 Thai
Quoc Vu
Mr. Thai Quoc Vu graduated from The University of Tulsa, in Tulsa,
Oklahoma, United States.
He has 35 years of experience in the oil industry.
He has been with KOC since 2010 in FD SEK GBS. Before joining KOC, he
had worked over 30 years in the U.S. with Exxon USA, ARCO Alaska, BP
Exploration and the State of Alaska.
Today he will share his experience in “SEK Water Handling Facility
Expansion Challenge.”
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 Abrarr
Alfulaij
Abrarr Alfulaij is a planner in KOC R&D Group. She has graduated from
University of Colorado with a Bachelor and Masters in Electrical
Engineering. From 2006 to 2014 she has worked in KPC Technology
Management department where she has contributed in managing KPC EVI, the
venture capital arm of KPC.
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 Khalid
Ahmed
Khalid is currently working with KOC as a TPL Specialist Petrophysicist
in the Heavy Oil Group. A career Petrophysicist with over 3 decades of
experience, Khalid joined KOC in 2002, after successfully serving ONGC,
India’s National Oil Company, for 21 years. He started his career as a
Field Engineer and then moved in to the role of Petrophysicist, working
in both onshore and offshore- dealing with Clastics as well as
Carbonates. He is working with KOC Heavy Oil Group since its inception
in 2007. He is author of many technical publications and papers and is
in the Technical Editor team of SPE’s Peer Review Committee for various
technical journals. He had co-chaired many SPE events and delivered Key
Note address in one SPE-ATW. He holds an M Sc in Physics and is an
active member of SPE, SPWLA and AAPG.
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 Mr.
Abdulwahab Al-Ahmad
Abdulwahab is a Graduate in Mechanical Engineering from A&M University,
Alabama in 1994 and has 19 years of work Experience in Inspection &
Corrosion Teams in Kuwait Oil Company. Presently he is a TPL Specialist
and heading West Kuwait Inspection Section. He has passion for writing
and has many publications to his credit, published in various local and
international Journals.
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 Nazia
Qidwai
I initially started as an employee of the E&P IM team 8 years ago
supporting & coordinating their data loading workflows. For the past 4
years, I am working as a Planner (strategic) via the D&T Planning Team
for the R&T Business unit and heading the R&T Marketing &
Communications. In addition, I also support the E&P IM team branding
efforts.
I was born & raised in Kuwait having a Bachelors of Liberal Arts in
Economics from the University of Iowa.
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 Ajay
Gautam
About 15 years in Project Management, Project Control (Schedule,
Resources, Time & Cost), Preventive Maintenance Planning for Oil & Gas &
Energy Sectors.
Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering.
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from PMI, USA.
Planning for Preventive / Condition Based Maintenance schedules of
various machinery and equipment to increase availability and reliability
of Plant.
Risk Management.
Materials Planning.
Currently associated with Kuwait Oil Company, Kuwait, in the capacity of
Engineer Planning in Operations Support Group.
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Ahmad
Rashed
Senior Engineer planning
Holding Class Two marine Engineer Certificate, has joined Kuwait Oil
Company in 1999, and promoted to Senior Engineer Planning in 2010,
working in North Kuwait Maintenance Support and Reliability Team,
looking after the Preventive Maintenance for the static Equipment’s of
the Gathering centers, has executed many major and minor surveys for the
Gathering Centers and Booster Stations.
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 Syed
Mohammad Razaa
Syed Mohammad Razaa is Senior Training Coordinator in Technical
Personnel Development Team in Kuwait Oil Company (KOC).
He holds Master degree in Commerce (M. Com from Avadh University India).
In his 16 years of Middle East Experience in the area of Competency
Development, Mr. Syed has completed various value added projects for
both government and non-government organizations.
As a competency development specialist, Mr. Syed has introduced several
new initiatives and projects and implemented successfully such as BTEC
and NVQ programs in different disciplines (Business Administration,
Mentoring & Coaching, Accounts and Finance etc.).
Currently working with Technical Personnel Development team (more than 5
years) and involved intensively in numerous performance management and
talent development activities. He is recognized as innovative and
excellent Quality Assurance personnel.
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 Sandeep
Chaturvedi
Sandeep is a Mechanical Engineering Graduate with a Master’s degree in
Administrative Management. He has an experience of over twenty five
years in commercial functions across Oil and Gas Industry. Since 2008 he
is working with KOC as Snr. Contracts Engineer. Besides handling Tender
and Contract Management he is member of Competency Development Unit as
job family expert. Before KOC he has worked in ONGC Videsh Limited India
and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation of India. He is a member of Indian
Institute of Material Management and Institution of Engineers, India.
