Center for Energy & Geo Processing

MARCH 28, 2016

Seismic Data Processing& Interpretation

WORKSHOPPROGRAM

Venue: Building 20, Room 103

Al-Shuhail is an associate professor of Geophysics at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM). He received his B.S. degree in Geophysics from KFUPM in 1987. He got his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Geophysics from Texas A&M University, College Station. He

founded the Near Surface Seismic Investigation Consortium at KFUPM in 2006. His fields of interests include seismic characterization of fractured reservoirs, near-surface effects on petroleum seismic data, and ground penetrating radar. He is member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), and Dhahran Geoscience Society (DGS).

Abdullatif A. Al-Shuhail

Dr. Mohandes is an associate professor at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. He obtained MS from University of Missouri-Columbia in 1989 and PhD from Purdue University in 1993, both in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His area of research

includes: Sign Language recognition, Neural networks, and intelligent systems. He heads the RFID Lab at the Department of Electrical Engineering Department of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. He has been working on the application of RFID and NFC technology for pilgrims identification and tracking and implemented several pilots for this purpose over the last decade. He has published more than 90 papers in international journals and conferences.

Dr. Mohamed Mohandes

Dr. Badri is currently the Managing Director of Schlumberger Dhahran Carbonate Research Center based in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He holds Ph.D. and Master Degree in Geophysics from the USA. In 1990 he joined Schlumberger in Saudi Arabia as Interpretation

Geophysicist. In his current position, he manages the research and technology development portfolio and industrial collaboration projects with the industry and academia. He served on many Executive and Technical Program Committees of MEOS, GeoArabia, ADIPEC, SEG, SPE, URTEC, IPTC. He serves on the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) Middle East Advisory Committee and member of International Advisory Board of KAUST and Departments of Petroleum Engineering of

Dr. Mohammed Badri

Dr. Bader has nearly 10 years of industrial experience working on developing projects and products in the wide area of wireless networks. Since early 2013, he has been a Research Fellow at KAUST where his research interests are in the field of large-scale wireless networks. He

was the top contributor to three successful applied research proposals with a total value of more than USD 613K. In addition to his research duties, Dr. Bader has recently founded a wireless M2M solutions startup with Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini. Before KAUST, he was a Wireless Technology Specialist with Emerson (a Global-500 company) where he was managing Emerson’s wireless technology in six Middle Eastern countries. Dr. Bader earned his PhD from Télécom ParisTech (École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications), his MS degree from The Ohio State University in USA, and BS degree from Jordan University, all in Electrical Engineering. Dr. Bader is the first author of 7 IEEE peer-reviewed journal papers, 10 conference papers, and the first inventor in 5 patent applications.

Dr. Ahmed Bader

Dr. Nasher holds a BSc degree in geophysics from King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals, a master degree in Geophysics from the University of Houston and a PhD in Geophysics from Imperial College London. He started his career with Saudi

Aramco in 1994 as a computer analyst and programmer providing seismic interpretation software support. In 2004, he joined the Geophysical Technology team at EXPEC Advanced Research Center. He has been a key player, and continues to be, in predicting reservoir properties using artificial intelligence methods and automation in interpretation to extract faults and horizons from seismic data.

Dr. Ahmed Bader

King Saud University and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. He published and presented more than 70 papers in various professional journals and conferences. Also, he is co-inventor of over 30 US patents on formation Evaluation, drilling, Geosciences, fracturing, reservoir monitoring, and Petroleum Engineering.

Seismic Data Processing & Interpretation

Registration, Poster Expo, Co�ee and Refreshments

Opening RemarksDr. Omar Al-Suwailem, Dean, College of Engineering Sciences, KFUPM

Workshop OverviewDr. Ali Muqaibel, Asso. Professor, EE, KFUPM

CeGP Overview and UpdateDr. Ali Al-Shaikhi, CeGP Director, Chairman, EE, KFUPM

CeGP Research Project: Interactive Computer-Aided Seismic Interpretation[Dr. Ghassan AlRegib, Professor, ECE, GT] [Dr. Mohammed Deriche, Asso. Professor, EE, KFUPM][Dr. Zhiling Long, Postdoc fellow, CeGP, GT]

