Wael Hassan has more than 21 years of Experience in subsurface Production Engineering and operations in onshore and offshore fields. In 1999 Hassan attained a Bsc of petroleum engineering from Cairo University. Hassan has been part of Scimitar’s Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Team since 2007 and progressed within the organization in different technical roles, which culminated in him becoming Production optimization Manager in 2012, overseeing production and engineering in the Issaran Field steam projects. Hassan has completed an advanced program in global petroleum reservoir problems in (2005) from the Colorado school of mines. In 2008 Hassan received his Diploma in management. Additionally, Hassan is the author/co-author of several technical papers and articles on Heavy Oil fields published in SPE.

Prior to joining Scimitar, Hassan worked as Petroleum engineer in Gempetec0/Zafco for 7 years, involved in naturally and artificially lifted light crude oil.