Mohamed Soua
Dr. Mohamed Soua joined Saudi Aramco in 2014 as the Chemostratigraphy Lab Manager working in the Exploration Technical Services Department, where he is involved in many projects. Prior to this, Mohamed worked at Entreprise Tunisienne d’Activites Petroliere (ETAP), the Tunisian national oil company, from 2007 to 2012 as Chief Geologist, and then in 2012, he became an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis (Tunis-El Manar University), teaching petroleum geology, paleogeography, paleontology and geophysics.
Mohamed is also an editor of the Arabian Journal of Earth Sciences, the Journal of Geosciences and Geomatics and the Journal of Open Transactions on Geosciences.
He has published more than 80 papers, book chapters and technical reports in several geological fields, including chemostratigraphy, biostratigraphy (foraminifera and radiolarians), cyclostratigraphy (orbital forcing and
time-series analysis) and sequence stratigraphy.
Mohamed’s professional activities are focused on the oceanic anoxic events of the Earth’s Phanerozoic history and the integration of sedimentological as well as biostratigraphic data to enhance the knowledge of the mechanism leading to these events.
Actually, his main focus is the chemical elemental signatures of sandstone/mudrock bodies and their large scale correlation as well as their sedimentary provenance using the Chemostratigraphy as a main tool.
He is a member of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE); the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and the Tunisian Association of International Geological Studies (ATEIG).
Mohamed received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Tunis-El Manar University, Tunis, Tunisia, with the cooperation of Lille 1 University, Lille, France.
Mohamed is also an editor of the Arabian Journal of Earth Sciences, the Journal of Geosciences and Geomatics and the Journal of Open Transactions on Geosciences.
He has published more than 80 papers, book chapters and technical reports in several geological fields, including chemostratigraphy, biostratigraphy (foraminifera and radiolarians), cyclostratigraphy (orbital forcing and
time-series analysis) and sequence stratigraphy.
Mohamed’s professional activities are focused on the oceanic anoxic events of the Earth’s Phanerozoic history and the integration of sedimentological as well as biostratigraphic data to enhance the knowledge of the mechanism leading to these events.
Actually, his main focus is the chemical elemental signatures of sandstone/mudrock bodies and their large scale correlation as well as their sedimentary provenance using the Chemostratigraphy as a main tool.
He is a member of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE); the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and the Tunisian Association of International Geological Studies (ATEIG).
Mohamed received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Tunis-El Manar University, Tunis, Tunisia, with the cooperation of Lille 1 University, Lille, France.
less
Uploads
Papers by Mohamed Soua
characteristics (Total Organic Carbon and Maturity) and chemostratigraphic characters (mainly carbon isotopic signatures). The case study concerns the Gulf of Tunis basin which exposes the panoply of complex geological structures (thrusting, grabens, salt tectonics, etc.) in which exploration has ended since the 1990’s after
drilling six failed wells during more than twenty years. In order to improve and optimize exploration procedure within this basin (offshore) and in addition to the OAE’s concept (source rocks distribution), we describe a basin modeling study based on the calibration, burial histories (of drilled wells), generation and expulsion of hydrocarbon from a chosen OAE (Faraoni event of the late Hauterivian level) and hydrocarbon pathway migration (migration line hydrocarbon volumes) from the chosen source rock. The basin modeling generated
new prospects which seem to be near or off-structures from the positions of the past drilled wells. However, it is assumed that the basin modeling does not take into account the rapid change of facies and geological complexity such the case of the Gulf of Tunis. This is the reason why a Multiple-Point Geostatistics (MPS) method
is recommended for the integration of the basin modeling study in order to more improve the model. This method is applied in basin modeling to improve the efficiency of the regional exploration procedure in addition to the use of OAE’s concept.