- Atef Farouk Abdelaal has over 18 years of experience in the petroleum industry, including positions as Senior Petrophysicist and Project Leader at ADCO in Abu Dhabi. - He has expertise in petrophysics, reservoir modeling, and managing studies of undeveloped oil reservoirs across the Middle East and North Africa. - Currently he is the Acting Study Manager at ADCO, where he leads teams and presents results to shareholders seeking approval for appraisal drilling.

1. RÉSUMÉ Atef Farouk Abdelaal
Current Address: Al-Aryam Tower, Mina Road, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Home Address: Golf Al-Solaiymania, Cairo, Egypt.
Work: +971 26042846
Home: +971 26719243
Current Mobile: +971509692083
Home Mobile: +201027816198
Email: petrophysicist13@gmail.com
aabdelaal@adco.ae
QUALIFICATIONS
1991 - 1995 BSc Geology-Geophysics, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University,
Egypt, (Very good).
2012 JUNE SPE Professional Certification.
KEY COMPETENCIES
• +18 years of experience in Petroleum industry (exploration and development).
• Middle east and North Africa experiences (Abu Dhabi in Carbonate Reservoirs)
and all potential areas in Egypt (western desert, gulf of Suez, Nile delta red sea &
Upper Egypt) Clastic and Basement reservoirs.
• Managerial and leadership skills.
• Working through teams (try to motivating other team members and fostering good
inter-personal team relationships to enhance collective responsibility towards
team’s goals).
• Decision making, Trouble Shooting & Problem Solving.
• Geoscience experience (Petrophysics, geology, rig site operation, testing,
geophysics, reservoir engineering, etc..)
• Coaching and develop the new generation of young employee
• Multilingual: Arabic & English.
• Presentation and communication skills.
WORK HISTORY

2. MARCH 2009 – NOW
ABU DHABI CO. FOR ONSHORE PETROLEUM OPERATION LTD. (ADCO), ABU DHABI, U.A.E.
MARCH 2009 - DEC. 2012 SENIOR PETROPHYSICIST IN EUFR TEAM
JAN. 2013 - DEC. 2014 PROJECT LEADERSENIOR PETROPHYSICIST IN EUFR.
JAN. 2015 – NOW ACTING UFR STUDY MANAGER.
Acting Study Manager Responsibilities include:
• Manage the updating of ranking study for all undeveloped reservoirs and fields in ADCO
including the discovered reservoirs in 2015.
• Manage all Undeveloped reservoir studies which used for additional oil production to ADCO or
sustain oil production in specific fields, this included reviewing all available data (Seismic, logs,
test, core, etc..) , build static and dynamic model for cFDP & fFPD, uncertainty analysis.
• Define the optimum appraisal strategy and prioritization for all the studied undeveloped
reservoirs with time line base.
• Conducted many working session with shareholders to get their approval for appraisal plan and
study execution. (during 2015, conducted 4 working session with shareholders to have approval
to execute campaign-1 & campaign-2 study for some undeveloped reservoirs and shareholders
officially approved 4 studies and 2 more studies presented and pending for SH’s approval).
• Manage the execution of drilling appraisal activities and Rigless testing as agreed with
shareholders and modify it based on current situations.
• Encourage the young generation to develop themselves by training, coaching and real work
tasks to have more confidence.
• Define the business plan including studies, rig activities and projects budget.
Project Leader Responsibilities include:
• Led 5 projects (reservoirs) during 2013-2014 to build and construct cFDP’S for them.
• Integrate between geophysical interpretation (seismic interpretation, depth conversion, seismic
attributes, etc..), geological model (Structure, zonations, facies, sedimentological, digenesis,
properties models, volumetric, etc..), Petrophysical Model (log evaluation, fluid contacts
determination, reservoir rock typing, saturation height model, core data, etc..) and reservoir
engineering model (production test analysis, estimated production profile, reservoir economics,
etc..) to end up with different cases for SOOIP (Low, base and High cases)
• Run uncertainty analysis to define which parameters have high impact on the study and the best
way to address these uncertainties.
• Define the optimum appraisal strategy for these reservoirs with time line base
• Present the results out from these studies to company’s international shareholders to seek their
approval to drill some wells to prove the proposed STOOIP.
Studies Petrophysics Responsibilities include:

