Abd-Elmoneam Elsayed Raef

Dr. Raef is no longer with the Survey.

Address Information Kansas Geological Survey 1930 Constant Avenue Lawrence, KS 66047-3724 Phone: (785) 864-2162 E-mail: raef@kgs.ku.edu

Education

• 1983-1987: Assiut University, Faculty of Science, Geology Department, Assiut, Egypt, B.Sc. in Geology.
• 1992-1993 International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences, (ITC), Delft, The Netherlands. Post-graduate Diploma in Exploration geophysics.
• 1994: Assiut University, Aswan Faculty of Science, Aswan, Egypt. M.Sc. in Geology (Applied Geophysics--Gravity and Aeromagnetics).
• 1998-2001: The University of Science and Technology (AGH), Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection, Cracow, Poland; PhD-Geophysics.

Employment:

• 2003-present: Research Associate, Exploration Services, Kansas Geological Survey, The University of Kansas
• 2003: Visiting Scholar, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, USA.
• 2002: Assistant Professor of Geophysics at South Valley University, Faculty of Science, Aswan, Egypt.
• 1998-2001: Poland, University of Mining and Metallurgy--AGH, Krakow, Poland. 3D-Seismic data interpretation especially as to integrating well-data and seismic data sets and seismic attributes-based reservoir characterisation and monitoring. Ph. D. Thesis.
• 1994-1998: Lecturer assistant, Geology Department, Aswan Faculty of Science, Aswan Branch of Assiut University.
• 1990-1994 Demonstrator, Geology Department, Aswan Faculty of Science, Aswan Branch of Assiut University; Main duties: Teaching Lab. Lessons in Geophysics and Petroleum Geology, and research concerning data processing and interpretation of the Gravitational and Aeromagnetic fields of a specific area in Upper Egypt.
• 1986 Traineeship, General Petroleum Company (GPC), Gulf of Suez, Egypt.

IT Skills

• ProMax seismic data processing and Open-works integration environments from Landmark Graphics (SeisWorks 2D/3D seismic interpretation, Rave statistical modelling, Post-stack pa1 for seismic attributes calculations, MS Office 97 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint). Software for statistical data analysis and modelling. Unix, Linux and Windows98. C++ Programming Language. Emerge and Geoview for seismic attributes analysis and interpretation from Hampson-Russel software. dgb-GDI-Sofware for reservoir characterization and seismic attributes processing. Kingdom Suite seismic interpretation platform.

Field Work and Research Projects

• 1987: Geological survey, Eastern Desert, Egypt.
• 1992: Shallow Seismic Reflection and gravity surveys, Winterswijk, The Netherlands, conducted by the ITC.
• 1993: Geophysical (electric, seismic, gravity and magnetic) survey, Moura, Portugal, conducted by the ITC.
• 1996: Proton-precession Magnetometer Survey, West of Aswan city for civil engineering site investigation. Electric resistivity sounding and plane surveying field work and interpretation for site investigation, in Old Catract area, Aswan, Egypt.
• 1999-2000: AttrCar Project (European Commssion Funded) Reservoir Characterization based on 3D-Seismic attributes.
• 2000: Visiting Researcher (three month) to TNO-NITG, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
• Jan-June 2003: Visiting Scholar to Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, USA; (wavelet transform Denoising of seismological array data)
• 2004-present: Monitoring of EOR-CO2 miscible flood, and reservoir Characterization, Hall-Gurney, Kansas

Sample Publications:

1. Raef, A. E., 1994, Geophysical Studies of the area from south El-menia to Assiut, Egypt: MSc thesis, Assiut Unversity, Egypt
2. Raef, A. E., Interpretation of aeromagnetic data of the area from south El-menia to Assiut using Euler deconvolution: Bulletin of The Faculty of Science Vol. 24 No. 1.
3. Raef, A. E., 1999, 3-D seismic continuity attribute for mapping discontinuities in a target one: optimum parameters and evaluation: Journal of the Balkan Geophysical Society, vol. 2, no. 4. [PDF online, 1.9 MB]
4. Raef, A. E., 3D-seismic data-driven method integrating deterministic and statistical information for eliminating amplitude-tuning effects: Nordic Petroleum Technology Series: V
5. Raef, A. E., 2000, Analysis of seismic attributes responses to a thinning layer: Romanian Geophysics, Vol. 7, Suppl. 1.
6. Elsayed R.A., Slusarczyk, R., 2001, Factor analysis of seismic multiattributes for predicting porosities using sequential nonlinear regression: The thin Carbonates of the BMB-Field, Poland: Petroleum Geoscience, Vol. 7 no. 4, p. 359-369.
7. Arts, R., Elsayed, R., van der Meer, L., Eiken, O., Østmo, S., Chadwick, A., Kirby, G., Zinszner, B., 2002, Estimation of the Mass of Injected CO2 at Sleipner Using Time-Lapse Seismic Data: 64th EAGE Annual Conference and Exhibition, Florence. [PDF online, 191 KB]
8. Miller, R. D., Raef, A. E., Byrnes, A. P., Lambrecht, J. L., and Harrison, W. E., 2004, 4-D high-resolution seismic reflection monitoring of miscible CO2 injected into a carbonate reservoir in the Hall-Gurney Field, Russell County, Kansas: Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Annual Meeting, Expanded Abstracts, vol. 74, p. 2259-2262. [Available online]
9. Raef, A. E.,Miller, R. D., Byrnes, A. P., and Harrison, W. E., 2004, 4D seismic monitoring of the miscible CO2 flood of Hall-Gurney Field, Kansas, U.S.: The Leading Edge, vol. 23, no. 11, p. 1171-1176. [Available online]

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