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 Debabrata
Pattnaik
A Graduate in Electrical Engineer with Master Degree in Business
Administration (MBA) having 24+ years of professional experience in the
Oil & Gas Industry in the field of Engineering Design, Project
Management, Construction, Testing & Commissioning of EPC, LSTK & FPLS
Projects. I had joined M/s Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) Engineering Group as
an Electrical Design Engineer-I in the year 2006 and handled many
projects as supporting engineer as well as Lead Design Engineer to
prepare the CPP, FEED, BP, AFE, RFC, Review & Approval of Detailed
Design Documents of Contractor Transmittals, Letters and completed many
projects successfully leading a Team of other discipline engineers in
close coordination and proactive action with Senior Engineers, Team
Leaders, Managers. Prior to joining KOC, I was selected by M/s Bahrain
Petroleum Company (Bapco), Bahrain in the year 2000 as Electrical Design
Engineer for the Bapco Strategic Investment Projects. I had started my
carrier as a project Engineer at Visakh Refinery of M/s Hindustan
Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), one of the largest Oil & Gas
Company of Government of India in 1990 as a professionally qualified
Electrical Engineer on an All India Merit basis. Over the years, I have
undergone a very systematic professional upbringing and practical
orientation to various aspects of Oil Industry work procedures, Company
Standards, Design Software (ETAP, Auto Cad), International Standards
(IEC, IEEE, BS, Shell, NFPA), Construction Standards (NEC, Bechtel),
Project Management and HSEMS procedures"
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 Mr.
Hasan Al-Qallaf,
Drilling Engineer
Hasan possesses a BSc (Mechanical Engineering) from Kuwait University
and has joined KOC as a Safety Engineer in 2010, and since April 2013 he
becomes a Drilling Engineer in Technical services 1.
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 Kirti
Nath Jha
As a technically competent Electrical Engineer, I have contributed over
23 years ( 7 years with KOC; 16 years with IPCL/Reliance India) in
implementing best maintenance practices to generate maximum
machine/switchgear utility, providing engineering solutions, ensuring
trouble free operations and proficient project management, in a large
Oil & Gas industries/petrochemical complex. Mastered the techniques of
accomplishing commissioning projects ( this also include Six Sigma Black
Belt Projects), and minor / major modifications, within defined
time/cost parameters. Gained core strengths in implementing preventive,
predictive and proactive maintenance practices to minimize downtime.
Successful track record in identifying vulnerable areas/weak links,
conducting fault analysis / FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) and
devising quick solutions to address commissioning
blues/breakdowns/repetitive failures. Deftly handled a wide range of
electrical and power electronics equipment to ensure prolonged service
life thereof. Fully conversant with relays protection, diagnostic
testing, SAP PM and MM-module, Maximos, quality, environment, health and
safety standards and their implementations, international codes &
standards and have provided technical training to Electrical engineers
on various topics of electrical engineering.
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 Jassim
Al-Ghanim
Senior Reservoir Engineer, Kuwait Gulf Oil Company
Jassim Al-Ghanim is currently working as a Senior Reservoir Engineer in
Fields Development (Khafji) Team at Kuwait Gulf Oil Company. Prior to
joining KGOC, he worked as a Research Assistant in Kuwait Institute for
Scientific Research (KISR). Jassim has experience in Fields Development
activities, offshore operations, production operations, reserves
evaluation etc. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in petroleum
engineering from Kuwait University. He is a member of Society of
Petroleum Engineers and Kuwait Society of Engineers and actively
involved in the various activities by presenting Technical papers,
participating in seminars etc.
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 Ali
Khajah
Chief Industrial Hygienist
Mr. Ali Khajah is Chief Industrial Hygienist at HSE Team (NK); He is has
been working in HSE of KOC for 7 years. Has a degree of BSc with Honors
in Genetics and Immunology from the University Of Aberdeen, UK.
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 Ajithkumar
Gangadhara Panicker
An Electrical & Electronic Engineering graduate with more than 22 years
of experience in electrical design , project execution as well as
maintenance of electrical equipment in Oil and Gas Industry . Developed
new methodologies to reduce the fire incidents in tank due to lightning
, and a low cost energy management system for offices etc . Participated
in the team for development of working models of energy conversion
through thermo –acoustic and solar powered sterling engine .Conducted
several training sessions and authored various standard maintenance
practice modules related to electrical equipment.
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 Safiya
Al-Mosaileekh
Degree:
• Bachelor in Petroleum Engineering from Kuwait University’s college of
Engineering and Petroleum completed in 2007.
