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The SPE London board is the governing body for the SPE London section. The different committees oversee the chapter’s various activities including the evening programme, various SPE events, Young Professionals, Women in Energy, the Net Zero programme, and associated student chapters.

Executive Bios

Chair: Mehdi Alem

Mehdi Alem is a Reservoir Engineer at bp with experience in the North Sea, North Africa, and the Middle East, covering oil, gas, and CCS projects.

A graduate of Imperial College  (MSc) and UCL (MEng), he has been active in SPE for over eight years, leading membership and student development in previous roles. Mehdi is passionate about the role of the subsurface in delivering a sustainable energy mix today and in the future.



Past Chair: Adam Borushek

Adam Borushek is a London-based Reservoir Engineer with 25 years of international experience. He is a Principal Advisor with RISC, an independent oil and gas consultancy firm.

Adam provides technically and commercially sound advice in the areas of asset acquisition, subsurface modelling, field management and reserves reporting. His clients include banks, private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds, asset operators and new ventures teams. As well as his commitments to the SPE, Adam is a member of the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers (SPEE) and the Geoscience Energy Society of Great Britain (GESGB).

Chair Elect: Shwan Dizayee

Shwan Dizayee is a Manager, Management Consulting at Accenture. He was previously a Senior Managmenet Consultant at Accenture.

With prior experience working as a Field/Petroleum Engineer in Iraq and the UK, he uses technical expertise along with strategic thinking and adept background in the technology sector to help clients bridge the digital deficit and to unlock value in their day-to-day operations. He has extensive experience in the upstream and downstream sectors. His most recent work focuses on digitalisation efforts within Downstream Retail.

Treasurer: Farid Hadiaman

Farid Hadiaman is a petroleum engineer of Institut Teknologi Bandung of Indonesia and holds an MBA Oil and Gas Management degree from the Aberdeen Business School of Robert Gordon University.

Farid currently works as a Senior Wells Engineer for bp based in Sunbury office. Prior current role, he worked for TotalEnergies, Petronas and Maersk Olie og Gas A/S Before moving to the UK, Farid lived in Malaysia, Denmark and Azerbaijan.. He had been an active SPE member for more than 20 years, authored and co-authored more than 10 (ten) SPE papers and peer-reviewed journal, served in SPE Conference and Workshop events as committee. He received SPE Regional Awards in 2012.

Secretary: currently open

Communications: Afrah Siddique

Afrah Siddique is an energy professional with over a decade of international experience in reservoir engineering, spanning oil and gas, CO₂ sequestration, geothermal energy, and hydrogen storage. She holds an MSc in Petroleum Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and has worked across the USA, UK, and Middle East. Afrah is deeply committed to advancing the net-zero energy transition and brings this passion to her role on the SPE London Section board, as well as her contributions to several SPE International committees.  

Students: Omer Khoshnaw

Omer Khoshnaw is a Reservoir Engineer at INEOS with experience in consultancy projects, workflow and software support, delivering training, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to achieve impactful results. He currently works on a gas asset in the UK’s Southern North Sea at INEOS.

Young Professionals Chair: Yazir Mamtaz

Yasir Mumtaz is an experienced Reservoir Engineer with a strong understanding of operational and field development projects.

Yazir has a wide-ranging background, having worked in both operator companies and the services sector. Currently, he is actively engaged in the advancement and implementation of Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) features within a high-performance reservoir simulator. His extensive expertise lies in optimizing production and managing integrated assets, with a primary emphasis on maximizing value in mature oilfields.

Inter-society: Carolina Coll, Malvika Nagarkoti

Carolina Coll is Head of Reservoir Development, CCS and Energy Storage.

Carolina has more than 25 years of diversified experience in the oil and gas industry worldwide in a variety of roles in engineering and management and in the area of carbon capture, storage and utilization of CO2. Carolina’s team deliver projects on O&G reservoir development, CCUS and energy storage including hydrogen.

She is Chair of the SPE Joint Committee on Reserves Evaluation Training (JCORET), a Director of the SPE London Board, a member of the Expert Group on Resource Classification of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and Chair of the communication working group, on the task force on Carbon Neutrality, past Chair of the SPE Carll, Uren Lucas International Awards, a member of the technical Committee of the SPE/EAGE EUROPEC Conference and a past member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers Oil and Gas Reserves Committee (OGRC).

Malvika Nagarkoti is an accomplished energy sector professional with global experience across Europe, the Caspian, India, Asia Pacific, and North Africa.

