The Petroleum Institute - Petroleum Geosciences

Faculty

Dr. Youcef Bouzidi
Assistant Professor of Geophysics

Email:ybouzidi@pi.ac.ae
Phone: +971 2 607 5381

PhD, Univiversity of Alberta, 2003
MSc, Columbia University, 1983
Ingénieur d’Etat, Institut Algérien du Pétrole, Boumerdas, Algeria, 1980

Experience:

2009-Present	Assistant Professor of Geophysics, Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi
2006-2009	Research Geophysicist, Divestco Processing, Calgary, Canada
2002-2006	Seismic Data processing and Research Geophysicist, Geo-X Systems Ltd., Calgary, Canada
1996-2002	Ph.D. program and Teacher’s Assistant in Geophysics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
1984-1996	Maître Assistant Chargé de Cours, Algerian Petroleum Institute, Algeria

Professional:

Accomplished several research projects in seismic data processing and depth imaging for the oil exploration industry
In seismology, accomplished a depth imaging project of the crust under the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (LITHOPROBE) leading to the mapping of the depth of the Moho
Wave propagation in porous media and experimental rock physics expert
Developed experiments and models for wave transmissivity and reflectivity in porous materials
First laboratory observation of a slow P-wave converted from a shear wave

Honors and Awards:

AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award, 2001
CSEG scholarship award winner, 2000, 2001, and 2002
Recipient of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers Graduate Scholarship, 1999
Best student scholarship (full funding) to study in U.S.A., 1980

Research Interests:

Seismic Data Processing
Porous Media and Carbonate Rock Physics
AVO analysis and Reservoir Characterization

Selected Publications and expanded abstracts

Bouzidi, Y., and D. R. Schmitt 2009, Measurement of the speed and attenuation of the Biot slow wave using a large ultrasonic transmitter, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B08201, doi: 10.1029/2008JB006018.
Bouzidi, Y., and D. R. Schmitt 2008: Quantitative Modeling of Reflected Ultrasonic Bounded Beams and a New Estimate of the Schoch Shift, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, vol. 55, no. 12, pp2661-2673
Bouzidi, Y., and D. R. Schmitt 2008: Acoustic reflectivity goniometry of bounded ultrasonic pulses: Experimental validation of numerical models Journal of Applied Physics 104, 064914
Bouzidi, Y., and D. R. Schmitt 2006: A large ultrasonic bounded acoustic pulse transducer for transmission goniometry: Modeling and calibration, Journal of Acoustical Society of America.119 (1) pages 54-64
Bouzidi Y., D. R. Schmitt, R. A. Burwash, and E.R. Kanasewich 2002: Depth Migration of Deep Reflection Profiles from the Alberta Basement Transects: Crustal Thickness Variations in Alberta, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, volume 39-3, 331-350.
R. A. Burwash, T. Chacko, K. Muehlenbachs, and Y. Bouzidi, 2000: Oxygen isotope systematics of the Precambrian Basement of Alberta: Implications for Paleoproterozoic and Phanerozoic tectonics in Northwestern Canada, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 37, Number 11: 1611-1628
Bouzidi, Y. and Schmitt, D. R. 2008: Reflectivity and Transmissivity of Water-saturated porous plate: First Observations of Slow Biot Wave Conversions on Reflection, American Geophysical Union
Bouzidi, Y. and Schmitt, D.R. 2002: Definitive Detection of the Slow Compressional Wave in Saturated Porous Synthetic Rock. Expanded Abstracts, Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
Bouzidi, Y. and Schmitt, D. R. 2000: Laboratory Calibration of Amplitude Variation with Angle Using an Acoustic Goniometer, Expanded Abstracts, 70th Annual International Meeting: Society of Exploration Geophysics, 210-213.
Bouzidi, Y., and Schmitt, D.R. 2001: Porous Material Characterization Using Large Ultrasonic Beams: Velocity and Attenuation Estimates of the Biot Fast and Slow P-waves, American Geophysical Union
Burwash, R.A., and Bouzidi, Y. 2001: Uranifeous 1.8 GA Central Alberta Granites: Far Field Intracratonic Transpressionnal Shear Zone Plutons, G.A.C. M.A.C., Annual meeting, Volume 26, page 20.