Petroleum Engineer

• Generate well performance improvement proposals. Plan a variety of well improvement proposals including WSO, adding perforations, gas lift optimisation, workovers through HWO and main rig.

• Oil industry experience working for Independent and Major oil & gas operators.
• Experience with both undersaturated oil reservoirs and gas reservoirs and the associated production system.
• Consultant Production Technologist for Shell EPE, Aberdeen.
• Onshore and offshore experience in completion, workover and well intervention operations.
• Production Technology including workover planning and completion design.
• Operations Reservoir Engineering including plant, well and reservoir optimisation to maximise production.
• ‘Wellwork Project Team Leader’ and ‘Project Manager’ for number of projects.
• Experience in design, deployment and monitoring of ESP.
• Expert in design, deployment, monitoring and troubleshooting of gas lifted wells.
• Expert in design, planning and execution of slickline, e-line and coiled tubing interventions.
• Proficient in completion and workover design, planning and execution.
• Proficient in industry specific simulation packages such WellFlo, Prosper, GAP, WellCat.
• Experience in use of Petrel to assist in reservoir management and well activity proposals.
• 1st Class MEng Mechanical Engineering degree from UMIST.
• Extremely motivated and proactive approach to work.
• Excellent communication skills written and oral in English and fluent Arabic speaker. Team Player.

Sep 97 – Jun 01: University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST)
1st Class Degree, Mechanical Engineering MEng (Hons)
Awarded three certificates for consecutively being the top Mechanical Engineering MEng student in 2nd, 3rd and 4th year.
• Overall Course Marks: 1st Year (76%), 2nd Year (80%), 3rd Year (76%), 4th Year (76%)
• Achieved goals set in group design and make activities during 1st and 2nd years
• Final year group project: Gained project management experience being the team leader of the project. The project objective was to design and make a 4 wheeled man-powered vehicle with a given budget of £1500. This was successfully achieved meeting all deadlines.
• Final year individual project: Design of monocoque and hybrid frame/skin structure for human powered vehicles utilising finite element stress analysis techniques/software.
Westhill Academy
• 3 CSYS’s - AAC, 4 Higher grades – AAAB, 7 Standard grades - 1112334

• RGIT Offshore Survival Certificate: Current
• Offshore Medical Certificate: Current

Professional Experience
Shell EPE, Aberdeen, UK
Sep 06 – Present: Production Technology Consultant, Brent/Penguins Field UKCS
• Brent/Penguins field production technology consultant. Continuously monitor and optimise the Integrated Production System. Manage well integrity within Shell guidelines.
• Focal point and primary engineer for devising commissioning procedures, guidelines and training of offshore personnel for commissioning of Penguins gas lift which is a 65km tie-back to Brent Charlie. Transient modeling techniques (OLGA) used to determine commissioning process in safest and most efficient manner. Presenting project and results at ASME/IPO/API Gas Lift Conference in Houston, USA.
• Generate well performance improvement proposals. Plan a variety of well improvement proposals including WSO, adding perforations, gas lift optimisation, workovers through HWO and main rig.
• Carry out studies to optimise and maintain field production and integrity. Carried out a review of the new “low pressure operation” pressure drops to understand where bottlenecks exist after the system changes.
• Input into a reliable Integrated Production System Capacity forecast.
• Ensure appropriate models and technology are used and maintained.
• Carry out reviews with Production Chemistry to determine scaling environment severity and scaling tendency of various types of scale. Review scale management strategy and suggest improvements/changes to current and proposed strategies.