Merouane Hamdani

Working on Early phase New fields development within Norwegian continental shelf with main duties :
- Exploration targets evaluation (establish business cases; prioritization strategy and technical evaluation, prepare framing meetings) : was in charge for many assets evaluation (mainly in the Barent sea)
- Evaluate feasibility of new fields development (estimate potential , tie in opportunities and development strategy) under LEAN concept (projects: Gulfaks, Nokken, Krafla, Oseberg field development phase 2, Valemon North, Tordis,helleneset)
- Feasibility of a satellites developments (needs for top side investment .. Re-using current facilities, business case .. optimize deferrals... strategy..)... involved into Delta 2 field development within Oseber license
- Establish late life time strategy for major fields ( blow down strategy, future use of the available capacities ..ect) [ matured Oseberg future development, Valemon phase 2 and Gulfaks C future tie in plans]
- Input to a carbon efficient strategy when developing new assets [business cases for Power from shores, business case for water injection reduction at late production phase

Working at Oseberg main subsurface group (Statoil as operator)
main duties:
- Maturing infill targets (involved in the well planning process... bring a feasible solution up to maturation, define and select well concept).. work closely with G&G to support findings from 4D seismic
- work closely with drilling and completion teams to optimize well placement and completion device
 

- Supporting decision for gas and water injection as an IOR activity. planned several gas and WAG injectors in Oseberg
 

- Defining reservoir managment strategy and provide an efficient intervention program and data acquisition programme.
 

- History matching simulation models (mainly working on the BRENT reservoir under gas injection and lower Jurrassic under water injection) .. with some work on Shetland and cook formations ... have developed many workflows and scripts for history match analysis and automation
 

- Geomodelling under fast model update.. (local model update; upscaling; property modelling, saturation modelling and transition zone modelling, structural modelling) ... have developed many scripts for results analysis ... pre and post processing
 

- optimising gas export strategy ( blow down time, gas injection strategy; monitoring RRR) ... in charge of Oseberg gas export future strategy in 2015
- Production prognosis reporting (BPS, RNB , SMV, STAR)

Dealing with both Dry gas and condensate gas reservoir. Working on in salah gas subsurface team ...joint venture between statoil and BP (assigned from statoil)
 

- Following the production from 3 fields in in salah area and preparing developement of 4 satellites to be tied to the existing facilities, also taking care of CO2 injection performance follow up
main tasks:
 

- Reservoir simulation and history matching ( sandstone réservoir mainly Devonien and carboniferous formations)
 

- Estalish reserves and production estimate (establishing reference case profile)
 

- monitor and analyse well performance of new and existing wells
 

- identifying surface bottleneck and gathering system optimisation using an integrated asset modeling (IPM package)
- preparing decision gate package for the new fields development project ... responsible of HMN, GBF fields
- identify new reseroir potentiel or in-fill location to optimize production
- maturation of new infill targets
- identify reservoir and asset risks and suggest risk managment activities
- follow drilling and completion day to day operations
- hydraulic fracture implementation in GMD field
- define data acquisition program and intervention program ( Pbu and PLT interpretation. ..)

Worked with different clients as reservoir and production engineer, part of the Data and consulting services in Schlumberger,
main duties :
- Reservoir simulation (HM and forecast) using Eclipse software
- introduce Petrel Re features to the client
- well test interpretation.
- EOS calibration
- well performance analysis using nodal analysis
- PLT interpretation