International Conference and Expo on Oil and Gas November 16-18, 2015 Dubai, UAE

Professor Stow is a leading sedimentologist, geologist and oceanographer of international standing with an extensive record of scientific publications, including over 250 scientific papers and reports, numerous books and edited volumes. He specialises in the deep sea and on deep-sea deposits now thrown up onto land. In pursuing this scientific quest he has sailed on all the world’s major oceans, and lectured extensively throughout the world. He has had a long and close involvement with scientific ocean drilling, and has worked in and with the oil industry. He also maintains strong interest in the field of geoscience and development, especially hazard mitigation, geoscience education and marine management. His is enthusiastic to popularise ocean and earth sciences through lectures, writing and broadcast. He is currently Director of IPE and Professor of Petroleum Geoscience within the School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure & Society.

Deepwater sedimentary systems: pioneer in the field with major research programme coordination and international cooperation; land-based, marine-based and subsurface interests; furthering knowledge of deep-water processes, facies and architecture. Petroleum geoscience: incorporating sedimentary genetic units, reservoir characterisation, seismic interpretation, petrophysical and geotechnical rock properties. Contourites and paleocirculation: including how these are linked with climate and past environmental change; currently Co-Chief Scientist for IODP Expedition 339 on Mediterranean Outflow. Muds and shales: including modern, ancient and subsurface fine-grained sedimentary systems, from micro-scale to basin-scale; and black shale deposition.

Professor (Munir) A F M Maniruzzaman, LLB (Honours), LLM., M.Int’L.Law (ANU), PhD (Cambridge), MCIArb, FRSA. He is Chair in International Law and International Business Law, University of Portsmouth, U.K. (since 2004) and a member of its Centre for European and International Studies Research, an interdisciplinary centre of international excellence. He is a Professorial Honorary Fellow at the Centre of Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee (since 2005) and Visiting Professor of International Law (2012 -), Faculty of International Law, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing. He has been a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Western Ontario, Canada (2007-8) and has also held honorary visiting academic positions at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Kent, and London. He is a Council Member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law, Paris; Academic Council Member of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration (ITA), USA; member of ILA International Committee on International Commercial Arbitration, London; International Arbitration Institute, Paris and International Council for Commercial Arbitration, The Hague. He is a founding Member of THE IDR GROUP® (international dispute resolution specialists) based at the Lamb Chambers, London and a member of the Legal Advisory Task Force of the Energy Charter Treaty, EC Secretariat, Brussels (2014 -). He has been sometime a member of the European Court of Arbitration, Strasbourg; the Swiss Arbitration Association; and the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN), Houston, USA. He is also a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and its Specialist Groups: Energy Law & Climate Change, Water & Wetlands, Environmental Laws and Human Rights and member of the Academic Council of the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh South Asian Institute of Advanced Legal and Human Rights Studies (UMSAILS), Dhaka. He has acted as an international arbitration law expert / consultant in some high-profile ICSID and ICC cases and also as an International Legal Consultant to the Commonwealth Secretariat (HQ), governments, state-owned enterprises, multinational corporations and multinational law firms. He has extensively published in the areas of International Business Law, International Energy, Oil and Gas Law, International Investment Law and International Commercial Arbitration and Dispute Resolution. He has been a member of the editorial boards of various internationally reputable journals such as Oil, Gas and Energy Law, Transnational Dispute Management, Manchester Journal of International Economic Law, US-China Law Review and British Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. He is listed in the WHO’S WHO IN THE WORLD 2012 (29th edition) (Marquis Who’s Who, U.S.A.), the Dictionary of International Biography 2012 (37th Edition, Cambridge) and Who’s Who in Public International Law 2012.

Professor A F M Maniruzzaman’s research and consultancy interests lie in the areas of international law of energy, oil and gas; international petroleum contracts - negotiating and drafting; international energy dispute resolution and arbitration; international energy governance and diplomacy; geopolitics of international energy, international energy trade; sustainable development of oil and gas; international energy investment law and policy; international energy security and co-operation.

