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Biographies

Ahmed El-Banbi
Dr. El-Banbi is currently a Professor of Petroleum Engineering and chair of
the department at the American University in Cairo (AUC). He has 25 years
of diversified international experience in reservoir and petroleum
engineering. He has worked as an engineer, trainer, and a technology developer.
Ahmed spent 12 years with Schlumberger, where he held a variety of technical
and managerial positions in five countries. He has considerable experience in
managing multi-disciplinary teams and performing integrated reservoir studies.
In addition to academic research and teaching experience, he also had short
assignments with a major oil company and a consulting company. He has
authored and co-authored more than eighty technical papers, two book chapters,
and holds one US patent. He has been on numerous SPE committees, program
chair for the SPE North Africa Technical Conference and Exhibition, and
technical reviewer for the SPE Reservoir Engineering and Evaluation Journal
and other journals. Ahmed holds BS and MS degrees from Cairo University,
and MS and PhD degrees from Texas A&M University; all in petroleum
engineering.

Ahmed Alzahabi
Dr. Alzahabi is currently an Assistant Professor at The University of Texas
of the Permian Basin. He has a PhD and an MS, both in petroleum engineer-
ing; PhD from Texas Tech University and an MS from Cairo University. He
previously served as a researcher at the Energy Industry Partnerships, work-
ing in the field of energy to solve complex problems for the industry. He is
experienced in introducing new technologies in well placement and fractur-
ing in conventional and unconventional oil and gas reservoirs. His research
involves developing techniques for Permian Wolfcamp exploitation. He has
participated in six US patent applications, edited and reviewed for multiple
journals, and is active in SPWLA, SPE, NAGPS, SEG, and AAPG. He
has contributed a book chapter and is writing a book on Fracturing
Horizontal wells.

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