Marwan Hamad has over 35 years of experience in the oil industry. He holds master's and bachelor's degrees in mechanical engineering from universities in the US. Hamad has held several engineering roles with increasing responsibility at Zakum Development Company in Abu Dhabi, including field drilling engineer, field petroleum engineer, senior petroleum engineer, and acting well operations and reservoir control team leader. He has extensive experience in well drilling, completion, production, reservoir management, and field development.

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Name : Marwan H. Hamad
Date of birth : 18th
November 1952
Marital : Married Sex: Male
Nationality : Holding Australian Perm. Residency
TEL. : (Res.)+61 2 97860072
(Mobile) +61 4 02096163
E-mail Address : Al-Hamad.consultant@hotmail.com
Education:
 December 1979: M. Sc. Master of Science in Mechanical &
Aerospace Engineering, University of Missouri – Columbia.
State of Missouri, U.S.A.
 June 1978: B. Sc. Bachelor of Science in Mechanical
Engineering. Utah State University. Logan, Utah, U.S.A.
 November 1976: Engineer-In-Training (E.I.T.) License. State
of Utah. Utah, U.S.A.
Personal Profile:
 Self-motivated and dynamic person with good exposure to office
administration at various levels.
 Ability to communicate effectively in multinational environment
 Able to absorb new information and techniques quickly
Computer Skills:
 MS Windows / Outlook Excellent
 MS Office (Word + Excel) Excellent
 MS Power Point Excellent
 Internet Excellent
Work experience: More than 35 years of oil industry experience
1977 Research Assistant, on grant from NASA Air Force, at the
University of Missouri, Columbia. Research topic “Laser
Beam Degradation Resulting from Flow Induced Density
Fluctuations”.
Marwan H. Hamad
e-mail: Al-Hamad.consultant@hotmail.com
Residence Phone: 02-97860072

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1978 Teaching Assistant for Engineering Physics and Fluid
Mechanics, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Department. University of Missouri, Columbia, U.S.A.
1979 Worked with Abu Dhabi National Petroleum Construction
Company (NPCC) as a Mechanical Engineer. The company
was providing services to Abu Dhabi offshore oil fields,
such as fabricating and installing Jackets, Well Head
Platforms, Helidecks, Offshore Pipelines, wells Hook-up to
Production Network…etc.
13th
March 1980 Joined Zakum Development Company, Drilling
Department, as a Field Drilling Engineer, at Abu Dhabi
Offshore area. Worked offshore as a company-man with all
duties and responsibilities on Drilling Barge. My duties and
responsibilities were as follows:
 Responsible for preparing the well programs, following-up
closely the offshore field operations and providing technical
assistance and support to Senior Supervisors.
 Checks equipment availability for planned wells to be drilled
and advises if re-rescheduling is required.
 Evaluates the drilling efficiency and analyze the reasons for
problems to avoid such occurrences in the future.
 Performs other related duties such as studying and analyzing
well data and recommends optional drilling procedures, the
supervision and training of Junior personnel in both written and
practical aspects of the well engineering.
 Prepares the contracts of Rigs and their amendments with close
liaison with budget officer.
 Prepares all final well drilling reports.
 Supervises the trial / pilot tests for new equipment.
1st
December 1982 Promoted to Field Petroleum Engineer/Appraisal
Major tasks, duties and responsibilities were as follows:
 Review and update well status reports on monthly basis.
 Establish Petroleum Engineering Guidelines and
Requirements for completion and work-over operations
including communication tests, stimulations and
flow/injection test policy.
 Establish guidelines, procedures and requirements for
down-hole investigations.

