Consulting Geologist
Ministry of Oil/Petroleum Contracts and Licensing Department
Date and Place of Birth: Baghdad, Iraq, June 21, 1967.
Academic Qualifications: Bachelor of Science/Earth Science, 1990-1991.
2001–2010: Secretary-General of the Arab Geologists Union.
2001–2010: Editor-in-Chief of the Arab Geologist Magazine.
2022–2023: President of the Iraqi Geologists Syndicate.
2019–2022: Chairman of the Administrative Board of the Consulting Office of the Geologists Syndicate.
2022–2023: Chairman of the Department Responsible for Ibn Khaldun College/Al-Ahlia University.
April 1, 2022 – April 30, 2022: Consultant at the Southern Oil Company/EBS Petroleum Limited (a Chinese company) – (oil contracts and licensing/southern region).
2019–2023: Consultant at the Maysan Oil Company/Anas Kaz Petroleum Limited (a Russian company) – Exploration Block No. (17).
2001–2022: Director of the GeoIraq Geological Consulting Office (a private consulting office licensed by the Iraqi Geologists Syndicate).
2012–2018: Deputy Director of Information Technology at the Petroleum Contracts and Licensing Department.
May 2012: Data Bank Officer in the Follow-up Department at the Petroleum Contracts and Licensing Department.
March 2012: Exploration Contracts Officer in the Contracts Department at the Petroleum Contracts and Licensing Department.
February 2012: Senior Geologist at the Petroleum Contracts and Licensing Department.
1999 – February 2012: Head of Information Notes in the Modeling Department at the Oil Exploration Company.
1998 – 1999: Geologist at the West Qurna (No. 1) field in the Western Desert of Iraq.
2022: Member of joint committees with the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers.
2022: Member of joint committees with the Advisory Board.
2016 – January: Member of the Joint Management Committee (JMC) for Block No. 10 (contractor Lukoil & JAPEX).
2018 – January: Member of the technical and negotiating committees between the Ministry of Oil and the Russian company Storytransgaz regarding Block No. 17 in the Western Desert of Iraq.
2016: Member of the Iraqi Center for Energy Studies at the Ministry of Oil.
2018 – January: Member of the technical and negotiating committees between the Ministry of Oil and the Indian company ONGC regarding Block No. 8 in the Southern Desert of Iraq.
2015–2016: Member of the Ministerial Negotiating Team at the Ministry of Oil.
2015–2016: Member of the Joint Management Committee (JMC) for the Garraf oil field (contractor Petronas & INPEX).
2013: Member of the Joint Management Committee (JMC) for Block 8 (contractor PPL).
2011: Member of the Joint Management Committee (JMC) for the North Rumaila field (contractor BP & PetroChina).
2010: Member of the Joint Management Committee (JMC) for the West Qurna 2 field (contractor Lukoil).
2006–2007: Member of the Technical Committee of the joint team between the Oil Exploration Company and ExxonMobil to determine the location of the deep exploration well in southern Iraq.
Negotiation and contracting through participation in numerous joint management committee meetings with several international oil companies throughout my tenure at the Petroleum Contracts and Licensing Department (2008-2018).
Information management through my role as the person responsible for preparing detailed technical information for the calculation of information for all licensing rounds at the Petroleum Contracts and Licensing Department (2008-2018).
Interpreting seismic information through preparing geological and geophysical studies for several oil and gas fields (1989-2008).
Preparing petroleum geochemistry through exploration and scientific reviews to interpret seismic data, such as Petroleum Geochem, while working at the Oil Exploration Company (1989-2008).
Computer application skills (Windows and Microsoft Office).
Numerous long-term secondments to several countries (the United Kingdom, Norway, Russia, India, Pakistan, Iran, Jordan, Egypt, Malaysia, and China).
Gaining experience and training in the latest modern methods and concepts in geology, geophysics, contracts and negotiations, petroleum negotiations, and petroleum resource management (petroleum policies, project management, and economic evaluation of projects).
Delivering numerous lectures and courses for numerous employees at the Ministry of Oil and several non-governmental organizations on topics such as geology, petroleum contracts, and petroleum resource management.
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