Executive Committee

Abdulla Al-Shemsi
President 

Volker Vahrenkamp, ADCO
Vice-President

• Carbonate Geology Expert / Exploration Manager
• ADCO, seconded from Shell. 28 years oil industry experience. Previously: Petroleum Development Oman; Sarawak Shell Berhad, Malaysia; Shell E&P Research, Netherlands
• PhD in Marine Geology & Geochemistry from Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami (1988)

 

Aldo Vesnaver
Sponsorship Secretary/Program Secretary

• KADOC Chair Professor at the Petroleum Institute (from 2014 to present)
• Master in Physics and PhD in Geophysics from the University of Trieste (Italy)

 

Jorge Salgado Gomes
Treasurer

• PARTEX Chaired Professor in Petroleum Engjneering and Petroleum GeoSciences, Petroleum Institute, UAE.)
• 30+ years oil industry experience. Previously: EDMA, BP Minerals, HOT Engineering AG, PARTEX (seconded to QP, Qatar; seconded to ADCO, Abu Dhabi)
• BSc, MSc in Geology from Oporto University (Portugal) & MEng & PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, UK

 

Ewart Edwards, ZADCO
Fieldtrip Secretary  

Christoph Lehmann
Program Secretary/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

 

David Brown
Membership Secretary

• Core Laboratories

 

Muhammad Asim Iqbal
IT Secretary

• Geophysical Engineer, Petroleum Geosciences Department
• The Petroleum Institute since 2011
• M. Sc., Geophysics, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan

 

Mohamed M. Abdel Sattar
Northern UAE coordinator

• General Manager- Exploration at Emirates National Oil Co. (ENOC)
• 40+ years oil industry experience. Previously: AMOCO Egypt, ADNOC, ADCO, Petroleum Institute, UAE
• BSc, MSc in Geology from Ain Shams University-Egypt
• PhD in Structural Geology from Al Azhar University-Egypt