Dr. Samil SEN, Petroleum Consultant (Conventional and Unconventional)

Thrace – Black Sea – Caspian Sea Basins, and Northern Middle East – Taurus - Eastern Mediterranean Basins

Dr. Samil Sen is a petroleum consultant to international petroleum companies and service firms in the Istanbul Technology Transfer Inc., Turkey, and an Associate Professor in the Geological Engineering Department of Istanbul University, Turkey.

His past and present research concerns petroleum, shale oil and shale gas exploration in the Thrace – Black Sea – Caspian Sea Basins, and the Middle East – Taurus - Eastern Mediterranean Basins. His works have been supported by the Scientific Research Projects Coordination Unit of Istanbul University, Istanbul Technology Transfer Inc., Turkish Petroleum Company, Vermilion Energy of Canada, Petroleum Affiars of Turkey.

Education (degrees, date, universities) :
1987-1991 : Bachelor of Science (BSc) ; Geological Engineering Department, Geology, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
1991-1994 : Master of Science (MSc) ; Geological Engineering Department, General Geology (Sedimentology and Petroleum Geology Subdivision), Institute of Natural and Applied Sciences, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
1995-2001 : Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree ; Geological Engineering Department, General Geology (Sedimentology and Petroleum Geology Subdivision), Institute of Natural and Applied Sciences, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
2003-2013, Assistant Professor, Istanbul Univ.
2013, Associate Professor, Istanbul Univ.

Thesis :
PhD (Sen, S. 2001) Sedimentary Basin Analysis of the Karabük – Safranbolu Basin and its Relation with Other Basin in the Region. Istanbul University, 195 p. (supported by Turkish Petroleum Company and Istanbul University Research Found) (in Turkish)
M.Sc. (Sen, S. 1994) Geology and Sedimentology of the Çekmece Lakes Area (Istanbul), Istanbul University, 67 p (in Turkish).


Specialization (specify) :
(I) Main Field: Specialist of Sedimentary Basin Analysis and Petroleum Exploration
(II) Other Fields: Specialist of Energy Security and Oil Price Assessment
(III) Current research interests: Energy Security in the Middle East, Caucasus-Central Asia and Russia and its effect to oil prices
Membership :
(I) Association of Turkish Petroleum Geologists
(II) Association of American Petroleum Geologists

SOME INTERNATIONAL PAPERS:
Sen, S., 2013, New evidences for the formation of and for petroleum exploration in the fold-thrust zones of the Central Black Sea Basin of Turkey, AAPG Bulletin, v. 97, no. 3 pp. 465-485.
Sen S. and Yillar, S., 2009, The Korudag Anticlinorium in the south Thrace Basin, Northwest Turkey: A super Giant Petroleum Trap Complex? AAPG Bulletin, v. 93, no. 3, pp. 357–377.
Sen, S., Yillar, S., Kerey, I.E., 2009, Allochthonous Blocks Misidentified as Basement: Implication for Petroleum Exploration in the SW Thrace Basin (Turkey), Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 64, 55-66.
Sen, S. and Babali, T., 2007, Security Concerns in the Middle East for Oil Supply: Problems and Solutions, Energy Policy, 35, 1517-1524.

SOME PROCEEDING PAPERS:
Sen, S., 2013, Shale gas assessment of the Carboniferous Prodeltaic shales of Western Black Sea Basin, Unconventional Research Technology Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Sen, S., 2012, The Silurian Shale Gas Potential of Turkey, AAPG Middle East Shale Gas Workshop, Muscat, Oman.
Sen. S., 2011, Petroleum prospects in the fold-thrust zones of the Sinop-Samsun Basin, Central Black Sea Continental Margin of Turkey, AAPG Meeting, Milano, Italy.
Sen, S, 2011, Petroleum Source Rock Assessment Of the Middle Oligocene-Lower Miocene Coal Bearing Deltaic Sediments in the NW Turkey, AAPG Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, USA.