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Adil Gürkan Ceyhan

Adil Gürkan Ceyhan

Senior Petroleum/Geomechanics Engineer
Acıbadem/Üsküdar

Summary

Results-driven leader with positive attitude and passion for providing high-quality advice and guidance to clients. Proven ability to identify customer needs, resolve conflicts and build strong relationships. Possesses excellent problem-solving, communication and interpersonal skills. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

Overview

32
32
years of professional experience

Work History

Geoscientist / Geomechanics Advisor

TPAO / TP-OTC
05.2020 - Current
  • Planning and conducting pre-drill, real time; Pore Pressure and Fracture Gradient Study for 30+ Black Sea, and 4 East Mediterranean Deep-Water Wells. Constructing post drill 1DMEM for Sand Control/Completion Design.
  • Building 1DMEM for fracture carbonate/sandstone fields to mitigate potential wellbore stability problems for 16 onshore fields.
  • Constructing drill maps for onshore fractured and faulted 5 fields to optimize inclined and horizontals wellbores.
  • Managing Deepwater Real Time Operating Center InterACT inside as Admin role.
  • Advising on coring operation and core analysis geomechanical testing program for Unconsolidated Laminated Sandstones.

Senior Petroleum Engineer

Schlumberger
7 2015 - 04.2020
  • Operation support for Manifa Lower Ratawiand Upper Ratawi

development. LWD, Pressrue While drilling, geosteering based on real-time mobility/permeability information.

  • Qualification of Formation Sampling and Fluid Mapping While Drilling for Saudi Aramco.
  • Pre Khuff and Khuff Deep gas drilling support for post drill Geo Mechanics and constructing drilling mud weight window.

Senior Petroleum and Reservoir Engineer

Schlumberger
07.2008 - 07.2015
  • Operations PTEs, Engineers & Specialists Supporting StethoScope operation, job planning, sales opportunities, also Field testing JPG Sampling While Drilling Tool
  • Main Support Statoil Offshore Developments
  • Special Projects; Centrica - UK Gas Developments
  • Cirrus Energy - The Netherlands Gas Developments
  • Shell Norge - Barents Sea Projects.
  • Black Sea Projects; Petrobras Turkey - Sinop Project, 2009 TPAO Turkey - Surmene, 2010 ExxonMobil Turkey - Kastamonu, 2010 TPAO Turkey - Surmene Reentry, 2011 ExxonMobil Romania - Domino, 2013 TPAO Turkey - Istranca, 2013 Shell Turkey - Sile, 2014.

Wireline Reservoir/Prodcution Domain Expert

Schlumberger
02.2006 - 07.2008
  • Based in Ahwaz and Tehran / Operations PTEs, Engineers & Specialists Operation, Acquizationa and Interpretaiton support for Wireline Formation Testing, Production Logging, Well Integrity and Perforation
  • Vertical Interference Tests and Layered Reservoir Testing
  • XPT (Pressure Express) introduction to Geomarket.
  • First FSI
  • Managed Ahwaz DCS team for a year, and to have 5 G&G in the team.

Wireline Reservoir Domain Expert

Schlumberger
04.2002 - 01.2006
  • WL (Luanda, Angola) Operations PTEs, Engineers & Specialists West and South Africa Geomarket including Congo, Gabon, Eq.Guine, Chad, South Africa
  • Additional support and interpretation for production logs.

Wireline and Testing Reservoir Engineer

Schlumberger
05.1999 - 04.2002
  • WL (Kuwait City, Ahmadi, Kuwait) Operations PTEs, Engineers & Specialists
  • Looking after all wireline and testing reservoir related support
  • This includes first ever MDT packer operation, series of cased hole MDT sampling
  • PSP introduction
  • Noise logging, and downhole blowout detection logging
  • Low resistivity pays identification and interpretations.

Wireline Reservoir ID

Schlumberger
03.1999 - 04.1999
  • WL (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia) Operations PTEs, Engineers & Specialists
  • Workign with Shahid Haq for PSP production logging technology introduction phase 1 in Saudi
  • MDT support
  • Mostly spending time for production logging interpretation.

Reservoir Engineer

Schlumberger
07.1998 - 02.1999
  • WL (Muscat, Marmul, Oman) Operations Support Field operation support, field trips for logging operation
  • First few succesful tight formation MDT dual packer runs
  • MDT dual packer interpretation.

Reservoir Engineer Trainee

Schlumberger
03.1998 - 07.1998
  • WL (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) Trainee Joined Schlumberger
  • Working on MDT Dual Packer Interpretation, Mini DST, Reservoir Engineering work under Dr
  • Fikri Kuchuk supervision.