Dr. Berrin Tansel is Professor of Environmental Engineering and Undergraduate Program Director for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at FIU. She has been with FIU since 1990. Dr. Tansel teaches a number of undergraduate and graduate courses and is heavily involved in research. Her primary areas of interest are water treatment; hazardous and industrial waste management; landfill processes and release mechanisms; and sustainable sludge treatment and recovery. She has authored over 200 professional reports and papers on sludge management, sanitary landfill design and operation, solid waste management, and her original research results. Dr. Tansel is affiliated with the Water Environment Federation, the American Society of Civil Engineers, Tau Beta Phi and Chi Epsilon and has served on a multitude of committees for those and other organizations. She has been honored with two summer faculty research fellowships and received recognition for ‘Technology Development and Application that Benefit the NASA-KSC and Nation through the Vision of Space’ from the NASA Kennedy Space Center, among other awards and honors. She formerly directed the Drinking Water Research Center at FIU. Prior to joining FIU, Dr. Tansel served as a Project Manager for the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority and as Senior Project Engineer for PEER Consultants, P.C. Dr. Tansel also has extensive consulting experience, and has worked with the South Florida Water Management District, City of Pompano Beach, Florida, Soap and Detergent Association, Metcalf & Eddy and other entities in various consulting roles. Dr. Tansel received her Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, with a Minor in Chemical Engineering, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985. Prior to pursuing her doctorate, she earned an M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1979 and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey in 1978.

Water treatment; hazardous and industrial waste management; landfill processes and release mechanisms; and sustainable sludge treatment and recovery

Zhangxing (John) Chen has over 30 years of oil and gas research and university appointments, from around the globe. He graduated with a PhD from Purdue University with a degree in Applied and Computational Mathematics. He was recruited to the University of Calgary with the intention to advance the understanding of the Canadian oil and gas reservoirs and expand the potential for improved recovery through computer modelling, simulation and visualization. He currently holds three prestigious chairs: NSERC/AI-EES/Foundation CMG Chair in Reservoir Simulation Albert Innovates Energy Environment Solutions Chair in Underground Coal Gasification Alberta Innovates Technology Futures iCore Chair in Reservoir Simulation Dr. Chen holds professorships and guest professorships at over a dozen universities worldwide, and has organized and chaired 22 international conferences and congresses. Each year Dr. Chen travels to promote his research and engage with others in the field, giving lectures in a variety of countries annually. Demonstrating extraordinary leadership in the field of energy and environmental modeling, Dr. Chen’s work provides laboratory data, oil and gas production technologies, and reservoir simulation software. Working closely with his 15 industry partners, and his team of 70 works to support the goals of these research programs. He is regularly consulted for projects involving oil and gas recovery with global oil producing companies such as Shell Canada, Nexen, Brion Energy, ConocoPhillips, StatoilHydro, Laricina, in Canada, China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) and Chinese National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC), KEURIgroup (KR) in China, the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) in Iran, Korean Oil and Gas (KOGAS) in Korea, Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) in Mexico, ExxonMobil andConocoPhillips in the USA, and Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) in Venezuela. Dr. Chen has travelled extensively to many countries with the intent to develop and promote international education and research programs in the field of energy development and environmental protection. In particular, he has done significant work in China, Iran, Mexico, USA, and Venezuela. Over time, Dr. Chen’s work has significantly contributed to the diversification and growth of these countries’ economy and quality of life through the technologies and jobs created. Dr. Chen has been the recipient of numerous awards since joining the UofC in 2007, including: Outstanding Leadership in Alberta Technology, Alberta Science and Technology (ASTech) Foundation, 2012. The Graduate Educator Award of Excellence, University of Calgary, 2012. IBM Faculty Award, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA, 2012. Overall Research Excellence Award, SSE, University of Calgary, 2009. The 2009 SSE’s Department Research Award, University of Calgary, 2009. Zi Qiang Professorship Award by Shanghai University, China 2009

His interest includes reservoir simulation for conventional and non-conventional oils and mathematical modeling.

