Hichem Dakhlia

Phone:	403-668-8951	
E-mail:	hdakhlia@hotmail.com	
Address:	Box 22464 RPO Bankers Hall, Calgary, Alberta T2P 5G7	

Objective:	Pursue a career in reservoir engineering and simulation

Relevant Experience:

BJ Services Company Canada
Technical Assistant,  Reservoir Services,  December 2002 to June 2007
•	Interpreted well test build-ups post perforations to estimate extrapolated reservoir pressure, flow capacity, wellbore skin, relative gas inflow potentials from each set of perforations, and gas well deliverability forecast post stimulation.
•	Evaluated well logs to determine rock characteristics such as effective porosity, water saturation, gross and net pay, and permeability index.  I also used empirical correlations to calculate rock mechanical properties such as Poisson’s ratio, Young’s modulus of elasticity, and closure stress gradient for the purpose of hydraulic fracturing simulation.
•	Analyzed production declines in gas wells and estimated ultimate reserves, original gas in place, drainage area, flow capacity, wellbore skin, stimulation effectiveness, and production forecast.
•	Compared hydraulic fracturing characteristics such tonnage, proppant type, fracturing fluid type, proppant concentrations, and pumping rates against post stimulation gas production and deduced trends and identified optimum stimulation strategies for each of the formation plays studied.
•	Created displays of geological features using various mapping and visualization tools and attempted to resolve issues related to lower than expected, post stimulation gas production.
•	Upgraded and enhanced an in-house Visual Basic for Applications software that analyzed closed chamber pressure build-ups after perforation.

Société Italo-Tunisienne d'Exploitation Pétrolière
Reservoir Engineer,  October 2000 to December 2000 and February 1998 to April 1999
•	Took part in reservoir simulation of a large, oil producing pool that was partly waterflooded.

Kairouan Petroleum Company
Petroleum Engineer,  May 1999 to May 2000
•	Worked on reservoir simulation of an aquifer-drive carbonate reservoir

Education:

Calgary Catholic Immigration Society
Engineering and Technology Upgrading Program,  May 2002 to December 2002

The University of Texas at Austin
Petroleum Engineering,  September 1988 to September 1995

Leland Stanford Junior University
Petroleum Engineering,  July 1986 to June 1988

The University of Minnesota
Civil Engineering,  January 1983 to June 1986

Affiliated with APEGGA as a member in training.
References and publications available upon request.