3. • Carry out Petrophysical field studies and participate with other team members in formulating
reservoir models required for establishing Conception Field Development Plans (CFDP’s) and
Full Field Development Plans (FFDP’s).
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• Focal Point Petrophysicist in ranking studies for all ADCO undeveloped reservoirs and fields
(includes 51 reservoirs)
• Recommended for new exploration reservoirs (3 reservoirs) in L. & M Cretaceous, two
already was discovered and tested oil in 2012 and the other are plan to test it
• Check quality of log data, analyze and evaluate well log and core data in order to establish the
presence of oil and gas and assist in calculating amount of hydrocarbons in the reservoir.
• Use the most advanced logging tools to calculate Sw independent from Archie's parameters
(used new NMR Schl technique and shared in publishing paper about it SPE No:134841
Restricted Diffusion Effects in Saturation Estimates From 2D Diffusion-Relaxation NMR
Maps, presented in ITC E 2010 Florence, Italy)
• Integrate between LWD image data and PLT data to establish the fracture and fault system
through horizontal holes and their effect in well productivity (published paper in Abu Dhabi
SPE conference in Sept. 2011, the paper will address Reservoir Characterization, Fracture
mapping and Well Placement Using a Suite of Logging While Drilling Images with Multiple
Resolutions in a Marginal Middle East Carbonate Reservoir)
• Put RCA & SCAL program for the cores and following up the time schedule for the program
QC the analysis, integrate core data with log data, used the core data to determine the reservoir
rock type (RRT), select special plugs for m, n & MICP measurements, assist the reservoir
engineers to determine the free water level (FWL) from MICP data.
• Approached a new technique to calculate the optimum Sw in thin horizontal reservoirs by using
LWD shallow azimuthal measurements, this technique was approved and published in SPE
paper No. 135873 (Shallow Azimuthal Measurements, A Step towards 3D Petrophysical
Evaluation in Thin Reservoirs).
• Attend meetings with shareholders to present findings/reports and answer queries
• Keep abreast of technological development in the field of Petrophysics, used the most recently
open hole tools in the market Dielectric Scanner Tool as a firs free trial in ADCO and currently
shared in published paper about it
• Establish and maintain records of raw and processed Petrophysical data and provide data for
the Petrophysical well data base (digitized log and core data).
• Coaching, training and development of assigned UAE national employees. Includes monitoring
and reporting on progress and counseling employees, as required
Operation Petrophysics Responsibilities include:
• Preparing well logging program for pilot, deviated and horizontal boreholes, determine the log
type, logging intervals after discussing with all team member
• Conduct Pre & Post spud meeting with the vendors to discuss and agree about the proposal
logging program and finalization the raw and interpreted data.
• Prepare the logging cost estimate and AFE’s for the well and check the logging invoice.
• Following up the LWD & geo-steering operations, evaluate the RT data and take an action if
required.
• Attend daily operation meeting with other disciplines to discuss the current situation and
forecast of the well.
• Prepare a detailed final Petrophysical report and contribute in final well report.

4. • Identifies opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Liaises with contractors and
other agencies/consultants.
• Prepare, follow and evaluate PLT/RST job
• Aware with health, safety and environmental policy, procedures and objectives related to area
of responsibility, and ensure that they are effectively implemented.
1ST
.NOV.2006 – 15 MAR 2009
DANAGAS., EGYPT
SENIOR PETROPHYSICIST.
Dana-Gas Egypt is a division of DANA GAS group companies in exploration business,
has two exploration concessions one in the Nile delta (Gas field) and the other one in upper
Egypt (oil field), also has four development lease in Nile delta produced gas through
WASCO the 6th
.company in gas production in Egypt. (JV. between CENTURION &
Egyptian Gas Holding Company EGAS) also has one development lease in Upper Egypt.
Responsibilities include:
• Re-evaluate the old wells in the concessions (drilled in 1970-1990). Collect & check all
available data for these wells (daily geological reports, drilling reports, bio-stratigraphic
reports, log data, test data), integrating between all those data considering to the reservoir
characterization.
• Shared with Exploration team in more than 6 discoveries with 2 years (success ration for new
prospects above 85 %) and increase company production from 13000 bbls equivalent oil to
40000 bbls equivalent oil
• Following up all rig activities regarding Petrophysical operations (W/L Logging, LWD, Cement
Evaluation, Perforations & Testing) and participate in taking decision for the wells.
• Using IP (Interactive Petrophysics) and ELAN programs to evaluate the wells (calculate RW,
PHIE, SW, VSH, etc…) ,
• Integrate between Logs, Core & Test data to define reservoir characterizations.
• Preparing final petrophysical reports for wells.
• Team member in the reservoir modeling studies and prospect generations’ teams.
• Team member in new business work (participate in evaluation the new business in Egypt,
Iran & Nigeria), calculate porosity, water saturation, net sand, net pay, original hydrocarbon
in place, etc…for interesting zones, comparison between reservoir bodies qualitative, correlate
the extensions for the reservoirs in the areas, identify the different fluids contacts, write
technical report concerning the work done.
• Preparing the synthetic curves for the wells to support geophysicist on their seismic works.
• Start a project with Geophysicist using Hampson-Russell soft ware to create seismic attribute
and build up new seismic model.
• Start to use the Geolog program for petrophysical evaluation of wells.
1ST
.JUN 1999 – OCT. 2006
AGIBA PETROLEUM CO., EGYPT
SENIOR PETROPHYSICIST.

