Senior Reservoir Engineer

A Senior Reservoir Engineer with 15 years of experience in reservoir, petroleum, production and drilling engineering. Assets under management have ranged from marginal onshore oil and gas projects to multi-billion dollar deep water projects.

Apache Corporation – Cairo, Egypt
Senior Reservoir Engineer, 2009-present

•Acting as Reservoir Engineering Expert in the Khalda Joint Venture (KPC)
•Assets under management include 16 oil and 2 gas fields with stacked pay; this is approximately 160 active wells, most of which required waterflooding
•Tasks include well performance monitoring, waterflood surveillance and optimisation and production optimisation by maximising wellbore usage in stacked pay wells

Apache Energy – Perth, Australia
Senior Reservoir Engineer, 2002-2009

•Responsible for all aspects of reservoir engineering for much of Apache’s offshore acreage
•Assets under management included the Julimar-Brunello gas field – a 2.1 TCF gas discovery in about 200m of water. Other assets were mostly in 30-100m water depth and were produced via template/jacket structures
•Constructed full field reservoir simulation models on 8 separate oil and gas fields

Schlumberger - DCS & IPM
Senior Petroleum Engineer, 2002-2009

•Secondment to Schlumberger IPM’s alliance contract with Shirvan Oil in Azerbaijan, working 3 months in total. Operations Team Leader overseeing 7 Expats, the work involved running operations consisting of a wireline unit, slickline unit and testing separator for over 400 producing wells
•Provided Eclipse support

Origin Energy – Perth, Australia
Petroleum Engineer, 2000-2001

•Responsible for production from the Beharra Springs and Tubridgi Gas Fields
•Involved in reservoir development and engineering projects such as studies and reservoir simulation modelling for these fields
•Identified workover candidates by monitoring gas and water rates for individual wells. Composed workover programmes and approval documents, estimated costs, coordinated contractors and equipment and supervised workovers on site

Oil Company of Australia (subsidiary of Origin Energy) – Brisbane, Australia
Petroleum Engineer, 1998-2000

•Responsible for production from the Kenmore, Bodalla South, Bargie and Blackstump Oil fields
•Involved in reservoir development and engineering projects such as studies and reservoir simulation modelling for these fields

Oil Company of Australia (subsidiary of Origin Energy) – Brisbane, Australia
Drilling Engineer, 1996-1998

Oil Company of Australia (subsidiary of Origin Energy) – Brisbane, Australia
Undergraduate Petroleum Engineer,1994–1995

HSC Tertiary Entrance Ranking = 98.50% 1991
The University of New South Wales, Australia 1992 - 1995
- Bachelor of Engineering in Petroleum Engineering (Honours), (Winner of the SPE Scholarship in 1994)

Training Courses:

•Waterflooding A to Z,2010
•PETREL Introduction, 2009
•Reservoir Sandstone Bodies & Architecture in a Basinal Context, 2008
•Exploration Economics, Risk Analysis & Prospect Evaluation, 2007
•Reservoir Modelling Field Class, 2007
•Integrated Production Modelling (Prosper, GAP, MBAL, PVTp), 2006
•Aries Fundamentals, 2006
•PETREL Reservoir Engineering, 2005
•ECLIPSE Blackoil, 2005
•HUET, 2002 & 2004
•Excel 2000 Visual Basic for Applications, 2004
•Advanced Open Hole Log Interpretation, 2003
•Petrophysics and Data Integration for Reserves & Simulation, 2002
•Production Logging, Kappa, 2002

Training Courses Continued:

•Schlumberger IPM Induction 2001
•Schlumberger IPM Induction 2001
•Advanced Well Testing 2001
•Baker Hughes Completions 1999
•Drillstem Test Interpretation 1998
•Otatco Beam Pump Training 1998
•OGCI Drilling Optimisation and Well Planning 1997
•Boral Supervisor Occupational Health and Safety 1997
•Boral Graduate Program 1996 - 1997
•Century Energy Services Air Drilling 1996
•Well Control Certificate 1996 & 1999

Professional Memberships:
- SPE Member

TOOLS:
ECLIPSE, PETEX (GAP, Prosper, MBAL, PVTp), KAPPA (Saphir, Emeraude), Pansys, OFM, Aries, Merak, Petrel, Crystal Ball, Microsoft Office