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Tamer Raafat

Tamer Raafat

Oil Production Engineer
Cairo,Maadi

Summary

Dedicated and motivated Field Oil Production Engineer with 10+ years of experience seeking challenging employment opportunity to apply skills and expertise in surface and subsurface operations for onshore oil and gas fields. Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience gained while working for various Egyptian petroleum companies since May 2011. Successfully planned, supervised, and executed wide range of onshore operations including rig/rig-less work, well testing, interventions, cleanouts, scale mitigation, and de-scaling. Managed artificial lift systems, well diagnostics, cased hole logging, perforations, acid stimulation, hydraulic fracturing, workovers, completions, and recompletions. Optimized oil and gas production as well as water supply and injection wells for Khalda Petroleum Co. Ensure proper investigation and mitigation of risks and work hazards associated with equipment, well control, and barrier failures. Maintain complete plans for well operations, procedures, well control programs, and emergency protocols while providing technical support for hydrocarbon production and efficient use of the water injection system. Proven track record of fostering team collaboration and adapting to changing project requirements. Deadline-driven Petroleum Engineer with 13+ years working offshore across the KAHRAMAN,MENES&NU area. Fully versed in drilling operations, planning procedures, and risk management. Proactive and goal-oriented with excellent time management and problem-solving skills. Known for reliability and adaptability. Committed to leveraging these qualities to drive team success and contribute to organizational growth.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Field Petroleum Engineer

Khalda Petroleum Company
01.2014 - Current
  • Supervise & execute the following activities: Production & Process
  • Hold daily meeting highlighting wells' issues, production optimization opportunities & integrate subsurface/surface optimization
  • Daily flow up of field performance and production
  • Daily follow-up of field operations on the wells, close coordination with operations, accurate assessment of well productivity/ Injectivity
  • Update and evaluate field performance and investigate the main losses and identify the problematic wells, and evaluate the remedial actions for these wells
  • Follow up, monitor and develop the operation in the oil process
  • Prepare and witness process shut down plan including vessels de-oiling, flushing plan, N2 purging, isolation and leak test prior commissioning and start up
  • Monitoring of field production and injection data
  • Monitors all well performance (Water injectors, ESP, SRP and natural flowing oil, water and gas producers) utilizing available software programs (Q-ROD & DH data for ESP while following with Total Well Manager……etc)
  • Monitors and discuss the performance of installed production equipment (X-mas trees, chokes, ESD valves, SCSSSV's control panels, SSSV's & actuators)
  • Complete monthly overall production, well-by-well performance & well breakdown, trip times, awaiting intervention or Work-Over & average well life between Work-Overs or well interventions
  • Analyze results to determine any trends for ESP / PCP /SR / Gas lift / Natural wells
  • Recommend corrective actions to extend well life between Work-Overs or well interventions as much as possible
  • Assist in plan preparation for failure mitigation with corrosive media operation such as presence of H2S and CO2
  • Commissioning & start up for new & worked-over wells
  • Witnessing starting up wells & stimulation operations
  • Assist in planning for wells and facilities maintenance and scheduling it to reduce the daily production deferral
  • Well by well review and maintain comprehensive database on well history, performance, problematic wells' troubleshooting daily production & update it on daily basis
  • Prepare isolations procedures for new wells tie in flow lines with existing flow line network
  • Resolve any safety related issue & ensure that all the operations are carried out in a safe & cost-effective manner, managing the workforce including contractor's crew, particularly in time of job execution
  • Monitor contractors' man hours against performance to track efficiency
  • Coordinating the strategy, planning, execution and evaluation of production enhancement and optimization activities
  • Estimation and validation of well production test
  • Provide all petroleum engineering input for completing and producing wells according to best engineering practices and an economic manner
  • Quality control of crude oil before & after shipping well Integrity
  • Ensure well Integrity monitoring
  • Solve any well integrity problem, identify well risk category, provide plans for repair and follow the execution
  • Understand well integrity issues and determine high-risk wells from HSE perspective
  • Review inactive strings status on monthly basis for well that are exceeding three months
  • Detect tubing or casing failures or presence of obstructions
  • Detect tubing/annulus communication
  • Monitor performance of SC-SSSV, actuators & ESD valves
  • Make sure that wellhead seal test performed and certified by X-mass tree vendor confirm & it is matching to the related standard procedures
  • Ensure that all down-hole equipment is inspected, maintained & function tested properly

