Ali Qubian
Senior Specialist
Kuwait Oil Company,
Kuwait
Biography
Currently a TPL (RE/PE) Senior Specialist at Subsurface Team of R&T Group at Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). Prior to this, he occupied a number of both industrial and academic positions in UK. He holds a First Class Honors BEng in Petroleum Engineering and a Ph.D in Steam-foam drive process in EOR from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. He has had over 30 years of academic, industrial and research experiences mainly associated with the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry. He is currently the EOR Cluster Leader within the Subsurface Team. The job involves advanced technology screening and implementation for relevant Reservoir subsurface challenges and adopting the most efficient and economic ones to address them. Major Area of interest: EOR, Reservoir monitoring and simulation, Uncertainty analysis, new technologies and innovation, unconventional reservoirs, and production optimization.
Research Interest
EOR, Reservoir monitoring and simulation, Uncertainty analysis, new technologies and innovation, unconventional reservoirs, and production optimization.