Prof. Jiunn-Der Liao obtained Bachelor’s degree from National Cheng Kung University (NCKU, 1984 Bachelor of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering) in Taiwan, Masters’ degrees from K. U. Leuven (1990 Master of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering and 1991 Master of Biomedical Engineering) in Belgium and PhD degree from Ecole des Mines (1994 Doctor of Materials Science and Engineering) in France. He had also worked at University of Heidelberg (1995~1996), Germany as a group leader for nearly two years, at Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan as an Associate Professor from 1996~2002, and at NCKU, Taiwan as an Associate Professor and Professor from 2002. Prof. Liao is currently the (1) Distinguished Professor of Department of Materials Science and Engineering, NCKU; (2) Distinguished Researcher of University-level Center for Micro/Nano Science and Technology, NCKU; (3) Research Excellence Award 2011~, College of Engineering, NCKU. He was the (1) Chairman of Department of Materials Science and Engineering, NCKU (2009/8~2012/7); (2) Director of Institute of Nanotechnology and Micro-system Engineering (2011/5~2012/7); (3) Associate Director of Center for Micro/Nano Science and Technology (2006/1~2012/7); (4) Coordinator of Taiwan Thematic Contact Point on Nanotechnologies, Materials, and new Production Techniques (NCP_NMP), National Science Council (NSC); (5) Coordinator of Promotion Center for Global Materials Research (Director: Distinguished Chair Professor M. Yoshimura), NCKU; (6) Coordinator of Distinguished Chair Professor A. Gedanken, NCKU; (7) Associate Fellow of Applied Physico-Chemistry Institute, University of Heidelberg, FR Germany (1995/4~1996/7).

His research interests include: (1) Nanofabricated surfaces, e.g., with the effect of surface enhanced Raman scattering for biomedical applications; (2) Mechanics of Biomaterials, e.g., engineering materials for tissue scaffolds, cell-surface interactions, mechanical transduction of cells; (3) Plasma Medicine, e.g., use of low-temperature, atmospheric micro-plasma system for medical applications.

Katarzyna Jarmołowicz-Szulc (Assoc. Prof.) has been a scientific worker in Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute in Warsaw, Poland, Europe. In her carreer she was the head of the Petrological, Mineral Deposits Departments, the Group of Rocks and Mineral Collections, the Centre of Excellence. She co-ordinated many projects. She is an author of over 120 papers, a reviewer and an editor. She has an experience in fields of isotope studies, fluid inclusions and hydrocarbon migration in the Carpathians, in the marine deposits from the Baltic Sea, other hydrocarbon-bearing regions as well. At present she has been the head of the National Geological Archives in PGI-NRI, Poland.

Geochronology Petrography Sedimentology Isotope Geochemistry Fluid Inclusion Analysis

Dr Hai GUO completed his Ph.D. study in Air Quality at Murdoch University, Australia. He did his postdoctoral research at New York University, University of California at Irvine (Nobel laureate group), Queensland University of Technology, and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is currently an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and an Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and Wuhan University, China. Dr. GUO has supervised 4 postdoctoral fellows, 6 PhD students and a number of Master students. Dr. GUO’s major research interests include atmospheric chemistry, regional and urban air pollution, source apportionment, photochemistry, acidic ultrafine particles, new particle formation and indoor and outdoor air pollution. Dr. GUO is an investigator of more than 30 highly competitive external research projects with grants over 30 million Hong Kong dollars. He has published over 159 papers in high-quality international journals and conference proceedings with over 1951 SCI citations to date. His current h-index is 24. Two of his papers are awarded as the best papers in the 'Selection of Atmospheric Environment’s Best Papers' in the 'Virtual Special Issue on Air Quality in China'. He is an editorial Board member for four international journals and Director member of Integrated Land Ecosystem- Atmosphere Processes Study（iLEAPS）of China Branch. He is also an active reviewer for more than 35 journals. Dr. GUO has given keynote and invited speech in a number of international conferences and been a member of Scientific Advisor Committee in various conferences. Dr. GUO obtained the prestigious Gary COMER Abrupt Climate Change Fellowship in 2004-2005. He is also the winner of the Dean's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research Funding in 2010 and in 2014, and the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Publication Achievement (Category I: High Quality Publications) in 2013.

