1. Magdy Gaber Moustafa Ahmed Nofal
Drilling Engineer
Cairo, Egypt
mnofal@egas.com.eg
magdygaber82@gmail.com
+201000415945
Job role desired: Drilling Engineer
Professional Profile: 11 years of Drilling Engineering, Onshore and Offshore supervision experience. I have worked as a Drilling
Engineer and Drilling Supervisor with major operators Total E&P, RWE, GDF suez, Khalda (Apache Egypt) and EGAS.
I involved in drilling, onshore and offshore gas wells including well planning, site operations and technical studies for both
shallow water and onshore (Jack up, Land Rigs) wells. Experienced in drilling exploration, development, high temperature and
directional Wells.
Professional Experience:
TOTAL E&P EGYPT Co.
Drilling Engineer from October 2016
Drilling engineer for an exploration onshore HPHT project in Nile delta Egypt. Provide planning and supervision of well
site preparation. Provide technical inputs in the well tenders during the planning phase. Equipment selection...etc.
RWE.Dea Egypt
Senior Drilling Engineer from Jan.2013 to August 2016
Senior drilling engineer for an exploration, high temperature wells with RWE.Dea Nile delta Egypt land Rigs Provide
planning, well design and engineering operational support to ensure the technical well integrity.
Duties:
- Support rig operation as a drilling supervisor.
- Prepare drilling program. Risk assessment. Mandatory plans with contingencies to mitigate the expected risk.
- Optimize planning. Tool selection. Casing design. Stock management. Provide technical input to tender reviews.
- Follow daily rig operation. Prepare the required drilling procedure to cover rig activity as per company policy.
- Prepare end of well reports and lesson learned. Prepare technical studies to optimize planning and reduce the NPT.
- Update procedure, Maintain benchmarking data and presentation of performance tracking. Including Flat time
analysis and Rushmore data collection.
- Prepare the required documents to internal and external auditor entities.
GDF Suez Egypt
Drilling Engineer from Jan. 2010 to June 2012
Drilling Engineer for development and exploration gas wells in shallow water, Jack up Rigs, Mediterranean Sea.
- Wellhead, casing and cementing programs that meets the expected conditions and ensure well integrity. Drilling
mud program that meets expected conditions.
- Bit selection, hydraulics, rotary speed, and bit weight programs. BHA. Directional plan. Abandonment program.
- Evaluate new drilling tools and equipment, procedures and practices that may be implemented to reduce cost and
increase operational efficiency

2. Magdy Gaber Moustafa Ahmed Nofal
Drilling Engineer
Cairo, Egypt
mnofal@egas.com.eg
magdygaber82@gmail.com
+201000415945
Apache Egypt / Khalda JV.
Drilling supervisor from April 2008 to December 2009
Onshore night drilling supervisor on Land rigs Western Desert Egypt.
Operations involved: Shallow flows, wellbore instability, downhole losses through depleted reservoirs, stress-cage,
squeeze cementing, coring, mechanical sidetracking, milling and fishing operations and many work over jobs like
Completion programs involved perforation, gravel pack, pumps replacements, frac. Job and completion replacement.
EGAS (Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company).
Drilling Engineer from July 2006 to March 2008
Operation engineer while drilling and completing Exploration, appraisal and development shallow water wells in
Mediterranean Sea.
Duties:
- Writing morning reports
- Performance analysis and NPT tracking
- Maintaining EOWR daily summary
- Responsible for operating the drilling operation for most Companies such RWE, BP, Gas de France, Ieoc. RWE, BP,
Gas de France, Ieoc. Follow up Tenders, daily drilling reports for exploration companies, and technical cost recovery
Certificates: IWCF Exp June 2018
BOSIET / HUET Exp February 2018
Language: English - Arabic
Education: BSc of Petroleum Engineering 2005, excellent degree.
Computer skills:
- Landmark software (Well cat, Compass, Well plan, Stress Check, Casing seat, open well)
- Microsoft Excel, Word, Explorer, Outlook, Power point, Internet Explorer.
- AutoCAD.
Professional Courses & Seminar
Subsea well completion OGS
IWCF Subsea supervisor OGS
Hazoop BP
Well cat Landmark, Halliburton
Mud school Baroid Halliburton
Cement Halliburton
Drilling problem OGS
Stuck pipe OGS
References
Waheed Zayed RWE Drilling manager 00201001038202
Tarek Wahdan GDF Drilling manager 00201222103287.
Ahmed youssif drilling operation manager Total Egypt (ahmed.youssef@total.com)