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Dr-Abdullatif-Al-Shuhaill
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Dr. Abdullatif Al-Shuhail

Professor, Department of Geosciences

Recent Research Projects

  1. Geophysical Investigation of Near-surface Aquifers. (Client: CPG) in 2019 – 2021 – Principal Investigator.
  2. Removal of Sand Dune Effects from Seismic Data using Parallax Processing. (Client: Saudi Aramco) in2018 – 2021 – Principal Investigator.
  3. First Arrival Picking using Machine Learning. (Client: Saudi Aramco) in2021 – 2024 – Co-Investigator.
  4. Passive Seismic Mapping of Fractures within Unconventional Resources. (Client: CPG) in2022 – 2024 – Co-Investigator.
  5. Exploring Natural Hydrogen Accumulation in Saudi Arabia (ENHANS), (Client: KFUPM) in2023 – 2026 – Co-Investigator.

Patents

  1. Mousa, W. M. and Al-Shuhail, A. A., 2015. Method of first arrival picking of seismic refraction data: (U.S. Patent and Trade Office Number: US009103935) – Co-Inventor.
  2. Alshuhail, Abdulrahman, Aldawood, Ali, and Al-Shuhail, Abdullatif, 2017. Machines, Systems, And Methods For Super-Virtual Borehole Sonic Interferometry (U.S. Patent and Trade Office Number US009612352B2- Co-Inventor.
  3. Al-Shuhail, A.A., 2017. Method of monitoring carbon dioxide leakage in carbon capture and storage reservoirs (U.S. Patent and Trade Office Number 9,835,763) – Sole-Inventor.
  4. Al-Shuhail, A. A.and Abdullah, F., 2018. Method and system for characterization of subsurface cavities using joint inversion of gravity and ground penetrating radar data (U.S. Patent and Trade Office Number US9977124B2) – Co-Inventor.
  5. Mousa, W., Latif, A., andA. A. Al-Shuhail, 2018. System and method for acquisition and processing of seismic data using compressive sensing: (U.S. Patent and Trade Office Number US10094941B2) – Co-Inventor.
  6. Sikandar Khan, Yehia Abel Khulief, Abdullatif Al-Shuhail, 2022. Method and alarming system for CO 2 sequestration: (U.S. Patent and Trade Office Number US11353621B2) – Co-Inventor.
  7. Abdullatif Al-Shuhail, Mohamed Mahmoud, Rakan Fadhel, 2023. Modified sonic tool for advanced formation evaluation (U.S. Patent and Trade Office Number US011795813B2) – Co-Inventor.

h-index

SCOPUS: 18, citations = 941, documents = 121.

Google Scholar: 20, citations = 1223.

Educational Qualification

  • Ph.D., Geophysics, Texas A&M University, USA, 1998.
  • M.S., Geophysics, Texas A&M University, USA, 1993.
  • B.S., Geophysics, KFUPM, KSA, 1987.

Research Interests

  • Fractured reservoirs
  • Near-surface geophysics
  • Micro seismic methods
  • CO2 sequestration

Selected Publications

Selected Journal Publications (2020-2024)

