Sami Elkurdy
Geophysicist at Self-employed
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSami Elkurdy is a seasoned geophysicist with over four decades of international experience in exploration and development across diverse sedimentary basins, now focused on consulting and independent work from Victoria, BC. He has a strong track record turning exploration plays into drillable prospects and extensive hands-on expertise with industry platforms (Landmark, Petrel, RMS, Hampson-Russell) for seismic interpretation, depth conversion, and reservoir characterization. Sami has led advanced VSP and anisotropy analyses on giant fields, built pragmatic 3D velocity models from multi-well time-depth fitting, and applied geostatistics and SGS upscaling for reservoir modeling. More recently he has integrated seismic attributes with petrophysical data using Python and Scikit-Learn, bringing modern machine learning into practical subsurface workflows. An acknowledged mentor and communicator, he combines deep technical breadth with a practical, results-driven approach to solving complex geophysical challenges.
8 years of coding experience
Faulty of Science Ein Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
r9
computation9
catboost9
classification9
data-mining9
kaggle9
cpu9
regression9
cuda9
scalable8
python8
high-performance8
coreml8
gpu8
machine-learning8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
selkurdy/DepthConversion
Aug 2018 - Sep 2022
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
selkurdy/MLSeistoLog
Sep 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:27 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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