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Muhammad W. Ibrahim, PhD. is the Director and R&D Manager of Target Exploration Consultants Ltd responsible for concessions evaluation, prospects generation, basin analyses, country risk analysis, reservoirs and oil and gas fields studies, in addition to organising Target Exploration’s conferences, petroleum industry training courses and geological fieldtrips.

Muhammad received his BSc in Geology from the University of Baghdad. He joined the Geological Survey of Iraq soon after completing his national service, and left it upon receiving a Ministry of Oil-Iraq Petroleum Co. scholarship to study for his MSc and PhD in Petroleum Geology at the Imperial College, University of London.

Dr. Ibrahim joined King Abdul-Aziz University in Jeddah Saudi Arabia to establish and head the Department of Petroleum Geology after receiving his PhD on his thesis “Petroleum Geology of Southern Iraq”, then moved to Tripoli, Libya to work for Mobil Oil Libya as Staff Geologist in 1982, where he merged the proven practices of Mobil Oil with his new academic research to revise the geology of oilfields, propose and steer regional geochemical source rocks evaluation project; generate prospects and participate in oil discoveries.

Muhammad became the acting Development Geology Group Superintendent of VEBA Oil Operations, Libya when VEBA Oel took over Mobil shares of Mobil Oil Libya before returning after seven prolific years to London to join LASMO, establish Target Exploration Consultants in 1990 and work with several oil companies.

The Petroleum Exploration and Development Geology experience of Dr. Ibrahim encompasses Proterozoic reservoir rocks of the Salt Basins of Oman to the Recent fluvial-deltaic sediments of the Mesopotamian Basin, and the rift basins fields of Libya and Sudan to Zagros-Taurus over-thrust fold belt fields of North Iraq.

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Dr Muhammad’s numerous external publications and in-house software reflects his technical contributions while working at academia, research institutes and several oil and gas exploration and production companies:

1. Faculty of Earth Sciences, King Abdul-Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: Assistant Professor and Head of Department of Petroleum Geology.

2. Iraqi Geological Survey, Baghdad, Iraq: Field Geologist, Amadia, North Iraq and Gaa’ra Depression in the Western Desert of Iraq.

3. Iraqi Minerals Exploration Company, Baghdad, Iraq: Geophysical Well Logging Geologist, Mishraq Sulphur Field, Mishraq; Mosul, Iraq.

4. Korea National Oil Corporation (ME), Dubai, UAE: Exploration Geology Advisor, Exploration Team, exploring and drilling KNOC’s concessions and joint ventures activities in Erbil, Kirkuk and Sulaimaniyah Districts of Iraq.

5. Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait: Consultant Geologist, worked on the regional petroleum geology of Kuwait and Minagish Oilfield at Environments and Earth Sciences Group.

6. Kuwait Oil Company, Ahmadi, Kuwait: TPL Specialist Geologist II, Subsurface Team, Research & Technology Group. (1) Proposed, designed and established the KOC’s Technical Review Committee for KOC technical publications. (2) Worked on the geothermal gradients of Kuwait. (3) Led the investigation team of shallow gas incidents at Magwa Dome, and (4) Participated in KOC’s workshops on shallow heavy oil and deep

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7. LASMO Grand Maghreb, London, UK and Tripoli, Libya: Contract Geologist, New-Ventures Team. Evaluated new fields and concessions in Ghadames, Kufra, Murzuq and Sirte Basins.

8. LASMO International, London, UK: Contract Geologist, North Africa New-Ventures Team, London, UK. Worked on Paleozoic prospects generations in all basins of North Africa.

9. MOBIL Oil Libya, Tripoli, Libya: Staff Geologist, worked as Concession 12 Geologist, the Regional Exploration Geologist in the Exploration Department.