  • SM Hanafy, A El-Husseiny, M Benaafi, A Al-Shuhail, J Dvorkin, 2020. P-wave velocity profile at very shallow depths in sand dunes: Geophysics 85 (5), U129-U137.
  • S Khan, YA Khulief, AA Al-Shuhail, 2020. Effects of reservoir size and boundary conditions on pore-pressure buildup and fault reactivation during CO2 injection in deep geological reservoirs: Environmental Earth Sciences 79, 1-23.
  • A Al-Shuhail, Y Bouzidi, S Al-Dossary, Y Li, 2020. Introduction to this special section: Middle East: The Leading Edge 39 (6), 381-381.
  • M Benaafi, SM Hanafy, A Al-Shuhail, A El-Husseiny, J Dvorkin, 2020. Integrated Geological, Hydrogeological, and Geophysical Investigations of a Barchan Sand Dune in the Eastern Region of Saudi Arabia: Water 12 (3), 682.
  • S Khan, YA Khulief, AA Al-Shuhail, 2020. Effects of reservoir size and boundary conditions on pore-pressure buildup and fault reactivation during CO 2 injection in deep geological reservoirs: Environmental Earth Sciences, 79:294.
  • SM Hanafy, A El-Husseiny, M Benaafi, A Al-Shuhail, J Dvorkin, 2020. P-wave velocity profile at very shallow depths in sand dunes: Geophysics 85 (5), U129-U137.
  • SA Chan, P Edigbue, S Khan, AL Ashadi, AA Al-Shuhail, 2021. Viscoelastic Model and Synthetic Seismic Data of Eastern Rub’Al-Khali: Applied Sciences 11 (4), 1401.
  • N Ahmad, S Khan, A Al-Shuhail, 2021. Seismic Data Interpretation and Petrophysical Analysis of Kabirwala Area Tola (01) Well, Central Indus Basin, Pakistan: Applied Sciences 11 (7), 2911.
  • X Liu, H Li, AA Al-Shuhail, B Liu, Z Ren, 2021. Reflection and transmission of plane waves at an interface separating two poro-viscoelastic materials with continuity and elastic consistence: Geophysical Journal International 225 (2), 829-845.
  • P Edigbue, A Al-Shuhail, SM Hanafy, 2021. Three-dimensional supervirtual seismic refraction interferometry: A case study in western Saudi Arabia: Geophysics 86 (3), B123-B133.
  • Paul Irikefe Edigbue, Abdullah Abobakr Al-Mashhor, Anastasios Plougarlis, Pantelis Soupios, Markos Tranos, SanLinn Kaka, Abdullatif Al-Shuhail, Mansour Al-Garni, 2021. Geological and geophysical investigations of an engineering site characterization for construction purposes in Western Saudi Arabia: Journal of Applied Geophysics 188, 104307.
  • AA Dawood, A Al-Shuhail, A Alshuhail, 2021. Enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio of sonic logging waveforms by super-virtual interferometric stacking: Journal of Seismic Exploration 30 (3), 237-255.
  • N Ahmad, S Khan, EF Noor, Z Zou, A Al-Shuhail, 2021. Seismic Data Interpretation and Identification of Hydrocarbon-Bearing Zones of Rajian Area, Pakistan: Minerals 11 (8), 891.
  • Ali A Dawood, Abdullatif Al-Shuhail, Abdulrahman Alshuhail, 2021. Enhancing the Signal-to-Noise Ratio of Sonic Logging Waveforms by Super-Virtual Interferometric Stacking: Journal of Seismic Exploration, 30: 237-255.
  • Sherif M Hanafy, Pantelis Soupios, Alexandros Stampolidis, Christian Bender Koch, Khalid Al‐Ramadan, Abdullatif Al‐Shuhail, Theis Solling, Ignatius Argadestya, 2021. Comprehensive Geophysical Study at Wabar Crater, Rub Al‐Khali Desert, Saudi Arabia: Earth and Space Science, 8 (9). 
  • Huijian Li, Xu Liu, Bo Liu, Stewart Greenhalgh, Abdullatif A. Al-Shuhail, and Yangkang Chen, (2022), “Bandwidth-insensitive extended centroid frequency-shift method for near-surface Q estimation,” GEOPHYSICS 87: V75-V86.
  • Ahmad, Naveed, Sikandar Khan, Muhsan Ehsan, Fayaz U. Rehman, and Abdullatif Al-Shuhail. 2022. “Estimating the Total Volume of Running Water Bodies Using Geographic Information System (GIS): A Case Study of Peshawar Basin (Pakistan)” Sustainability 14, no. 7: 3754. 
  • Al-Dawood, A., Al-Shuhail, A.Reservoir characterization analysis in glacial reservoirs. J Petrol Explor Prod Technol (2022). 
  • Surachman, Lutfi M., and Abdullatif Al-Shuhail. 2022. “Common Transmission Point (CTP) Gathers: A New Domain for Amplitude Variation with Offset” Energies 15, no. 13: 4825.
  • Harishidayat, Dicky, Abdullatif Al-Shuhail, Giovanni Randazzo, Stefania Lanza, and Anselme Muzirafuti. 2022. “Reconstruction of Land and Marine Features by Seismic and Surface Geomorphology Techniques” Applied Sciences 12, no. 19: 9611. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12199611.

Extended Publications (+)

