Abiodun Matthew Amao

Summary of Qualifications

• Subject matter is a Petrophysicist and reservoir engineering by training with over 13 years experience.  3 years hands on wellsite field engineer role first as a wireline field engineer involved in well Log data acquisition and later as a hydraulic Fracture engineer involved in well stimulation and completions. The other part of my career has been in academia and research, teaching courses in Well log analysis, pressure transient analysis, Reservoir and Core laboratory etc.
• Proficient in formation evaluation and reservoir engineering.
• Proficient in Laboratory instrumentation and data acquisition systems.
• Working and growing knowledge in production and artificial lift systems.

 
Professional Experience
April 2013 – Till Date, Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, KSU, Riyadh
Assistant Professor

• Teaching: Currently teaching Reservoir Engineering Laboratory (PGE 365), Well Logging (PGE 492) and Artificial Lift and Surface Operation (482), Pressure Transient Analysis (PGE 493), Supervision of graduating seniors’ capstone projects, Masters student research supervision etc.
• Research Areas: Enhanced Oil Recovery research, Generation of synthetic logs, Characterization of Permian basin formation from well log analysis.
• I represent the department on the research council board at the Research Center of the College of Engineering.

 
October 2011 – JUNE 2012, Frac Tech Services International, Odessa, TX
Reservoir/Stimulation Engineer

• Well stimulation by the hydraulic fracturing stimulation process
• Real time Quality control of well fracturing and stimulation process
• Ensure proper job procedure at well site for fluid and volumes pumped
• Experienced in stimulating several formations in the Permian Basin of West Texas
• Completed several hydraulic fracturing  jobs in horizontal and vertical wells

 
January 2006– August 2011, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
 Research and Teaching Assistant

• Designed setups for coreflooding experiments for enhanced oil recovery miscible gas injection at reservoir conditions of pressure and temperature.
• Conducted slim-tube minimum miscibility pressure (MMP) experiments using CO₂ gas
• Designed and implemented custom data acquisition systems using National Instruments (NI) hardware and software (LabVIEW) for experimental setups.
• Performed calibration of data acquisition hardware.
• Analyzed experimental data and conducted data quality checks.
• Mentored, coached and supervised a team of teaching assistants and managed 8 lab sections (with about 15 students each) per week for two semesters, for the undergraduate rock properties laboratory.
• Assisted instructors with teaching and grading several undergraduate courses which include, reservoir engineering, rock properties, reservoir simulation and water Flooding (EOR).
• Taught the undergraduate Engineering Communication class for two semesters, with an average of 36 students per session (Fall 2007 and Spring 2008).

 
Oct. 2000– July 2002, Oct. 2005 – Jan. 2006, Baker Hughes PHC, Nigeria
Field Engineer, Baker Atlas – Wireline Logging

• Acquired petro-physical data such as density, porosity (from neutron and density logs), resistivity (from induction and lateral logs), acoustic travel time, rock lithology, photo-electric adsorption (PE log), gamma ray, spectral gamma ray (digital spectra-log) and formation pressures.
• Operated and acquired data from the following cased hole logging devices - Cement bond evaluation (SBT), GR/CCL, setting of parkers, TCP Tie-in, Gyros, RPM, perforation operations and customer instruments services (CIS).
• Analyzed and conducted quality control of well log data acquired real time at the well site to ensure accuracy and quality before delivering to the client.
• Conducted detailed checkout of hardware and software used in the ECLIPS^TM real time data acquisition system. 
• Calibrated and conducted systematic trouble-shooting of well logging tools.
• Managed personnel, equipment, logistics and correspondence with drilling rigs and clients such as Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, SNEPCO.

 
March 1999– July 2000, National Youth Service Corps, Port-Harcourt, Nigeria
Youth Corp Member

• Demonstrated and marketed construction chemicals used for corrosion control and water-proofing at client’s site.

