PETROLEUM GEOSCIENCES PROGRAM

Faculty

Dr. Sadoon Morad ADOC Chaired Professor Email: smorad@pi.ac.ae Phone: +971 2 607 5596 Ph.D. Uppsala University, Sweden, 1983 (sedimentary petrology) M.Sc. University of Baghdad, Iraq, 1977 (engineering geology) B.Sc. University of Baghdad, Iraq, 1974 (general geology)

Experience:

2000 - present	Professor of Sedimentary Geology
1986 - 2000	Associate Professor, Uppsala University, Sweden
1984 - 1986	Post-doctoral fellow, University of Oslo, Norway

Professional:

Development of conceptual models to predict the impact of diagenetic alterations on distribution of reservoir quality within sequence stratigraphy.
Published about 70 papers in international journals
Currently served as Associate Editor for Journal of Sedimentary Research and edited three Special Publications for International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS).
Has given courses and performed consultant work and research collaboration with numerous oil companies around the world.

Some recent publications:

• El-ghali, M., K., Mansurbeg, H., Morad, S., Al-Aasm, I.S., and Ramseyer, 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, 190, 323-351.
• Luo, J, Morad, S., Liang, Z., and Zhu, Y., 2005. Controls on the Archaeozoic-Jurassic Metamorphic-Volcanic Reservoir Quality from the Xinglongtai Buried Hill, Western Depression of Liaohe basin, China, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 89, 1319-1346.
• Salem, A.M., Ketzer, J.M., Morad, S., and Al-Aasm, I.S., 2005.Diagenesis and reservoir-quality evolution of incised-valley sandstones: evidence from the Abu-Madi gas reservoirs (Upper Miocene), the Nile Delta Basin, Egypt, Journal of Sedimentary Research, 75, 572-584.
• Al-Ramadan, K., Morad, S., Proust, J.N. and Al-Aasm, I.S., 2005. Distribution of diagenetic alterations within the sequence stratigraphic framework of shoreface siliciclastic deposits: evidence from Jurassic deposits of NE France, Journal of Sedimentary Research, 75, 943-959.
• Worden, R. and Morad, S., 2003. Clay minerals in sandstones: controls on formation, distribution and evolution, In R.H. Worden and S. Morad (editors), Clay Mineral Cements in Sandstones. International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS), Special Publication, 34, 1-41.
• Morad, S., Ketzer, J.M and Worden, R.H., 2003. Oxygen and hydrogen isotopic compositions of diagenetic clay minerals in sandstones: a review of the data and controlling parameters., In Worden, R.H. and Morad, S. (editors), Clay Mineral Cements in Sandstones, International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS), Special Publication, 34, 63-91.
• Ketzer, J.M, Holz, M., Morad, S. and Al-Aasm, I.S., 2003. Sequence stratigraphic distribution of diagenetic alterations in coal-bearing, paralic sandstones: evidence from the Rio Bonito Formation (early Permian), southern Brazil, Sedimentology, 50, 855-877.
• Ketzer, J.M., Morad, S. Evans, R., and Al-Aasm, I.S., 2002. Distribution of diagenetic alterations in fluvial, deltaic, and shallow marine sandstones within a sequence stratigraphic framework: evidence from the Mullaghmore Formation (carboniferous), NW Ireland, Journal of Sedimentary Research, 72, 760-774.
• Morad, S., Ketzer, J.M. and De Ros, L.F. , 2000. Spatial and temporal distribution of diagenetic alterations in siliciclastic rocks: implications for mass transfer in sedimentary basins, Sedimentology, 47, 95-120.