  • Bargees, Amen, and Abdullatif A. Al-Shuhail. 2022. “First Arrival Picking of Zero-Phase Seismic Data by Hilbert Envelope Empirical Half Window (HEEH) Method” Sensors 22, no. 19: 7580. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22197580.
  • Edigbue, Paul, Ismail Demirci, Irfan Akca, Hamdan Ali Hamdan, Panagiotis Kirmizakis, Pantelis Soupios, Emin Candansayar, Sherif Hanafy, and Abdullatif Al-Shuhail. 2022. “A Comprehensive Study of Local, Global, and Combined Optimization Methods on Synthetic Seismic Refraction and Direct Current Resistivity Data” Applied Sciences 12, no. 22: 11589. https://doi.org/10.3390/app122211589.
  • Edigbue, Paul, Ismail Demirci, Irfan Akca, Hamdan Hamdan, Panagiotis Kirmizakis, Pantelis Soupios, Markos Tranos, Israa S. Abu-Mahfouz, Emin Candansayar, Sherif Hanafy, and Abdullatif Al-Shuhail “Application of Combined Local and Global Optimization Algorithms in Joint Interpretation of Direct Current Resistivity and Seismic Refraction Data: A Case Study of Dammam Dome, Eastern Saudi Arabia” Sensors 22, no. 23: 9337. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22239337.
  • Hanafy, Sherif Mohamed, Abdullah Al-Mashhor, and Abdullatif Abdulrahman Al-Shuhail. 2022. “Removal of Intra-Array Statics in Seismic Arrays Due to Variable Topography and Positioning Errors” Applied Sciences 12, no. 24: 12810. https://doi.org/10.3390/app122412810.
  • Edigbue, P., Akca, I., Demirci, I., Abdullatif Al-Shuhail, Hamdan Ali Hamdan, Panagiotis Kirmizakis, Emin Candansayar, Sherif Hanafy & Pantelis Soupios . Testing Different Stochastic Methods to Model Direct Current Resistivity and Seismic Refraction Geophysical Data Using a Combined Local and Global Optimization Algorithm. Arab J Sci Eng 48, 7925–7938 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-023-07690-3.
  • Amen Bargees, Dicky Harishidayat, Naveed Iqbal, Abdullatif A Al-Shuhail. 2023. Automatic gas chimney detection from 3D seismic reflection data using a single amplitude attribute: Marine and Petroleum Geology, 152: 106231. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026481722300137X.
  • Emily Barnabas Kiswaka, Dicky Harishidayat, Elisante Elisaimon Mshiu, Abdullatif Al-Shuhail. 2023. Architectural element variations across the offshore basin of Tanzania continental margin: influence of local factors in sedimentary processes and their implications for petroleum prospectivity: Marine Geophysical Research, 44 (2): 7. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11001-023-09518-z.
  • Hamida, M. Alfarraj, A. A. Al-Shuhail and S. A. Zummo, “Facies-Guided Seismic Image Super-Resolution,” in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 61, pp. 1-13, 2023, Art no. 4503213, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2023.3289151.
  • Moosa Al-Jahdhami and Abdullatif Al-Shuhail, (2023), “Workshop Review: Recent workshop explores near-surface modeling and imaging,” The Leading Edge 42: 506–509. https://doi.org/10.1190/tle42070506.1.
  • Alfuraidan, M.R., Al-Shuhail, A., Hanafy, S.M., and Sarumi, Ibrahim O. Approximation of seismic velocities from the spectrum of weighted graphs. Int J Geomath 14, 5 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13137-023-00214-z.  
  • Li, B. Liu, X. Liu, A. A. Al-Shuhail, S. M. H. Mahmoud and Y. Chen, “Frequency-Independent Centroid Frequency Shift Method for Signal Attenuation Estimation,” in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 61, pp. 1-12, 2023, Art no. 4504212, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2023.3293645. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10177196.
  • Awais, M., Hanafy, S.M., Shafiq, S., Al‐Shuhail, A. and Waheed, U.B., 2023. First Break Traveltime Picking Using Unsupervised Machine Learning and Super‐Virtual Refraction Interferometry. Earth and Space Science, 10(12), p.e2023EA003014.
  • Sikandar Khan, Yehia Khulief, Ruben Juanes, Salem Bashmal, Muhammad Usman, Abdullatif Al-Shuhail, Geomechanical modeling of CO2 sequestration: A review focused on CO2 injection and monitoring, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, Volume 12, Issue 3, 2024, 112847, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2024.112847.
  • Surachman, L.M., Abdulraheem, A., Al-Shuhail, A. and Kaka, S.I., 2024. Acoustic impedance prediction based on extended seismic attributes using multilayer perceptron, random forest, and extra tree regressor algorithms. Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, pp.1-9.
  • Harishidayat, D., Niyazi, Y., Stewart, H.A., Al-Shuhail, A. and Jamieson, A.J., 2024. Submarine canyon development controlled by slope failure and oceanographic process interactions. Scientific Reports, 14(1), p.18486.
  • Xu Liu, Bing Zhou, Abdullatif A Al-Shuhail, Wei Zhou, Bo Liu, Qinzhuo Liao, Ray and energy-flux velocities at a contact of two viscoelastic anisotropic materials, Geophysical Journal International, 2024;, ggae363, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggae363.
  • Harishidayat, D., Al-Dossary, S. & Al-Shuhail, A. Architecture and geomorphology of fluvial channel systems in the Arabian Basin. Sci Rep 14, 25025 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-75980-3.
  • Saidy, K., Fawad, M., Whattam, S.A., Al-Shuhail, A.A., Alshuhail, A.A., Campos, M. and Sulistyohariyanto, F.A., 2024. Unlocking the H2 potential in Saudi Arabia: Exploring serpentinites as a source of H2 production. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 89, pp.1482-1491.

Awards & Honors

Books

  1. Al-Shuhail, A. A. and Al-Dossary, S. A, 2020. Attenuation of Incoherent Seismic Data: Springer, Switzerland , ISBN: 9783030329471(hardcover).
  2. مدخل إلى احتجاز الكربون وتخزينه (Introduction to Carbon Capture and Sequestration) ، أ. د. يحيى خليف و أ. د. عبد اللطيف الشهيل، 2019، (ترجمة إلى العربية)، دار الكتب العلمية للنشر والتوزيع، القاهرة، جمهورية مصر العربية 89777260015ISBN 97.
  3. محمد الصالح، هاشم الموسوي، عبدالله المشهور، و عبداللطيف الشهيل،( تحت الإعداد ). المعجم الموسوعي للجيوفيزياء التطبيقية، ترجمة إلى العربية لكتاب: Encyclopedic Dictionary of Applied Geophysics; E. Sheriff; Society of Exploration Geophysicists; 2002.
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