M. A. Mian - "Petroleum Engineering Consultant at Saudi Aramco"

Mr Mian is one of the pioneers in working with unconventional gas resources. He has extensively dealt with reserves evaluation of tight gas and coalbed methane. Currently he is involved in applying his experience to shale gas resources. He has also served as an expert witness in US Federal court and Energy Commission hearings regarding tight gas pricing classification in the US. In addition, Mian has written technical papers, introducing new tight gas production forecasting methods, in oil and gas industry journals.

Mr Mian has 30 years of diversified experience in petroleum engineering, project economics and decision analysis. He has been involved in reservoir engineering, reserves evaluation, field development plans and project economics – evaluating multi-billion dollar oil and gas field development, LNG, GTL, Aluminum smelter, refinery, petrochemical, power and production sharing projects.

Mr Mian previously worked with Qatar Petroleum (Doha), ZADCO (Abu Dhabi), Euratex Corporation (Colorado) and Keplinger & Associates (International Energy Consultants in Colorado). He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Colorado, USA.

Mian is the author of four books “Petroleum Engineering Handbook for the Practicing Engineer” and the best seller “Project Economics and Decision Analysis” published by PennWell Books, USA.

He has also authored several papers in the Oil and Gas journal, The Log Analyst, World Oil, SPE Journals, and Oil & Gas Financial Journal. He is also the author of three software packages (PEPAC, PEPAC2 and PEPAC3) for petroleum engineers available from Gulf Publishing.

Mr Mian has a B.Sc in Mechanical Engineering, M.Sc in Petroleum Engineering & M.Sc in Mineral Economics.  He has a unique ability to drill down to the key points and make all the complex terminology much easier to understand.  You’ll gain benefits that are direct, immediate and measureable.