The Petroleum Institute - Petroleum Geosciences

Faculty

Dr. Ihsan Shakir Al-Aasm
Professor of Geology

Email: ialaasm @pi.ac.ae
Phone: +971 2 607 5138

B.Sc. University of Baghdad, 1974
M.Sc. University of Baghdad 1977
Ph.D. University of Ottawa 1985

Experience:

1998 - present	Professor of Sedimentary Geology (University of Windsor and PI)
1993-1998	Associate Professor, University of Windsor
1988-1993 1986-1988 1986-1988 1978-1980	Assistant Professor, University of Windsor Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Ottawa Geochemist, Geological Survey of Iraq

Professional:

Carbonate diagensis, dolomitization, carbonate sedimentology and geochemistry, reservoir characterization, environmental isotope geochemistry
Over 70 referred publications on geochemistry, paleoclimatology, diagenesis and porosity evolution in carbonate reservoirs.
Served as Associate Editor for Journal of Sedimentary Research and edited one Special Publication for J. of Geochemical Exploration. Has given courses and performed consultant work and research collaboration with numerous oil companies around the world.

Selected publications:

Al-Aasm, I.S., Ghazban, F., and Ranjbaran, M., 2009. Dolomitization and related fluid evolution in the Asmari Formation, Gashsaran area, SW Iran: petrologic and stable isotope evidence: Petroleum Geology, v. 32, p. 287-304
El-ghali, M.A.K., Mansurbeg, H., Morad, S., Ajdanlijsky, G., Oleg, N., and Al-Aasm, I.S., 2009. Distribution of diagenetic alterations in fluvial sandstones within depositional facies and sequence stratigraphic framework: evidence from the Petrohan terrigenous group, Lower Triassic, NW Bulgaria: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 26, p. 1212-1227.
Kim, C-B., Al-Aasm, I.S., Ghazban, F., and Chang, H-W, 2009. Stable isotopic composition of dinosaur eggshells and pedogenic carbonates in the Upper Cretaceous Seonso Formation, South Korea: paleoenvironmental and diagenesis implications: Cretaceous Research, v.30, p. 93-99
Ranjbaran, M., Fayazi, F., and Al-Aasm, I.S., 2007: Sedimentology, depositional environment and sequence stratigraphy of the Asmari Formation (Oligocene- Lower Miocene), Gachsaran area, SW Iran: Carbonates and Evaporites, v. 22, p. 135-148.
Al-Aasm, I.S., and M. Vernon, 2007: Waulsortian-like mounds of the Mississippian Pekisko Formation, northwestern Alberta: petrographic and chemical attributes: Jour. of Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 24, p. 616-631.
Al-Aasm, I.S., and Abdallah, H., 2006. The origin of dolomite associated with salt diapers in central Tunisia: preliminary investigations of field relationships and geochemistry: Jour. of Geochemical Exploration, v. 89, p. 5-9.
El-ghali, M.A.K., Morad, S., Al-Aasm, I.S., and Ajdanlijsky, G., 2006: Distribution of diagenetic alterations in fluvial sandstones within depositional facies and sequences stratigraphic framework: evidence from the Petrohan Terrigenous Group, Lower Triassic, NW Bulgaria: Sedimentary Geology, v. 190, p. 299-321
El-ghali, M.A.K., Morad, S., Al-Aasm, I.S.and Ramseyerc, K., 2006: Distributions of diagenetic alterations in glaciogenic sandstones within depositional facies and sequence stratigraphic framework: evidence from Upper Ordovician of the Murzuq Basin, SW Libya: Sedimentary Geology, v. 190, p. 232-351.
Wierzbicki, R., Dravis, J.J., Al-Aasm, I.S., and Harland, N. , 2006, Burial dolomitization and dissolution of Upper Jurassic Abenaki platform carbonates, Deep Panuke reservoir, Nova Scotia, Canada: AAPG Bull., v. 90, p. 1843-1861
Sapota, T., Aldahan, A., and Al-Aasm, I.S. 2006. Sedimentary facies and climate control on formation of vivianite and siderite microconcretions in sediments of Lake Baikal, Siberia: Jour. Paleolimnology, v. 36, p. 254-257
Caja, M.A., Permanyer, A., Marfil, R., Al-Aasm, I.S., and Martin-Crespo, T., 2006. Fluid flow record from fracture-fill calcite in the Eocene limestones from the south-Pyrenean Basin (NE Spain) and its relationship to oil shows: Jour. of Geochemical Exploration, v. 89, p. 27-32.
Ma, F., Al-Aasm, I.S., and Yang. J., 2006. Numerical modeling of hydrothermal fluid flow coupled with mass transport: an example from the Devonian Wabamun Group, northeast British Columbia, Canada: Jour. of Geochemical Exploration, v. 89, p. 247-250.
Salem, A.M., Ketzer, J.M., Morad, S., Rizk, R.R. and Al-Aasm, I.S., 2005. Diagenesis and reservoir-quality evolution of incised-valley sandstones: evidence from the Abu-Madi reservoirs (Upper Miocene), the Nile Delta Basin, Egypt: Jour. of Sedimentary Research, v. 75, p. 572-584
Marfil, R., Caja, M.A., Tsige, M., Al-Aasm, I.S., Martin-Crespo, T., and Salas, R., 2005. Carbonate-cemented stylolites and fractures in the Upper Jurassic limestones of the Eastern Iberian Range, Spain: A record of paleofluids composition and thermal history: Sedimentary Geology, v. 178, p. 237-257
Al-Ramadan, K., Morad, S., Proust, J.N., and Al-Aasm, I., 2005. Distribution of diagenetic alterations in siliciclastic shoreface deposits within a sequence stratigraphic framework: evidence from the Upper Jurassic, Boulonnais, NW France: Jour. of Sedimentary Research, v. 75, p. 943-959.
Al-Aasm, I.S., and Clarke, J., 2004. The effect of hydrothermal fluid flow on early diagenetic dolomitization: an example from the Devonian Slave Point Formation, NW Alberta, Canada: in: R. Swennen, F. Roure, and J.W. Granath, eds., Deformation, fluid flow, and reservoir appraisal in foreland fold and thrust belts: AAPG Hedberg Series, no. 1, p. 297-316.