Teaching and Research Assistant

Istanbul Technical University
10.1994 - 03.1998
  • Responsible for Rock and Fluid Laboratories, Numerical Analysis and Thermodynamic class.

Technical Sales Engineer

Natural Gas Market
04.1994 - 10.1994
  • Responsible for sales for Natural Gas and Heating System Product
  • Established Asian part of Istanbul managed 100+ customer.
  • Served as a trusted advisor to clients on technology selection decisions, providing objective recommendations based on their specific requirements

Summer Trainee

TPAO, North Marmara Gas Field
08.1993 - 09.1993
  • Production system reporting
  • Daily gas production calculation
  • Gas - Water separation.

Summer Intern

NV Turk Shell In Diyarbakir
08.1992 - 09.1992

Drilling Rig, Drilling Fluid Analysis and Reporting, Casing and Cementing in deviated wellbores and issue understanding and reporting.

Education

Master of Science - Petroleum Engineering

(ITU) Istanbul Technical University
Istanbul
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Science - Petroleum Engineering

(ITU) Istanbul Technical University
Istanbul
04.2001 -

High School Diploma -

Sivas Lisesi, High School
Sivas
04.2001 -

Skills

  • Geomechanics

  • Rock Mechanics

  • Team building

  • Interpersonal Skills

  • Data analyzation

  • Problem-Solving

  • Decision-Making

  • Critical Thinking

  • Written Communication

  • Horizontal Well Planning

  • Well Test Analysis

  • Pressure Transient Analysis

  • Drilling Optimization

  • Field Development Planning

  • Active Listening

  • Remote Operations Support

  • Real-Time Data Analysis

  • Selling Business Value

  • Formation Testing and Sampling, Production Logging, Petrophysics

Additional Information

Interests Good understanding on Oilfields and Reservoirs in Kuwait.

Worked on Oilfields and Reservoirs in West Coast of Africa (Angola, Congo, Gabon, Eq. Guinea and Chad) Good understading deep offshore turbidites system in West Africa.

Worked on some of Oman oil and gas reservoirs Worked on Complex Carbonates in Iran oil and gas fields. Iran was a good school for understading carbonates. Understanding on Deep Water Black Sea Projects and Narrow Mud Weight Window Drilling Deep Water Reservoir Pressure Regimes in North Sea, Barents Sea


Membership

1990-06 SPE - Society of Petroleum Engineers

2003-01 SPWLA - Society of Petropysict and Well Log Analysts

1994-10 TMMOB - Petrol Muhendisleri Odasi

1997-01 Student Representative, The Graduate Students of the Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering Program,

1997-98 1997-02 Visiting Graduate Student, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany, Feb 1997 1997-01 Representing Turkey for IAESTE Student Change Program Annual Meeting, Jan 1997, Cardiff 1996-01 Representing Turkey for IAESTE Student Change Program Annual Meeting, Jan 1996, Barcelona

Timeline

Geoscientist / Geomechanics Advisor

TPAO / TP-OTC
05.2020 - Current

Senior Petroleum and Reservoir Engineer

Schlumberger
07.2008 - 07.2015

Wireline Reservoir/Prodcution Domain Expert

Schlumberger
02.2006 - 07.2008

Wireline Reservoir Domain Expert

Schlumberger
04.2002 - 01.2006

Master of Science - Petroleum Engineering

(ITU) Istanbul Technical University
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Science - Petroleum Engineering

(ITU) Istanbul Technical University
04.2001 -

High School Diploma -

Sivas Lisesi, High School
04.2001 -

Wireline and Testing Reservoir Engineer

Schlumberger
05.1999 - 04.2002

Wireline Reservoir ID

Schlumberger
03.1999 - 04.1999

Reservoir Engineer

Schlumberger
07.1998 - 02.1999

Reservoir Engineer Trainee

Schlumberger
03.1998 - 07.1998

Teaching and Research Assistant

Istanbul Technical University
10.1994 - 03.1998

Technical Sales Engineer

Natural Gas Market
04.1994 - 10.1994

Summer Trainee

TPAO, North Marmara Gas Field
08.1993 - 09.1993

Summer Intern

NV Turk Shell In Diyarbakir
08.1992 - 09.1992

Senior Petroleum Engineer

Schlumberger
7 2015 - 04.2020
Adil Gürkan CeyhanSenior Petroleum/Geomechanics Engineer