10. OMAN Oil Company E&P, Muscat, Oman: Senior Exploration Geologist with Field Development, New-ventures and Joint-ventures Groups. Involved in (1) Exploration and development of discoveries in Block 60, East Oman, (2) Technical reviews of the giant West Qurna Oilfield New-venture at Iraq, (3) technical reviews of Joint-Ventures within Oman, and (4) evaluation and frontier exploration of sub-volcanic and unconventional oil prospects in Block 42, NE Oman.

11. VEBA Oel Operations, Tripoli, Libya: Acting Superintendent of Development Geology Group, Exploration Department. (1) Worked as regional geologist on the geochemical source rocks evaluation of eastern Sirte Basin for the NOC. (2) Identified the contribution of Dolomite to the production of small fields in Block 12, and fractured volcanics to the Gargaf reservoir of Ora Oilfield in Block 13, and (4) led Small and Shut-in Fields Re-evaluation Taskforce Team of VEBA.

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Dr. Ibrahim established Target Exploration Consultants in London, UK in 1990, and in his role as Consultant Geologist at Target Exploration he worked or led teams at Target’s London offices and/or client’s offices on many projects for oil companies, such as:

1. AMOCO Overseas, Houston, USA: Giant South Iraq Fields, Geology of West Iraq; Geothermal Gradients of Iraq, and Geology and Prospectivity of Kuwait Projects.

2. BULA Resources, Dublin, Ireland: Geological and Geophysical Study of EPSA Block 4 of West Iraq, and Evaluation and ranking of West Iraq Concessions Project.

3. DNO, London, UK: Concessions Evaluation of EPSA Block 1 in West Iraq, Sudan Block 14 and Syrian Blocks 6 & 7.

4. PETRONAS Carigali, Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia: Led a due diligence G&G team of Giant Iraqi Oilfield DPSA Project.

5. RAVEN Energy, London, UK and Dubai, UAE: Evaluation of NV opportunities in Onshore Iraq, Libya, Oman, and Offshore Tunisia and Arabian Sea of Sharjah.

6. ROC OIL, Sydney, Australia: Geostatistical evaluation and ranking of 135 Libyan Exploration Concessions.

7. UNOCAL, Houston, USA: Eastern Syria and Northwestern Iraq Report Project.

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Muhammad authored more than 200 internal and external publications on prospects generation, regional Geology, Stratigraphy, Palaeontology, structural evolution of basins, and geothermal gradients of hydrocarbons traps in the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, MENA Countries (Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Sudan and UAE), Morecambe Bay, Nigeria, and the North Sea. He also develops in-house software for analysis and interpretation of Wireline Logs, Drilling Mud Gas, Geothermal Gradients, and structural evolution of basins and present and past oil and gas traps.

Dr. MW Ibrahim is a member of AAPG, ESG, ESSL, GSO, IGS, PESGB, SPE and SPWLA, he is a regular presenter and sessions chairman at AAPG, EAGE, GEO, IPC, MENA and SPE workshops and conferences, and the editor of Iraqi Petroleum and MENA Oil & Gas Conferences of Target Exploration Consultants Ltd. His research interests includes:

I. Regional Petroleum Geology and Tectonics of MENA, and influence of structural evolution on: G/O/Tar-mat/W contacts, saturations, and quality of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons reservoirs.

II. Integrating source rocks maturations, hydrocarbon generation, migration, charging, trapping and leaking in response to burial, geothermal gradient, tectonics with structural closures inception, evolution and breaching of conventional and unconventional reservoirs of structural, stratigraphic and combination Hydrocarbon traps.

III. Impacts of global climatic changes, anomalous high temperatures, frequent sand and dust storms (SDS), and natural gas seepages on habitats, environments, safety of petroleum E&P operations, and sustainability of renewable energy projects in the Arabian Gulf countries and other MENA countries.

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Muhammad W. Ibrahim, PhD. MSc. DIC. BSc.

Petroleum Geologist, Director and Research & Development Manager

65 Kenton Court, London W14 8NW, UK.

Telephone: (+44) (0) 207 371 2240

Email: m.ibrahim@targetexploration.com Website: www.TargetExploration.com

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