This document is a curriculum vitae for Mehdi Kessouar that includes personal details, an executive summary, work experience, education, computer literacy, and languages. Kessouar has over 10 years of experience in the oil and gas industry in completions and workover engineering. He currently works as a workover and completion supervisor where he oversees workover activities and ensures operations follow procedures. Kessouar has a Master's degree in oil and gas production from IFP School and a Bachelor's degree in production engineering.

1. CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL DETAILS
Name: KESSOUAR
Surname: Mehdi
Date of Birth : 07/10/1976
Place of Birth : Skikda
Nationality: Algerian
Marital Status: Married
Address: UV17 Cité 103 logts Dambri BT 40 N° 4052 Ali Mendjeli – Constantine (Algeria)
Mobile: 213661832793 or 213551650760
E-mail: k_mehdi_76@yahoo.com or kessouar.mehdi@outlook.com
m.kassouar@amt.sonatrach.dz or mahdi.kessouar@hmd.sonatrach.dz
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Over ten year’s experience in the Oil & Gas industry mainly on completions and workover both supervising &
engineering. I am a self-motivated, hard working person with ambitious character. Eager for success and new challenges.
Focused on career development. Work with minimum and remote supervision. Enjoy problem solving.
Specialized in completion design for oil/gas wells, diversified knowledge in various disciplines of Production
engineering and Operations (Workover and completions,WellCompletion, Gas lift systems, Wireline , Slick line, Coil
Tubing, Stimulation, Fishing and Milling , Directionel drilling, well testing, snubbing ).
EXPERIENCE
1- Production technologist F / March 2006 to March 2008
1. Supervise gas & oil well testing ( DST & WT)
2. Supervise Production logging tool
3. Supervise perforating (with SurjiJet or Power Jet )
4. Follow production and participate to choose well candidate for any well intervention such as Workover,
Snubbing, Matrix Acidizing, Fracturing
5. Interpretation of well test using Ecrin
6. Interpretation PLT using Emeraude
7. Optimization of production using Prosper & Pipesim
2- Workover & completion engineerSONATRACH F/March 2008 to Dec 2011
1- Preparing completion/work-over programs including all information specified in Company procedure by applying
engineering best practices.
2- Preparing estimated cost breakdown for completion/work-over operations.
3- Recommending changes in some aspects of completion/work-over program to optimize completion methods and
techniques.
4- Assisting rig site operations for specific jobs. Supervise contractor services in improving job quality concerned
with completion operations.
5- Review final well reports, collect and quality check the “End of Well” reports from the relevant service
companies.
6- Monitor daily completion operation cost versus prognosis cost.

2. 7- Application of all Company policies and procedures as relates to the given work environment.
8- Prepares cost estimates for completions and workovers.
9- Provides rig site technical assistance to Completions and Workovers Supervisors during critical operations.
10- Conducts follow-up assessments of completion equipment selection and application.
11- Provides annual completion equipment and materials technical
12- Prepare Completion running & testing procedures.
13- Prepare slick line running program, verify, required test plug, check valves & slick line equipments required to
test completion during RIH completion string & prior to start production or injection
14- Provide support to other workover operations including coiled tubing, acid pumping, well/production test, wire
line, slick line, gravel pack/ gas lift, wellhead services and nitrogen unloading.
15- Prepare pipe tally for well depth correlation, spacing out and correct placement of well accessories;
16- Primary and secondary well control: operate secondary well control equipment during rig operations according to
IADC/IWCF standards;
17- Manage rig inventory and materials requisition;
18- Plan and monitor maintenance schedule of equipment;
19- Prepare Daily/End of Well Report;
3- Workover & completion supervisor F/Dec 2011 till now
1. Supervise the work over activity
2. Ensure that the activity is performed as per given program
3. Pressure test BOP'sequipments & other drilling Equipments in compliance with the company procedures.
4. Preparing and transmitting drilling and work over reports to head office department
5. Signing of service companies tickets for work completed on location
6. Supervising well for other operations prior of rig arrival
7. Application of all Company policies and procedures as relates to the given work environment.
8. Significant background in directional drilling short radius wells
9. Drilling short radius lateral and slim hole and side track through cement plug or whipstock
10. Running & cementing all type of casing: 7" CSG, 7" Liner & 4 ½” Liner.
11. Accomplishing all the fishing operations, and doing any type of fishing & milling jobs, such as: remove existing
completion 5” – 4 ½” – 3 ½”– 2 7/8” diameters
12. Pulling casings, tubing or drill pipes after mechanical or electrical back off
13. Pulling casings after making a cut with cutters (Bowen,Smith or Weatherford etc…)
14. Fishing on casings, tubing or drill pipes using, spears,mechanical cutters (internal and external), RCJB,overshot,
die collar, taper tap, bumper subs, jars etc… (Bowen or Weatherford etc …)
15. Casing repairs (squeeze cement, Tie Back,casing patch, …)
16. Milling and retrieving different permanent packers and bridge plugs
17. Cementing such as Casing, , plug , Liner
18. Run: GR-CALIPER- CCL –CBL –VDL – (logging for corrosion)
19. Killing well
20. Nipple up, nipple down and test Wellhead
21. Running completions and space out (Open hole completions, Cased hole completions, Cemented liner
completions, Completion with hydraulic or electrical production packer)
22. Running and pulling bridge plugs

3. AVAILABILITY
Available to start to work immidiatly
EDUCATION
1. Industry
1. Well intervention Certificate (Dec 2007 – Dec 2009)
2. Production Optimization “Nodal Analysis” with Next
3. Fracturing with Halliburton
4. Production operation with petroSkills
5. Effectives supervisor with Language Solution International
6. Petroleum Project Management Principles & Practices with petroSkills
7. Well testing training with Petrofac in Dubai
2. Academic
1. IFP SCHOOL ( ENSPM), Master of oil and gas Production, 2006-2009, Technical Writing (
Application of nodal analysis for gassi touil field)
2. UNIVERSITY OF BOUMERDES , FACULTY OF HYDROCARBON& CHIMESTRY (EX
INH),Production Engineer , 1994-2000, technical writing (effect of water injection in gassi el agreb field)
3. MED TAHAR ELKADOURI COLLEGE,Baccalaureat of maths
COMPUTER LITERACY
1. Operating Systems:
 MS DOS
 Windows( soft & hard) ,
 Network
 Microsoft Office
2. Petroleum Engineering:
 Prosper,
 Ecrin,
 Emeraude
 OFM,
 PipeSim,
LANGUAGES
1. Arabic mother languages
2. Frensh fluent
3. English good writing, acceptable speaking