Dr Wafik Beydoun

Wafik Beydoun is Country Chair for Total in Kuwait, and 2017-2019 Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC). Previous experiences include (in reverse chronological order): Manager Research & Development Division at the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), in secondment from Total; President and CEO of Total E&P Research & Technology USA, LLC in Houston (USA); Business Development Manager for Total E&P Technology/R&D worldwide; Senior Negotiator New Ventures and Asset Management for Total worldwide; Manager Geophysical Operations and Technology for Total worldwide; Area Exploration Manager for Blocks 17 & 33 and Chief Geophysicist for Elf Aquitaine Angola; Project Leader at the Geoscience Research Centre for Elf Aquitaine in the UK; Project leader at the Research and Technical Services in Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) in Plano Texas USA.

Wafik holds a Licence & Maitrise of Physics from the University of Paris VI (France), an MSc in Earth Sciences and a PhD in Geophysics, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). He is a member of SEG, SPE, EAGE, AAPG, AGU, and Sigma Xi, and has over 80 publications and communications.