Operations Engineer

Magawish Petroleum Company
East Esh Elamlaha, Egypt
03.2013 - 01.2014
  • Company Overview: MAGAPETCO is a joint venture company, established in 1990 between Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) & Trident Petroleum Co
  • To work in the Egyptian Eastern Area
  • Worked as an Operations Engineer in subsurface operations section at main office, for Magawish Petroleum Company (MAGAPETCO) in East Esh Elamlaha Marin field - Red sea - Egypt, which produce +/-1200 BOPD & +/-5 MMSCF/D with different systems
  • MAGAPETCO is a joint venture company, established in 1990 between Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) & Trident Petroleum Co
  • To work in the Egyptian Eastern Area

Geological & Geophysical Engineer

Ganob Elwady Petroleum Holding Co.
05.2011 - 03.2013
  • Company Overview: Ganope is one of five main entities of Petroleum Ministry
  • These organizations are responsible for all petroleum activities in Egypt
  • Ganope was establishing as one of the main entities of the Egyptian petroleum sector to manage and supervise all petroleum activities under latitude line 28
  • Worked as a Geological & Geophysical Engineer at Explorations and Agreements department, for Ganob Elwady Petroleum Holding Co
  • (GANOPE), then sent to Magawish Petroleum Company (MAGAPETCO) for On-loan as Well Site, Operation and Development Geologist to gain experience at East Esh Elmallaha Marine Field (Gulf of Suez Area) (Multi-Reservoir Miocene and Pre-Miocene)
  • Ganope is one of five main entities of Petroleum Ministry
  • These organizations are responsible for all petroleum activities in Egypt
  • Ganope was establishing as one of the main entities of the Egyptian petroleum sector to manage and supervise all petroleum activities under latitude line 28

Education

BSc - Geological & Geophysical Engineering

Suez Canal University
05.2008

Skills

  • Team collaboration
  • Safety awareness
  • Well control
  • Production monitoring
  • Staff training
  • Report preparation
  • Pipeline hydraulics

Certification

All certifications and references are available upon request.

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 06/24/1982
  • Nationality: Egyptian
  • Driving License: Valid
  • Marital Status: Married
  • Religion: Muslim

Training

08/2024, Well Integrity Management for the well life cycle., 

01/2023, "IWCF" Well Intervention Pressure Control (Level 3&4), WL4S00022110-SA-X9QE, 

03/15/21, 06/2022, Certified as a Lead Auditor for ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems., 

03/2021, Train the Trainer (TOT), 

10/2021, Certified as an Egyptian HSE specialist (First level), 

01/2020, Attend NDE for welding quality control activities (VT, PT, MT, UT & RT level II), 

12/2019, Attend preparation course for NEBOSH international Technical Certificate in Oil & Gas Operational Safety IOGC., 

03/2019, Attend preparation course for NEBOSH Process Safety Management (PSM), 

01/2019, "IWCF" Well Intervention Pressure Control (Level 3&4), WL4S00022110-SA-X9QE, 03/15/21, 

06/2017, Integrated Production Optimization using NODAL Analysis, 02/2017, Formation Damage & Control Strategies, 

04/2016, Electrical Submersible Pump "ESP" (Design, Implementation and Troubleshooting), 

12/2015, Beam Pump Operations (Sucker Rod Pumps "SRP" design, Installation, Optimization & troubleshooting), 

02/2011, Non-destructive examination for Visual Test (VT)& Ultra-Sonic Test (UT), 

01/2011, Preparation course for Certified Welding Inspection (CWI), 

07/2008, Drilling Fluid course at Faculty of Petroleum & Mining Engineering, 

Safe lifting operations & lifting authority (Level 1), Hazard Evaluation in Oil & Gas Industry, Hydrogen sulfide hazards, awareness & safe operation in Oil & Gas operations.

Militarystatus

Exempted

Accomplishments

  • Managed MENES operations involving 26 personnel and a $7.5 MM budget.
  • Collaborated with team of 20 in the development of MENES Produce water treatment.
  • Supervised team of 34 staff members.
  • Achieved insert an double isolation for main trunk line without loss any barrels by completing isolate,flush,cold cut & provide new valves online with accuracy and efficiency.

Quote

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Languages

Arabic
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
English
Advanced (C1)

Timeline

Field Petroleum Engineer

Khalda Petroleum Company
01.2014 - Current

Operations Engineer

Magawish Petroleum Company
03.2013 - 01.2014

Geological & Geophysical Engineer

Ganob Elwady Petroleum Holding Co.
05.2011 - 03.2013

BSc - Geological & Geophysical Engineering

Suez Canal University
Tamer RaafatOil Production Engineer