• Doing a master in Petroleum Engineering from Kuwait University.
Work Experience:
• Joined KOC in Oct 2009 in Field Development North Kuwait Group and has
since been involved in many projects.
• Worked in Schlumberger’s SIS department from Feb tile Sep 2009 as a
production Engineer
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 Abdul
Jaleel Tharayil
Abdul Jaleel is the Project Leader, Enterprise Knowledge management at
Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). He has over 19 years of experience in the
domain of Knowledge Management. A native of Malappuram, India, Jaleel
began his career as an Information Assistant with National Defense
Science Lab, New Delhi, in the year 1993. Since then he has worked on
various Knowledge Management Roles with various organizations such as
IBM Global Services India, MindTree Consulting and Wipro. In the year
2008 he moved to Kuwait and worked on various Knowledge Management
consulting engagements in the Oil and Gas Sector. Prior to joining KOC,
he served as an advisor to the Prime Minister of Kuwait. Abdul Jaleel
holds a Master's Degree in Information Science from Indian Statistical
Institute, Kolkata and a double bachelor’s degree from Calicut
University, India.
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Bouland,
Ali Abdullah
Graduated with a 3.85 GPA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale
USA in 2010, with a Bachelors degree of Mechanical Engineering. In Nov
2010, I joined KOC in Well Surveillance Technical Team I doing Wireline
and Coiled Tubing operations for 3 years. During which I worked on
different technical on contractual projects. Latest Project being the
Acid Stimulation Evaluation Study. In the beginning of 2014, I joined
Well Surveillance Artificial Lift Team II as a Well Surveillance
Engineer.
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 Abdulaziz
Al-Ghareeb
has borne in State of Kuwait 1983. He gets the bachelor in Geology in
2005 from Kuwait University, and he gets the master's degree in general
geology specialized in seismology in 2014 also from Kuwait University.
His master's research about the relationship between the earthquakes and
the oil operation in State of Kuwait.
He worked as a geology teacher for 3 years then he joined to one of the
major oil company in exploration and development called Al-Khafji Joint
Operation as an Exploration Geologist since 2008 till date. Abdulaziz is
a member in European Association for Geologist and Engineers (EAGE).
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 Mariam
Ahmed Al-Shuaib
Petroleum Engineer in FD ( North Kuwait) Sabriya/Bahra team
I joined KOC in DEC 2008.
Bachelor in Petroleum Engineering from Kuwait University’s college of
Engineering and Petroleum completed in 2007.
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 Ali
Hamed Faras
BS. Electrical Engineering, a Well Surveillance Engineer in Well
Surveillance Group Artificial Lift-I Team with total experience of four
and a half years in ESP system, was certified for Six Sigma Green Belt
in 2012 and currently working on Six Sigma Black Belt project about
Electrical Submersible Pumps (ESP) downtime reduction in NK fields, also
responsible for constantly enhancing our In-House Artificial Lift System
toward perfection.
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 Abdul-Mohsen
AL-Mershed
Senior Petrophysicist with Kuwait Oil Company (KOC).
Graduated from Kuwait University (KU) in the year 2003 with a Bachelor
of Science in Geology. He began his career working for Kuwait Oil
Company (KOC) in 2004 as Well site geologist for the initial two years
and then shifted to Development Geology in Field Development North
Kuwait Group. Transferred to NK Reservoir Studies Team as Petrophysicist
in 2009, worked on open hole logging programs, log editing,
normalization and interpretation, cased hole interpretation for
surveillance and workover wells. Also worked on Cores and routine core
analysis. Also participated in several additional Petrophysical projects
in FDNK like Water Encroachment Monitoring Project, FDNK database clean
up and Stamped Logs, and completed the Petrophysical Characterization
Training Program (Houston, Texas 2011). Transferred to Gas Fields
Development Group in 2013.
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 Eid
Ali Al-Eid
Senior Engineer Instrument Maintenance
Experience: 14 years in oil and gas industries
Qualification:
1. Bachelor in electrical engineering by “Kuwait university” 1999.
2. Member in “Kuwait society of engineers” since 2000.
3. Member in “International society of automation” since 2001.
4. Certified by “British safety council” in occupational health and
safety 2006.
5. Member in “gulf society of maintenance professionals” since 2010.
6. Certified Functional safety engineer by “TÜV Rheinland” 2013.
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 Ahmad
Al-Dawood
Joined Kuwait Oil Company in 2008, he has B.Sc. in Geology from Kuwait
University (2006). He worked as a Well Site Geologist within Gas
Development Group, Also He has been involved with the Field Development
Gas Study Team as a Development Geologist, and has A basic knowledge in
seismic interpretation and Geomechanics. He has worked with Shell
Company (Rijswijk, Netherlands), As an attached employee for three moths
(Feb.2013-May,2013), working on New Generation Static Modeling.
