Keynote Speakers

Shadia Al Farsi

PG/PS Discipline Specialist, Petroleum Development Oman

Shadia Al Farsi is Geoscience Discipline Lead Specialist with 20+ years of experience in the geoscience and petroleum engineering sector. I Hold a Master's degree in Physics from Sultan Qaboos University. Started my Career as QI geophysicist, then transitioned into seismic interpretation , spending the last 14 years working in both exploration as an exploration geoscientist and then in petroleum engineering as a production seismologist.

During this time, I gained exposure to geomechanics and played a crucial role in the development of fractured reservoir models. Additionally I had the opportunity to build fracture reservoir models for two major carbonate fields in Oman, contributing to the optimization and success of these projects.

I am currently in charge of the health of the PS discipline, building the production seismologist capabilities and trying to main the highest technical standards in all different aspects of SI and integration with Processing, QI, and Acquisition.

Munahi Al-Otiebi

Director, Saudi Aramco

After graduating from Tulsa University in 1994, Munahi Al-Otiebi joined the geoscience community of Saudi Aramco as wellsite geologist monitoring the exploration drilling operations across the Arabian Peninsula, going through the business chain of well site geological operations, exploration drilling coordination and the supervision of exploratory wells in terms of geological findings at rig sites and the decision-making process of newly discovered reservoirs which includes well testing, coring operations, wireline loggings and other pertinent field operations.Currently, Munahi is the Director of Southern Area Reservoir Characterization Department, part of Exploration in Saudi Aramco.

Mouadh Addassi

Research Scientist, KAUST | CO2 mineralization | Reactive transport modeling | Deep Learning

Dr. Mouadh Addassi is a research scientist at KAUST. His research is focused on carbon mineralization potential in local target areas along the Red Sea coast. He obtained his PhD in 2018 at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). He has a broad knowledge base in applied mathematics, petroleum engineering, mechanical engineering and data science. He is skilled in developing complex multi-phase reactive transport models and validating them using experimental tests.

Pascal Richard

Structural Geology Consultant, PRgeology

Pascal Richard holds a structural geology PhD from the University of Rennes (France) on strike-slip faults.

He worked for Shell for 30 years, first in the structural geology research department, with a special focus on the formation of faults in a wide variety of structural styles using sandbox analogues. Then, he focused on the characterization and modeling of fractured reservoirs. During his last years in Shell, he was the head of the Structural Geology Discipline. Pascal worked both at exploration and production scales in a variety of structural settings and locations, with a strong focus on the Middle East. Beyond his consultancy activities in Shell, Pascal had an active coaching role. He developed and facilitated a wide range of structural geosciences courses.

Currently, Pascal is an independent consultant at PRgeology. He provides teaching on fractured reservoirs and structural geology. He is also currently developing collaborative combined physical and virtual field courses, cooperates with universities on research projects and supervises MSc and PhD students.

Nicolas Beaudoin

Associate Professor, University of Pau

Nicolas Beaudoin is a structural geologist specializing in deformation, stress estimation, and fluid-rock interaction. He holds a PhD from Sorbonne Universités (Paris, France), awarded in 2012, with a focus on reconstructing past fluid migrations in the Laramide’s broken foreland using geochemical tools on veins within the distributed fracture network. After completing his PhD, he worked at the University of Glasgow until 2018, where he developed new techniques to estimate stress magnitudes in various geological contexts using stylolites. Currently, he is an associate professor at the Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour in southwestern France, where he supervises research on rock deformation mechanisms, fluid flow at the crustal scale, and the impacts of chemical transformations on the petrophysical properties of reservoirs.