Ghazanfar Zahid, Senior Reservoir Navigation supervisor

Ghazanfar Zahid

Senior Reservoir Navigation supervisor

Baker Hughes

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Master's degree, Geology
Experience
24 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :24 years, 4 Months

Senior Reservoir Navigation supervisor at Baker Hughes
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since September 2012

Horizontal well placement in challenging and thin reservoirs.
Assigned for UAE and Oman fields.
Well planning and modelling.
Suggestion and recommendation for fi for purpose tools.
Realtime adjustemnt of well trajectory to optimize the well bore position.
Supervise the junior engineers.
Writing technical reports and prepare and deliver presntations.

Senior geosteering specialist at halliburton
  • Kuwait - Al Ahmadi
  • December 2007 to August 2012

- Geosteered horizontal wells in Oman, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi and Russia.
- Producing geosteering proposals, daily reports, end of well reports.
- Did pre-well and post-well studies of the field.
- Using industry High tech tools to place the wells in the challenging target intervals.
- Worked on Multi-offset well models.
- Communicate with Asset and drilling teams.
- Trained new and junior engineers.

LWD Engineer at halliburton
  • Kuwait - Al Ahmadi
  • January 2007 to December 2007

- Worked as MWD /LWD engineer.
- Worked on Directional, Gamma ray, resistivity, density and neutron tools.
- monitor signals and pulses for data QC.
- Send daily reports and LWD logs to customer.

Well site Geologist / Pore pressure engineer at halliburton
  • Kuwait - Al Ahmadi
  • November 2002 to December 2006

- Worked in Kuwait, Turkey, Pakistan and Oman.
- Description of well cuttings and analysis of hydrocarbon shows.
- Marking formation tops.
- picking casing and coring points.
- Estimation of formation pore pressure, overburden calculations, fracture gradient calculation.
- worked on Dc exp logs, sigma log and sonic logs to estimate pore pressure.
- sending daily reports to base office and attended operations meeting.
- produce Mudlogs, ADT logs and end of well reports.
- Supervise and lead the mudloggin unit team.

Data engineer at Baker Hughes
  • Qatar - Doha
  • November 2000 to October 2002

- Worked as data engnieer on Qatar offshore and offshore fields.
- worked in Pakistan north and south basins.
- monitor and QC mudlogging data.
- well cuttings analysis and description.
- gas chromatography for hydrocarbons evaluation.
- reports writing.

Wellsite Geologist at Pakistan Oilfields limited
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • January 2000 to October 2000

- Responsible for daily drilling operations.
- Cuttings description, formation tops picking.
- picking casing points.
- producing composite logs.
- wells correlation.

Education

Master's degree, Geology
  • at University of Karachi
  • December 1997

M.Sc degree in Geology with petroleum geology, marine geology, geophysics, engineering geology subjects.

Bachelor's degree, Geology
  • at University of karachi
  • December 1996

Major subject was Geology with mathematics and physics as minor

Specialties & Skills

Geosteeering
wellsite Geology
WELL PLANNING
Interpretation
Decision making
Logs and Image interpretation
Operations
Geologist
Drilling Optimization
Presentations

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Stratasteer 3D Advanced (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2008
Valid Until:
February 2008
WellArchitect (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2014
Valid Until:
February 2014
Stratasteer 3 D (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2010
Valid Until:
July 2010
RNS 2D (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2012
Valid Until:
October 2012
LWD - 1 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2007
Valid Until:
July 2007
Stratasteer 3D Basic (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2007
Valid Until:
December 2007
ALD-CTN-BAT - Petrophysical track -2 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2008
Valid Until:
June 2008

Hobbies

  • Visiting
    Visited Istanbul, Cairo, Kualalampur, Dubai, Moscow, Paris, Saudi Arabia, gulf countries and northern areas of Pakistan in the foot hills of himalaya
  • Cricket
  • Swimming
    loves to swim