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Mohammad
Al-Hadher
Mohammad is a petroleum engineer, KOC. He is graduated from Kuwait
University (Petroleum Engineering Department) in 2006. He joined KOC in
January 2007 (7 years’ experience). He is working in fields development
north Kuwait, Raudhatain team. He is looking after well interventions,
workover and completion, and rigless activities. In 2012, Mohammad got a
master degree, from Kuwait University, in petroleum engineering.
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 Mr.
Pawan Kumar Bansal
is a Process Engineer in Operations Technical Services (West Kuwait)
Team of Kuwait Oil Company. He has more than 18 years of experience in
Oil and Gas Industry. His experience includes Offshore & Onshore
facility Operations, Process Engineering and handling projects related
to Gathering Centers.
He holds Bachelor degree in Petroleum Engineering and M.B.A. degree in
Finance. He is a member of Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). He has
presented a paper in ‘KOC 3rd Sharing Best Practices Conference’ also in
2012.
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 Bala
Siva Srikanth Adivi
is a Certified Safety Professional (CSP) of Board of Certified Safety
Professionals, USA and also Chartered Member of Institution of
Occupational Safety & Health, UK. He is double graduate and associated
with Oil & Gas Industry for more than 15 years in HSE field and
presently he is working as Senior Safety Engineer in HSE (South & East
Kuwait) Team of Kuwait Oil Company.
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 Nikhil
C. Banik
had acquired his Master’s degree in the year 1979 and M.Phil. degree in
the year 1980 from University of Delhi, India. Since 1981, he is
associated with various Oil companies such as KOC, Hardy E&P Co. and
ONGC. He has also worked in Nam Con Son Basin in offshore Vietnam,
B-structure Gas Field, in offshore Thailand and on exploration block in
south Iraq prior to his joining in KOC. He joined Exploration Group, KOC
in 1999 and have been actively associated with exploration activities
all over Kuwait since then. For over past 15 years, his major
association in Exploration lies with Jurassic Prospect Evaluation team.
In association with his other team members, he has been instrumental in
mapping, reservoir characterization, deciphering trapping mechanism and
evaluation of prospects that resulted in remarkable success all across
Kuwait.
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 Shorouq
El Khatib
Shorouq is a System Analyst within the Exploration & Production
Information Management Team. Joined the team in 2007 and has over 12
years of professional experience in GIS (Geographic Information Systems)
as the area of expertise. Shorouq has a B.S. in Computer Science from
the American University of Beirut.
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 Anjaneyulu
Singavarapu
is working in oil industry since 1985. He has 28 years’ experience as a
Geophysicist in the premier National oil companies of India and Kuwait.
Having Master’s Degree in Geophysics and solid experience of 20 years
working in Geophysical Interpretation in both the fields of Exploration
and Development with a sound knowledge of working both in clastics and
carbonates environment. Possess a comprehensive knowledge of well to
seismic calibration and depth conversion methodologies, experienced and
trained in application of AVO, acoustic impedance inversion and
attribute analysis with emphasis on Reservoir Characterization, fluid
prediction and with an understanding of structural and stratigraphic
settings. He possesses 8 years of experience in geophysical data
acquisition planning, provisioning, supervising and executing data
acquisition projects. He has written more than 50 technical reports in
his career and more than 15 technical papers were presented in various
technical forums including SEG and GEO.
Presently working in Kuwait Oil Company(KOC) as a Lead Geophysicist in a
synergistic environment integrating Geophysical, Geological, Petro
physical and Reservoir data, to recommend most suitable and prospective
drilling locations for exploration.
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 Dipankar
Dutta
is a Senior Development Geologist in Kuwait Oil Company. He holds
Master’s degree in Geology from the University of Calcutta and PhD in
Carbonate Sedimentology from the University of Garhwal, Srinagar. He has
26 years of experience in oil & gas exploration and development projects
in a number of challenging basins of Africa and Southeast Asia. He has
published more than 30 papers in various journals and conference
volumes. His current focus of interest is in carbonate reservoir
characterization and modelling.
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Rasha
AL-Muraikhi
Rasha Al-Muraikhi received B.Sc. degree in Geosciences from Kuwait
University in year 2000 .She joined KOC in Sept. 2002 and working in NFD
(WK) Team as Development geology.
