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Dr. Ammar El-Husseiny

Associate Professor, Program Leader – Petrophysics/Rockphysics, CIPR, Department of Geosciences

Educational Qualification

  • Ph.D. in Geophysics, Stanford University, USA, 2016
  • M.S. in Geophysics, Stanford University, USA, 2013
  • B.S. (Honor) in Petroleum Geosciences, The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2010

Research Interests

  • Rock physics of carbonates characterizing their transport and elastic properties.
  • Fluid substitution and time-lapse seismic interpretation
  • The use of NMR for pore structure characterization

Selected Publications

  • Salih, M., Reijmer, JJG., El-Husseiny, A.*, 2021, Diagenetic controls on the elastic velocity of the early Triassic Upper Khartam Member (Khuff Formation, central Saudi Arabia), Marine and Petroleum Geology, 124, 104823, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104823.
  • Elsayed, M., El-Husseiny, A.*, Kwak, H., Hussaini, S. R., and Mahmoud, M., 2021, New Technique for Evaluating Fracture Geometry and Preferential Orientation Using Pulsed Field Gradient Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. SPE Journal.  SPE-205505-PA, doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/205505-PA
  • Khodja, M.R., Nizamuddin, S., Ali, A., Kandil, M., El-Husseiny, A., Nazal, M., Babalola, L., and Solling, T., 2022, Can Fluid-Substitution Models Continue to Ignore the Complex Physico-Chemical Properties of Crude Oil?, Geophysics 86: MR299-MR314, https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2021-0136.1
  • Reijmer, J.J.G, Blok, C.N., El-Husseiny, A., Kleipool, LM, Hogendorp, YCK, Alonso-Zarza, AM., 2021, Petrophysics and sediment variability in a mixed alluvial to lacustrine carbonate system (Miocene, Madrid Basin, Central Spain). Depositional Record, 00:1– 23. https://doi.org/10.1002/dep2.158
  • Al-Garadi, K., El-Husseiny, A.*, Elsayed, M., Connolly, P., Mahmoud, M., Johns, M., Adebayo, A., 2022. A rock core wettability index using NMR T2 measurements, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 208, 109386, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2021.109386.
  • El-Husseiny, A.*, Eltom, H., Alqubalee, A. et al. Distinct Petroacoustic Signature of Burrow-Related Carbonate Reservoirs: Outcrop Analog Study, Hanifa Formation, Central Saudi Arabia. Nat Resour Res (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11053-022-10097-w
  • Suleymanov V, El-Husseiny A*, Glatz G, Dvorkin J. Rock physics and machine learning comparison: elastic properties prediction and scale dependency, Frontiers in Earth Science 11 
  • sayed, Mahmoud, El-Husseiny, A*, Hussaini, Syed Rizwanullah, Al Mukainah, Hani, and Mohamed Mahmoud. “Experimental Study on the Impact of Clay Distribution and Mineralogy on NMR T2 and Internal Gradient: Insights From Well-Controlled Physical Samples.” SPE Res Eval & Eng (2022;): doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/212300-PA
  • Moaz Salih, El-Husseiny, A.*, John J.G. Reijmer, Hassan Eltom, Abdallah Abdelkarim, Factors controlling sonic velocity in dolostones, Marine and Petroleum Geology, Volume 147, 2023, 105954, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2022.105954.
  • Badhafere D, Kirmizakis P, Oshaish A, El-Husseiny A, Mahmoud M, Ntarlagiannis D, Soupios P., 2023, Detection of Iron Disulfide Materials in Geological Porous Media Using Spectral Induced Polarization Method, SPE J. 28 (2023): 3409–3418. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/217424-PA
  • Hassan, A., M. Elsayed, A. Oshaish, S. Al-Ofi, El-Husseiny, A.*, I. S. Abu-Mahfouz, M. Mahmoud, M. Abouelresh, H. Attia, 2024, Evaluating the impact of artificial maturation on the petrophysical and geochemical properties of unconventional shale formations by integrating dielectric and NMR measurements, International Journal of Coal Geology, 285, 104492, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2024.104492.
  • Elsayed, M., El-Husseiny, A.*, Kwak, H., Adebayo, A., Mahmoud, M., 2024, The impact of clay and fluid conductivity on the electrical-diffusion tortuosity correlations in sandstone reservoirs, Water Resources Research, e2023WR037031, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR037031
  • A. Saraih, S. Hanafy, H. Eltom, A. El-Husseiny, et al., “Characterizing the Attributes of Large Burrows in the Upper Cretaceous Aruma Formation: Insights From Ground Penetrating Radar,” in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 62, pp. 1-12, 2024, Art no. 4510012, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2024.3448223.
  • Kellal, S., Kirmizakis, P., El-Husseiny, A., Ntarlagiannis, D., Soupios, P., and M. Mahmoud. “Low Resistivity Pay Zone Detection in Hydrocarbon Formation: The Feasibility of the Spectral Induced Polarization Method.” SPE J. 29 (2024): 5372–5383. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/223100-PA
  • Oshaish, Ali, El-Husseiny, Ammar, Mahmoud, Mohamed, Al-Ofi, Salah, Alarifi, Sulaiman A., Attia, Hussein, Al-Yaseri, Ahmed, and Amjed Hassan. “Quantification of Rock’s Wettability Index Using Dielectric Measurements.” SPE J. 30 (2025): 1281–1300. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/224401-PA

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Awards & Honors

  • Awarded the EAGE annual meeting Travel Grant, Vienna, Austria, May 2011
  • Graduation from The Petroleum Institute with GPA of 4.0 out of 4.0 (honor with distinction), 2010.
  • First place in the “SEG Challenge Bowl” regional competition in the Middle East, The Petroleum Institute, 2009.
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