Dr. M. Al-Chalabi
Dr. M. Al-Chalabi is a graduate in geology and geophysics with B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D., from the Universities of Birmingham and Durham, and Diplôme d'Ingénieur from the French Petroleum Institute.
Member of European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG, USA), Fellow of the Geological Society (London) and Member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA, Chatham House, London).
Received the Erasmus Medal (top Award) of EAGE (2001), Honorary Membership of EAGE (2001) and the Special Commendation Award of SEG (2002) for his contributions in the field of seismic velocities and depth conversion.
Worked four years with the Iraq National Oil Company and nearly twenty years with BP in a wide range of mainly geophysical capacities in petroleum exploration and development and in research, in UK, The Netherlands, Tunisia, Singapore and Venezuela. Since 1990, after leaving BP, Dr. Al-Chalabi has been an independent consultant in petroleum exploration and particularly as a specialist in velocities and depth conversion methods. His activity in this specialty covers a wide range of interpretational and processing problems in exploration, development and production projects as well as an advisor and expert witness in issues of equity distribution and unitisation. In view of the heavy demand for his course on Seismic Velocities and Depth Conversion, worldwide, this course currently represents his second main activity after consultancy work. He is also involved with oil companies in international upstream activities, and in technology transfer.
Has published numerous works in seismic methods as well as in gravity, magnetic, and electrical exploration methods and in structural and global tectonics. Most publications deal with seismic velocities and depth conversion, with a number of significant contributions in these fields. Some of these works have been reproduced in various comprehensive publications. They are regarded as authoritative works and frequently presented in textbooks and extensively quoted in the geophysical literature.