The Director has received his PhD from Imperial College, University of London, and his MSc. in Geology from Western Michigan University, USA and. BSc in Geology/Chemistry from King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

He has served 25 years in Saudi Aramco in petroleum geology related work. Ibrahim has a strong background of the geology of Saudi Arabia, its reservoirs and fields, reservoir characteristics and development. His PhD dissertation was in the Khuff Formation depositional environments, digenesis, reservoir characteristics, development and reservoir prediction in Ghawar Field. He later, extended the reservoir prediction studies of the Khuff to include all Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries.

Ibrahim has worked as geologist in several areas including: well site operations, fields' development, mapping, and reservoir predictions, of the Khuff, Arab, Fadhili, Hanifa, Unayzah and Jauf Reservoirs.

He has held several management positions, the last two positions were the Chief Geologist of Southern are fields, including Ghawar field, and the Chief Geologist of Geological Research & Development in Saudi Aramco. He has presented and published several papers in the Saudi oil and gas fields, attached is a list of theses presentations and publications.

Ibrahim has initiated and organized (as the general secretariat) the first Geosciences Conference in the Gulf (GEO 1994). Ibrahim has initiated the GEO 94 while he was the president of the Dhahran Geosciences Society (DGS) in 1991. He initiated the first joint symposium between DGS and SPE (local chapter) in 1990 and represents the DGS. He represented Saudi Aramco in the ADIPEC for several years. He organized the panel on the challenges of current and future reservoir management in ADIPEC 2002. He initiated and organized the carbonate porosity prediction forum and called for its consortium research in the Gulf. (GEO-2004)

Ibrahim was involved in organizing many geological field trips in Saudi Aramco, including the phanerozoic outcrops; he organized a Paleozoic special field trip to solve the Permian sands bodies’ nomenclature in Saudi Arabia.

    Reports / Presentations / Publications:

1.  “Integration of depositional, diagenetic and seismic tools to predict reservoir quality of Khuff Formation in eastern Saudi Arabia., GEO 2004,Bahrain,March, 2004.”

2.  “Integration of depositional, diagenetic and seismic tools to predict reservoir quality of Khuff Formation in eastern Saudi Arabia, SPE Forum, December, 2003, Dubai.”

3.  Co-author in “Accurate reservoir characterization to reduce drilling risk in Khuff-C Carbonate,

    Ghawar field, Saudi Arabia, GeoArabia, Vol.7, No. 1, 2000.”

4.  “Effective use of depositional and diagenetic tools to predict good reservoir quality of Khuff Formation in eastern Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf Countries”, AAPG, Cairo, October, 2002.”

5.  “Jauf Formation subsurface mapping, integrated depositional model and reservoir quality, guided

    by seismic and gravity, a regional overview, north of Ghawar area, in Press 2000”, presented in

    GEO 2000.”

6.  “The regional Khuff reservoir potential in Saudi Arabia”, 1996, presented at the first Saudi Earth    Science Society Meeting, University of King Saud, Riyadh.

7.  "Depositional Environments, Lithofacies Types and Reservoir Development of the Permian

     Khuff Formation" in Eastern Saudi Arabia", extracted from my PhD. Presented at the AAPG

     International Convention-London, September, 1991.

8.  "Sedimentation of the Khuff Formation and time significance in stratigraphic correlation".

     Presented at the SPE/DGS Symposium.

9.  PhD Dissertation, "Depositional Environments, Diagenesis and Reservoir Characteristics of the   Permian Khuff Formation in Eastern Saudi Arabia, August 1989".

10. As a co-author, in "Lithofacies, Diagenesis, and Depositional Sequence; Arab-D Member,

      Ghawar Field, Saudi Arabia".  SEPM core Workshop No. 12 March 1988.

11. Was involved in core workshop Ghawar Arab-D Reservoir display between EPRCO and

      ARAMCO, AAPG - Convention 1987-Houston.

12. "Sedimentary Features of the Permian Khuff Formation: A Fossil Analog to Quaternary Arabian

       Gulf”, presented at a conference on "Quaternary sediments in the Arabian Gulf and

       Mesopotamian Region", February 1987, Kuwait.

13.  "Diagenetic Effects on Reservoir Properties of the Permian Khuff Formation in Eastern Saudi Arabia", the Middle East Oil Show, March 1987.

14.  "Uthmaniyah Khuff-B Reservoir Study", Progress Report, September 1985.

15.   “Preliminary report on Khuff-B zonation, deposition, diagenesis and reservoir properties,

       Shedgum-'Uthmaniyah", May 1984.

16.   “Petrography part" in the "Core Analysis Report, Qatif well-58 Arab-C Reservoir", May 1984

       done by EPRCO. EXXON.

17.   "The Khuff Formation, its Deposition and Reservoir Development in some selected wells,

       Ghawar Field", presented at the First Geological Technical Meeting held in Dhahran,

       December 1984.

18.  "Petrographic description, lithofacies, and a discussion on the depositional and diagenetic

       environments", Qatif-67, Arab-D reservoir, May 1983, later incorporated with EPRCO Core

       Analysis Report June 1985.

19.   "Petrographic description and lithofacies, Qatif-59 Arab-C reservoir", May 1983, later

       incorporated with EPRCO Core Analysis Report, May 1985.