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WORK EXPERIENCE

Falcon Petroleum Consultants – Al Seef, Bahrain    

Oct. 2007 - Present

Managing Director

Strategic Consulting, including business plan & strategy, business process reengineering, market entry & business development, market research & industry reports, equipment & inventory valuations. Expertise in the entire spectrum of up-stream petroleum industry with focus in the middle-east region.

 

National Oil & Gas Authority (NOGA-holding), Bahrain

(2013 – Present) 

  • Consulting Advisor, strategy & business development

  • Developing Bahrain O&G opportunity landscape  

  • Various other work streams 

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TAQA, Saudi Arabia

(2009 – 2015)

  • Consulting Advisor, strategy & business development
  • Facilitated 51% acquisition of a North American player
  • Closing acquisition of a Scandinavian player

  • Various other work streams

 

McKinsey & Company, USA

(2008 – Present; Call-out, Master Service Agreement)               

  • Providing O&G advisory across the MENA region

  • Ground level data, activity, analysis and information on rapidly changing dynamics to various McKinsey clients from North America, North Sea and from within the MENA regio

 

Other Call-out Clients:

(2008 – Present; Project Based Contracts)

  • Saudi ARAMCO - KSA

  • Sino Saudi Gas Ltd. - KSA

  • Rashed Al Rashed - KSA

  • Saudi Makamin – KSA

  • KAASCO - KSA

  • Invest-corp. - Bahrain

  • Nobel Oil - Azerbaijan

  • Abraj Energy - Oman

  • SINO Gulf - Oman

  • Omni Oil Tools - UAE

  • Gulf Capital - UAE

  • ARCHER Well - Norway

  • Allis-Chalmers - USA

  • Ergo Advisors - USA

  • Post Advisory - USA

  • Ziff Brothers - USA

  • Hydra-Sun - UK

  • United Safety - Canada

 

National Petroleum Service – Al Khobar, KSA          

Jan. 2005 – Oct. 2007

Founder & Country Manager

Completed acquisition and merger of National Drilling Company (NDC), National Petroleum Technology (NPT), and Amarest with NOWMCO.

  • Established new holding company National Petroleum Services (NPS) and integrated NDC, NPT, Amarest with NOWMCO into NPS. Wielded fiscal responsibility of NPS with more than 500 employees

 

National Oil Well Maintenance Company – Al Khobar, KSA

Jan. 1995 – Dec. 2004

Founder & General Manager

  • Started with pressure pumping and developed other well construction & Intervention services

  • Started servicing 1 Rig for Saudi ARAMCO with 10 employees

  • Recruited qualified staff, purchased & built new equipment locally

  • Built operation base infrastructure & facilities on 46 Acres

  • Expanded to 36 Rig operation over 10 years with 200 employee

  • Branched out and established bases in Bahrain, Syria, UAE, Libya, Brunei

 

National Oil Well Maintenance Company – Doha, Qatar

July 1993 – Dec. 1994

Co-founder & Technical Manager

Developed engineering, operations and sales departments to expand from Qatar into other countries. After intensive marketing campaign with Saudi ARAMCO and winning the 1st contract, moved to Al Khobar.

 

Halliburton Energy Services – MENA Region – Pakistan, Egypt, UAE

Aug. 1986 – June 1993

Senior Field Engineer >> District Engineer

Responsible for engineering design, field operation, and business development for the following:

  • Onshore & Offshore well construction, well intervention, and production stimulation

    • Pakistan:         Occidental, UTP, OGDCL, PGCL, POL

    • Dubai:              Conoco Phillips, AMOCO, ARCO

    • Abu Dhabi:      TOTAL, Bunduq

    • Sharjah:           Crescent Petroleum

    • Egypt:              AMOCO

    • Iran:                 NIDC

 

Responsible for Halliburton Stimulation Marine Vessel MV-220 in the Arabian Gulf for the following:

  • Offshore production stimulation; well cleanout, matrix acidizing and hydraulic fracturing

    • Dubai:              Conoco Philips

    • Abu Dhabi:      TOTAL, Bunduq, ZADCO

    • Sharjah:           Crescent Petroleum

    • Qatar:              QGPC

    • Saudi:              Saudi ARAMCO & KJO

    • Iran:                 TPL

 

Halliburton Energy Services – Duncan, Oklahoma

Jan. 1984 – July 1986  

EIT >> Field Engineer

Intensive field training combined with class room training at HEI in Duncan, Oklahoma in engineering design, field operations, planning and field execution. Ranked among the top 3 from a group of 36 engineers in 12 training disciplines over a period of 8 months in accelerated EIT program. Worked as Field Engineer in Duncan Field Camp in well construction, well intervention and production stimulation departments.

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