Engr Emmanuel Sagoe Paintsil
Reservoir Engineer
- 8 year Industry Experience.
- Current Work – Cementing Technical Professional, Halliburton Ghana – 7 years.
- Reservoir Engineering Facilitator
A Chinese logistics company has become the key intermediary helping Iran and Venezuela to export their crude oil in defiance of the U.S. sanctions against the two OPEC members, multiple sources told Reuters for an exclusive report on Thursday.
China Concord Petroleum Co., Limited, also referred to as CCPC, was sanctioned by the United States at the end of September 2019, “for knowingly engaging in a significant transaction for the transport of oil from Iran,” the then U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. Under the sanctions, all property and interests in property of CCPC and the other Chinese entities that are in the United States or within the possession or control of a U.S. person were blocked.
CCPC, however, has become in recent months the key in moving oil out of Venezuela and Iran—exports which the U.S. has tried to choke off with the threat of imposing sanctions on anyone dealing with a designated entity or designated persons.
According to multiple sources, including Iranian officials, documents of Venezuela’s state oil firm PDVSA, and tanker tracking data Reuters has checked, CCPC started dealing with Venezuelan oil and independent Chinese refiners this year. The Chinese firm has bought 14 tankers over the past year in order to ship crude oil out of Venezuela and Iran, two of Reuters’ sources said.
Despite the maximum pressure campaign of the United States against the oil exports of both Venezuela and Iran, those two oil-producing nations continue to ship part of their crude overseas, and China is their key customer.
China has always said it opposes the “unilateral” U.S. sanctions against oil producers and continues to buy crude, especially from Iran.
The U.S. generally doesn’t interfere with these oil sales, relying on the threat that anyone caught dealing with sanctioned oil would be cut off from the U.S. banking and financial system.
But the U.S. may now be considering going after the Chinese imports of Iranian oil. The United States is considering clamping down on Iran’s rising oil exports to China as a tool to either force Tehran to conclude a nuclear deal or punish it if it does not, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, quoting U.S. officials and sources with knowledge of the plans.
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Engr Emmanuel Sagoe Paintsil
Reservoir Engineer
Dr. Ahmed Zakaria Noah
PhD Petrophysics (Waseda University), M.Sc in Petroleum Geology, B.Sc in Geolog has accumulated 15 year of successful work experience in Oil and Gas drilling wells and well site Geologist, Data Engineer, Mud Logging Coordinator, Reservoir Engineer, Survey Engineer, worked in the areas of hydraulic fracturing in tight-gas reservoirs, MWD, Senior LWD Engineer, Direction Engineer along strong experience in Open Hole Logging Interpretation throughout overseas with different clients in different country locations.
Publications:
Mohamed A. Kassab and MostafaG.Temraz and A. Nooh: Preliminary Study of Capillary Pressure Derived Parameters: Lower- Middle Miocene- San El Hagar-1 well, East Nile Delta, Egypt. EPRI, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt British University, Cairo, Egypt, 2012. Egy.J. Appl. Geophys., Vol. 11, No. 2, 201-217, 2012.
A.Z. Noah: Optimizing Drilling Fluid Properties and Flow Rates for Effective Hole Cleaning at High- Angle and Horizontal Wells, Journal of Applied Sciences Research, 9(1): 705-718, 2013
A.Z. Nouh, Mostafa Gouda Temraz, and El-Abbas Moustafa: Evaluation of Seepage Oil from Source Rock in the Southern Gulf of Suez, Egypt, 2013.Egy. J. Appl. Geophys., Vol. 11, No. 2, September 2012, 201-217
El-Abbas Moustafa, Ahmed Noah, and Adel Salem: Evaluation and Analysis of Oil Shale in Quseir-Safaga and Abu Tartur Western Desert, Egypt, 2014, Scirp-JSEMAT-1180219-20140316204601.
Ahmed Noah; Mostrfa Gouda Temraz and El-Abbas Moustafa EVALUATION OF SEEPAGE CRUDE OIL FROM SOIJRCI, ROCK IN TIIE SOUTI{ERN GULF OF SIIEZ, EGYPT, oI AppLS cL,28( 12)2 013.
Noah2, A., And Fathelbab3, S Pre-Drill Pore Pressure Prediction Using Seismic Velocities Aboashor1, N., El-Werr1, A. Egyptian Journal Of Geology, V. 58, 2014, P. 104-115, 2014. Pore Pressure Gradient Estimation Using The Modified D-Exponent Technique In El-Arish Area, North Sinai, Egypt. Aboashor1, N., El-Werr1, A., Noah2, A., And Fathelbab3, S. Egyptian Journal Of Geology, V. 58, 2014, P. 117-126.2014
Enhancement of yield point at high pressure high temperature wells by using polymer nanocomposites based on ZnO & CaCO3 nanoparticles., A.Z. Noah, M.A. El Semary b, A.M. Youssef c, M.A. El-Safty, Egyptian Journal of Petroleum (2016).
Using Nanomaterials to optimize Mud Rheology at HPHT wells throughout experimental work. A.Z.NOAH1, M.A.ElSemary2, A. M. Youssef3and M.A.EL- SAfTY4, International Journal of Innovative Research & Development, ISSN 2278 – 0211, Vol 5 Issue 4, www.ijird.com.
Reduction of Formation Damage and Fluid Loss using Nano-sized Silica Drilling Fluids, Adel M. Salem Ragab, and Ahmed Noah, Petroleum Technology development Journal.
A.Z. NAOH :Formation Evaluation and Lithology Determination for selected wells at Aghar Field, Western Desert, Egypt, , www.ijird.com May, 2016 Vol 5 Issue 6, ISSN 2278 – 0211 (Online), 2016.
Dr. Ahmed Nooh, PhD1, Dr. Carlos Monroy, PhD2, Michael Anwr Alphonse Anees, BS1, and Wafik Girgis, BS1: A Proposed Design for a Smart Shock Absorber Using an Electro-Rheological Fluid , 14th LACCEI International Multi-Conference for Engineering, Education, and Technology: “Engineering Innovations for Global Sustainability”, 20-22 July 2016, San José, Costa Rica. 2016.
Moataz Kh. Barakat (1)and Ahmed Z. Noah (2) Reservoir Quality Using The Routine Core Analyses Data of Abu Roash “C” in Badr El Din-15 Oil Field, Abu Gharadig Basin, North Western Desert, Egypt, 2016.
Nana Osei Kuffour Poku has over 10 years in the oil and gas industry specifically in drilling solutions, well construction and maintenance. He holds MSc Oil & Gas Engineering from Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland. BSc Petroleum Engineering, KNUST, Ghana (West Africa). He worked at National Oilwell Varco (NOV), from 2012 – 2018 as drilling solutions engineer & account manager. He currently works at GNPC as a Petroleum Engineer. He is a member of SPE, Energy Institute and AGOGPro.
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Mr Larry Wolfson has 34 years experience in planning and supervising and well construction, including ERD, slim-hole and subsea wells. He received a BS in mechanical engineering from California State University Northridge, an MS in petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa, and he is a registered petroleum engineer in California.