Atmospheric Chemistry, Regional and Urban Air Pollution, Source Apportionment, Photochemistry, Acidic Ultrafine Particles and New Particle Formation.

Professor A.Y. Zekri received his B.Sc., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California. He has spent more than two decades in the petroleum industry. Professor Zekri worked as a consultant to the management committees of Waha Oil Co., and Agip Oil Company. He has authored and/or co-authored more than 90 papers on new developments and technical issues in the areas of improved oil recovery, flow through porous media, and environmental aspects of petroleum production, petroleum contracts, and Enhanced Oil Recovery. He has edited and refereed technical papers in widely respected journals. Prof. Zekri has completed a number of research projects in the area of IOR/EOR to UAE and International Petroleum Industries. Professor Zekri is currently working as Coordinator of Oil and Gas Technologies, Emirates Center for Energy and Environment Research and Professor of petroleum engineering at the United Arab Emirates University.

Oil recovery
Environmental aspects of petroleum production
Petroleum contracts
Enhanced Oil Recovery

Professor Dongsheng Wen is the Chair in Petroleum Engineering in the School of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Leeds. He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford, and is the Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), Energy Institute (FEI), and Institute of Nanotechnology (FION), a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and a Chartered Scientist (CSci). He has published over 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals, which is well received in the community (i.e. total citation >3000, and current H-index-23). His research covers a wide spectrum of nanotechnology and engineering science, centered around engineered nanomaterials for energy and medical applications. Currently he is leading a research group in Nanotechnology for oil and gas, i.e., developing multifunctional nanomaterials with tailored properties for reservoir diagnosis, characterization, enhanced oil recovery, and contaminated oil remediation. Example research topics include multifunctional nanomaterials design and transport in porous media, interfacial and rheological properties of nano-dispersions under reservoir conditions; controlled delivery of surfactants for enhanced oil recovery; functional nanoparticles for enhanced oil recovery, and nanoparticle sensors (pressure, temperature, oil saturation, stress etc) for reservoir characterisation and diagnosis.

Nanotechnology for oil and gas Nanofluids technology Nanofuel technology Nanowave technology Cryogenic Energy Technology Multiscale modelling Phase change technology

Dr. Bharat Bhushan received an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971, an M.S. in mechanics and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1973 and 1976, respectively, an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, NY in 1980, Doctor Technicae from the University of Trondheim at Trondheim, Norway in 1990, a Doctor of Technical Sciences from the Warsaw University of Technology at Warsaw, Poland in 1996, and Doctor Honouris Causa from the National Academy of Sciences at Gomel, Belarus in 2000 and University of Kragujevac, Serbia in 2011. He is a registered professional engineer. He is presently an Ohio Eminent Scholar and The Howard D. Winbigler Professor in the College of Engineering, and the Director of the Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics (NLB2) at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. He is also serving as an ASME/AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, House Committee on Science, Space & Technology, United States Congress, Washington, DC. He is an internationally recognized expert of bio/nanotribology and bio/nanomechanics using scanning probe microscopy, and is one of the most prolific authors. He is considered by some a pioneer of the tribology and mechanics of magnetic storage devices. He has authored 8 scientific books, 90+ handbook chapters, 800+ scientific papers (h-index – 74+; ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science since 2007 and in Biology and Biochemistry since 2013; ISI Top 5% Cited Authors for Journals in Chemistry since 2011), and 60+ technical reports. He has also edited 50+ books and holds 19 U.S. and foreign patents. He is co-editor of Springer NanoScience and Technology Series and co-editor of Microsystem Technologies, and Member of Editorial Board of PNAS. He has given more than 400 invited presentations on six continents and more than 200 keynote/plenary addresses at major international conferences. Dr. Bhushan is an accomplished organizer. He organized the Ist Symposium on Tribology and Mechanics of Magnetic Storage Systems in 1984 and the Ist Int. Symposium on Advances in Information Storage Systems in 1990, both of which are now held annually. He organized two international NATO institutes in Europe. He is the founder of an ASME Information Storage and Processing Systems Division founded in 1993 and served as the founding chair during 1993-1998. His biography has been listed in over two dozen Who's Who books including Who's Who in the World and has received more than two dozen awards for his contributions to science and technology from professional societies, industry, and U.S. government agencies. He is also the recipient of various international fellowships including the Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize for Senior Scientists, Max Planck Foundation Research Award for Outstanding Foreign Scientists, Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, and Tribology Life Achievement Award. He is a foreign member of the International Academy of Engineering (Russia), Byelorussian Academy of Engineering and Technology and the Academy of Triboengineering of Ukraine, an honorary member of the Society of Tribologists of Belarus and STLE, a fellow of ASME, IEEE, and the New York Academy of Sciences, and a member of ASEE, Sigma Xi and Tau Beta Pi. Dr. Bhushan has previously worked for Mechanical Technology Inc., Latham, NY; SKF Industries Inc., King of Prussia, PA; IBM, Tucson, AZ; and IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA. He has held visiting professorship at University of California at Berkeley, University of Cambridge, UK, Technical University Vienna, Austria, University of Paris, Orsay, ETH Zurich and EPFL Lausanne. He is currently a visiting professor at Univ. of Southampton, UK, Univ. of Kragujevac, Serbia, Tsinghua Univ., China, Harbin Inst., China, and KFUPM, Saudi Arabia.

