Petroleum Geologist with Experienced Management and Technical roles for more than 35 years in oil and gas industry with local and IOC’s (NOC / Zallaf Libya/ExxonMobil / Repsol / Akakus /Arab Gulf / Rompetrol) on different projects and continents. More than 15 years management experience to build strategic vision and technical team, plan and follow all level of operations and administration. My experience on exploration / development / production, conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon sources, carbonate and clastic reservoirs. Perform the open and cased-hole log programs and interpretation, coring plan, core description and data interpretation, build petrophysical / geological models, well completion. Initiate /support completion / drilling program and operations, deviate or horizontal drilling. Teaching experience's in Tripoli universities and technical short courses.

Mr. Salah El Ekhfifi is an exploration geologist at NOC Libya since 2016. He has delivered presentations on diversified subjects both locally and globally and he was a speaker at conferences such as Tunisia Oil Gas Summit 2019 and Africa Oil Week 2018. He had the honor of being a Guest Speaker at the Mauritanid Energy Conference in Mauritania in 2022. Salah has served as a technical committee member for several technical workshops and conferences such as MEDiNA, 28th Colloquium of African Geology in 2022, AAPG ICE24 in Musqat, Oman in 2024, ADIPEC 24 in Abu Dhabi, UAE in 2024, the ILP Workshop organized by Khalifa University Abu Dhbai, UAE in 2023, MEOS GEO in Manama, Bahrain in 2023 and IPTC2024 in Saudi Arabia. Additionally, he is a country representative for AAPG Africa Region Leadership. He was also the general chair of the Benghazi International Geoscience and Engineering Conference in 2022. He was a Plenary Speaker at the 29th Colloquium of African Geology held in Namibia in 2023, invited as a Guest Speaker at the Ifriqiah Energy Conference in Tunisia, the North Africa and Europe Energy Conference in Barcelona, Spain, both in 2023, and 19th International Sedimentological Congress in Geneva in 2014. He contributed as an Abstract Reviewer at the AAPG ICE Madrid and SEG AAPG IMAGE conferences in the United States in 2024. He was a member of the AAPG Interim Executive Committee for Africa, served as a speaker, technical committee member, and session chair at the AAPG ICE Muscat 2024. Additionally, co-chaired the First EAGE Libyan Carbonates conference, focusing on unlocking reservoir potential and addressing challenges in the region. Attended as guest speaker at the Sultan Qaboos University. Joined as a technical committee member at the IMAGE 2024/ 2025 and MEOS GEO 2025.