1. CURRICULUM VITAE
Rafik Ali Ellayeh . GSM: +201224814597
GSM (UAE): +971563263955
P.O Box 35791, Elgamalia,
Dakahlia, Egypt.
E-mail rafik.ellayeh@outlook.com
Professional Profile:
I have 13 years in the oil and gas drilling industry of which the last 12
years have been in the capacity of a Drilling Supervisor. The
companies that I have consulted and worked for are as shown
below in the professional experience:
Professional Experience (13 years):
November 2014 up to date:
ADMA-OPCO - Abu Dhabi - UAE.
- Drilling site leader (Offshore Senior Drilling supervisor).
July 2010 to November 2014:
Halliburton (South Ghawwar and Khurais projects) / Saudi Aramco.
- Senior drilling supervisor in the company’s LSTK project with Saudi Aramco in
south Ghawwar field, Saudi Arabia.
June 2009 to July 2010:
CEPSA EGYPT
- Drilling supervisor in the company’s new concession located in south Alamein,
western desert, Egypt.
- Drilled 4 exploratory deep wells for both cretaceous & Jurassic targets to depths
upto 4600m.
Nov 2007 to June 2009.
PDO/Shell

2. - Working as well site drilling engineer (Night Co-Man) in PDO/Shell, Marmul,
Sultanate Of Oman.
- PDO is a joint venture between Omani government & Shell company.
2003 to Nov 2007:
Khalda
- Drilling supervisor (Co-man) in drilling & work over rigs in Khalda petroleum
company in western desert of Egypt.
- Khalda is a Joint Venture between EGPC and APACHE (working in Western
Desert of Egypt)
2002 to 2003:
Khalda
Well site drilling engineer (Assistant co-man) in Khalda Petroleum Company.
Consultant :
Drilling supervisor (consultant) in Syria (Gulfsands petroleum company) & in
many other petroleum companies in Egypt (QARUN, VEGAS, I.E.O.C, AGIBA,
ALAMEIN, Petroalam, etc.)
Detailed Experience (Drilling):
• Prepare & handle all materials & logistics required while drilling & completion
Operations.
• Drilling deep gas wells to depths up to 16,500 ft.
• Supervised directional drilling operations using all types of motors (low
speed, medium & high speed performance motors).
• Supervised all rig operations (drilling, open & cased hole logging, running &
Cementing all types of casing strings & production liners).
• Run all types of bits (rock bits, PDC bits, impregnated bits).
• Supervised well side tracking in both open hole & cased hole.
• Supervised perforation, correlation, space-out, well testing & unloading by
Coiled tubing & N2.
• Supervised all wire line & slick line operations.
• Supervised running all types of completion (single natural, selective, ESP
completion, sucker rod pumps, PCP completion, selective water injection &
Gas completion).
• Running DST (cased & open hole) & supervised coring operations.
• Supervised many fishing operations (fishing of pipe using overshot w/
b.grapple, fishing of pipe using ITCO spear, fishing of pipe using cut lipped
Screw-in subs).

3. • Working in high H2S concentrations.
Work Over:
• Preparing all types of completion & killing fluids (gas completion brine,
Salt pill, OSS pill & KCL brines).
• Killing wells using long-way, reverse-out circulation & bull heading.
• Perforation and well testing.
• Running all types of completion(natural completion, ESP pumps, rod
Pumps, single water injection, selective water injection).
• Under balance perforation with TCP guns using both U.B disc or N2
Displacement.
• Over balance perforation using casing gun on electrical wire line.
• Through tubing perforation.
• Remedial cement operations (cement squeeze using cement retainers &
Using packers).
• Coiled tubing operations for lifting wells & cleaning operations.
• Cement plugs and isolation using bridge plugs.
• Well stimulation (acidizing & hydraulic frac. jobs).
• Run & retrieve rod pumps & ESP pumps.
• Slick line operations(dummy run ,run gauges, open & close SSD, set &
retrieve plugs) .
• Changing all types of well heads (Cameron, FMC, wood group) & casing
re-stub.
• Milling & fishing of perm. packers using quick pick, fishing of ESP cable using
rope spear, fishing of sucker rod pumps using polish rod baskets & etc.
Education:
B. Sc in petroleum engineering, faculty of petroleum engineering, Suez canal
university, Egypt (May 2001).
Training & Courses:
TBOSIET : Tropical basic offshore safety induction & emergency training
(OPITO approved).
IWCF : At Gulf Technical & Safety Training Centre, Abu Dhabi. UAE.
IADC : Valid IADC well cap certificate.
ITC (Aramco) : Gas tester course & certification, ITC, Dhahran north, Saudi
Arabia.
ITC (Aramco) : Hazard recognition course & certification, ITC, Dhahran north,
Saudi Arabia.
ITC (Aramco) : Well control assessment certification, ITC, Dhahran north, Saudi
Arabia.

4. OGS : Practical well control, OGS training center, Egypt (Sep 2010).
Halliburton : H2S course, Alkhobar, Saudi Arabia (April 2013)
MI : Drilling fluids.
Baroid : Mud tech. & completion fluids.
Halliburton : Logging & perforations.
BJ services : Advanced oil well cementing.
Security DBS : Tri-cone bits bearing enhancements.
Abraj Energy : HSE Induction, Abraj training centre, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
STS : H2S Entry Permit – PDO – Expired 15-12-2010, Muscat, Oman
PDO : EDM (Engineer’s Data Models) or open wells, PDO training
centre, Muscat,
Sultanate of Oman.
PDO : Computer training for DIMS in PDO (Oman)
Personal Details:
• Date of Birth  March 1st 1979
• Nationality  Egyptian
• Marital Status  Married.
Computer skills:
• Microsoft products (windows, word, excel & power point).
• EDM (open wells) & DIMS Landmark software.
Language skills:
• Arabic : Native language (mother tongue).
• English : V.good
• French : Fair.
Reference:
Will be furnished upon request.