She received M.Sc. (Geology) degree through research from 2005 and 2008
from Kuwait University
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 Eddie
Ma
Eddie Ma has worked with Kuwait Oil Company, Field Development group
(SEK) for the past 17 years. His work has focused on reservoir
simulation of giant models in the Greater Burgan field of Kuwait.
He completed his B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering at the
University of Calgary, Canada in 1976. He worked on a wide variety of
reservoir and production engineering at Gulf Canada Resources before
joining Kuwait Oil Company in 1997.
He has been an active SPE member, presented technical papers and
co-chaired in many SPE conferences. He is currently a senior specialist
- simulation in the Greater Burgan Studies Team at KOC.
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Ahmad
Jumah Al-Qallaf
Ahmad is an electrical engineer working with Operations technical
Services Team (S&EK) at Kuwait Oil Company.
Al-Qallaf has been providing electrical engineering support for a number
of oil & gas, power studies and electrical projects. Al-Qallaf holds a
Master degree in electrical Engineering – Power electronics, from Kuwait
University.
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 Mr.T.Sanyal
Mr.T.Sanyal did his Post Graduation in Geology from Calcutta University
in India in 1977. He started his career in the Indian national oil
company ONGC. He joined Kuwait Oil Company in 1998 and is presently
working as the lead Reservoir Engineer in the Heavy Oil Development
Group of Kuwait. He is actively associated with Pilot planning,
development planning and performance analysis of this thermal Heavy Oil
EOR project.
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 Mr.
Srinivasa Murthy
Srinivasa Murthy has Mechanical Engineering degree and a Post Graduate
Diploma in Executive Management from India. He has 25 years of work
experience in Oil and Gas Industries in Inspection & Corrosion
functions. He Joined Inspection & Corrosion Team of KOC in 2006 and has
been working with West Kuwait Inspection Section for the past 5 years.
He has five publications in the international Journals/conferences
relating to Plant Integrity and Inspection.
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 Terrance
Victor Chapman
Terrance moved to Kuwait from England in 1995 to work for the Kuwait Oil
Company. His background is Information Technology and he has worked in
manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and retail banking. For the last six
years he has led the project to certify the Kuwait Oil Company quality
management system to ISO9001 standard. He is married and has three adult
children.
In addition, I have a passion for website designing, internet marketing
and various other creative arts. I hold certification in Website
Designing and I am currently studying for certification in Change
Management & Kaizen.
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 Mr.
Uthaman
Mr. Uthaman is the Chief Chemist in Kuwait Oil Company and is a dual
degree holder in Science and B.Sc (Chemical Engineering). He is a full
Member (MCIC) in Canadian Society of Chemistry and Chemical Institute of
Canada. Currently, he is in charge of North Kuwait labs of KOC; and is
also fully involved in Sea Water/produced water disposal/injection
plants, oil field chemicals issues, their selection/screening and field
trials. He is well known for his participation and contribution in the
produced water management and lab conferences. Earlier, he worked in
reputed concerns in India, 6 years with Saudi-ARAMCO in Gas Oil
Separator Plants and Gas Injection plants and also in Al-Furat
Petroleum- Shell (Syria). In his long career with oil industry, he has
visited overseas projects for knowledge sharing, conducted training
workshops and presented numerous papers in the international
conferences.
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 Eisa
Al-Daihani
Eisa Al-Daihani is the Team Leader of Technical Personnel Development
Team in Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). In his 18 years of experience in KOC
as Reservoir Engineer / Team Leader, he successfully completed numerous
critical and value added projects. Over the last 6 years he worked in
the Technical Training department and was recognized as instrumental in
pioneering the Subsurface Talent Development and Management practices.
Eisa Al-Daihani graduated from TULSA University with a Bachelor degree
in Petroleum Engineering. Additionally he has acquired immense knowledge
on innovative approaches to unlock the potential of staff using
unconventional and blended learning methods utilizing key learning’s
from attending various trainings and conferences held on an
international scale. Currently he is managing the talent development
related projects for subsurface staff in Kuwait Oil company.
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 ARUN
KUMAR NANDI
A Geologist with over 30 years of experience in Upstream Oil & Gas
Companies in Well site Operations, Exploration, Field Development and
Technical Training. Worked in Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (ONGC),
India for over 28 yrs. as Geologist through Chief Geologist in different
basins of India. Presently working as ‘Geologist Specialist’ for Kuwait
Oil Company (KOC) in Kuwait. Graduated in 1976. Masters; M. Tech.
(Applied Geology) in 1979 from University of Saugar, India. Ph. D.
