development Division (South). He has participated in pilot log-inject-log, cased hole surveillance, and other south Kuwait cased and open-hole interpretation projects. Since 2000 he has worked as a Senior Petrophysicist and has acquired new petrophysical analysis techniques (carbonate reservoir), mastering new Geolog software enhancements for formation evaluation. He has worked as a Formation Evaluation Support for the Minagish Secondary Recovery and is Formation Evaluation Support for the update and improve field wide HKW & Heavy Oil evaluation process for reserves. Salem is also acting as project coordinator the cased hole surveillance Activities. He also made significant contributions to the OOWC/HO, Surveillance and Next Generation Facies Project. activities were carried out according to KOC standards (i.e., planning, logging, evaluation, archiving and distribution). He also coordinated the coring acquisition for the Burgan and Minagish formations. Salem showed good leadership in tackling the problems faced with sorting out the geology, pore structure and reservoir properties of the Minagish. Salem represented the formation evaluation aspect of the Minagish in planning discussions for the future direction for this reservoir. Applied new APS neutron porosity in cased hole to evaluate the effective porosity in Minagish Reservoir.
Salem showed an excellent work ethic and leadership skills in the major projects. In addition, Salem is involved with two industry technical planning committees and is planning to make a presentation to an industry conference. These activities are critical to Salem's development as a petrophysicist and as a KOC employee.
Acquired new petrophysical analysis techniques Wave Sonic software (Open Hole Wave Sonic processing). Mastered new Geolog software enhancements. Coordinated wireline log quality control for 5 new wells. Handled on FE training programs for Kuwait University Students. Developed PNC transforms for ROS study.
Leading KOC Petrophysics network meeting, the main purpose is to share the information and communications among the FE Team Group FD (N/S/W) & Exploration in KOC, and also is to provided the new technology that available, used and applied in each division within KOC.

Dr. Naim Al Jabari - Consultant Petrophysicist Halliburton

Dr. Naim Al Jabari has graduated with a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University (UK). His PhD was sponsored by Prof. Brian Smart (Head of institute and Geomechanics Group). Dr. Naim Al-Jabari expertise is in designing and modifying sensing systems for petrophysics laboratory. His PhD resulted in patenting two new novel sensing techniques. The first to measure permeability without touching the sample (First non-contact mini-permeameter) and the second is laser acoustic sensor that is able of measuring AVO effect in the laboratory for the first time. Dr. Naim Al Jabari is multi-disciplinary engineer that is able of thinking out of the box, to modify current core analysis techniques and design new techniques that are able of measuring new properties never been measured before in the laboratory. Dr. Naim Al Jabari believes that core samples are not analyzed to full extend using current commercial techniques. More valuable information can be extracted if proper handling and analyzing procedures are followed, especially in the case of Carbonate samples. Dr. Al-Jabari was involved in both academic and industrial projects. These projects varied between different petroleum domain such as core analysis, formation evaluation, geomechanics, smart well technology and EOR using Geomechanics.
After graduation in 2005, Dr. Al-Jabari joined ADIDCO in Abu Dhabi as Business Development Director for 2 years responsible for marketing and technically supporting new technologies introduced to UAE oil industry. In 2007, Dr. Al-Jabari joined Schlumberger as petrophysics where he is involved in marketing, planning, processing and interpreting Schlumberger wirelinepetrophysics services, multi-disciplinary reservoir study, geomechanics and corrosion. In June 2011, Dr. Al-Jabari joined Halliburton as consultant Petrophysicist to lead Middle East petrophysics team in both exploration and field development studies. Dr. Naim Al-Jabari diverse expertise in research, management and field operations allows him to coordinate between different groups, making him an extensional asset for exploration and field development projects.

Ghada Mahmoud Younis - IT Leader of Media Website Committee.

