AHMED ABDELRAHMAN

AHMED ABDELRAHMAN

Petroleum Engineer

Canada

Profile summary

Self-motivated Professional Engineer with a 13-year background in well abandonments, horizontal drilling and completions, reservoir engineering, production engineering and petroleum regulatory, and project controls

Career highlights

Streamlined Production Data Workflow: Designed and implemented digital workflows for production data acquisition, validation, and quality control using Petrinex, delivering the project under budget.

Reduced Drilling Costs by 50%: Prepared drilling look-back documents and End-of-Well reports which helped the team reduce drilling costs nearly 50% over the course of the program.

Key skills

Skills
Cost EstimationCost ControlReservoir AnalysisWellbore DesignDrilling and Completions OptimizationsExecution Based on Standards and Regulatory RequirementsReportingCoordinating Project FunctionsCollaborating with Technical ExpertsProject RisksLessons LearnedProcess ImprovementsLiaising with Public & Governmentdata visualizationCarbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

Professional experience

Petroleum EngineerAug 2015 - Present
Manitoba Government, Natural Resources and Northern Development Ministry | Winnipeg, MB, Canada

- Designed and implemented digital workflows for production data acquisition, validation, and quality control using Petrinex, delivering the project under budget and enabling seamless reporting for production volumes and KPIs. - Developed type curves and forecasted production volumes for Manitoba Williston Basin pools, supporting revenue forecasting, fiscal budgeting, and asset-level surveillance for optimized resource management. - Calculating fracture gradient from step-rate injectivity test to determine the maximum well head injection pressure for disposal wells. - Providing recommendations on approval of over two thousand well licensing, well abandonments, well injection conversions, saltwater disposal applications upon reviewing technical drilling, completions, workover programs and well history, and well logs evaluation. Determining critical issues such environmental considerations and special site construction requirements prior to issuance of well drilling licenses. - Updating Oil and Gas statistics and data visualization presented in the Manitoba Oil and Gas Magazine that attracts more companies to do more exploration and development in Manitoba. - Identified business opportunities for digital transformation initiatives, advising on enhancements to existing systems and fostering long-term client relationships through technical interpretations and workshops. - Coordinating with other government agencies on issues of regulatory overlap and environmental protection. - Developing and implementing legislation, policy and guidelines related to oil and gas exploration, development, production and workers’ safety and health. - Advising and giving guidance and technical interpretation of legislation, policies and regulations to the Petroleum industry, the public, and other government agencies.

  • Delivering the project under budget and enabling seamless reporting for production volumes and KPIs.
  • Supporting revenue forecasting, fiscal budgeting, and asset-level surveillance for optimized resource management.
  • Determining critical issues such environmental considerations and special site construction requirements prior to issuance of well drilling licenses.
  • Updating Oil and Gas statistics and data visualization presented in the Manitoba Oil and Gas Magazine that attracts more companies to do more exploration and development in Manitoba.
  • Fostering long-term client relationships through technical interpretations and workshops.
Oil Sands Drilling Engineer (EIT)Jul 2014 - Feb 2015
Suncor Energy, Fort Hills Project | Calgary, AB

- Engineered and prepared complete drilling programs and cost estimates for geology core holes, hydro geological monitoring wells and observation geotechnical wells programs. - Provided technical assistance to rig operations and equipment selection. - Tracked drilling rig performance and presented results and KPIs on dashboard to stakeholders - Identified drilling issues, provided project progression reports and solutions and analyses for variances. - Worked on drilling and testing programs in the Devonian formation that encompassed diamond drilling, insitu stress testing, water sampling, packer testing as well as minifracs. - Designed drilling fluid program and cement programs for Devonian monitoring wells.

  • Engineered and prepared complete drilling programs and cost estimates for geology core holes, hydro geological monitoring wells and observation geotechnical wells programs.
  • Provided technical assistance to rig operations and equipment selection.
  • Tracked drilling rig performance and presented results and KPIs on dashboard to stakeholders
  • Identified drilling issues, provided project progression reports and solutions and analyses for variances.
  • Worked on drilling and testing programs in the Devonian formation that encompassed diamond drilling, insitu stress testing, water sampling, packer testing as well as minifracs.
Drilling and Completions Engineer (EIT)Jun 2013 - Jun 2014
Suncor Energy, Kobes/Altares Projects | Calgary, Canada

- Team received Presidents Award for step change in drilling performance. - Reviewed offset wells pressure data for drilling fluids design. - Tracked daily progress and performance KPIs of drilling operations on dashboard and performance curve. - Attained field knowledge about drilling & completions operations including rig components, drilling & casing operations, cementing, calculations/procedures, hydraulic fracturing, wireline, and coiled tubing. - Carried on daily time breakdown and AFE for drilling horizontal Kobes wells. - Prepared drilling look-back documents and End-of-Well reports which helped the team reduce drilling costs nearly 50% over the course of the program. - Optimized drilling programs by capturing lessons learned and incorporation of process improvements. - Improved operations by conducting biweekly operations reviews with drilling supervisors. - Conducted cost estimations for shale gas and tight oil plays, participated in tenders, and evaluation of bids. - Analyzed completions data in both the Montney and Cardium plays including different technologies, completion fluids, breakdown pressures and casing design.

  • Team received Presidents Award for step change in drilling performance.
  • Tracked daily progress and performance KPIs of drilling operations on dashboard and performance curve.
  • Prepared drilling look-back documents and End-of-Well reports which helped the team reduce drilling costs nearly 50% over the course of the program.
  • Optimized drilling programs by capturing lessons learned and incorporation of process improvements.
  • Improved operations by conducting biweekly operations reviews with drilling supervisors.
Project/ Cost Engineer (EIT)Jan 2012 - May 2013
Suncor Energy, Voyageur Sulphur Area | Calgary/ Fort McMurray, Canada

- Developed detailed scoping of the piping and Instrumentation turnover system. - Planned two-year operational spare part list of critical equipment which improved reliability of plant operations. - Participated in the development of Safety Integrity Level (SIL) study to identify the operational hazards; to specify the target level of risk reduction of safety related instrumentation. - Created summary report by gathering and analyzing modularization and construction estimates along with integrating equipment list from 3DNavisworks drawings, which improved schedule resource loading and budgeting. - Determined opportunities for cost savings by monitoring monthly expenditures, forecasting, and highlighting. - Optimized indirect cost estimates in collaboration with Construction Directors. - Created alignment across Voyageur projects for estimation basis by conducting cost analysis. - Processed service requisitions in SAP (creating network activities, tracking budget & actuals, etc.).

  • Developed detailed scoping of the piping and Instrumentation turnover system.
  • Planned two-year operational spare part list of critical equipment which improved reliability of plant operations.
  • Participated in the development of Safety Integrity Level (SIL) study to identify the operational hazards; to specify the target level of risk reduction of safety related instrumentation.
  • Created summary report by gathering and analyzing modularization and construction estimates along with integrating equipment list from 3DNavisworks drawings, which improved schedule resource loading and budgeting.
  • Determined opportunities for cost savings by monitoring monthly expenditures, forecasting, and highlighting.

Education

Bachelor's Degree, Oil & Gas EngineeringApr 2011
University of Calgary