Executive Committee

Abdalla Hussain Al-Shamsi
President 
 
Daniel Holloway
Communication Chair
  • Petroleum Geologist in the Middle East team at CGG Robertson
  • Three years of experience in basin modeling, petroleum systems analysis, source rock characterisation studies and unconventional exploration
  • BSc Geology and MSc Petroleum Geoscience from Imperial College London
  • Social Media: @RFCdan
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Jorge Salgado Gomes
Vice President/Treasurer/Sponsorship Secretary
  • 30+ years industry + academic experience.
  • Worked for EDMA, BP Minerals, HOT Engineering AG, PARTEX Oil & Gas, QP, ADCO, Khalifa University (former Petroleum Institute).
  • Currently Head of GeoSciences (ADNOC Group)
  • BSc, MSc in Geology from Oporto University (Portugal) & MEng & PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, UK
 
 
Henry Ewart Edwards
Fieldtrip Secretary
     
 
Christoph Lehmann
Fieldtrip Secretary
  • Carbonate Geology Expert in Subsurface Technology BU in ADMA
  • ADMA, seconded from BP. Previously Rumaila Field, Iraq. Wide experience in Exploration and Carbonate Field Development
  • PhD in Carbonate Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy from University of California
 
 
Lian Hou
Membership Secretary
     
 
Muhammad Asim Iqbal
IT Secretary
  • 12+ years industry and academic experience.
  • Worked for King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), CosmoSeis Petroleum Services.
  • Currently Working in Khalifa University UAE (former Petroleum Institute).
  • MSc in Geophysics from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
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Hesham Shebl
Board Member of the Society
  • More than 30 years of oil field experience in sedimentology, petrography and reservoir characterization related activities. In addition to around 8 years’ academic experience with King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran and United Arab Emirates Universities. He is a member of AAPG, SPE, and SCA.
  • Employed by Core Laboratories, ADNOC Offshore (ZADCO).
  • Currently in ADNOC Upstream.
  • B.Sc. degree from Ain Shames University, Cairo, in 1980 and a M.Sc. from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, 1989.
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David Brown
Board Member of the Society  
 
Rhona Ayyoub
Board Member of the Society
     
 
Matthieu Deville de Periere
Board Member of the Society