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 Well completion analysis, Nodal analysis, problematic well
investigation.
 Drilling & completion supervision on board Drilling Rigs
in UZ-Field.
 Experienced in field development planning activities,
consolidating subsurface and surface requirements.
 Review completion and work-over operations and results.
 Follow up on well behavior and status after production
start-up to assess completion and work-over success.
 Compile, issue and update wire-line and testing
requirements on annual basis and follow up
implementation.
 Reservoir surveillance, Wire-Line & Production Logging
operations and Acidization.
 Completion Design for the new wells to be drilled and
wells to be worked over.
 Supervise Field Polymer treatments.
 Supervision of Field operations and data gathering.
 Update & issue Well Head Platforms Characteristic
Technical Data Book.
 Issue various periodic reports to management.
1st
January 1985 Promoted to Senior Petroleum Engineer
My duties and responsibilities were as follows:
 Prepare the Company Production and Injection Allocation
Reports, per well, per reservoir, per Satellite and per Total
Field, on monthly basis.
 Validate and review daily the well head parameters
(pressure, choke size opening, temperature, oil & gas rates
and water cut evolution) of producers and injectors with a
view to increase their potential by the initiation of
stimulation or work-over proposals and submits
recommendations to senior supervisors.
 Monitoring water production evolution.
 Development of ZADCO new Back Allocation System.
 Developing Field data quality optimization System and
deployment of GeoQuest Finder Database.

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 Prepared Specifications for Back Allocation Algorithms,
GOR and well head characteristics performance curves
 Prepare the available Production and Injection Potential
Forecasts on monthly basis, based on the actual flow tests
results, Rig activity Bar chart, Hook-up and commissioning
schedule.
 Establish order of preferential priority order of opening and
closing depleted wells in order to obtain the required field
off-take taking into consideration the reservoir constraints
and Injection / Production balance ratio.
 Maintain & develop the computerized Production &
Injection Database System and their application.
 Determines the optimum BS&W sampling frequency.
 Carries out special studies aiming to improve productivity
and / or injectivity of the wells.
 Validation and analysis of well tests using Pressure
Transient Analysis. Established flow testing validation
criteria,
 Establishes the most reliable and suitable testing frequency
for UZ-Field wells in order to obtain reliable reconciliation
and allocation.
 Member of ZADCO Artificial Lift Task Force. Issued
several artificial lift feasibility studies for Upper Zakum
offshore field.
 Assessment of production performance of Horizontal and
side-tracking wells.
 Diagnosis of wells for remedial and work over jobs.
 Production optimization and availability forecasts.
 Assessment of Field major operations and its impact on
production / injection availability in order to enhance
production capacity.
 Training and coaching young engineers.
 SME, Skilled Pool Expert for Professional Technical
Ladder Process for assessing Petroleum Engineers.
 1st
January 1997 Promoted to Acting Well Operations and Reservoir
Control Team Leader.

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Conferences / Technical Papers:
Issued the following technical papers:
 ZADCO’s First Experience in Artificial Lifting (ADSPE#71) at
The 6th
Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition &
Conference. Held on 16 – 19th
October 1994, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
 Field Back Allocation /Field Visualization Implementation in
Zakum Development Company (ZADCO) Oil Fields. Presented
and issued during 4th
Middle East Information Management User
Forum, which was held on 6th
& 7th
October 2003, Abu Dhabi,
U.A.E.
 Implementation of a Back Allocation System with Network
Visualization for Zakum Development Company (ZADCO), SPE
Paper Number: 88747. This paper has been accepted for
presentation in a technical session, which will be held during the
11th
Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference
between 10 – 13th
October 2004, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
Petroleum Industry Courses & Seminars:
 Drilling Practices Techniques In September 1980
 Drilling and Bit Technology In November 1980
 Bottom Hole Assemblies In July-Sep. 1980
 Primary & Squeeze Cementing School In March 1982
 Kick Control-Basic Course In June 1983
 Applied Reservoir Engineering In November 1983
 Nodal System Analysis-Prod. Optimization In March 1984
 Skills Training for Supervisors In October 1983
 Creative Problem Solving & Decision Making In February 1992
Memberships:
 SPE, Society of Petroleum Engineers,
SPE Membership No. 3159112
 The Institution of Engineers, Australia
Chartered Professional Engineer, MIEAust CPEng.
Membership No. 54311+