Academic Activities

• Coordinator between the Department of Geology and the the French Total Exploration and Production Company in Kurdistan Region.

• Coordinator between the Department of Geology and the French TPA Association. 

• Member of CIMP (Commission Internationale de Microflore du Paleozoique).

• Member of EAGE (European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers).

• Member of AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists).

• In addition to my job as an instructor in Department of Geology/Sulaimani University, I am also teaching the subject of Well Logging and Formation Evaluation in the Department of Petroleum Engineering/Komar University.

Participated or Attended Conferences, Seminars, Training, and Courses: 

1) The First Scientific Conference of University of Baghdad held in Baghdad / Iraq, 1996.

2) The 13th Iraqi Geological Congress held by the Iraqi Geologists Union in Baghdad from 18 to 20, May, 1998.

3) The Scientific Conference of University of Sulaimani held in Sulaimani /Kurdistan Region-Iraq, 2000.

4) Reservoir Geology course held by the French TPA in Irbid/Jordan from 6 to 10 August, 2006.

5) A training course about GC/MS held by Varian Company in Paris/France from 5 to 8 December, 2006.

6) Drilling Planning Workshop held by the Canadian Petroleum Training Institute in Istanbul / Turkey from 12 to 16, December, 2006.

7) Petroleum Systems and Exploration Management course held by the French TPA in Irbid / Jordan from 23 to 27, September, 2007.

8) Geological Field course in Greece from 14 to 17, November, 2007.

9) AAPG conference held in Athens/Greece from 18 to 21, November, 2007.

10) Basin Modeling Integrated with Geochemistry as an Aid to Predict Petroleum Systems Efficiency and Reduce Exploration Risk. A course held by AAPG in Athens/Greece from 22 to 24, November, 2007.

11) Total Energy and Education seminar held by Total University in Paris/France from 25 to 29, November, 2007.

12) Petroleum Geology and Geophysics course held by the French TPA in Irbid / Jordan from 10 to 14, February, 2008.

13) Drilling Technique course held by the French TPA in Istanbul / Turkey from 25 to 29, September, 2008.

14) Geological Field course in Sinai/Egypt from 11 to 15, March, 2009.

15) First International Symposium on the Petroleum and other Geological Resources in the Tythes Realm held in Egypt by Cairo University from 17 to 25, March, 2009.

16) Advanced Reservoir Engineering course held by the French TPA in Istanbul / Turkey from 5 to 9 October, 2009.

17) Image Log Interpretation Short Course, held by AAPG in Calgary / Canada from 11 to 12 September, 2010.

18) AAPG International Conference & Exhibition, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, from 13 to 15, September, 2010.

19) Folds, Faults and Hydrocarbons in the Southern Canadian Cordillera (Rocky Mountains) – Principles and Practices, A Combination Short Course/Field Trip held by AAPG in Canada (Calgary- Fernie) from 16-19 September, 2010.

20) Quantitative Petroleum Evaluation (From basin to prospect resource assessment) course held by the French TPA in Istanbul / Turkey from 4 to 8, October, 2010.

21) 73rd EAGE Conference and Exhibition Incorporation SPE EUROPEC 2011, held in Vienna / Austria from 23 – 26 May, 2011.

22) Structural Interpretation in Petroleum Exploration course held by the French TPA in Istanbul / Turkey from 3 to 7, October, 2011.

23) Well site Geology Workshop held by the Kurdistan Geologists Organization in Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region-Iraq from 18 to 28 December, 2011.

24) Well Geology course held by the French TPA in Istanbul / Turkey from 5 to 9, November, 2012.

25) Geokurdistan – 2012, The First Geological Conference of Kurdistan held by Kurdistan Geologists Organization in Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region/Iraq from 14 to 16, November, 2012

26) First Iraqi Kurdistan Technical Workshop held by TOTAL Oil Company and University of Sulaimani in Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region/Iraq, from 22 to 23, May, 2013.

27) Integrated Reservoir Management & Field Development course held by the French TPA in Istanbul / Turkey from 23 to 27, September, 2013.

28) Total Energy and Education seminar held by Total University in Paris/France from 01 to 06, June, 2014.

29) Geosciences: From Exploration to Field Development course held by the French TPA in Istanbul / Turkey from 29, September to 3, November, 2014.

30) Basic Logging Interpretation & Application to Petroleum Evaluation course held by the French TPA in Istanbul / Turkey from 5 to 9 October, 2015.

31) Geokurdistan-II, The Second Geological Conference of Kurdistan held by University of Sulaimani and Kurdistan Geologists Organization in Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region/Iraq from 6 to 8, October, 2015.

32) 71st International Youth Scientific Conference "Oil & Gas-2017", held in Moscow, Russia, from 18 to 20, April, 2017.

33) 16th Iraqi Geological Conference held in Baghdad/Iraq from 26 to 27, April, 2017.

34) Geokurdistan-III, The Third Geological Conference of Kurdistan held by University of Sulaimani and Kurdistan Geologists Organization in Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region/Iraq from 5 to 7, December, 2017.

35) First International and Third Scientific Conference of College of Science held in Tikrit University from 17 to 18 December, 2018. 

36) Geokurdistan-IV, The Fourth Geological Conference of Kurdistan held by University of Sulaimani and Kurdistan Geologists Organization in Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region/Iraq from 8 to 10, October, 2019.

37) 1st International Conference (Geo Iraq 1) of the Natural Resources Research Center-Tikrit University, 25-28th October, 2021. Tikrit.

38) Geokurdistan-IV, The Fourth Geological Conference of Kurdistan held by University of Sulaimani and Kurdistan Geologists Organization in Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region/Iraq from 20 to 22, September, 2022.

39) The Third International and the Fifth Scientific Conference of the College of Science/ Tikrit University, held in Tikrit from 28 to 29 December 2022. 

40) The 7th Iraqi Oil & Gas Conference held by the Ministry of Oil, 29-30 November 2023. Basra, Iraq.