Staff

Dr. Rushdy S. Othman

Member of The Board

I obtained my PhD in Petroleum Geology and Organic Geochemistry from the University of New South Wales, UNSW/Australia in 2004. As PhD student taught a petroleum geology master degree course at UNSW, and received three awards (two from USA and one from Australia). I was a visiting researcher at UNS W and worked for BHP Billiton in Australia. Before joining Soran University in late 2009 as Vice President for Administrative and Financial Affairs, I held various positions at the Kurdistan Regional Government Representation Office in Australia including the position of Academic Relations Representative. Currently, I am a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Earth Sciences and Petroleum, College of Science, Salahuddin University-Erbil. Education: - PhD in Petroleum Geology and Organic Geochemistry, 2004,University of New South Wales, Australia,. - MSc in Petroleum Geology, 1991, University of Salahuddin-Erbil, Kurdistan Region-Iraq. - BSc in Geology, 1987, University of Salahuddin-Erbil, KurdistanRegion-Iraq. Awards Received: - USA (2003):The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP) Student Grants ProgramAward. - USA (1999): American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Grant-In-Aid Award. - Australia (1997):Australian Postgraduate Award-Industry, APA(I). Positions: - July 2021 – Until now:Lecturer and researcher, Department of Earth Sciences and Petroleum/Salahuddin University-Erbil, Kurdistan Region-Iraq - December 2009 – July 2010: Vice President for Student Affairs, Soran University, Kurdistan Region-Iraq - December 2009 – July 2021:Vice President for Administrative and Financial Affairs, Soran University, Kurdistan Region-Iraq Field of Research: - Petroleum Geosciences Research Interests: - Exploration for Hydrocarbons - Petroleum Systems in Kurdistan Region-Iraq Current Projects: - SEM application in source rock studies - Oil-Oil correlation - Oil-Source correlation Publications: - Albeyati, F. M. O., Abdula, R. A., Othman, R. S., 2021, Organic geochemistry and source rocks evaluation of the Middle to Upper Jurassic source rocks succession in Balad-1 well, Balad Oil Field, Central Iraq. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Malaysia, Volume 71, pp. 125 – 138. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7186/bgsm71202111 - Shlimon, A., Mansurbeg, H., Othman, R., Head, I., Kjeldsen, K. U., Finster,K., 2021, Identity and hydrocarbon degradation activity of enriched microorganisms from natural oil and asphalt seeps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). Biodegradation. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10532-021- 09931-4 - Mansurbeg, H., Koyi, H., Othman, R., Kolo, K., Harchegani, F. K, 2018, Deriskinglays in the high folded zone foreland basin of the Zagros foldthrust belt, the Kurdistan Region, Iraq. In Developments In Structural Geology And Tectonics 3. Tectonic and structural framework of the Zagros Fold-Thrust Belt. Edited by A. F. Saein. - Mansurbeg, H., Morad, D., Othman, R., Morad, S., Ceriani, A., Al-Aasm, I. kolo, K., Spirov, P., Proust, J. N., Preat, A., Koyi, H., 2016, Hydrothermal dolomitization of the Bekhme formation (Upper Cretaceous), Zagros Basin, Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Record of oil migration and degradation. Sedimentary Geology, vol. 341, pages 147 – 162. - Salih, N., Muchez, P., Proust, J.N., Kolo, K., Othman, R., Mansurbeg, H.,Preat, A., 2016, Hydrothermal diagenetic evolution of Upper Cretaceous Beckme Formation, NE Kurdistan, Iraq. 5th International Geologica Belgica Meeting. - Mansurbeg, H., Morad, D., Othman, R., Morad, S., Ceriani, A., Al-Aasm, I., Kolo, K., Proust, J. N., Preat, A., Koyi, H., 2015, Fault-Controlled Dolomitization of Upper Cretaceous Reservoirs, Zagros Basin, Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Implications for Hydrocarbon Migration and Degradation. AAPG Geoscience Technology Workshop, Carbonate Reservoirs of the Middle East, Abu Dhabi, UAE. - Shlimon, A., Mansurbeg, H., Othman, R., Finster, K., Kjeldsen, K. U., 2015, Microbial community composition of natural oil and asphalt seeps from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. 