5. AGIBA is JV Company between Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation EGPC &
International Egyptian Oil Company IEOC (ENI branch in Egypt), it is mainly consists
of 6 producing fields, 5 of them is onshore in western desert (deep & shallow targets)
and the other one is offshore in gulf of suis, the average daily production was about
50,000 BOPD (the 4th
. Production company in Egypt), and the average drilling activity
is 45 onshore well/year & 6 offshore well/year.
Responsibilities include:
• Petrophysicist for exploration, appraisal and development wells in western desert and gulf of
Suis.
• Put the logging programs for the wells and discuss it with management & logging company.
• Receive & loading the well data in all format & link it to data base manager.
• Processing the logging data using the geoframe (environmental correction, log editing, depth
matching, and elan) to identify the petrophysical parameters for the reservoir in hand.
• Run Élan, Interactive petrophysics (IP) & petr-view plus soft wares fluently to
calculate the effective porosity, water saturation, many different reservoir parameters & the
volumes of rock components.
• Integrate between core analysis & scanner family ( CMR, MRX, FMI, etc….) with the élan
analysis
• High familiar with advanced logging tools (CMR, MRX, RTS, etc….).
• Coordinate with reservoir engineers to diagnose production problems such as increase the
Water cut by running (TDT), perforation contribution by running (PLT), select the intervals
to be perforated & isolated intervals.
• Making sure that original and backup logging tool is on the rig site and in good shape.
• Reporting the logging program and any other data to the field engineer concerning job in hand
• Making an onsite quick look evaluation for these open hole log measurements & reporting the
results to the managements.
• By using Software (Geo-frame):
* Well Composite Plus as a single well & multi-well stratigraphic and structural Correlations
* Well edit (Depth matching, Filtering, Splicing, etc…..)
* Pre-plus (environmental corrections)
* Utility plots (Construction of different plots to identify the porosity, lithology, RW, etc….)
* Élan (Elemental analysis) for:
a) Single well b) Multi-well stratigraphic & structural correlations
c) Cross plots & Pickett plot d) Evaluation using CMR, ECS & NGS
* Res-Sum (Reservoir Summation to calculate net pay, porosity, water saturation, etc…..)
• Work in assessment team to locate and choice the best location to drill wells.
• Creating stratigraphic and structure cross sections & correlation by using geology
Office software (starting from loading or transforming log curves for wells & ending by
plotting).
• Creating different kinds of maps by using CPS3 software. (Isopach, net sand, porosity,
water saturation, etc….)
• Put the well recommendation for suggests wells.
• Integrate between the well data & proposal data during drilling and make re-adjustments for the
data if it is needed.
• Calculate the reservoir volume & the hydrocarbon in place by using CPS3 &PRESS
soft ware (AGIP Software).
• Coordinate with reservoir engineers to diagnose production problems such as increase the
Water cut by running (TDT), perforation contribution by running (PLT), select the intervals
To be perforated & isolated intervals.
• Teach in last three years more than 8 young employees how to use the geo-frame geological
applications (data base, élan, geology office & cps).