His research interests include fundamental studies with a focus on scanning probe techniques in the interdisciplinary areas of bio/nanotribology, bio/nanomechanics and bio/nanomaterials characterization and applications to bio/nanotechnology, and biomimetics.

Kalachand Sain received his M.Sc.(Tech) in Applied Geophysics from the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad in 1988 and Ph.D. in Controlled Source Seismology from the Osmania University (CSIR-NGRI), Hyderabad. He visited Cambridge University (UK) and Rice University (USA) as a post-doctoral fellow. At present, he is the Senior Principal Scientist & Head of Gas-Hydrate Group at CSIR-NGRI, and is working on seismic attenuation, attributes, travel-time tomography, AVO modeling, full-waveform inversion, impedance inversion, rock physics modeling, prestack depth migration. His main interests include the delineation and assessment of gas-hydrates, imaging sub-volcanic sediments, and understanding the geotectonics from surface geophysical data. He has published 89 research papers in peer-review scientific journals, 62 non-SCI articles/reports, and guided for 58 dissertations as part of curriculum for M.Sc. Tech in App. Geophysics of several Indian Institutes/Universities. He has been recognized by a number of awards/fellowships; notable among them are (i) Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India; AP Academy of Sciences, (ii) AP Scientist Award; Young Scientist Award of CSIR; National Mineral Award; Best Paper Award by Int. Ass. of Gondwana Research; Best Poster Award by Int. Con. on Oil & Gas by PETROTECH; and Swarnajayanti Project Award of DST, (iii) Bureau Member of International Lithosphere Program, (iv) Raman Fellowship; BOYSCAST Fellowship, (v) Krishnan Medal and Anni Talwani Memorial Prize of IGU, (vi) Prem Bahadur Memorial Lecture of IGC etc. He is a member of numerous National Committees, and Editorial Boards of Int. Journals such as the 'Episodes', 'Jour. of Geological Soc. of India', 'Int. Jour. of Earth Sci. & Engg.', 'Geohorizons'. He served as a Guest Editor in 'Marine & Petroleum Geology' by Elsevier and as a member of Editorial Board for the second edition of 'Encyclopedia for Solid Earth Geophysics' by Springer

Current Area of Research: (i) Exploration of marine gas hydrates; (ii) Imaging sub-volcanic sediments & (iii) Understanding geo-tectonics of several provinces in offshore & on land of India, and built expertise in seismic data modeling, inversion, processing and interpretation; attenuation; attributes; traveltime tomography; AVO modeling; full-waveform inversion; Impedance inversion; pre-stack depth migration; rock physics modeling etc.

Professor Khalil Sarkarinejad is micro-structural and structural geologist graduated at Cardiff University in Wales, head of Structural Geology Group at the Department of Earth Sciences, Shiraz University with extensive publications and reseach in the hinterland, foreland of the Zagros orogenic belt, controlling factors in the inclined curved transpression deformations.

