Oil & Gas Business Development & Economist

Oil & Gas Business Analyst, Economist, Project Manager, Assistant Director.

EXPERIENCE (10 Years )
June 2010 - Sept. 2010
Center for Energy Economics (CEE) – University of Texas -Houston, Texas, USA
Researcher / Visiting Scholar (Full Time)
Participate in the following CEE's projects: Developing a research paper for the EIA on global oil markets, studying Iraq upstream bidding rounds, defining value creation for national oil companies, and assessing Ghana's oil and gas needs to support strategic decisions by the Government of Ghana and international partners.

Mar. 2007 - July 2009
Oil Marketing Company (SOMO)- Baghdad, Iraq
The only and official exporter of Iraqi crude oils, products and gas.
Senior Economist & Head of Market Research Dept. (Full Time)
•Studied & analyzed the determinants of oil prices and price differentials between various grades of crude oil and between international markets.
•Applied regression analysis on oil market price movements.
•Elaborately co managed the relationship of Iraq with OPEC.
•Launched a daily report on oil price movements to the Minister of Oil and Oil and Gas Marketing Dept.
•Distinctively led a team of six economists in Market Research Dept.

Oct. 2004 - Mar. 2007
Ministry of Oil / Office Of The Inspector General - Baghdad, Iraq
Economist (Full Time)
•Established financial evaluation models for the state - owned oil companies.
•Successfully constructed linear programming models to optimize the local distribution of oil products.
•Managed the project of 'Transparency Reports' which has succeeded in revealing critical information about oil smuggling (2nd report) and crude oil exports (3rd report) amongst other various and hot issues.

Mar. 2001 - Jan. 2002
Electricity Distribution Company - Baghdad, Iraq
Consultant (Part Time)
•Successfully utilized artificial neural networks in the forecasting of electricity demand.

Sept. 2000 - July 2004
Al-Rafidain University College - Baghdad, Iraq
Instructor (Full Time)
•Taught forecasting techniques, stochastic-system simulation, mathematical models in operations research and probabilistic inventory models.
•Published a paper on building an integer linear programming model for production planning.
•Supervised three bachelor projects in forecasting and linear programming.

Sept. 2010
Columbia University, School Of International And Public Affairs New York, USA
Master of Public Administration.
Program in Economic Policy Management with Focus on International Energy Policy And Management

Aug. 2007
Organization Of The Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Vienna, Austria
Energy Research Fellowship Program: Conducted a research on quantifying the relationship between crudes' main two qualities (API and Sulfur content) and their prices in the main three international markets.

Sept. 1999
Baghdad University, College Of Administration And Economics Baghdad, Iraq
Master of Operations Research

SPECIALIZED TRAINING AND SEMINARS

April 2010
Inflation Targeting New York, USA
Workshop, Bank of England in association with Program in Economic Policy Management in CU/SIPA

Mar. 2009
OPEC Fourth Seminar Vienna, Austria
Seminar, OPEC

July 2008
Petroleum Markets & Refineries Production Planning Tokyo, Japan
Training Course, Nippon Oil Corp.

RESEARCH

Aug. 2007
" Estimating The Effects Of Quality Differences On Crude Oil Prices "

May 2007
" Regression Analysis To Control The Pricing Of Basrah Light Crude Oil "

Jan. 2002
" Applying Artificial Neural Networks In The Forecasting Of Electricity Demand "

Dec. 2001
" Building An Integer Linear Programming Model For Production Planning "


PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

United States Association For Energy Economics
International Association For Energy Economics


COMPUTER SKILLS
Statistical Softwares (Stata, Statgraphics & SPSS), Mathematical Programming and Operations Research Softwares (LINDO & WinQSB), MS Office (Word, Excel & PowerPoint)


LANGUAGES
Arabic (Native), English (Fluent)