6. CHALLENGE CASE IN AGIBA
While reviewing some of the old wells in western desert and as normal start to look at the
available data, and indeed the mud logging data is the one of the important one that you need
to check it and I noticed one interval composed of shaly and silty interval have oil shows and
gas analysis while drilling but based on open hole logs it is shaly intervals so I believed that we
have thin laminated reservoir but the available logging tools at that time didn’t recognized it
due to resolution so I suggest to my mangers that in next well across this reservoir we need
very high resolution tools in addition to the mud logging unit, so in the recent well we defined
the reservoirs from mud logging by oil & Gs shows with silty sand facies, no x-over between
density-neutron tools, the resistivity reads from 1 to 1.5 ohm.m., the calculations of water
saturation was 70 -80 %, so I realized that we have low resistivity reservoir with bad quality
but it is no problem because this quality could be improved by fracture job and the high water
saturation may be due to irreducible water, so to be sure from that I recorded NMR & FMI
which confirmed my idea and we found that we have pay intervals with thin sand lamina and
the existing water is irreducible water, so according to this data we ordered to perforate one
intervals and make fracture job where the results was fantastic, the well produced 400 oil
barrels per day and consequently my mangers asked from me to make plane to re-open the old
wells which have the same characterizations
And I did it for 5 wells tell I left AGIBA in Nov.-2006
JUN 1997 – JUN 1999
AGIBA PETROLEUM CO., EGYPT
OPERATION GEOLOGIST
Responsibilities included:
• Working as a wellsite geologist in all Agiba concessions onshore in (Meleiha, Aghar, Zarif,
Faras & Raml Fields) in western desert & offshore in (Ashrafi & W.Ashrafi Fields) in Gulf of
Suez.
• Working with most mud logging units “Baker Hughes inteq, Halliburton, Petro-service & Geo-
service “.
• Working with most wire line companies “Schlumbergere, Halliburton & Western Atlas“.
• Study all the objectives of the well before drilling “seismically, structurally, geologically &
sedimentlogically “.
• Make a full description for drilling cutting.
• Make a full evaluation for hydrocarbon shows while drilling “ through cutting samples & gas
system in mud logging unit “
• Correlate between drilling well & offsite wells, determine the top formations and stratigraphic
markers by using all available data “ drilling parameters, mud logs & Composites of offsite
wells “
• Determine the most favorable point for set the casing.
• Determine the best point for catching bottom hole core “core handle, core sample &
detail description for core.”
• High familiar with LWD, TLC & Geosteering techniques.
• Follow up the operation of drill stem test and evaluate the results.
• Interpret all types of logs & make interpretation for composites & completions for wells.
• Prepare the final geological well reports.
OTHERS EXPERIENCES
1ST
.DEC.2004– 1ST
.JUN 2005
APACHE EGYPT EXPLORATION
OPERATION GEOLOGIST.

7. Main Duties: -
• Working As Wellsite Geologist In East Bahariya & El Diyur Concessions (Shallow & Deep
Wells). In western desert
• Drilled 5 exploratory wells in 6 months, 4 wells were discovery achieved and 1 well is dry.
• Cut 2 cores (one in carbonate with oil staining in Eocene L.ST. (Apollonian fm.) And the
second was in U.Cenomenian clastics (Abu-Roush G).
• Prepare The Final Well Report For Drilled Wells.
• Working In Regional Geological Maps Of Northern Part Of Western Desert (West Kanayis,
Kanayis, R.Elhekma, Tarek & N.Tarek, Meleiha, Khalda, Obaiyed, Matruh Onshore &
Offshore, Qasr, Etc… ).
1ST
OCT.2003 – 25TH
.OCT.2003
CENTURION ENERGY CO., EGYPT
SENIOR PETROPHYSICIST
• Working part time as senior petrophysicist to evaluate 3 new prospects in Abu Sannan area in
western desert of Egypt during EGPC bed round from reservoirs point of view.
JAN. 2002 – APRIL 2002
IEOC EXPLORATION CO. (ENI BRANCH IN EGYPT)
OPERATION GEOLOGIST.
• Working as wellsite geologist in Red sea Deep Marin Water (wildcat area), drilled one deep
wildcat well.
• Prepare the final well report for this well.
DEC.2000- JAN. 2001
BAKER HUGH INTEQ, ALBANIA
MUD LOGGER
Responsibilities included:
• Monitoring all drilling parameters while drilling (rate of penetration, tourq, pump pressure, mud
pits, etc…..) through seimens.
• Calibrate and work mud gas system, record gas analysis, make gas analysis ratio plots,
determination the type of hydrocarbon fluids from gas plots.
• Preparing trip sheet while tripping.
• Make A Full Description For Drilling Cutting.
• Make A Full Evaluation For Hydrocarbon Shows While Drilling.
• Preparing the mud log in PDF format & ASCII data format, packing the wet & dry samples.
MEMBERSHIPS
 Member in SPE, SPWLA, SEG, ESSP & EGS.
 Board member in Technical Committee in SPWLA Abu Dhabi Chapter.
PUBLICATIONS

