Ahmed Farouk El-Tohamy
40 Masged El Ryad St., Ard El Hadad from El wehda street, Embaba, Giza, Egypt.
+20 122 750 5211
ahmed.farouk@gdfsuezep.com.eg
afmmedo@yahoo.com
Summary
I have more than 8 years of broad geoscience experience. I have wide exposure to many facets of
geophysics including seismic interpretation, seismic inversion, reservoir characterization and geophysical
operations.
In the last couple of years, I focused mainly in seismic interpretation, lead generation, prospect evaluation
and maturation, seismic inversion, rock physics and AVO analysis. I worked on very challenging
exploration projects.
Recently, my focus is exploration geoscience, doing seismic interpretation, regional studies and prospect
evaluation.
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I like research, integrating different sciences, learning new things, trying new ideas and teaching
others.
My main goal is to gain wider experience in different geological basins and professionally
conduct successful development and exploration projects.
Education
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MSc Degree in reservoir characterization of deep marine complex turbiditic channels, Cairo
University, Egypt ruled by Dr. Wayne D. Pennington Michigan Technological University.
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Bachelor of Science in Geophysics (2006), Cairo University, with a very good cumulative grade,
ranked 4th.
Awards received
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Schlumberger Certificate for Distinguished Student (2004).
Experience
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May 2012-Present: GDF Suez “Gaz De France”.
Working as Geophysicist for GDF-Suez Exploration team;
Nile Delta
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Involved in West El‐Brullus Exploration area in Nile Delta of Egypt, as an exploration
geophysicist responsible for regional evaluation, prospect identification and maturation
for reservoirs ranged from deltaic to deep water system of the area, through the
integration between the seismic direct hydrocarbon indicators (DHIs) interpretation and
seismic stratigraphy concepts, in addition to rock physics analysis and modeling.
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Member of the new opportunities team which responsible for evaluation of the bid round
and farm-in blocks in the Nile Delta.
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Western Desert
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Velocity analysis and modelling for Alam El-Shawish concession resulted in high quality
seismic depth volume in addition to accurate depth surfaces.
Regional seismic interpretation in Alam El-Shawish area.
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Farm in opportunities evaluation “West Obayed concession”.
Wadi-Dib Concession “Eastern Desert and Gulf of Suez province”
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Structural seismic interpretation to generate robust geological model and for basin
prospectivity analysis.
Regional work
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Participate and prepare all the Geological and Geophysical data, presentations and reports
for farm-down projects.
Participate in both TCMs, workshops and peer reviews in order to present the different
studies to partners.
Participated to Land Seismic Acquisition Project in Gulf of Suez as a client
representative to conduct Technical Audit Tests prior to start up acquisition operation,
supervise on-site and quality control 2D/3D seismic acquisition program and the
geophysical data which shall include but not limited to, acquisition parameters and field
processing in order to ensure efficient and reliable data acquisition in addition to
provision of daily written summaries of the survey operations.
Follow up seismic processing projects (Wadi Dib).
Contribute in the different technical reports.
January 2012-May 2012: Schlumberger “WesternGeco GII”.
Worked as a Reservoir Geophysicist at Geology Interpretation & Inversion team:
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Generated AVO models to analyze the fluid content of reservoir rocks using both prestack seismic and well log data.
AVO angel Decomp to choose the best angle-bands for the inversion process.
3D Pre-stack simultaneous seismic inversion at different geological environments,
clastics and carbonate systems.
Generated Litho-cubes depending on Rock physics models and Probability distribution
function technique.
Used seismic inversion technique to define accurate velocity model of salt layer
intercalated with clastics and anhydrites for better seismic imaging “Depth imaging
processing project at North East Mediterranean”
December 2010-December 2011: Rashid Petroleum Company/BG Group joint venture
Exploration Geophysicist:
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Lead generation, prospect evaluation, risking, GIIP and reserve calculation.
Prospect maturation to drillable targets, well planning, shallow hazard studies,
geotechnical documents.
Re-evaluated existing prospects and structures, including GIIP calculations and definition
of relevant uncertainties and future requirements.
January 2007-December 2010: Rashid Petroleum Company/BG Group joint venture
Development Geophysicist:
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Giant Scarab-Saffron and Simian gas fields: used different data sets (pre-stack, post-stack
inversion and conventional seismic) to select well locations for the Field Development
Plan.
Worked with fully integrated team of Drillers, Geoscientists and REs to define the best
well locations and designs for workovers.
Seismic stratigraphy and structural interpretation & use of multiple seismic attributes to
generate geological model.
Generated synthetic seismograms from well data including wavelet extraction.
Applied different techniques of depth conversion to reduce uncertainty and drilling risks.
Interpreted seismic inversion results "RAI, EI, pre-stack inversion, AVO attributes".
Gained experience with pre-stack inversion in development and exploration phases.
Gained experience with post-stack inversion with different algorithms and interpret the
results.
Derived petrophysical parameters for some of development reservoirs at WDDM
Concession utilizing rock physics model which is generated from integration of well logs,
seismic and seismic inversion products in order to use them in GIIP calculation and the
Field Development Plan.
Participated to side scan sonar and site-surveys to QC and interpret data.
Site survey operation coordinator and supervisor; responsible for company cost estimates.
Seismic inversion projects coordinator, responsible for cost estimates.
VSP acquisition and processing supervisor.
Technical and commercial tenders evaluation.
Summer training
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17/7/2005-28/7/2005
27/7/2005-16/8/2005
16/8/2005-31/8/2005
28/8/2005-13/9/2005
Suez Oil Co., Cairo
WesternGeco, Damietta
Khalda Petroleum Co., Cairo
Rashid petroleum Co., Cairo
Training Topics
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Interpretation of seismic data.
Seismic data acquisition, field operations and quality control.
Petrophysics and seismic data processing.
Skills
Language Skills
Arabic
Mother Tongue
English Very Good
Computer Skills
 Excellent computer user
 Geo-technical Software
o Petrel (including inversion plugins)
o Hampson-Russell
o Geoframe
Professional Memberships
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SEG (Society of Exploration Geophysicists) member
AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists) member
EAGE (European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers) member
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Acknowledgment
Capable of working under pressure and to meet tight deadlines, enjoy being member of a multi-disciplinary
team to reduce risk, uncertainty, and maximize the chance of success; strongly believe that exchange of
ideas within the team are beneficial to everyone and contribute to work progress.
Referees
Gianluca Badalini
Exploration Advisor
BG-Group
Email: gianluca.badalini@bg-group.com
John Luchford
Geophysicist
BG-Group
Email: john.luchford@bg-group.com
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