(Geology) from M. S. University, Baroda, India during 1992-97. The Ph.D.
was on Carbonate Sedimentology i.e. ‘Microfacies, Diagenesis and
Depositional Environments of Middle Jurassic Carbonates of Kutch, India.
Published 10 research papers in national and international conferences.
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 Faisal
Esmael
Snr. Engr. Electrical
I received my BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of
Arizona - USA in 1999, as student I worked at college of Electrical and
Computer Engineering Electronics lap and math Tutor for students with
special needs. Joined KOC in year 2000, worked for Maintenance and
Technical Services teams. I'm Member of Kuwait engineering Society ,Gulf
Society for Maintenance Professionals - member of the technical
committee and member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers. Member of different KOC Electrical standards committees,
member of power and water saving committee and KOC power strategy
committee. Participated in the review of several maintenance contracts
and projects commissioning. Winner of two KOC CMD HSE awards for
electrical projects and standard compliance contributed to HSE.
Presentation in Plant Maintenance and Reliability conference in 2012 in
Istanbul titled KOC methodology for maintenance excellence, Paper and
presentation related to enhancing the integrity and reliability of Power
Network in Maintenance and Reliability Strategies conference– Dubai.
Proposed water fire monitors as alternative for the regular deluge
system and implemented a pilot. Implemented lighting motion and heat
sensor for control building and electrical substations.
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 Jalal
Dashti
Jalal is a geologist at Kuwait Oil Company where he has seven years of
well site geology experience. Most of his work has been in the formation
evaluation while drilling based on field data. Master student in
sedimentology in the Kuwait University. Has many published geological
studies in gas and fracture analysis in international conferences.
Currently serves as Operation in charge in Exploration Group, KOC.
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 Salman
Al-Qabandi
Currently working As team Leader for Water Handling Team in Operation
(West Kuwait) he is in charge of two plants Minagish Water injection
Plant, Abduliya Brakish Water Plant in addition he is charge of 3
laboratories and all chemical management in West Kuwait area . He has Bs.
Degree in Petroleum Engineering from United States and Master Degree in
Chemical Engineering from Kuwait University, he author and co-author for
many publication and presentations in many conferences and forums. In
2006 and 2013 Received KOC C&MD HSE Award.
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 Ashok
Garlapati,
HSE Consultant (D&T), Drilling & Technology Directorate, Kuwait Oil
Company.
Ashok Garlapati works as a HSE Consultant in the HSE D&T Team of
Drilling & Technology. He has 25 years’ experience in HSE consultancy
and HSE management in the oil and gas industries. He is certified with
CSP (Certified Safety Professional) from BCSP,USA; QEP (Qualified
Environment Professional) from IPEP,USA and CMIOSH (Chartered member of
IOSH, UK). He is also the Lead Auditor of the ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001
standards and approved as an OSHA outreach trainer. He has extensive
experience in implementation of HSE management systems for process
industries in line with international standards. He is involved in the
on-going implementation of ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 standards in D&T
Directorate.
Ashok is a professional member of American Society of Safety Engineers
(ASSE) and a past president of ASSE’s Kuwait Chapter. He played an
important role in the Kuwait Chapter’s establishment, which is ASSE's
largest international chapter. Currently, he is an advisory member of
the Kuwait Chapter. He served as a member of ASSE’s Global Taskforce and
received the Charles V. Culbertson Award in 2007, the Region VI Safety
Professional of the Year Award in 2010 and the Edgar Monsanto Queeny
Safety Professional of the Year Award in 2011. He has been appointed by
ASSE-USA as ASSE Ambassador for ME, India and SE Asia in recognition of
his professional volunteering.
Ashok is a member of the International Association for Drilling
Contractors’ HSE Committee, a taskforce member of the International
Association of Oil & Gas Producers’ Waste Management Committee, a member
of the International Petroleum Industries Environmental Conservation
Association’s (IPIECA) Climate Change Group and a Dy. Chairman of
General Safety Subcommittee of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation.
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 Chiranjit
Barua
Specialist Reservoir Engineer, Kuwait Gulf Oil Compan
Chiranjit Barua is currently working as a Specialist Reservoir Engineer
in the Fields Development (Khafji) Team at KGOC. Prior to his tenure at
KGOC, Barua worked for Shell and Oil India Limited. He has provided Lead
Reservoir Engineering support to several world-wide integrated study
projects in Kuwait, US, Russia, India, Egypt, Brunei, Australia etc. The
projects included Field Development studies, Development of Tight Gas
Reservoirs, Reservoir Simulation studies, SPE/SEC Reserves assessment,
pattern water flooding, production forecasting etc. He was awarded with
the SPE-ONGC Award and also received Special recognition awards. Barua
is an active member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, USA and is
also a Contibutor in the COE initiative.
