Ali Qubian is currently a TPL (RE/PE) Senior Specialist at Subsurface Team of R&T Group at Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). Prior to this, he occupied a number of both industrial and academic positions in UK. He holds a First Class Honors BEng in Petroleum Engineering and a PhD in Steam-foam Drive Process in EOR from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. He has over 30 years of academic, industrial and research experiences mainly associated with the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry. He is currently the EOR Cluster Leader within the Subsurface Team. The job involves advanced technology screening and implementation for relevant reservoir subsurface challenges and adopting the most efficient and economic ones to address them. His major areas of interest are: EOR, reservoir monitoring and simulation, uncertainty analysis, new technologies and innovation, unconventional reservoirs, and production optimization. Ali Qubian is currently a TPL (RE/PE) Senior Specialist at Subsurface Team of R&T Group at Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). Prior to this, he occupied a number of both industrial and academic positions in UK. He holds a First Class Honors BEng in Petroleum Engineering and a PhD in Steam-foam Drive Process in EOR from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. He has over 30 years of academic, industrial and research experiences mainly associated with the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry. He is currently the EOR Cluster Leader within the Subsurface Team. The job involves advanced technology screening and implementation for relevant reservoir subsurface challenges and adopting the most efficient and economic ones to address them. His major areas of interest are: EOR, reservoir monitoring and simulation, uncertainty analysis, new technologies and innovation, unconventional reservoirs, and production optimization.

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