Geophysicist

Pursue a career in the seismic domain or allied discipline of Geosciences where I can apply my geophysical knowledge and experience.

Field Geophysicist: Schlumberger “WesternGeco”, desert of Algeria, (Nov 2005 – Present)
2D and 3D prospect design and quality control of the sources and receivers
locations.
2D and 3D Land infield processing for quality control purposes, geometry QC.
Interactive modeling of problem areas; offsets, movements.
Daily check of the field ground instrument and vibrators wireline tests.
Processing of a field logging of low velocity layer (LVL) and uphole surveys.
Interaction with clients through meetings, presentations and filing reports.

Geophysicist (office based): Schlumberger “Data Processing center”, Algiers, Algeria, (Jan 2008 - Mar2008)
Assist in appraisal project planning and technical representations at
partner meetings.
Take a part of 3D seismic data processing “reformat the seismic data,
generating velocity fields, First-break picking and static modeling,...etc

Summer trainee: TOTAL France, Pau, France, (Apr 2005 - Oct 2005).
In the context of Deeply Buried Reservoirs project:
Refined the wells post mortem study to determine the seismic velocities uncertainty, and the pressures calculated using the Eaton formula.
Prediction of the pore pressure using high density seismic velocities.
pressure, pressure and velocity uncertainties).

Summer trainee: Seismology laboratory, I.P.G.P, Paris, (Feb 2004 - Jun 2004)
Detailed study of earthquakes "Volcan de la Fournaise, Ile de la
reunion”.
Seismological data processing from the Multicomponent seismic polarization
analysis and use
of the algorithms package of Seismic Unix program “SU” to relocate the
earthquakes.

Summer trainee: ENAGEO DP Center (National Geophysical Company), Algiers, (Feb 2001- Jul 2001-
Generating synthetic seismic data to compare the effect of multiples
attenuation in (Tau, P) and (F, K) domains.
Seismic data processing under Promax & GeovecteurPlus for a 2D land survey,
from reformat to time migration stack section.

Université de Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris VI, Paris, (Sep 2004 - Sep 2005).
Master in Geosciences: Applied Geophysics.
Thesis: Pore Pressure Prediction using high density attributes.

National Institute of Hydrocarbons & chemistry, Boumerdes, Algeria, (Oct 1996 - Oct 2001).
Bachelor of Geophysics engineering.
Thesis: Multiple attenuation study: comparison between FK and Taup

Schlumberger Training Center: Course, Dubai, UAE, (Feb 2006 Apr 2006).
General theory of Geophysics
Job specific theory & practical skills

Schlumberger Middle East Learning Center “MLC”, Abu-Dhabi, UAE, (October 2008).
2D – 3D Design for Land Seismic Operations course

Computer skills
Fortran, Visual Basic, Shell scripting and AWK for programming and scripting
languages, Omega and SU “Seismic Unix” for seismic data processing.
Predict Drillworks 2005 for Pore Pressure Prediction.
Matlab and Scilab software for modeling.
MS Office, Grapher, Surfer and Photoshop.