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 Abdullah
Al-Ibrahim
Graduated from Kuwait University in 2004
Has joined KOC in 2005
Snr. Petroleum Engineer in Discoveries Promotion Team, Exploration Group
Handling the Well Testing Activities for the Exploratory Wells
This Paper was presented in IPTC 2012
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 Hanan
Abdulrazzaq
joined KOC on 2007 after the graduation from Kuwait University as a
petroleum geologist. She joined field development south and east Kuwait
as development geologist and worked with different GC teams. Currently
she is working with GC3&21. Had the chance to work with exploration
group for almost 1 year. She worked on different projects since joining
KOC which the PAD drilling is the major achievement.
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 Mr.
Bibin Markose Ninan
has a decade of experience in software application development in
Petroleum industry, exclusively to the Integration and Visualization in
Exploration & Production Information Management field. He received his
Masters in Software Engineering from Periyar University, India. Bibin
Started his career in the oil and gas industry in 2005 with an oil and
gas service company in Kuwait. Bibin joined Kuwait Oil Company in 2010
and currently holds a position of Senior Systems Analyst in Research &
Technology Group. His software applications and tools, developed
in-house have gained national and international recognition for the
company by winning various awards and nominations.
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 Mr.
Ahmad Al-Shatti
Safety Engineer, Kuwait Oil Company (KOC)
Ahmad possesses a BSc (Mechanical Engineering) from Kuwait University
and has joined KOC as a Safety Engineer in 2010. He is currently
involved in safety programs related to drilling rigs in Drilling &
Technology Directorate. He recently became a certified “H2S Awareness”
trainer.
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 Mr.
Mazin Nayef
is currently working as TPL Specialist –I (Electrical) with Kuwait Oil
Company. He has a working experience of more than 30 years at KOC and
has worked in different position like Engineer, Snr. Engineer & TPL
Specialist. He graduated in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from
California State University Sacramento USA in 1983 & he is a Microsoft
Certified System Engineer (MCSE) from New Horizon Institute Kuwait. His
expertise in the field of Oil & Gas is an added asset to the company, he
has attended & represented many different Oil & Gas Seminars, Conference
& exhibition. His technical and professional competencies related to the
KOC’s core business and technical issues helped our team to achieve the
basic strategy.
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 Fares
Ramadan AL-Anazi
Education: in 1995
Bachelor degree in Geology from King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia
Work experience:
Currently Data Management supervisor in KJO
1995-2003 well site geologist-KJO
2003-2010 Database G&G Domain Expert-KJO
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 Mr.
Om Prakash Das
is currently working with Field Development, Minagish Team, West Kuwait
as a Senior Petroleum Engineer and is having 11 years of oil Industry
experience. He is having sound technical knowledge related to Petroleum
Technology. He is having vast experience in petroleum engineering jobs,
Advanced well completion techniques like ICD completions, Smart
Completions, Multilateral Completions, Sand control, Well Stimulation,
Digital Field, Water Injection Monitoring and Management, Production
Optimization, Reservoir Monitoring and Reservoir Management.
He earned his B-Tech degree in Petroleum Engineering from Indian School
of Mines Dhanbad India. He joined Kuwait Oil Company in 2008 as a
Petroleum Engineer in Field Development Minagish team. Prior to Kuwait
Oil Company, he was working with Reliance Industries as a Petroleum
Engineer in Krishna Godavari, D6 block, oil & gas development.
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 Iskandar
Saleh
• Bachelor Degree in Petroleum Engineering, Indonesia.
• Over 14 year experiences in the Oil and Gas business.
• First carrier was in Weatherford Completion and Production System as
Application Engineer.
• Joint with TOTAL as Senior Well Performance Engineer.
• Worked for ConocoPhillips as Senior Production Engineer.
• Joint with KOC since Sep 2008 as Senior Petroleum Engineer in
Raudhatain Field, NK.
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Dhuha
Mohammad Al-Khalid
- Bachelor degree in petroleum engineering from KU (03/04).
- Joined KOC in Jul-2007.
- Worked in FDNK Raudhatain team as a petroleum engineer for 8 years.
- Currently Snr. PE in FDNK (RA), GC25 Coordinator and PIPESIM well and
network modeling project manager.