She leads the Global Brownfields Development and Production Enhancement segment, driving value creation through optimized techno-commercial solutions. Her background includes reservoir management for E&P companies and work as a petroleum economist in consultancy. With a strong foundation in Petroleum Engineering and an MBA in International Oil and Gas Management, she leverages her expertise and problem-solving mindset to deliver impactful solutions for mature assets globally to deliver efficiency in brownfield operations.

Net Zero: Max Richards

Max Richards is the Group Business Development Manager where he manages the group’s sales and marketing stratergy. Max also manages the energy transition practice for OPC where he leads a team developing carbon storage projects.

Max holds a sustainability focused MSc in Geoscience from University College London. His Master’s project, a preliminary study working alongside CarbFix and Aramco, focused on evaluating the interaction between CO2, igneous minerals, and indigenous reservoir fluid and its implication for long-term CO2 mineralisation.

Sponsorship: Phuc Truong

Phuc works with Perenco. He is a curious engineer on a quest to navigate the complexities of the Upstream Oil and Gas sector.

His professional ardor extends to artificial lift, production debottlenecking, well completion & intervention. He is driven by a commitment to pragmatic and cost-effective problem-solving rather than unnecessary intellectual posturing. Having worked in Canadian, Japanese and French oil companies across four countries and three continents, nothing teaches me more and humbles me faster than solving the problems of the ultra-matured oil and gas fields.

Membership: Arsenij Fiodorov, Lester Clark

Arsenij Fiodorov is a highly focused, hands-on and target-oriented MSc Petroleum Engineering graduate from the Imperial College London.

Arsenij is a confident and meticulous engineer who can solve complex problems with no supervision, with the ability to engage autonomously using his initiative. Eager to learn and develop a career in petroleum engineering, he has gained valuable expertise when performing an analysis of the theoretical material.

SPE Review London Editor: Elizaveta Poliakova

Elizaveta Poliakova is a Reservoir Engineer at Trident Energy. She has an M.Sc in Petroleum Engineering from Imperial College London and a B.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Leeds.

Elizaveta has been with SPE for more than seven years. She was the President of SPE Imperial College Chapter and the President of SPE Leeds Chapter. She was the SPE London Board Chair in 2022/23.

Programme: Andrew Mynors

Andrew Mynors has thirty years of operational experience in the upstream oil and gas service sectors.

Andrew had nine years of field experience in the North Sea, Middle East and Far East, before progressing into positions of county and district management covering the UK, Holland, Denmark and the Far East. Currently, he is the Geolog Business Development Manager for London and global clients who continue to explore, develop and invest in onshore and offshore oil and gas projects. More recently, he has focused on global geothermal, CCS projects and lab-based solutions for Geolog and its sister companies.

Continuing Education: Alejandro Primera, Frank Folorunso, Khaled Al Marei, Hani Hamoud

Khaled Al Marei has 20 years of experience in reservoir engineering, specialising in due diligence for asset acquisitions and delivering subsurface field development plans.

As a seasoned reserves auditor, Khaled has advised senior management, arbitration courts, and the wider market on asset valuation and development strategies. Currently, as Principal Reservoir Engineer at Storegga, Khaled leads carbon capture and storage (CCS) subsurface modelling, supporting decarbonisation projects across Europe and Southeast Asia.

In addition to his upstream expertise, Khaled is committed to education and professional development. He has served on the boards of several educational organisations and actively supports the development of young earth scientists. As co-chair of the Continuous Education Committee at SPE London, Khaled focuses on advancing industry knowledge and equipping professionals with the skills needed for success in the evolving energy transition landscape.

Women in Energy: Isabel Asenjo

Isabel Asenjo is a Senior Reservoir Engineer with Sasol with more than 13 years of experience in the oil and gas industry.

Isabel has participated in a wide range of reservoir engineering studies across the life cycle of developments worldwide in a variety of roles. Isabel started serving on the SPE London’s Young Professionals committee in 2010 and now chairs SPE Women in Energy which is a committee that aims to promote a more gender-balanced workforce in the sector. She received an Outstanding Service Award from SPE London Section in 2014 for her contribution to the section.

Social Chair: Clairet Guerra

Clairet is a senior geomechanics engineer – prodct analyst, with SLB.

Clairet has with experience in multidisciplinary and multiscale geomechanics projects. Currently navigating software and technology development as a product analyst. She has a massive interest in space exploration and recently finished a degree in Space Resources to increase her understanding and contribute in technology transfer from Earth to space.

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