His main interest is study of the geometry and kinematics of the salt diapiric flow at the surface including finite strain, kinematic vorticity flow analyses micro-structural foliation and lineation trajectories mapping in order to detecting complexities and explore complexities of the sub-surface 2D and 3D seismic images and micro-seismic salt flow images in complex onshore and offshore oil and gas traps.

Prof. Hamid A. Almegren received his D.Phil. degree in Chemistry from University of Oxford, United Kingdom in 2002. Presently he is Professor and Assistant Director of Materiales Research Institute at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST). He is also Guest Professor at China University of Petroleum since 2011, and Beijing University for Chemical Technology since 2013. He is Editor-in-Chief for “Applied Petrochemical Research” Journal since 2012. He has vast experience in field of Heterogeneous Catalysis, and he is Principal Investigator for several joint research projects at KACST in cooperation with various international universities and research centers. He edited book titled “Advances in Natural Gas Technology” in 2012 and recently he editing a book titled "Petrochemical Materials, Processes, and Emerging Technologies" will be release in late 2015. He has published more than fifty research papers in various scientific journals and proceedings of international conferences. He has organized and participated in various national and international scientific conferences and chaired technical sessions and committees.

His research interest in heterogeneous catalysts meanly in hydrotreatment catalysts, mesopause materials, Zeolite, Carbide, Nitride, and Sulfide catalysts.

Dr. Younes Noorollahi has completed his PhD at the age of 36 years from Kyushu University-Japan and postdoctoral studies also from Kyushu University School of Earth Resources Engineering. He is the Head of Renewable Energies Engineering Department in University of Tehran. He has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals and more than 100 papers in national and international conferences and has been serving as an editorial board member of more than 10 international journals.

Research Interest: Earth Resources Engineering Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Application of GIS for resources exploration Energy and Environmental Impacts Geothermal Energy Engineering Renewable Energies

Dr. Eng. Mohammed Darsi Abdulrahman Nedham from Aden - Yemen. 23 Years Experience in the Petroleum Field Industry, 2012, 2013 and 2014 World Oil Awards Finalists as Innovative Thinker. Multilingual (Arabic, English, Russian, Chinese and have a basic course in German Languages). Have Two Registered Patents (In Yemen and China), Subsurface Geology Doctor (Ph.D.- Mineralogy, Petrology and Stratigraphy) from Earth Science College of Jilin University; Institute of Geoenergy (Chang Chun; China). Doctoral Thesis Title is: A New Look to the Yemeni Geology based on New Solutions to the Most Chaotic Yemeni Geological Problems, now is an OMV- Block 2 & Block 29 Advisory Committee Member of PEPA. Owner, Founder and Manager of the Yemeni Stratigraphy and Geology Network (The YSGN) and the Global's Earth Scientist Network (The GESN) of Linkedin. Member of Arab Scientist Organization. An Editorial board Member of Journal of Environmental Studies [JES]; Sohag University (Egypt). Founding Member of the Yemen Geological Society. M.Sc. (Including B Sc) in Geology. Specialist in Geology and Exploration of Mineral Deposits (Oil and Gas Fields); Petroleum Engineer, Geologist from the Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University decorated with the order of Friendship among Peoples (The Russian University, Now), Moscow, Russia, Have 24 Certificate from different Institutes, Training Centers, Clubs, …and from the Yemeni Embassy in Russia. Published more than 20 scientific paper and articles locally and internationally. Memberships (AAPG, AIPG, GAC, PEXGB, SEPM, SPE, TGL, GSA, GPF, GSP, ASO, IBC, … and the YGS) Last time received a Certificate of Appreciation from OMV Yemen for outstanding performance and lasting contributions to OMV (Yemen Block S2) Exploration GmbH achieving Habban Field 15 mn bbl production Specialties: Ph.D. in Subsurface Geology (Mineralogy, Petrology and Stratigraphy) – (Jilin University; China) Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering and Geology (Russian University; Russia)

Mineralogy, Petrology and Stratigraphy