Mahdi-Mahmoudi

Mahdi Mahmoudi

Sand Control Technical Manager Variperm Energy Services

Mahdi Mahmoudi is sand control technical manager at Variperm Energy Services. He holds a PhD degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Alberta. Mahmoudi has been involved in sand-control design and evaluation testing in conventional and thermal production for more than a decade. He has authored and co-authored more than 90 technical conference and journal publications about sand-control design, evaluation, failure analysis, and risk assessment in drilling and well completions.

  • Drilling longer wells, increasing the number of fracture stages, and completing multiple zones in complex stacked reservoirs, along with optimizing multilateral wells with sand control to enable long laterals in stacked reservoirs, have emerged as key focuses of the industry.
  • With the higher adaptation of flow-control devices in recent years to improve flow segmentation and reduce the premature failure of sand control because of highly localized flow, flow-control-device implementation is becoming an integral part of sand-management strategy.