Co�ee Break

Industrial Talk I: Automation in Seismic InterpretationDr. Nasher AlBinHassan, Geophysical Technology Team, EXPEC ARC, Saudi Aramco

CeGP Research Project: Microseismic Signal Enhancement and Arrival Time Picking Correction[Dr. Abdellatif Al-Shuhail, Asso. Professor, ES, KFUPM] [Dr. Entao Liu, Postdoc fellow, CeGP, GT]

Academic Talk I: E�cient Under-sampled High Resolution Radon transform[Dr. Wail Mousa, Asso. Professor, EE, KFUPM] [Mr. Arbab Latif, PhD Candidate, EE, KFUPM]

Lunch Break

Industrial Talk II: The Role of Seismic Technology in the Characterization of Unconventional Reservoirs[Dr. Mohammed Badri, Managing Director of Schlumberger Dhahran Carbonate Research Center]

CeGP Research Project: In-Field Processing for Seismic Data Acquisition[Dr. Mohamed Mohandes, Asso. Professor, EE, KFUPM] [Dr. Faramarz Fekri, Professor, ECE, GT][Dr. Entao Liu, Postdoc fellow, CeGP, GT]

Academic Talk II: Real-time wireless seismic data acquisition[Dr. Ahmed Bader, Postdoc Fellow, KAUST]

Prayer and Co�ee Break

Industry PanelDr. Ahmed Bader, Dr. Bashir Durrani, Dr. Mohammed Badri, Dr. Nasher AlBinHassan

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Dr. Al-Regib is currently a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA, USA. His research group is working on projects related to image and video processing and communications, immersive

communications, collaborative systems, quality of images and videos, and 3D video processing. Prof. AlRegib has authored and co-authored more than 90 technical articles that have been published in international journals and conference proceedings. He has been issued three U.S. patents, two US patent applications, and several invention disclosures. Prof. AlRegib is a Senior Member of IEEE. Prof. AlRegib received the ECE Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award in spring 2001 and both the Center for Signal and Image Processing (CSIP) Research Award and the CSIP Service Award in spring 2003. In 2008, he received the ECE Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award at Georgia Tech.

Dr. Ghassan Al-Regib

Dr. Fekri received Ph.D. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2000. Since 2000, Dr. Fekri has been with the faculty of the School of ECE at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he currently holds a Professor position. He serves on the Technical Program

Committees of several IEEE conferences. In the past, he was on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, and the Elsevier Journal on PHYCOM. Prof. Fekri's current research interests are in the area of communications and signal processing, in particular coding and information theory, data and network compression, molecular communication, recommender systems, wireless and sensor networks, and security of communication and information networks.

Dr. Faramarz Fekri

Dr. Mousa currently serves as the Assistant Dean, Entrepreneurship Institute, and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM). His charge is to create a premier national model for Entrepreneurship education and

academic business incubators in the region. Dr. Mousa received two B.Sc. degrees (with honors) in electrical engineering and mathematical sciences and an M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from KFUPM. Mousa’s Ph.D. is in electronics and electrical engineering from the University of Leeds, U.K. Mousa was the first Saudi to be sponsored by the Schlumberger Dhahran Carbonate Research (located in Dhahran Techno-Valley), for a Ph.D. Mousa has more than 30 publications and conference proceedings, a registered patent, a few pending patents, a published book and three contracted text-books with Cambridge University Press and John Wiley & Sons.

Wail A. Mousa

Dr. Deriche received his undergraduate degree from the National Polytechnic School of Algeria in 1985. He then joined University of Minnesota, USA, where he completed his MS and PhD in 1988, and 1992 respectively. He worked as a Post Doctorate

Fellow with the University of Minnesota Radiology Department in the area of MRI. He then joined the Queensland University of Technology, Australia, as a Lecturer in 1994, then Associate Professor in 2000. In 2001, he joined the EE Department at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia, where he is currently leading the signal processing group.

Dr. Mohamed Deriche

Dr. Liu: received B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from Shandong University, Jinan, China in 2005 and Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics as well from the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA in 2011. Currently, he is a postdoc in the

CeGP at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include sparse approximation theory, inverse problem, signal processing in Geophysics, seismic imaging, etc.

Dr. Entao Liu