Well Placement Team Leader for Saudi Arabia and Bahrain
Schlumberger
Total years of experience :29 years, 1 month
Expertise
Well Placement Geologist. Geo-steered more than 520 horizontal wells in conventional reservoirs (carbonate and clastic) and in unconventional reservoirs (shale gas/oil, tight carbonate and tight sandstone). Proficient field geologist (geologic mapping and core description).
Summary of Qualification and Experience:
As a well placement engineer, I take responsibility of the well trajectory from pre-job modelling and planning to TD and beyond. I frequently advise clients to revise the well plan during drilling, based on timely model updates respecting realtime LWD data. My geological skills are thus applied to sequential interpretation of LWD logs, images and inversion models from PeriScope or GeoSphere measurements in realtime. High quality interpretation provides evidence to support successful decision making, enabling the client to place the well in accordance with reservoir objectives.
• Expert in well placement or geosteering.
• Very well in Interpretation LWD well logs.
• Well experience on Saudi Arabia geology.
• Very well experience in clastic reservoir.
• Expert in field geology and mapping.
• Well experience in core and cutting samples description.
• Expert in eXpandGST software.
• Skilled in Petrel geology application.
• Utilizing seismic interpreted results to come up with geologic structure maps.
• Interpreting various remote sensing maps like gravity maps and air photographs.
• Mapping in the field.
• Skilled in PC. And exploration software.
• Skilled in the areas of Management and leadership.
• Good business and management background.
• Ability to deal with various types of people and contribute to teamwork environment.
My Responsibility as Well Placement Team Leader:
• Managing nine well placement engineers covering Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
• Monitoring engineers during well placement jobs and QC services.
• Doing well placement jobs and working as one team.
• Build geological model by Petrel application preparing for geosteering new well.
• Provide advice on the services required to achieve the well objectives based on the tool response modelling to select the best BHA.
• Geosteering well with conventional tool or with advance LWD tools such as PeriScope, PeriScope-HD and GeoShere.
• Update geological model while geosteering.
• Provides a post job report demonstrating value to the customer. Documents lessons learned and make recommendations for improvement to the client, D&M and DCS.
• Provides Well Placement support (24/7) for GeoMarket operations.
• Designs and conducts Well Placement jobs within Schlumberger and customer domain.
• Captures WP business opportunities systematically, in addition to opportunities for Formation Evaluation and Drilling Optimization.
• Maintains customer relationships and ensures customer satisfaction.
• Implements technical sales plan (including customer specific targets, customer presentations, case studies, SPE/SPWLA papers, input to brochures/flyers).
• Provides technical sales support for new and existing products; understands and communicates value of technology and interpretations.
• Provides local training to marketing staff, as required.
• Actively participates in technical community and technical ladder.
• Attends advanced technical training on a regular basis to maintain and develop technical competency.
• To identify, develop, monitor, and report to the division all projects of interest within the Territory.
• Represent the companies sponsored by Abdullah Fouad to the oil Industry.
• Planning and organizing the process of negotiation between both managements.
• Coordinating presentations and seminars provided by the vendor to the oil companies.
• Enhance awareness of the legal aspects that vendors might need for consultation.
• Finalizing the project to a monitoring phase of service. Supervising the service to the oil company.
• I worked several times with Core Lab Co as consultant for Aramco on core fixing project.
July 1999 - 2001 Exploration Geologist I
Responsibility includes:
Following exploration drilling of diamonds (core sample), reverse circulation RC (cutting samples) in the site and determining the direction and angles for the hole to be drilled.
Mapping detailed geological maps of the site and correlating them with logging to produce structure maps.
Logging the core and cutting samples.
Determining the interval for sampling to assay.
Locating new prospect for potential project by using regional maps (scale 1 - 50000 & 250000) and site visits. Once the location gives significant indication, we start grade line system, trenching, simple mapping, sampling outcrop and wall trench.
Calculating ore reserve, based on which we determine the volume of the deposit.
Entering all data related to the functions mentioned above utilizing Excel, Explorpak software to assist us make better judgement for following the work.
In addition to the technical responsibilities, I am handling some administrative duties that include petty cash purchase and payment of laborers wages on a daily basis and managing resources such as contractors and materials considering that the work performed in remote area. I also prepare technical and administrative reports to send to the manager of exploration department in Jeddah.
October 98 - July 99 Exploration Geologist II
Geological mapping and logging of drill core and RC cuttings, interpretation of the drilling and sampling results, creation of geological model, and preparation of data for ore reserve calculation.
Geochemical and prospecting programs and operating geophysical equipment such as magnetometers.
Worked with Eastern Area Exploration under the supervision of Sami Aoudah and Misfer Al-Zahrani. During my assignment I have produced Isopach maps for many formations such as Khuff, Kulaibah, Jalilah and Sudair. Spent about 10 days in the field during the drilling of HWYH-51 for which I logged cuttings samples and produced drilling time charts. I was also trained to use some of the geological software packages used at the time.
Education: 1994: BS Degree in Geology from Qatar University, Doha. Cumulative GPA of 3.20 and a major GPA of 3.83 on a 5.0 scale. (GPA 2.56 and a major GPA of 3.06 on a 4.0 scale.) 1997: 3 weeks training program with Boliden mines, Sweden & Spain. 1999: Course in Ore reserve calculation, Jeddah.