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Italy, Hungary, Romania

• Designed and executed drilling fluid programs for multiple drilling operations, resulting in improved drilling efficiency and cost savings.• Conducted extensive laboratory testing and analysis of drilling fluids, resulting in improved understanding of fluid properties and increased optimization opportunities.• Collaborated with other engineering disciplines and field personnel to optimize drilling performance and minimize non-productive time.• Managed drilling fluids inventory, equipment, and consumption, resulting in reduced waste and efficient use of resources.• Provided technical support and training to drilling crews, leading to increased safety and operational efficiency.• Managed fluid and solid control systems for oil rigs, with expertise in a range of systems including WBM, polymer, OBM, reservoir drill-in fluids, and completion brines such as CaCl2, KCl, CaBr2, NaCl, and NaBr.• Built and maintained drilling and completion fluids onsite and ran daily tests on drilling fluid.• Provided technical support and maintained good communication with clients.• Prepared daily reports to clients and drilling contractors.• Adhered to local and internal QHSE (Quality, Health, Safety, and Environment) regulations.• Managed volumes of contaminated fluids to be dumped, taking environmental concerns into account. • Conducted pilot testing at well locations to evaluate unusual mud treatments.• Organized and supervised fluid displacements.• Experienced in solving various drilling challenges, such as kicks, total losses (drilling blind), kicks in the presence of total losses, H2S, cement contamination, fractured formations, shallow gas, deviated wells, pump and dump and bit balling.

Italy

• Monitored real time drilling activity and was praised by the Company Man for detecting a serious gas kick.• Carried out gas detection & analysis (Formation gas, Connection Gas, Background Gas).• Prepared daily reports in relation to LWD data and mud reports.• Trained and supervised sample catchers.• Contributed to unit rig up and rig down of logging system including equipment general maintenance and logging materials management and shipment.• Described lithology, percentage evaluation and thin section preparation.

Netherlands

• Conducted an in-depth energy analysis of lunar mining, focusing on the extraction of Helium-3 as a potential solution to the global energy crisis.• Conceptualized and developed an innovative and feasible solution to successfully harvest Helium-3 from the Moon.• Led the calculation of energy requirements for each step of the process, from transporting equipment to the Moon to producing electricity on Earth through nuclear fusion of Helium-3 with Deuterium.• Established a comprehensive system boundary, including operations such as equipment transportation, Helium-3 mining and storage, lunar-to-Earth transport, Deuterium processing, and electricity production from fusion.

Mediterranean Sea (Offshore) - Tungsten Explorer Drillship

• Conducted Cuttings Analysis while Performing calcimetry, sulphate test, and fluoroscopy.• Applied Real time monitoring of drilling activity and parameters onsite. • Contributed to maintain a safe working environment on the rig by interpreting the data at hand and giving feedback to the Data Engineer, Drilling team and Company Man.• Offered onsite support in case of equipment failure including fixing the tools such as the constant volume degasser (CVD) and Coriolis (Early kick detection).• Assisted the well-site geologist during the analysis of cuttings and other coring operations.• Helped in Creating special logs and daily written reports for Well-Site Geologist and company man.

Lebanon

• Supervised the installation and maintenance team in the installation of LPG networks.• Designed gas pipe systems on AutoCAD and supervised their implementation on site. • Led meetings with clients and consultants to develop LPG networks for contracted projects.

Gas Station, Sana'A St. (Kuwait)

• Learned the principles, rules and processes of refinery operations.• Acquired the knowledge on refinery project cycles including the analysis of the Refinery Project Execution Strategies.• Conducted Gas plant and Hydrocracker site visit with Engineers to build a store of experience that will be useful on future assignments.• Trained on operator training simulator-DCS Operations.• Learned the Process of Safety Management for Petroleum Refineries (Process Safety Information (PSI), Process Hazards Analysis (PHA), Operating Procedures, Mechanical Integrity (MI), Management of Change (MOC).

Lebanon

• Developed a safety manual for students to guarantee a safe working environment.• Guided the students in chemistry testing as well as the use of various laboratory equipment.

Lebanon

• Issued financial statements for the customers.• Conducted market analyses to select the most relevant products to be sold.• Planned and scheduled the delivery of products to the customers.

Master'S Degree, Petroleum Engineering

Erasmus Exchange Program

Winner of Tesi su Proposta Scholarship

(Coursera Specialization), Engineering Project Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemical Engineering

Lebanese Baccalaureat, Life Science