5th International Symposium on Applied Microbiology and Molecular Biology in Oil System (ISMOS-5), Stavanger, Norway. - Mansurbeg, H., De Ros, L.F., Morad, S., Ketzer, J.M., El-Ghali, M.A.K., Caja, M.A., Othman, R., 2012, Meteoric-water diagenesis in late Cretaceous canyon-fill turbidite reservoirs from the Espírito Santo Basin, eastern Brazil. Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol., 37, pp. 7 – 26. - Othman, R., 2004. Relationships between Rock-Eval S1 and extractable organic matter for selected source rock samples from New South Wales. 21st Annual meeting of The Society for Organic Petrology, Sydney, book of abstracts, vol. 21, p. 135. - Othman, R., 2004. Geochemical indicators of petroleum potential in the Bowen-Gunnedah-Surat Basins of northern New South Wales. 21st Annual meeting of The Society for Organic Petrology, Sydney, book of abstracts, vol. 21, pp. 132 – 135. - Othman, R., Ward, C.R., 2004, Response of maturity parameters and hydrocarbon generation in vitrinite reflectance suppressed intervals of Bellata-1 petroleum well, Gunnedah and Surat Basins, New South Wales. In: McIntyre, C. (Ed.), Organic Matter: Interfaces and Interactions, combined national conference of the Australian Organic Geochemists and International Humic Substances Society. Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia, book of abstracts, pp. 93. - Othman, R., 2003. Petroleum Geology of the Gunnedah-Bowen-Surat Basins, northern New South Wales: stratigraphy, organic petrology and organic geochemistry. PhD Thesis, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 360 p. (unpublished). - Othman, R., Ward, C.R., 2003. Response of major geochemical thermal maturity parameters to suppression of vitrinite reflectance, Gunnedah- Surat Basins, New South Wales, Australia. 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for Organic Petrology, Washington, D.C. area, vol. 20, p. 39. -Othman, R., Ward, C.R., 2002. Thermal maturation pattern in the southern Bowen, northern Gunnedah and Surat Basins, northern New South Wales, Australia. International Journal of Coal Geology, vol. 51, pp.145 – 167. - Othman, R., Arouri, K., Ward, C.R., McKirdy, D., 2001. Oil generation by igneous intrusions in the northern Gunnedah, Australia. Organic Geochemistry, vol. 32, pp. 1219 – 1232. - Daim, F., Othman, R., 2001, The geology of area 1 in the Dendrobium area. BHP Billiton – Illawara Coal, 26 p. (unpublished). - Othman, R., Arouri, K., Ward, C.R., McKirdy, D., 2000. Generation of oil from Triassic lacustrine sediments by igneous intrusion, Gunnedah Basin, New South Wales. The Australian Organic Geochemistry Conference, Townsville. book of abstracts (not paginated). - Othman, R., Ward, C.R., 2000. Thermal maturation pattern in the southern Bowen and northern Gunnedah Basins and the overlying Surat Basin sequence, northern New South Wales. 15th Australian Geological Convention, University of Technology, Sydney. Abstracts No. 59, p. 374. - Othman, R., 1999. Thermal history and hydrocarbon generation in the Surat/Bowen Basin, northern New South Wales, Australia. American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Bulletin, vol. 83, p. 1892. - Othman, R., Ward, C.R., 1999. Stratigraphic correlations in the southern Bowen and northern Gunnedah Basins, northern New South Wales. In Diessel, C., Swift, E.,Francis, S. (Eds.), Proceedings of 33rd Newcastle Symposium on Advances in the study of the Sydney Basin. The Universityof Newcastle, pp. 23 – 30. - Odisho, K., Othman, R., 1994, A novel approach for hydrocarbon source rock identification using wireline log data-The Triangle Domain Method. 11th Iraqi Geological Conference, book of abstracts, Baghdad, Iraq. p. 8. - Odisho, K., Othman, R., 1992, Preliminary geochemical evaluation of hydrocarbon source rocks in northern parts of Iraq. Iraqi Geological Journal, vol. 25, pp. 136 – 153. - Othman, R., 1990. Generation, migration and seepages of hydrocarbons in northern parts of Iraq, Upper Jurassic – Lower Tertiary. M.Sc. Thesis, University of Salahuddin, Iraq, 208 p. (unpublished).