Lecturer

Graduated from Gubkin University in 2002. Software development for RE needs brought him into the oil industry where he became an expert in well testing and field development surveillance. His passion is to reveal the complicated physics behind reservoir development process.

Principal of Nafta College

Graduated from Kazan State University in 1993 with a specialization in the Theory of Relativity and Gravitation and received his PhD degree in Mathematical Physics in 1996.

He was lecturing mathematical disciplines at Kazan State University until 2003.

In 1998 he has founded TGT Oil and Gas Services, holding the position of Managing Director until 2014 and playing a pivotal role in the development of the company and its establishment across the world.

In 2017 he has founded Nafta College with a focus on on-line training and testing.

He is author of several dozens of patents and SPE papers.

Lecturer

Graduated from Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas in 2001 and did Ph.D. in Engineering Science in 2005. His scope of interest lies in reservoir surveillance, well-testing, production logging and reservoir simulation.

Moderator

Dr. Irina Aslanyan has graduated from Kazan State University in 1992 and completed a Ph.D. in Physics (NMR-related) in 1998. She worked at Kazan State University until 2004, with her special interest lying in well & reservoir study including well testing and production logging interpretation. She was part of the initial team of TGT Oil&Gas Services (Russia) ever since it was founded in 1998 and was mostly involved in reservoir study and field development planning. Since 2004, worked as an Operation Manager in TGT Oman, and in 2007, became a Head of the Study Team in TGT Global supervising the well and reservoir studies that included well testing and production logging campaigns in Malaysia, Oman, UAE, Iraq and Russia. From 2010, she was working as the Head of Center of Experts in TGT Global. Since 2020, started working at Nafta, which proposes a training and testing platform PetroCup for the development of oil & gas fields digital twins. She is also an author of 50 technical publications in Russian, English and German languages.

Lecturer

After graduating from the University Of Wyoming in 1972, Jamal has spent 3 years in Schlumberger's oil and gas industry, ultimately serving as a Senior Field Engineer. He soon started to make progress outside of the United States in countries famous for its oil-rich nature including UAE, Egypt and Russia. Parallel to years of international work he has managed to get yet another two degrees, one in MBA in U.Portables in 1978 and another in PhD in U. of Houston in 1999.

Government of UAE has made wonder to get in top 10 oil production countries, and this allowed Jamal to spend his next 10 years pursuing his career under the warm sun of Dubai. In 2004 he advanced his journey as an Engineering Advisor at His Highness Court and by 2007 shifted to the position of Senior Engineering Consultant at Dubai Petroleum Establishment. He has spent his last 4 years in Dubai as a Technical Advisor in TGT DIAGNOSTICS.

To current date, he works as a freelance consultant in Houston and still offers part-time lectures on “Culture and Personal Development”.

Lecturer

Sameer attended University of Delhi, India and received MSc. Physics degree in 1983. Pursuing a career in oil and gas he enrolled in M.S. degree in Petroleum Engineering program at Stanford University and graduated in 1993. He then later in 1996 once again got another science degree, this time in Engineering.

He has over 34 years of experience in the upstream oil and gas industry and has a strong technical background in reservoir and production engineering, petrophysics and field operations, with oilfield operating and service companies.

He has extensive experience in design and interpretation of transient well testing, formation testing and sampling, production logging and reservoir surveillance operations.

He has worked in different oilfield locations worldwide, including India, Indonesia, Egypt and West Africa.

He is a member of the SPWLA and the SPE and received the SPE Outstanding Technical Editor Award for 2011. He currently serves as a Technical Review Editor for the following journals:

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering Journal (SPEREE).

SPE Journal (SPEJ).

Moderator