Ghada has 18 years experience in the petroleum sector; her current post is PMO Lead - Smart Field Projects (GC-1 Project Management Group) in Weatherford - Kuwait.
She is CCVP certified( Cisco Certified voice professional) & has worked before in Halliburton Egypt & her last post was senior IT Voice manager & Voice Member in Africa Region network virtual Team.
Soon, she will complete her MSAITBM (Master of Science in advanced Information Technology & Business management from Robert Kennedy College in Switzerland

Bashar Al Eneziis

Bashar Al Eneziis Senior Geologist with Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). He received his BSc degree in Geology from Kuwait University in 2002. After a brief stint at Kuwait National Petroleum Company he joined KOC in 2004. He worked as a Well site geologist for the initial two years and then shifted to Development Geology. He has special interest in Clastic Sequence Stratigraphy. He has worked on the sequence stratigraphy of the Greater Burgan Field in collaboration with IFP, Paris and authored a paper on this topic in AAPG… He is now looking after the development of a part of the Greater Burgan Field. His job includes planning of new wells, work-overs; provide geological input for production optimization and reservoir management. He has expertise in placement of horizontal and Multi-lateral wells. He was a key member of the Multi-lateral campaign in Burgan and has authored a paper on this experience. Besides he has ..papers to his credit. Bashar is an avid reader and takes interest social issues.

Eman Al-Mayyas

Eman Al-Mayyas graduated from Kuwait University with B.Sc. degree in Geology in 1998 and joined Kuwait Oil Company(KOC) as a Geologist. She is currently working as a Senior Petrophysicist in the New Fields Development Team fordevelopment of West Kuwait reservoirs. She specializes in formation evaluation, petrophysical characterizationand rock-typing of carbonates, clastics as well as unconventional fractured and heavy oil reservoirs.She has published and presented several papers in many international technical forums and conference.She is an active member of SPWLA and SPE.

Girija Padhy

Girija Padhy: Is currently working as a Senior Petrophysicist with the West Kuwait (Minagish) Field development team of KOC. After completing his M.Sc. (Applied) in Petroleum Technology from University of Pune, India in 1996, he has been working in the Oil industry for last 15 yrs which includes 4.5 years of research towards his PhD in Canada. Prior to his current assignment, Girija has worked as Mud Logging Engineer (Geoservices), Core Analyst (Core Laboratories), and Senior Petrophysicist (Schlumberger and BGEPIL). His area of interest and research is on Carbonate Petrophysics. He has published several technical papers, supervised Masters Students for their projects, taught short courses and delivered guest lectures.
Also, was the co-founder of the Kuwait SPWLA chapter in 2008 and had served the local society as Secretary for the chapter year 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 (till left Kuwait).

William T. Bryant

Experience
2008-2011    Kuwait Oil Company   Ahmadi, Kuwait
Petrophysicist in Charge for North Kuwait
Supervise all petrophysical activities for North Kuwait Field Development. These duties include the personal development of 7 junior to senior petrophysicists. I am ultimately responsible for the validity all log interpretations for the four fields in the north (Raudhatain, Sabiriyah, Abdali, and Ratqa). I am asked routinely to assist in logging program design, to develop applications to provide solutions for field related problems, and to determine perforation strategy.
I have for the past year also have the added duty of the implementation of pad drilling. I was responsible for determining pad locations to allow the drilling of wells in the congested crestal areas. My job was to preserve room to drill in the future. To this end I placed over 300 well locations from 37 different pads, established the process with the Ministry of Oil to release both pad and well locations, and worked with drilling to implement the process.
I was also assigned to the power network design project. Our task was to design a power grid to supply the necessary electrical power to the ESP's in both Raudhatain and Sabiriyah Fields (about 500 wells). Total Experience 31 years in Petrophysicist.