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 Khaled
Al-Deyain,
“SPE, Petroleum Engineer in Umm-Gudair Fields Developments at Kuwait Oil
Company (KOC), Responsible of improving oil production by applying
production optimization For artificial lift (ESP) wells mainly in GC-17,
Had 6 years’ experience in oil industry, including completion and wells
testing, An Author of different SPE papers objected in Automation of
Realtime performance monitoring and optimizing ESP wells, Holds an
Baccalaureate degree in petroleum engineering from Kuwait University. “
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 Amna
Al-Qenae
Degree:
• Bachelor in Petroleum Engineering from Kuwait University’s college of
Engineering and Petroleum completed in 2012.
Work Experience:
• Worked in Fluor Process Department (Spain-Madrid office) from Sep-2012
till Apr-2013 as a process Engineer.
• Joined KOC in May 2013 in Field Development North Kuwait Group/
Sabriya as a Petroleum/ Reservoir Engineer, and has since been involved
in many projects.
• Particular responsible for monitoring and optimizing water flood
projects.
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 Ashish
K. Jai
has a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from National
Productivity Council, India. He is Project Leader, Management Support
Group at Kuwait Oil Company. He is A ‘Certified Six Sigma Black Belt’ by
American Society for Quality (ASQ) and Certified Lead Auditor in QMS ISO
9001. He has more than 18 years of Consulting and Industry experience in
varied Business Excellence areas i.e. Quality Management Systems, Six
Sigma, Business Process Improvement, Management consulting,
Organizational Restructuring and Projects Management.
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 Mostafa
Al-Kaouri
has over 12 years of experience in the field of information technology
and has worked for more than 8 years in the oil and gas industry. He
graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Management of Information Systems
from IPNET. In January 2013 Mostafa was acknowledged by Kuwait Oil
Company for his work in Kuwait Integrated Digital Field (KwIDF). To
date, he also holds the following awards:
• Advance Computer Technology (ACT) Award, 2001
• EBLA Computer Consultancy Award, 2004
• Schlumberger, Nice Work Award on KOC DECIDE! Project, 2007
• Award on PIPESIM Licenses Donation, Kuwait University, Petroleum
Engineering Dept., 2009
• Schlumberger Award on KOC Jurassic Smart Field Project, 2010
He was involved in developing the following solutions for KOC:
• SAHALA
• Well Surveillance Operations Tracking System
• Back Allocation workflow
• Field Data Quality and Optimization Systems
• Rig Movement Schedule
• Wellwork Evaluation and Planning
• Well Model Automation
• Production Forecast
• Portfolio Technology Engine
• Well Cycle Workflow
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Mansour
Alawadhi
Senior Petroleum Engineer
graduated from Marietta College, Ohio in 2004 and joined KOC in 2005. He
has over eight years of experience working as Petroleum Engineer.
While working in Discoveries Promotions Team in Exploration, his job
criteria included working office & field, following up and designing
completion & workoever programs.
Then transferred to Field Development Gas Team with further tasks
including gas field development, monitoring Drilling activities for deep
Gas wells, adding reserves, and sustaining gas production.
Right now Mansour Alawadhi is an active Senior Petroleum Engineer
working in Gas Fields Development Jurassic II. He is a very social and
effective team member and likes to work in open environment with verity
of people and staff members.
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 Emad
El-Sayed Elmahdy
• is Senior Reservoir Engineer for Kuwait Gulf Oil Company (KGOC)
• He holds a BSc Petroleum Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt in
2002.
• He has 12 years' experience in Reservoir and well testing Engineering
for oil & gas Fields.
• He jointed Spider petroleum Services Company as a well test Engineer
in Egypt/Algeria, and after that he jointed Belayim Petroleum Company
(PETROBEL) in Egypt as reservoir engineer till Jun/2013.
• He can handle the following activities: all conventional reservoir
activity, building simulation models (Black oil), water injection
optimization, well testing interpretations, and production optimization.
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 Naz
Gazi
Naz
is currently Sr. Consultant at FD (SEK) and he has been working in the
oil industry for over 40 years in most of the famous oil provinces
around the world from North America and Europe to Africa, Middle East,
and Asia. Earlier he worked for Halliburton for 29 years and was
recipient of Halliburton Technical Recognition Award. He taught at
University of Oklahoma, Central Oklahoma State University, and Tinker US
Air Force Base, both Petroleum Engineering and MBA courses. Naz holds MS
degree in Petroleum Engineering and MBA from University of Oklahoma. He
has authored and co-authored over 50 papers, and is recipient of several
SPE and other awards including SPE Service award in 2010 and SPE
Completions Optimization and Technology award in 2013. He was SPE
Distinguished Lecturer on water management in 2007-2008 and also served
in many SPE committees. He is presently member of Upstream CoE, the
Center of Excellence program in tight reservoir stimulation and water
management disciplines.
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