 
Education
Texas Tech University , Lubbock, Texas

• Doctor of Philosophy, Petroleum Engineering                   August 2011
• Master of Science, Petroleum Engineering                       August 2007

 
University Of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

• Bachelor of Science, Petroleum Engineering                    January 1999

 
Professional Trainings

Basics of Reservoir Engineering                           Frac Tech, Houston, Texas,                        February 2012
 
 
Software Skills

• Interactive Petrophysics (IP) for petrophysical well log analysis
• FRACPRO, Hydraulic Fracture Design and Optimization Software
• PETEX Software Suite: PROSPER, PVTP, MBAL
• KAPPA-ECRIN-SAPHIR for Pressure Transient Analysis
• PVTsim - Phase Behavior (PVT) Software
• PhD Win – Oil and Gas Property Evaluation Software
• PETREL, ECLIPSE and Exodus – Reservoir Simulation Software
• IHS-Fekete-WellTest, CBM, VirtuWell
• Microsoft Office Suite  (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• National Instruments LabVIEW for Data Acquisition, Processing & Analysis
• FORTRAN, Visual Basic.NET, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)

 
Professional Society Affiliations                                   

• Member, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
• Member, Society of Petrophysicist and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA)
• Associate Member, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)

 
Activities in the Last Five Years

• Participated in the 36^th Nigerian Annual International Conference and Exhibition (NAICE) of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, held in Lagos Nigeria, 6^th-8^th August 2012.
• Participated in the SPE Saudi Arabian Section Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Al-khobar, Saudi Arabia Section, 21^st-24^th April, 2014.
• Participated as a Judge for the SPE Middle East Regional Student Paper Contest held during the 2016 SPE-KSA Annual Technical Symposium & Exhibition, Dhahran, KSA.

 
Publications

1. Abdulrahman A. AlQuraishi, Abiodun Matthew Amao, Nawaf Ibrahim Al-Zahrani, Mohammed T. AlQarni, Saleh A. AlShamrani: “Low salinity water and CO₂ miscible flooding in Berea and Bentheimer sandstones”, Journal of King Saud University - Engineering Sciences, ISSN 1018-3639., April 2016.
2. Mohamed Y. Soliman, Ph.D., P.E., NAI; Ron Dusterhoft: Fracturing Horizontal Wells. M.Y. Soliman, Fernando Samaniego-V., Abiodun Matthew Amao, and Aref Lashin, Chapter 3: Reservoir Engineering Aspects of Horizontal Wells,  McGraw-Hill Professional, 2016.
3. Abdullah Alfayfi, Osama Elmandy and Abiodun Matthew Amao: “Enhancing Oil Recovery of Heterogeneous Reservoirs Underlain by Tarmat Layer”, Petroleum Science and Technology, 2016, Volume 34, No. 5, 478-484.
4. Abdullah Alfayfi, Osama Elmandy and Abiodun Matthew Amao:” An Experimental Study for Enhancing the Recovery Factor of Tar Barrier Heterogeneous Reservoirs”, Journal of Petroleum and Environmental Biotechnology, 2015, Volume 6, Issue 3.
5. Amao, T.O. and Amao, A.M.: “Fluid Characterization and EoS Modelling of PVT Experiments” SPE 172843, presented at the Nigeria Annual International Conference and Exhibition (NAICE) held in Lagos, Nigeria, 5th–7th August 2014.
6. Amao, A.M., Siddiqui, S. and Habib, M.:”A New Look at the Minimum Miscibility Pressure (MMP) Determination from Slimtube Measurements”, SPE 153383 presented at the 2012 SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery held at Tulsa, Oklahoma, 14^th–18^th April, 2012.
7. Amao, A.M.: “Improved Characterization Matrix for Carbon Dioxide Enhanced Recovery Process,” Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas Tech University, August 2011.
8. Amao, A.M. and Siddiqui, S.: “Permian Basin: Historical Review of CO₂ EOR Processes, Current Challenges and Improved Optimization Possibilities,” SCA 2009-38, presented at the International Symposium of the Society of Core Analysts held in Noordwijk aan Zee, The Netherlands 27^th-30^th September, 2009.
9. Amao, A.M.: “Mathematical Model for Darcy Forchheimer Flows with Application to Well Performance Analysis,” M.S. Thesis, Texas Tech University, August 2007.

Scholarships and Awards

• Best Paper at the SPE Student Paper Contest, Graduate Division, Texas Tech University, 2007
• Graduate Student Fellowship, TTU Petroleum Engineering Department, 2009
• Summer Thesis and Dissertation Research Award, TTU Graduate School, 2010
• Graduate Student Support Grant from the Dallas section of the SPE, 2011