Geophysicist

Challenging and exciting job in oil and gas with emphasis on development type workd. I'm especially interested to develop my skills in the area of geocellular modeling.

ChevronTexaco Energy Technology Company, Houston, TX 2002 ?V 2005
Geophysicist ?V Volume Interpretation and Visualization Team

„« Deepwater Nigeria: worked on lead maturation offshore Nigeria:
„X Interpreting tops and bases of channels.
„X Carrying out amplitude and attribute extractions to identify possible hydrocarbon accumulations.
„X Calculating preliminary volumes and taking the prospect through an Exploration Review.
„X Liaising with technology company personnel to carry out appropriate post processing, fluid substitution modeling and velocity modeling.
„« Venezuela: As part of a block capture team, interpreted and depth converted horizons to be used in building a geological model for simulation.
„« Block0 Development: Generated synthetics and tied several wells to newly processed 3D seismic data.
„X Interpreted horizons in the area.
„X Used the time-depth curves, interpreted horizons and stacking velocities to build several velocity models and produce P10, 50 and 90 velocity uncertainty models.
„« Participated in company recruiting by conducting interviews onsite and at a student expo.


Chevron Petroleum Technology Company, San Ramon, CA 2000 ?V 2002
Geophysicist - Velocity Team

„« Used stacking velocities, checkshots and VSP data to build velocity models for areas offshore Angola, Congo, Brazil, Nigeria and Qatar.
„« Liaised with business unit customers to identify their velocity model needs, and communicate and document the results.
„« Tested and deployed the Velocity Toolbox, in-house software used in time-depth curve editing and interpolation as well as building velocity uncertainty models.
„« Updated an internal velocity school manual as part of a team effort.
„« Coordinated and taught in an in-house velocity school.

Geoquest, Schlumberger, Houston, TX Feb ?V May 2000
Intern - IESX Commercialization Group
„« Wrote software testing plans and carried out testing for IESX and GeoViz softwares.
„« Collaborated with the developers on bug fixes.


Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 1997 - 1999
Graduate Assistant, Department of Geology&Geophysics

EDUCATION

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
M.S., Geophysics, Thesis: ?§Integrated Geophysical Study of Near-Surface Faults in the Wilcox Group, Texas, With Applications to Lignite Mining.?¨

BSc (1993), Physics, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

Outstanding Accomplishment & Value Creation. ChevronTexaco. As part of a block Capture Team.
Team R&A Award. Chevron. Testing & Deployment of TOVA (Tomographic Velocity Analysis software.)
ICSC World Lab Scholarship. 1999-2000
Africa 2000 Scholarship for Women. 1990-93.


COMPUTER SKILLS
Worked on both Unix and Linux platforms.
Knowledge of Geoprobe, Gocad, Voxelgeo, SeisWorks, Syntool, StratAmp, TDQ, IESX and Indepth
Familiar with Jason GeoSystems software.

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Fluent in written and spoken English and Arabic.