Dr. Ashraf Al-Tahini

Dr. Al-Tahini is a senior petroleum engineer at Saudi Aramco Company. He has a PhD (2007) and MS (2003) degrees in Petroleum and Geological Engineering, from the University of Oklahoma and BS degree (1996) in Chemical Engineering from King Fahad University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. During the 12 years of career and education, Ashraf has presented and published many technical papers. Ashraf has also received many awards including the SPE mention award (2008), best paper and presentation during Saudi Aramco Technical Exchange Conference in Dhahran (2001), University of Oklahoma Rock Mechanics Award for the years 2003 and 2006, the second place award for the Society of Petroleum Engineers US Rocky Mountain Mid Continent PhD paper contest (2004). Ashraf areas of interest include geomechanics and rock physics as he currently involved in leading several projects vital projects including fracturing openhole horizontal wells, Saudi Aramco Virtual Lab, in-situ chemical consolidation for sand control, stabilizing poorly consolidated formations and modeling wellbore instability problems. He is the Chairman of the 2009 SPE Saudi Arabia Section technical Symposium and Exhibition and a member of Society of Petroleum Engineers, Society of Exploration and Geophysics, and American Rock Mechanics Association.