Team Leader Ph D

Dr. Samir Nabil Shehab

Senior Petrophysicist & Team Leader

Ph.D. holder with 20 years of experience

+2-015***-**-*** - +20-111-**-***-**

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Summary

Current position: Senior Petrophysicist & team leader for multi-plans in the Exploration Department, Rashid Petroleum Company JV of (Shell & PETRONAS ( . An experienced, innovative, and energetic professional senior Petrophysicist with an excellent work track record and ethic. 20 years of hands-on experience from sitting rigs to managing and evaluation large oil and gas fields including exploration and development operations. This wealth of experience includes oil & gas exploration to achieve many projects with multidiscipline. like well sitting geology, operation geology, formation evaluation and leading teams for more opportunities and increase the production.

Senior Petrophysicist with strong background in operations and production petrophysics as well as reservoir description. I hold a Ph.D. in formation evaluation of conventional & unconventional reservoirs including clastic and carbonate targets. My job experience involves - Planning and interpretation of open-hole and cased-hole logs, - Developing and improving log models for porosity, permeability, water saturation and saturation-height functions through rock typing and calibration with core.

A productive leader with a track record of cost-effective execution of different wells programs

(Exploratory, appraisal & development wells) including vertical, deviated & horizontal wells. while managing highly skilled international teams in multi-disciplinary environments to achieve team goals as well as corporate goals. In compliance with goals, policies, and objectives established by the Chief Executive Officer and the Board of Directors, direct, coordinate, and administer all aspects of organization operations. Participate in the development of policies that support financial performance and organizational expansion. Coaching the new hires. Provided leadership and mentorship to large group of people across different cultures and languages. Career History from 2004 to the present

General Petroleum Company (GPC) 2005-2006, (Wellsite Geologist). Western Desert Petroleum Company 2006-2009 (Operation Geologist). Rashpetco JV of Shell & Petronas 2009 to present (Senior Petrophysicist & Team Leader).

Work Experience 2004 to the present.

• 15 years of experience Performing petrophysical analysis and provided reservoir properties of Conventional and unconventional reservoirs including advanced Tools, magnetic resonance, formation image & sonic tools.

• 5 years of experience in exploration and development geology as wellsite & operation Geologist including vertical, deviated, and horizontal wells.

• Achieving formation evaluation of in Gas fields (Rosetta fields and West Delta Deep Marine fields) offshore Nile Delta, Egypt. Bed-1 concession oil field in western desert Egypt.

• Defined fluid contact based on available data integrating geophysical, geology and reservoir engineering data.

• Prepared & monitored wireline GR, Density, Neutron, resistivity, CMR, FMI, MDT & LWD logging program integrating multi disciplines requirements, i.e., geophysical, geological and petrophysical data.

• Prepared core analysis program for both RCA & SCAL.

• Completed re-evaluation on petrophysical logs for new & work over wells. Proposed additional zones to be perforated to enhanced hydrocarbon recovery.

• Work closely with geologists, production technologists and reservoir engineers on oil production monitoring using surface data acquisition as well cased hole logging.

• Prepared work scope and evaluated technical tender for wireline logging, LWD & core analysis

• Proposed MDT points for pressure and sampling and work together with reservoir engineer, operation geologist and geophysicist.

• Generate reservoir summary based on available petrophysical data

• Reviewed Petrophysical Interpretation for Rosetta, WDDM & Bed1 fields prior for Chemical EOR implementation consists of 55 wells.

• Completed petrophysical evaluation for 30 wells incorporating all available data i.e. open hole logs, mud logs, well test data, offsetting wells of simian-sienna and Sapphire fields.

• Core analysis preparation and application in minimizing petrophysical uncertainties.

• Operation Petrophysicist for exploration/development drilling campaign at offshore & onshore wireline-logging program for the deep-water project in Mediterranean Egypt.

• Experience and updated with latest well data acquisition types and methodologies.

• Experience in the preparation of the Field Development Plan (FDP) documentation for review and approval by the respective stakeholders.

• Solid experience in geological operations for drilling activities. Duties & Responsibilities

• Plan, implement and update petrophysical program by application of cost-effective logging technologies and perform evaluation of petrophysical logs acquired throughout all phases

(exploration, appraisal, development, and production).

• Plan, monitor and review petrophysical technology advancement by studying and assessing in- house technology research and development, technology collaboration with partners, acquisition, outsourcing and benchmarking to ensure continuous availability of matured, cost effective and cutting-edge technology solution to support economic and sustainable development and production of hydrocarbon recovery technology at related fields.

• Ensure that all the OH & CH interpretations/studies are delivered in a timely manner with the right level of quality.

• QA/QC and interpretation of OH and CH logs, including conventional and non-conventional logging solutions.

• Processing of raw data using/adapting Petrophysical models.

• Delivery of well interpretation presentation, documents/reports to cross-functional audience.

• Support and provide petrophysical input into panel reviews and completion meetings, to support static and dynamic reservoir models.

• Demonstrate strong understanding of rig operations, mud gases and advanced cuttings analysis.

• Analysis, rock typing and facies analysis integrating well logs and core data.

• Interpret reservoir pressure testing and integrate with the petrophysical models to calibrate reservoir and fluid interpretations.

• Provide petrophysical solutions for marginal and tight reservoirs in both clastics and carbonates to capture hydrocarbon potential.

• Work with a multidisciplinary team to provide recommendations on minimizing formation damage and designing reservoir stimulation programs.