8.  SPE 135873, Shallow Azimuthal Measurements, A step towards 3D Petrophysical Evaluation
in Thin Reservoirs (SPWLA 2010, Abu Dhabi).
 SPE No:134841 Restricted Diffusion Effects in Saturation Estimates From 2D Diffusion-
Relaxation NMR Maps, (presented in ITC E 2010 Florence, Italy)
 SPE 148089, Reservoir Characterization, Fracture Mapping and Well Placement using a Suite
of Logging While Drilling Images with Multiples Resolution in a Marginal Reservoir, Middle
East Carbonate Reservoir (SPE 2011, Abu Dhabi).
 High Resolution Logging-While-Drilling, Lateral Well Resistivity And Image Interpretation A
Case Study, (SPWLA 53rd
. Annual Symposium, Colombia, June 2012)
 SPE 164150, Integration of Dielectric Dispersion and 3D NMR Characterizes the Texture and
Wettability of a Cretaceous Carbonate Reservoir (MEOS 2013, Bahrain).
 SPE 171714, New Approach For Formation Evaluation Using Advanced Mud Gas Analysis
Of Conventional And Unconventional Reservoirs: A Case Study From Onshore UAE
(ADIPEC 2014, Abu Dhabi)
TRAINING
TECHNICAL
1999 Basic Open Hole Formation Evaluation, Schlumberger, Cairo.
2001 Geophysics For Geologist, EREX, Hurghada.
2001 Technical Report Writing, AUS, Cairo.
2001 Plate Tectonic & Structural Setting, AGIP, Milan, Italy.
2002 Well Placement Workshop, Schlumberger, Cairo.
2002 Reservoir Modeling, ROXER, Cairo.
2005 Basic of Geochemistry, EPRI, Cairo.
2006 Presentation Skills, AUC, Cairo.
2007 Quantitative Reservoir Geophysics, Paradigm, Cairo.
2007 Fluvial & Deltaic Depositional System, NEXT, Cairo.
2007 Petroleum Geomechanics, NEXT, Cairo.
2008 Basic Reservoir Engineering, Petroskills, Aberdeen
2010 Core and Core Analysis, Petroskills, Dubai
2011 Carbonates reservoir Characterizations ADCO training center, Abu Dhabi
2011 Carbonate and fracture Petrophysics, A roadmap, Hot Eng. Dubai
2012 Integrated Reservoir Analysis, Hot Engineering, Dubai
2012 Reservoir Engineering for Non Reservoir Engineer, Hot Engineering, Dubai
2013 Leading without Authority ADCO training center, Abu Dhabi
2013 Image Processing Workshop, ADCO training center, Abu Dhabi
2013 Special Core Analysis, Hot Engineering, Dubai.
2014 Integrated Petrophysics for Reservoir Characterizations, Hot Engineering,
2015 Resilience and Learning Agility Workshop.
SOFT WARE TRAINING
2000 Fundamental of Geo-frame, Schlumberger, Cairo.
2000 Geology Office (Strat-log), Schlumberger, Cairo.
2000 Introduction to ELAN, Schlumberger, Cairo.
2007 IESX, Schlumberger, Cairo.
2007 Hampson-Russell soft ware, UK, London.
2008 Geo-log software, Paradigm, Cairo.
2009 Finder Data Base, ADCO training center, Abu Dhabi

9. 2009 Business objective, ADCO training center, Abu Dhabi
2010 Log-Db, ADCO training center, Abu Dhabi
2011 Tech-Log, ADCO training center, Abu Dhabi
2012 Inter Active Petrophysics, Synergy, Abu Dhabi
PERSONAL BIO
Date & Place of Birth: 13 February 1973 – Cairo, Egypt.
Citizenship: Egyptian.
Marital status: Married, Three children (a girl 11 years & a boy 8
years and girl 2 years)

10. 2009 Business objective, ADCO training center, Abu Dhabi
2010 Log-Db, ADCO training center, Abu Dhabi
2011 Tech-Log, ADCO training center, Abu Dhabi
2012 Inter Active Petrophysics, Synergy, Abu Dhabi
PERSONAL BIO
Date & Place of Birth: 13 February 1973 – Cairo, Egypt.
Citizenship: Egyptian.
Marital status: Married, Three children (a girl 11 years & a boy 8
years and girl 2 years)