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Dr Ausama Giwelli

Senior Research Engineer

https://people.csiro.au/g/a/ausama-giwelli

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PO BOX 1130
BENTLEY WA 6102 AUSTRALIA

Biography

Ausama is a petroleum engineer by background, who loves research and always keen to bring together multiple disciplines to solve a problem efficiently. While he has spent most of his career working for E&P Company and R&D organisations in three different continents, he also devotes considerable time co-supervising student projects. He has varied experience in petroleum geomechanics, CCS-Enhanced oil recovery, coreflood experiments, special core analysis and unconventional resources (shale & CSG/CBM).

Since he joined CSIRO, he worked on fault reactivation, induced seismicity, CO2-rock interaction projects. He is currently heavily involved in core-flooding & special core analysis experiments/simulation

Ausama previously worked for JOGMEC research centre in Tokyo. He was involved in multi-disciplinary projects, environmental site investigation for onshore fields and also had led research project on CCS-EOR (storage through CO2-EOR). During this period, he worked closely with Japanese manufacturing companies such as MHI, JGC, IAE, JFE, Kawasaki and Hitachi. Before that he worked as a reservoir and production engineer for more than six years.

Other Interests

1) Project management (Agile and Lean management).
2) Hiking and bush-walking

Professional Areas

Academic Qualifications

  • 2010

    Doctor of Philosophy
    Tohoku University, Japan

  • 2007

    Master of Interdisciplinary Studies
    Tohoku University, Japan

  • 1997

    Bachelor of science in petroleum engineering
    University of Tripoli

Professional Experiences

  • 2011-2012

    Deputy Director of CCS & Environment Management Division
    Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation

  • 2001-2011

    Production Engineer
    Harouge (previously Veba) Oil Operations

  • 1998-2000

    Reservoir Engineer
    Sharghya for Engineering Consultancy

Achievements and Awards

  • 2004-2010

    MONBUKAGAKUSHO scholarship
    Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan

Community and Corporate Citizenship

  • 2016-Present

    Fire warden (ARRC, WA)

  • 2014-2015

    Fire warden (QCAT, QLD)

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