Education .
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
PhD in Petroleum Engineering Aug-2011-Dec-2013 GPA: 4.00
"Optimization of Hydraulic Fracturing in Shale Oil and Gas Reservoirs"
University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
M.Sc in Petroleum Engineering Aug-2007-Aug-2009 GPA: 3.3
"Water Flooding Performance Analysis for Minnelusa Formation"
Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
M.Sc in Petroleum Engineering Oct-2004-Aug-2007 GPA: 3.00
"Uncertainty Assessment for Water Saturation Calculations in Shaly Sand Formations"
Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
B.Sc in Petroleum Engineering Oct-1999-May-2004 GPA: 3.1
Experience .
Lecturer Assistant, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt — 2005-2011
Teaching different petroleum engineering undergraduate courses:
●Reservoir Engineering Course including: PVT analysis, Volumetric Method,
Material Balance, Decline Curve analysis, History Match, and Water Influx.
●Well Logging Interpretation (Gama Ray, Resistivity, Sonic, Neutron, density,
and SP)
●Well Testing Analysis ( Build up and Draw Down test analysis)
●Rock and fluid properties
Teaching Assistant, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY — 2007-2009
Grading different petroleum engineering undergraduate courses; Introduction
to petroleum engineering (mainly rock and fluid properties)
Reservoir Engineer, Sahra Oil and Gas Company, Cairo, Egypt — 2004-2005
Data base for the old reservoir data and communicating with service companies to buy technical softwares. Calculating reserves and helping in petrophysical analysis for shaly sand reservoirs.
Risk assessment trainee, Tempus Project, Cairo, Egypt — Sep-2002-Feb-2003
Applying and introducing different risk assessment techniques on Cairo University
Professional Experience .
●Reservoir engineering analysis; pressure transient analysis, fluid and rock properties analysis, reservoir simulation
●Risk and uncertainty analysis
●Frequent experience as a team leader
●Conducting decline curve analysis, surveillance analysis, and well test analysis
●Optimization of mature fields waterflooding, reservoir performance forecast and reserve estimation
●Simulation experience with chemical flooding processes and hydraulically fractured reservoirs
●Enhanced oil recovery screening, especially chemical flooding
●Open hole logs analysis (Gama Ray, Resistivity, Sonic, Neutron, density, SP, RFT and MDT)
●Shaly sand, Carbonates, and shale oil and gas reservoirs petrophysical analysis
●Simulation of heavy oil and shale oil and gas reservoirs
●Experimental experience in coreflooding, rock and fluid properties measurements, and CT Scanning analysis
●Fracturing fluid testing including flowback test, compatibility test, emulsion test, wettability/contact angle testing, and spontaneous imbibition tests
Projects .
1.Petrophysics Analysis for Egyptian Alam Bewab Shaly Sand Formation, Western
Desert, Egypt
•Collecting open hole logs data from fifteen wells with 1300 shaly sand points
from Alam Bewab formation, in Western desert of Egypt.
•Development of a VPA coding for Simandoux, Indonesian, Waxman & Smits, Dual
Water, and Effective Medium shaly sand models and comparing the code with
Halliburton Petroworks software .
•Development of water saturation and original oil in-place uncertainty
assessment charts for the five shaly sand models regarding to uncertainty in
well logging data using Alam Bewab formation data
2.Enhanced Oil Recovery Screening Criteria Development, Wyoming, USA
•Data mining for world enhanced oil recovery projects
•Development of projects matching correlations (viscosity, temperature, API,
Pressure, etc.)
•Using SWORD 2.1 (Enhanced Oil Recovery Screening Criteria software) to analyze
the potential of enhanced oil recovery methods in Minnelusa formation.
3.Surveillance Analysis for Minnelusa Formation Waterflooding, Wyoming, USA
•Data mining for all of Minnelusa wells and field data
•Development of field correlations (viscosity, temperature, API, Pressure, etc.)
•Complete simulation study (History matching, sensitivity analysis, and
predictions of production)
4.Reservoir Characterization for Milnesand Field, Permian Basin, NM, USA
•Data mining for all of the production data
•Calculating OOIP (Volumetric and Material Balance), remaining oil after
waterflooding, fillup volume, waterflooding recovery factor, etc.
•Development of VPA coding for Stiles model to predict waterflooding performance
•History matching using the actual production data and Stiles model data
•Using Eclips, Prophet, Stiles model, and CMG softwates to predict
waterflooding recovery
•Surveillance analysis on how to enhance waterflooding performance (geology,
injector and producers placements, production trends, etc.)
•Identify the quality of each 5-spot reservoir pattern based on production data
•Calculation of oil remaining by each patten
•Evaluation of different enhanced oil recovery methods (CO2 and Chemical
flooding)
5.Petrophysical Analysis for Avalon Shale, West Texas, USA
•Evaluation of the productivity of the Avalon Shale through log analysis using
a standard logging suite.
•Calculating thermal maturity index, the total organic content (TOC), the
volume of kerogen, the volume of quartz, volume of clay and total porosity by
using simultaneous equations.
•Determination of the oil-filled porosity and permeability of the reservoir
rock and calculated the original oil in place (OOIP) by using two
permeabilities cut-offs (500nD and 1000nD).
•Determination of where to place the lateral section of the horizontal well and
selected the 250 ft frac interval that will result in the highest recovery
from this well.
6.Development of Enhanced oil Recovery Method for Thin Heavy Oil Reservoirs,
Morgan Field, Canada
•Introducing a new enhanced oil recovery method for thin and shallow heavy oil
reservoirs by combining propane (LPG) hydraulic fracturing and
alkaline/surfactant flooding
•Evaluation of the new EOR m...
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