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Sama Morsy is a Senior Reservoir and Completions Engineer at ResFrac, providing value to the energy industry by optimizing the development of fracturing and reservoir projects. She provides a unique combination of simulation and field trial experience from a variety of roles in research, asset development, and operations. Sama worked at Chevron for over 6 years as a reservoir and petroleum engineer, leading and completing performance improvement projects in the Permian Basin. Prior to chevron, Sama worked as instructor at Cairo University for five years teaching undergraduate petroleum engineering courses.
She earned a PhD from Texas Tech University in 2014 focusing on improving shale assets production by proposing different enhanced and improved oil recovery methods. Sama has a master’s degree from Cairo University in 2007 specialized in shaly sand petrophysics analysis, and in 2009 she took a second master’s degree from the University of Wyoming on waterflooding surveillance analysis. She attended Cairo University where she completed her bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering in 2004.
She resides in Houston, Texas with her husband and son. She is passionate about cooking and writing. Sama received several awards along her career including the prestigious Fulbright award in 2011 and exceptional achievement awards during her career at Chevron.
Sama published more than 25 peer review and SPE papers and filed for four pending patents to optimize shale well development. Her professional publications include:
Proppant transport in the well is an intriguing topic that has attracted a lot of interest in recent years [1-8]. Proppant transport processes determine the uniformity of proppant placement, which has a direct impact on productivity. Cipolla et al. estimate that the difference between poor and excellent proppant uniformity is about $2.5M in net present value per well.
I’m out of superlatives – I used them all up in the title. But seriously – Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) projects have had a really, really good summer. In this article, I summarize the results that have been recently presented by Fervo and FORGE. At their annual Tech Day and in a white paper posted this week (Norbeck et al., 2024), Fervo Energy provided their first update on Project Cape, a Utah project where they are developing 400 MWe of new production over the next two years. So far, fourteen wells have been drilled, and three of them have been stimulated.
We recently held our annual company retreat. This is an important event because we are a fully remote company, and it gives us the chance to get together in-person and spend quality time. This year, we did the retreat in Houston, following URTeC and our annual symposium. We visited Space Center Houston, went to an Astros game, and ate BBQ and Tex-Mex. As a Houston native, I picked some of my favorite things to do in town! We also held a meeting on ‘company culture.’ I asked the group – how do you perceive our company culture? What do we do well, and what could we do better? Here are the highlights.
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