Bassem I.

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am writing you this cover letter for your kind of view, hoping that my academic qualifications and wide experience meet your requirements for filling a relevant job in such an esteemed company like yours.

It is worth mentioning that I have more than 22 years of experience in the E&P industry, I have strong skills in 2D/3D/4D seismic interpretation and seismic modelling, integrated reservoir characterization studies and well planning in many exploration, and development projects.

In the first five years of my professional career, I worked as a seismic interpreter on several projects related to development and near-field exploration in BAPETCO (Shell JV in Egypt) and I was seconded for Shell Egypt for four years via Shell’s retention scheme program. I have carried out the seismic interpretation and I generated numerous prospects and leads according to Shell standards and quality assurance workflows.

At the end of 2007, I moved to work in RWE Dea in Egypt for 10 months during which I got wide experience in subsalt structures interpretation and related imaging challenges in the offshore Gulf of Suez (GOS), then I left the company to join OMV Exploration GmbH Egypt branch where my motive was to work in a wildcat exploratory block in the ultra-deep-water in the Mediterranean (Obaiyed offshore or block 11), in addition, I engaged in many farm-in projects to expand the company activities in Egypt. In 2009, I returned to RWE Dea Egypt to work in further active exploration and production licenses, I worked as a seismic modelling specialist using several seismic and rock physics modelling packages and I engaged in many reservoir characterization studies, facies classification in onshore and offshore in Nile Delta, I was involved in many new-venture projects and different farm-in opportunities. Later, I was a key team member in maturing a significant deep-water prospect in the offshore North El-Amirya concession.

From 2014 till July 2018, I had my first international assignment as a senior reservoir geophysicist in OMV, for the second time, this time in OMV PETROM S.A in Romania, I was accountable for the entire geophysics activities for different Romanian fields/assets which included both clastic and carbonate reservoirs, heavy oil sand which preserved in very complex and challenging geological settings. At the end of my assignment, I got offered another assignment in OMV Head Office in Viena, but I couldn’t get the needed residency and work permits in Austria.

From October 2018 to December 2022, I returned for the third time to Wintershall Dea BU Egypt (Ex. RWE DEA) as a senior geophysicist \ geoscientist, I was mainly accountable for the West Nile Delta project (WND) which is a major development and exploration project in Egypt, I was engaged with our operator BP and integrated asset teams in Hamburg and Sunbury. I was responsible for the subsurface interpretation, assessing the contingent resources, and exploring the potential for the WND phase 2. In 2022, I was promoted in the leadership path as head of the G&G manager in the RDE department with a team of three geoscientists I was responsible and accountable for the onshore and offshore projects/assets related to BU Egypt.

From January 2023 till end of July 2024, I have been transferred to Wintershall Dea Norge AS in Stavanger - Norway as a senior geophysicist in a multidisciplinary international team working in various partner-operated assets in the Norwegian continental shelf. I got more insights into advanced 4D seismic projects in addition to an emerging full-scale value chain carbon capture and storage (CCS) project and also intensive training and insights about evolving data science fields (i.e. Python coding- data analytics and visualization - applied statistics machine learning)

Lastly, from August 2024 till now, I work as freelance consultant in different services companies in Egypt, where I have been engaged in multiple consultancy projects in various countries in Middle East and Africa.

Based on this I forward to your good selves, my curriculum vitae covering all my personal data, while the other documents will be furnished upon your request, when necessary.

Yours, Bassem Ibrahim.