Nabil Estasi

Sr Geophysical Consultant 2011-Now
ALEXPETRO Cairo Egypt;
Supervise All Seismic Acquisition / Processing / Interpretation Teams of Consultants.
Won Contracts for Processing / Reprocessing Data in Gulf of Suez Egypt.2012/13
Supervised Establishment and Training Juniors for Seismic Crews in Egypt .

Senior Geophysical Coordinator/ Geophysical Operation Manger
IPR TRANSOIL (Dallas, USA / Cairo, Egypt) 2002-2011

• Participated in Studies of reservoirs in Gulf of Suez, Western Desert Egypt, Pakistan, Syria, Chile, Nigeria, India, Malaysia and Texas.
• Supervised the processing and reprocessing of all acquisitions through Improved Petroleum Recovery Transoil
• Vib/Dynamite Acquisition / Processing - structural/ stratigraphic plays executed Under his Supervision by :
Western Geophysical, CGG, PGS and Spectrum.
• As part Team of Business Development Participated Structural/Stratigraphic exploration in commercial oil discoveries in Bahariya, N. Ras Qattara El diyur & Yidma Concession in the Western Desert of Egypt (currently producing)
• Tested and explored NawabShah & Guddu Concession, Pakistan and Adhi, India (currently producing)
• Created high resolution gravity & magnetic maps using Shell programming in El Diyur Concession, Western Desert of Egypt
• Supervised Pre Stack Depth Migration (PSDM) of 3D volumes
• Wrote Acquisition/ Processing tenders based on evaluating / Supervising :technical and financial aspects of QC 2D/3D (time, depth processing)
• Operated Schlumberger’s Eclipse, CPS-3, & IESX Software, LMKR’s GeoGraphiX, Petrel, Kingdom, SeisX Photon, Geodepth Earth Model, stratimagic & Geolog .

Senior Geophysicist
IPR TRANSOIL (Dallas, USA / Cairo, Egypt 1997-2002

• Provided support for interpretation S/W, Supervised Acquisition, and Processing
• Analyzed, interpreted and processed seismic velocity, seismic computer mapping and
depth conversion
• Won international bidding for quality control and supervision of Seismic Data Processing for :
Lland and marine projects Overseas.
• Supported Geophysical / Geological S/W: IESX, Petrel, Schlumberger’s CPS-3, SeisX, Geodepth of Paradigm’s & Landmark’s GeoGraphiX

Rees Geophysical Oman 1995-1997

•Produced Seismic Section Stack in field using 2D/3D processing on ProMAX
•Processed 3D data in projects: Lekhwair, Mawrid, Amal, Nimir Petroleum Ltd.
•Seismic swath by swatch field processing on PromaX.
•Planned for land data using MESA S/W .
•Complete field QC from planning to equipment, field tapes & SPS Navigation check

Sr . Geophysicist
Excomp Overseas Ltd. 1986-1995

After shutdown of all Operations in Sudan1986 moved to Cairo
• Consulted for geophysical exploration, processing, and acquisition
• Established Exploration D.Base for Egypt, North Sea U.K, Tunisia & Italy
• Trained Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation geophysicists on software
• Supervised all Time / Vel. /Depth structure maps
• Seismic modeling and seismic interpretation - girding, contouring, depth Conversion.
• Defined target tops and well proposal help in Prognosis.
• Computer migration of structure maps using Sattlegger software for stacked sections not migrated over steep salt domes - resulted in successful oil well in Gulf of Suez, Egypt (Ashrafi area)
• Managed Geophysical contracts in Egypt, Tunisia, United Kingdom, Italy and Middle East
• Established computer software/hardware for Conoco-Khalda Oil Company
• Interpreted and evaluated open areas in Egypt, England, Tunisia and Vietnam
• Used Landmark, SeisX (Photon), Petrosys, Analog (for digitizing, editing petrophysical calculations), Landmark’s GeoGraphiX

Seismic Data Analyst Team Leader
Halliburton (Geosource) 1982-1986

• Provided quality control with seismic crew 6127 - Gecosource.
• Refraction static, up holes, Deep Refraction Processing.
• Created a program on HP calculator to provide static calculations for the Processing Centre
• Provided through Geosource (Halliburton)Processing for Sudan Chevron Oil, Total, Sun Oil, Phillips and Texas Eastern - from field tapes until migration of data archiving as well as making seismic databases in Ukooa format
• Processed steps of reflection including deep and shallow refraction
• Learned and mentored Helping Juniors for Tempar programming, updating and application of algorithms
• Applied on computer system quality control measures for field seismic equipment - analyzed vibs data for H/W tests