2004-2008   NExT, PDVSA, PEMEX, and ConocoPhillips   Durango, Colorado
President of Petrophysical Technologies
NExT and PDVSA
Mentoring and teaching subsurface integration for NExT. I was Coordinator for the project portion of the Masters of Petrophysics program for the University of Tulsa in Venezuela and have been appointed adjunct professor for the University of Tulsa

2002-2004   bp   Kuwait City, Kuwait
Petrophysical Advisor for the Kuwait Oil Company
Petrophysical team leader responsible for over 15,000,000,000 barrels of reserves. Tasks include well planning, net pay assessment, property modeling, core analysis and the database management for both Openworks and Geolog databases.

1997–2002   Amoco/BPAmoco/bp    Cairo, Egypt
Senior Petrophysicist for Egypt Gas Business Unit
Well planning, wireline operations, Landmark log database, well interpretations, net pay assessment, property modeling, core analysis, PVT analysis, and mentoring of government and national staff

1980–1997   Amoco International   Houston, Texas
Petrophysicist
Well planning, wireline operation, well interpretations, net pay assessment in the office and on location overseas

1971–1980   Schlumberger   Morgan City, New Orleans and Houston
Engineer
Logging Engineer, both open and cased hole, Computing Center Engineer, Account Manager, Field Service Manager

Dr.Waleed Al Bazzaz

WaIeed Hussein Al-Bazzaz: He a petroleum engineer and a petrophysists research scientist at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research whose interest and objective are to lead investigations of rock characterizations in general and carbonate reservoirs in particular for Kuwaiti reservoirs

Professional Experience
1992 – Present Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, KISR, Ahmadi, Kuwait.

• Associate Research Scientist 2006.
• World Energy Council committee member on Carbon Capture & Storage & Cleaner Fossil Fuels Strategies in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) – Kuwait CO2 Management and Framework – 2010.
• The World Engineering Federation Organization (WFEO) energy and climate change officer – Kuwait Chapter, 2010.
• The Scientific committee chairman of the "Alternative Energy Applications: Option or Necessity?" conference – Kuwait, November, 2009.
• Visiting Professor (Lecturer) at Kuwait University – College of Science – Geology Department – 2009 and 2010, teaching Petroleum Well Logging and Quantitative Geological Interpretation.
• A manager for the 31st KISR – SSTP, summer training courses and lectures for high school and college students, 22nd June – 31st July, 2008.
• A Steering Committee Member of the Applied Technology Workshop on "Tracers", held in October 2008 in Dubai, UAE.
• A reviewer for the extended abstracts, which are submitted to the annual technical program of the 70th EAGE Conference & Exhibition, Rome, Italy 2007-2008.
• Faculty Adjunct at the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR) from 2006 – 2007 teaching well logging, core analyses and petroleum well testing.
• SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineering) vise-president UMR chapter 2002 and president 2003.
• π ε τ (Pi Epsilon Tau) petroleum engineering honorary society president at the University of Missouri at Rolla μ-chapter 2002 – 2004.
• The Rocky Mountain Student Paper Contest 3rd place runner of the doctorate division, Rolla, Missouri, April 2003.
• "Joe Taber the distinguished graduate student award" for 1999 – 2000, New Mexico Tech, USA.
• Distinguished professional staff employee at KISR for the period December '95 – February '96, Kuwait.
• International Student Club President, both in 1992 and 2000 at New Mexico Tech, USA.

Professional Membership

• The World Engineering Federation Organization (WFEO) energy and climate change - chair officer - Kuwait Chapter, 2010.
• Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, 2009.
• SPWLA Society of Petrophysicist and Well Logging Analysis, 2008.
• IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency, 2007.
• EAGE European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, 2006.
• NACE International Corrosion Society, 1997.
• SCA, Society of Core Analysts, 1993.
• The Society of Kuwaiti Graduates, 1992.
• The Society of Kuwaiti Engineers, 1992.
• SPE, Society of Petroleum Engineers, 1986.

