Petroleum exploration is my main focus. I have done almost all types of exploration assignments in my career including drilling, seismic acquisition, well-site operations, 2D/3D seismic interpretation, risk assessment, prospect generation, asset management, team leadership for G&G teams and project management. I have given technical presentations, written scholarly papers, served professional bodies and communities, promoted petroleum education, and helped to organize conferences.

I have worked most of the important petroleum regions of the world except the USA, Canada and West Africa.

Presently, I am working and evaluating exploration opportunities in Asia with the main focus on countries and basins of the Middle East, Russia and Central Asia. These are very large regions and territories, but also some of the most oil and gas producing and attractive areas for oil companies to invest in and to look for new business plans in exploration and field development.

These areas are very mature but several basins and plays are yet to be fully explored and that makes these regions still among the most demanding areas for investment.

Central Asia: The basins I worked in last few years are in Central Asia, Precaspian (kazakhstan), North Ustyurt (Kazakhstan), Turgay and Mangyshlak (Kazakhstan), southern caspian (Turkmensitan and Azerbaijan), Caucasus, Afghan- (Georgia) Tajik, Amu Darya Basin ( Turkemanistan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, and Tajikastan)

Middle East: Persian Gulf, UAE and evaluation of entire Dubai offshore and onshore areas, Oman onshore, Levant Basin offshore covering Syria, Israel and Lebanon.

South East Asia: Onshore East and West Java Basin, offshore East Java Basin, East Indonesia, Kutie Basin, Indonesia.

West Siberia Basin: focusing mainly in Khanty Mansyisk Autonomous Okrug, Russia

Author and conductor of of several technical courses about Exploration Geology, Structure geology, Operations Geology, Prospect Generation and Basin Analysis.

I love to visit universities and colleges to meet young students and to deliver lectures on technical topics such as exploration geology, structural geology, petroleum system analysis but I realize that new students and freshmen look upon us for guidance for starting career paths specially when they are standing at the doorway of their career to enter or struggling to select subjects for research which would be applied and useful in the future. Keeping this thought in my mind, I have visited several universities in Central Asia and Pakistan in the last 12 years. I hope to continue helping young geologists and engineers in their careers in the future as well.

Languages Spoken: English, Urdu, and Hindi