Ibrahim Awaad

• Responsible for leading the technical team for coordinating all geological, geophysical, and
petrophysical activities related to the identification, evaluation, and development of the prospects.
• Ensures that exploration programs are technically sound, cost-effective, and aligned with the
companys strategic objectives, while managing a multidisciplinary technical team and liaising with
external stakeholders.
• Oversee prospect generation, risk assessment, and volumetric evaluations. In addition, the
hydrocarbon maturation inventory.
• Responsible to prepare the annual productive work program including exploration drilling,
development drilling and the workover such as recompletion new zone, water shut off or
adding perforation. Ensure cost-effective and execution of work programs.
• In addition to the below and

-Supervised the transition from TransGlobe to Vaalco and hired new technical team.
Completed the required paper work with our stockholders to do the official transition from TransGlobe to Vaalco.
Supervised transferring the all data to Vaalco
Prepared the productive budget for Egypt and supervise the execution.

Responsible for reviewing and execution the exploration program, preparing exploration well recommendation, presentation and the technical discussion. The main goal is to have EGPC approval for the technical work and the all needed contracts in advance of any execution to have full cost recovery. Following up and negotiate the cost recovery statement with EGPC.
Dealing with EGPC, GPC and the JV on a wide variety of topics including development lease extensions, permitting of wells, coordinating technical reviews and approvals for the capital program, influencing the JV for the budget execution, negotiation with GPC on a new handling fees agreement and most recently negotiating the oil price with EGPC.
Formulating the development lease agreement with EGPC following any oil discovery; compiling the development plan, present and discuss the plan with EGPC, preparing the all-necessary documents for EGPC and ministry of petroleum and negotiating the number of the required block

Actively contribute to the ongoing development of the organization in Egypt - building leadership capability, building and implementing the management systems.
Leading the JV team for the annual productive budget preparation, identify production improvement opportunities and preparing priority list to be discussed with the TG technical team.
Planning and monitor the G&G activities during drilling operations closely with the JV team for any quick decision as side tracking the well, changing the logging program based the hole condition and to be sure the all required services is completed safely and within the budget.

Supervise and organize the day-to-day activities of the exploration department staff to ensure the exploration program is successfully implemented. Develop and mentor junior staff.
Effectively communicate G&G technical evaluation results and studies to functional management team.
Liaison and communicate with EGPC regarding approvals for drilling wells, final well status and testing.
Supervise G&G activities during drilling operations and geological data acquisition to ensure all deliverables are received according to the drilling plan.
Analyze and recommend solutions on drilling related operations for management decisions by integrating geological information in order to analyze and reduce uncertainties for optimum reservoir management and development plan.
Coordinate with contractors for any operational issues, revising technical reports, contracts and invoices.
Prepare exploration well recommendation reports and EGPC technical presentations with the support of other team members.
Evaluating new venture opportunity for any exploration or development blocks.

• Plan & carry out detail geological evaluation in order to prepare the appraisal, development well
planning, and subsequently formulate full-field review and the optimum field development plan.
• Preparing the well recommendation reports and presents them to the governmental representatives to
get the technical approvals. Preparing the logging program, Quick look interpretation of the well
results regarding to the prognosis to assist in quick decisions for the final well status or sidetracking.
Assist in the selection of the perforation intervals with the reservoir engineers after review the E
Logs and present to the Egyptian government for approvals.
• Provide technical evaluation for new exploration and production opportunities particularly in
geological interpretation, well data analysis, multi-well correlations, construction of subsurface
maps, petroleum system analysis and reserve calculations.
• Participate in prospect and field evaluation process, with volumetric estimates and technical risk
assessment.
• Supporting the drilling operations and data acquisition (such as coring, wire line logging) and
interpretation.
• Representing the company at technical meetings with JVs companies, partners and Egyptian
Government bodies as well as following up deadlines and objectives