• Conduct detailed petrophysical studies integrating G&G and engineering data to optimize well planning, placement, and resource estimation.

• Provide Pre/Syn/Post-drilling support for exploration & development wells.

• Prepare and present professional-quality presentation materials to technical peers and management.

• Ensure that all aspects of well design, well placement and formation evaluation, from early planning, execution, acquisition, receipt and interpretation of the data, for all operated wells

(Fields and Exploration), are coherent with the well objectives and that achievements yield value- for-money.

• Acting as main operational point of contact internally and for all geological service companies involved in the drilling of wells and ensuring that contracted services are delivered as requested.

• Apply Company’s Health, Safety and Environment Policy and Safety Management System.

• Capable of providing petrophysical technical guidance, training and share best practices to other disciplines. Take a lead role in championing of new petrophysical interpretation approach and develop technical competencies •

• Perform cement log evaluation of new Exploration, Appraisal and Development wells, include any behind casing opportunity evaluation with cased hole saturation and production logs •

• Quality control, consolidate and manage petrophysics database which includes wells, logs data both raw and interpreted, cores, etc

Some of Projects during all my 20 years of experience in oil field

• Achieving formation evaluation of in Gas fields (Rosetta fields and West Delta Deep Marine fields) offshore Nile Delta, Egypt. Bed-1 concession oil field in western desert Egypt.

• Achieving drilling and supervise drilling campaign in GPC & WEPCO with professional way and safely dealing with different nationalities.

• Coaching new hires and make very good communication, solves all problems which they face together, which related to operation geology, formation evaluation, seismic interpretation & reservoir characterization.

Achievements

• Increasing the production from shallow and deep water with different teams in Rashpetco joint venture of Shell & Petronas (one from the largest gas company in Egypt) to the peak 2.4 BCF of gas daily with budget mor than 600,000,000. Six hundred million dollar per single phase.

• Implemented evaluation tests and field development to increase production 600 % by drilling new Exploratory, appraisal & development wells on new study concept in Bed1 concession (brown field from more than 40 years of production) and get the award with the corporation's team by Egypt's Minister of Petroleum.

• Drill deep water gas wells in Mediterranean with high efficiency and safely with cost more than 130,000,000 one hundred thirty million Dollar per well, with drillship Rig and water depth more than 2500 m. two thousand & five hundred meter.

• Drill unconventional reservoirs in both onshore (Western desert) & Offshore (Mediterranean) including, low resistivity pay (LRP), tight Reservoirs less than 6% porosity, heavy oil reservoirs in both clastic and carbonate which leaded to increase the daily oil & gas production alongside conventional reservoirs to (2.4 BCF of gas & 6500 bbl. of oil).

• Re-evaluate of legacy wells for EOR alongside the team in Bed1 concession (brown field) & make basket of different targets of workover wells which aided increase the production 600 % alongside with new wells.

Education & Degrees

• Finished my Ph.D. in 2018 under title (formation evaluation of conventional & unconventional reservoirs including clastic and carbonate reservoirs. Al-Azhar University, Egypt). Publications

Geological setting & Sequence Stratigraphy of Pliocene sediments in Sequoia Field in Offshore Nile Delta, Egypt Prof. Dr. Abdel Galil A. Hewaidy, Dr. Mohamed Fathy and Samir Nabil Shehab. Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Egypt, 2016. Detection of hydrocarbon, by using advanced well log tools for kafr el-Sheikh formation at sapphire field, offshore Nile delta, Egypt Hassan el-kady1, mohamed fathy1 and Samir Nabil Shehab2 2018. Speaker at EGYPS conference (Egypt petroleum Show) Three times with advanced technical papers.

Success story for production from unconventional reservoirs alongside with conventional reservoirs Nile delta Mediterranean, Egypt.

Detection and evaluation of different types of unconventional reservoirs to increase production, western desert, Egypt.

New formation evaluation technique by building complete petrophysical model and detecting of perforated intervals from LWD (gamma ray and resistivity only) of all kinds of petroleum wells especially high risky wells, which leads risk mitigation, cost reduction & increasing the production, western desert, Egypt.

Supervisor of thesis of scientific Researchers from different universities. Some of courses

• Advanced formation evaluation Course

• Advanced well log interpretation

• Core analysis and Well logging Course

• Geo-steering of Horizontal wells course

• Integration between well log and Seismic data

• Unconventional oil and Gas reservoirs Course

• Sequence Stratigraphy and Seismic Course

• Reservoir Characterization Course

• Training course in Personal Survival Techniques Search and Rescue on Board Offshore.

• Training Course in Firefighting on Board Offshore & Medical First Aid.

• Offshore Helicopter Underwater Escape (H.U.E.T) & Behavior Based Safety (BBS). Used Software

Elanplus software for formation evaluation.

Techlog software for formation evaluation.

Win log Pro. Software to generate composite logs.

Languages and Computer skills

Arabic is mother tongue.

English fluent in both speaking and writing.

Computer skills Good Command in dealing with computer software that run under Windows and Linux Systems environments.

Soft Skills

Active listening skill. Communication skills. Computer Skills. Leadership Skills. Management Skills. Problem-solving skills. Time management. Transferable skills. Flexibility. Teamwork. Creativity. Attention to details. Responsibility. Negotiation skills.

Personal Bio

Date of Birth 19/10/1980 Marital status Married

Citizenship Egyptian Military status fully exempted Affiliations

Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA) American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). References

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