EDUCATION
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

 
University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
Bachelor of Science, Petroleum Engineering                                                                                                     January 1999
 
SKILLS
Software:                                                            Interactive Petrophysics (IP), FRACPRO, PETEX Software Suite (PROSPER, PVTP, MBAL), KAPPA-Workstation-SAPHIR, PVTsim, PhD Win, PETREL, ECLIPSE, Exodus, IHS-Markit (WellTest, CBM, VirtuWell) LabVIEW, Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
Programming Tools:                                       Python, FORTRAN, Visual Basic.NET, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Data Science and Big Data Analytics:       Supervised Learning – Regression and Classification, Exploratory Analysis
 
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, College of Engineering,                                            April 2013 – Till Date
King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Assistant Professor

• Teaching: I teach undergraduate and graduate students and supervise capstone projects. The courses I teach, past and present in each category are listed below;
  
  • Undergraduate: Computer Applications in Petroleum Engineering (PGE 457), Well Logging (PGE 492) and Artificial Lift and Surface Operation (482), Pressure Transient Analysis (PGE 493), Introduction to Engineering Design (GE 106), Reservoir Engineering Laboratory (PGE 365).
  • Graduate: Theory of Fluid Flow in Porous Media, Advanced Production, Graduate Seminar.
• Research Areas: Enhanced Oil Recovery, Reservoir Characterization, Unconventional Resources, Well Log Analysis & Petrophysics, Phase Behavior.
• Current faculty sponsor for the KSU-SPE student chapter.

 Frac Tech Services International (FTSI), Odessa, TX, USA                                                    October 2011 – June 2012
Stimulation Engineer

• Performed well stimulation by the hydraulic fracturing stimulation process.
• Conducted real time quality control of well fracturing and stimulation process.
• Managed proper job procedure at well site for fluid and volumes pumped.
• Experienced in stimulating several formations in the Permian Basin of West Texas.
• Completed several multi-staged hydraulic fracturing jobs in horizontal and vertical wells.

 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA                                                                              January 2006– August 2011
 Research and Teaching Assistant

• Designed setups for core flooding experiments for enhanced oil recovery miscible gas injection at reservoir conditions of pressure and temperature.
• Conducted slim-tube minimum miscibility pressure (MMP) experiments using CO₂ gas.
• Designed and implemented custom data acquisition systems using National Instruments (NI) hardware and software (LabVIEW) for experimental setups.
• Performed calibration of data acquisition hardware.
• Analyzed experimental data and conducted data quality checks.
• Mentored, coached and supervised a team of teaching assistants and managed 8 lab sections (with about 15 students each) per week for two semesters, for the undergraduate rock properties laboratory.
• Assisted instructors with teaching and grading several undergraduate courses which include, reservoir engineering, rock properties, reservoir simulation and water Flooding (EOR).
• Taught the undergraduate Engineering Communication class for two semesters, with an average of 36 students per session (Fall 2007 and Spring 2008).

Baker Hughes Port-Harcourt, Nigeria                                                                                     October 2000 – July 2002
Field Engineer, Baker Atlas – Wireline Logging                                                                    October 2005 – January 2006

• Acquired petro-physical data such as density, porosity (from neutron and density logs), resistivity (from induction and lateral logs), acoustic travel time, rock lithology, photo-electric adsorption (PE log), gamma ray, spectral gamma ray (digital spectra-log) and formation pressures.
• Operated and acquired data from cased hole logging tools such as; Cement bond evaluation (Segmented Bond Tool), GR/CCL, setting of parkers, TCP Tie-in, Gyros, Reservoir Performance Monitor (RPM), perforation operations and customer instruments services (CIS).
• Analyzed and conducted quality control of well log data acquired real time at the well site to ensure accuracy and quality before delivering to the client.
• Implemented detailed checkout of hardware (tool string) and software used in the ECLIPS^TM real time data acquisition system. 
• Calibrated and conducted systematic troubleshooting of well logging tools.
• Managed personnel, equipment, logistics and correspondence with drilling rigs and clients.

 
Professional Trainings

 
Professional Society Affiliations and Membership Number                                  

• Member, Society of Petroleum Engineers, SPE (3449120)
• Member, Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts, SPWLA (15637)
• Associate Member, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, AAPG (10126799)

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
Othman, A. A., & Amao, A. M. (2019, March 15). Hydraulic Fracturing Treatments in the Permian Basin: Distillation of Best Practices in the Spraberry and Wolfcamp Formations. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/194931-MS

Ahmed Othman, A. A., & Amao, A. M. (2018, August 16). Hydraulic Fracture Treatment Designs: Distillation and Integration of Best Practices in the Spraberry and Wolfcamp Formations of the Permian Basin. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/192247-MS

Elsheikh, E. A. M., & Amao, A. M. (2018, August 16). Surmounting Paucity of Data in Hydraulic Fracture Designs: Case Studies From the Permian Basin. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/192195-MS.

AlQuraishi, A.A., Amao, A. M., Al-Zahrani, N.I., AlQarni M.T., AlShamrani, S.A.: “Low salinity water and CO₂ miscible flooding in Berea and Bentheimer sandstones”, Journal of King Saud University- Engineering Sciences 31 (3), 286-295.

Soliman M.Y., Dusterhoft, R.: Fracturing Horizontal Wells. Soliman, M.Y., Samaniego-V, F., Amao, A. M., and Lashin A., Chapter 3: Reservoir Engineering Aspects of Horizontal Wells, McGraw-Hill Professional, 2016, ISBN-13: 978-1259585616, ISBN-10: 1259585611.

Abdullah Alfayfi, Osama Elmandy and Amao, A. M.: “Enhancing Oil Recovery of Heterogeneous Reservoirs Underlain by Tarmat Layer”, Petroleum Science and Technology, 2016, Volume 34, No. 5, 478-484.

Alfayfi, A.A., Elmandy, O. and Amao, A. M.:” An Experimental Study for Enhancing the Recovery Factor of Tar Barrier Heterogeneous Reservoirs”, Journal of Petroleum and Environmental Biotechnology, 2015, Volume 6, Issue 3.

Amao, T. O., & Amao, A. M. (2014, August 5). Fluid Characterization and EoS Modelling of PVT Experiments. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/172843-MS.

Amao, A. M., Siddiqui, S., & Menouar, H. (2012, January 1). A New Look at the Minimum Miscibility Pressure (MMP) Determination from Slimtube Measurements. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/153383-MS.

Amao, A.M.: “Improved Characterization Matrix for Carbon Dioxide Enhanced Recovery Process,” Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas Tech University, August 2011.

Amao, A.M. and Siddiqui, S.: “Permian Basin: Historical Review of CO₂ EOR Processes, Current Challenges and Improved Optimization Possibilities,” SCA 2009-38, presented at the International Symposium of the Society of Core Analysts held in Noordwijk aan Zee, The Netherlands 27^th-30^th September, 2009.

Amao, A.M.: “Mathematical Model for Darcy Forchheimer Flows with Application to Well Performance Analysis,” M.S. Thesis, Texas Tech University, August 2007.