Adel Abd El-Azim Mohamed

Over eight years of experience as a petrophysicist in the oil and gas industry in various companies in the Egypt ,Edinburgh, Sudan and Kuwait. My experience ranges from geological description to open hole and cased hole log interpretation using state of the art computing techniques. Involvement in drilling wells from initial prognosis to final log interpretation and future follow up through monitoring.Sharing build up property model of many fields.
Oct. 15, 2008 up to now
Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) Senior Petrophysicist, Great Burgan study field.
Sep. 01, 2005 till Oct. 15, 2008
Melrose Petroleum Company (British Oil Co.) Senior Petrophysicist . Mansoura Development areas, Onshore, Delta
Feb. 02, 2004 till Sep. 01, 2005
Centurion Petroleum Company, Operations geologist, I worked as a wellsite geologist for Gelgel-2 & Gelge-3 & El Wastani-3ST & El Wastani East-2 & and El Wastani-4 and other wells. It's a Canadian Exploration and production Company work onshore Nile Delta
Jan. 01, 2000 till Feb. 02, 2004
Rashpetco Company (BG-Egypt JV), Petrophysicist and Operations geologist.
Oct. 01, 1999 till Dec. 31, 1999
Training three months in GPC at geophysics Department.

Laila Hayat

Degree: Bachelor in Geology and Petroleum Geology from Kuwait University (GPA:3.47)
Courses: Geological Field Trip to Oman in association with University of Sultan Qaboos in summer 2005 for one month.
Training course in Kuwait Oil Company, Fields Development North Kuwait in summer 2006 for one month.
Experiences:
January – July 2007
Worked in Kuwait Oil Company as Geologist in Fields Development South Kuwait, during this period I have worked in "Wara Sequence Stratigraphic correlation" project.
August 2007 - Recent
Transferred to Greater Burgan Studies Team as Petrophysicist. Since then I have participated as Operational Petrophysicist working with newly drilled wells, in the same time working on cased hole interpretation for surveillance and workover wells. Also worked with Cores and routine core analysis, preparing the programs, receiving the final data and integrate Routine Core analysis results with open hole interpretations.
Now involved in the Field Laboratory project (FiLAB) in collaboration with Schlumberger, handling all the Petrophysical aspects within phase one, such as Data collection, review and validation, monitoring new wells drilled in the pilot area, alongside my usual work in Operation

Fawaz Al-Saqran

Worked in KOC since 2001 as well site Geologist then worked as Petrophysicist in Field Development West Kuwait handled open hole logging programs and interpretation. Educated BS in Geology, Kuwait University in 2001.
Task Duties:

• Water Conformance study: Integrate incoming data open hole and cased hole logs to monitor water flood conformance
• Geological Data Management: Refresh data flow, QC & Accountabilities
• Petrophysical& Seismic Data Management:3D, 4D & Q- Seismic data for Middle Minagish reservoir including.
• Petrophyicist of the Field development (Minagish Field) – a multi reservoir field.
• Minagishoolite Structure Maps
• Core Description: Align reservoir description by means of comparesent of facies from the core with the Electro facies from the Image log for MinagishOolite reservoir.
• Hartha Limestone (upper cretaceous) Full field study

Professional and experience:

• Completion of Hartha Limestone (upper cretaceous) Full field study report in 2003 in-house
• Completion of Zupair Sand-Stone aquifer consolidation study ( on core description) in 2002 in-house
• Completion of a study on Carst features in Shuiba Limestone formation study in 2003 in-house
• In-house Core Descriptions for MinagishOolite reservoir in 2004
• Completion of Rock Dynamics study on clastic and carbonate reservoirs (15 wells for Wara, Burgan and MinagishOolite reservoirs)
• Well bath determination by utilizing Deviation surveys (for vertical and slanted) on 67 wells in Minagish field

Some of my Publications:

• Water encroachments study done in-house and has been published at University of Cairo in 2004
• Author and presenter of Wara reservoir in year 2009/2010 in IPTC conferences.
• Presented my company as 1st author and published the paper entilted" New Innovative Techniques in gas Monitoring, MinagishOolite reservoir, West Kuwait (ATW, 2010, Oct, 25th, 2010, Dubai, emirates).