- Worked on re-evaluation of the exploration blocks to find out the possible prospect and leads before the relinquishment to the second phase and participated in preparing the development plan for the determined development leases.
- Worked on evaluation of new opportunity; block evaluation, reserves calculation, uncertainty and blocks ranking.
- Participate in evaluation of sand and carbonate reservoirs extension by construct different types of stratigraphic and structural Log correlation as well as constructed structure maps and calculation of the oil in place by using Kingdom SMT and WELL CAD.
- Participate in Geochemical evaluation to the source rocks maturation and the direction of oil migration as well as the possibility of trapping with regarding to the seal rocks.
- Worked on evaluation of South Zeit Bay concession (Eastern Desert, recently awarded to AOC), prospects, ranking and preparing well recommendation. Preparing and reviewing the contracts with the service companies.
- Preparing the logging program and Witnessed the wire line Logging and oriented coring in clastic and carbonate reservoirs.

• Participated in Shukheir Bays study, the main task was the integration of seismic, subsurface data
with the production data to enhance the field productivity. Prepared the well prognoses documents
and following up the drilling activity.
• Gathering the available data of the new awarded concessions, Sorting the data and QC and
uploading the data to the project on Petrel (well tops, logs, markers, deviation survey surfaces.)
• Participated in the evaluation of south Abu Zeneima, N. Shadwan and Ezz El- Orban (G.O.S)
concessions by creating well log correlation between the available wells, structure cross sections,
stratigraphic Correlation, thickness maps, Net Bay maps, Porosity maps and depth maps.
• Participated in creating lithological Facies Model, by using Petrel software and calculation OOIIP,
worked with IP (Interactive Petrophysics) for quick petrophysical interpretation and well log
correlation.
• Interpreted the lithology from the wire-line logs to create the well composite log by using Win Log
software.

• Updated Zeit Bay field data (survey, formation tops and well marker for 99 boreholes) based on the
new acquired data and revising the old data, Updated field maps (14 horizons) for the Zeit Bay field
according to results of the newly seismic interpretation and the drilled wells using CPS3 (Geoquest -
Schlumberger)
• Participated in the Egypt International 2004 Bid round -1: (April to September 2004), the evaluation
work included seismic and geological interpretation, petrophysical and geological mapping
(thickness, porosity, correlations, etc.) and volumetric calculations of initial oil in place.
• Define target location for development well and prepare the documents needed for the well
recommendation.
• Participated in the validation of the static model study.
• Prepared many successful well prognoses for deep deviated offshore and onshore wells.

• As well site geologist witnessed drilling for off shore and on shore wells in the Ras Fanar, Zeit Bay
and Ras Budran fields. Analyses of the rock samples, describe lithology, and identify the
hydrocarbons contents using the chemicals, gas chromatograph and UVB.
• Supervise the mud logs (Master log, Hydrocarbon log & Mud log) and preparing the final geological
report and the composite well log of the drilled well.
• Supervise wire line logging and coring activities and description,
• Preparing daily, weekly, monthly and annual Geological operation reports.

- Worked on offshore and onshore wells, witnessed on drilling parameters including depth of drilling, ROP, RPM, WOB, calcimetry, mud pits, describing the cuttings, monitoring of gas system data, following pump sensors, depth sensor, pits sensors, gas sensor, etc.
- Preparing composite and lithological logs as well as preparing the final operation report for the well by using RIS software.

• Worked on offshore and onshore wells, witnessed on drilling parameters including depth of drilling,
ROP, RPM, WOB, calcimetry, mud pits, describing the cuttings, monitoring of gas system data,
following pump sensors, depth sensor, pits sensors, gas sensor, etc.
• Preparing composite and lithological logs as well as preparing the final operation report for the well
by using RIS software.

- Worked as geologist responsible for Geological mapping, core logging, constructing contour maps to show the distributions of the ores, thickness and calculation ores volumes, Technical reports, query planning and Operation