Servet Unalmiser

Principal PE Consultant

Servet Unalmiser retired from Saudi Aramco as a Senior Consultant on July 1st, 2005. Before joining Saudi Aramco in 1980, he worked for the Mineral and Research Institute as a Drilling Engineer and then for Turkish Petroleum Corporation as a Reservoir Engineer. He holds B.S. (1969) and M.S. (1971) degrees from Middle East Technical University in Ankara all in Petroleum Engineering. He worked in Saudi Aramco from November 1980 until his retirement. During his career in Saudi Aramco, he pioneered in establishing and resolving issues encountered in the company operation associated with petrophysics as well as handled a great variety of assignments in the capacity of R&D and Technology Coordinator. Besides his consultancy endeavor, he also directed and coordinated a focus area team associated with Recovery Dynamics projects for company reservoirs.

Servet has been recognized as an industry expert in a wide spectrum of rock–fluid interaction discipline. He has worked as a subcommittee member for the American Institute for Petroleum (API), Dallas, TX in authoring numerous recommended practices (RP) for the industry. He has been awarded US Patent entitled “Method & Apparatus for Determining Properties of Reservoir Rock” and has been appointed by SPE to serve on the JPT Editorial Committee for the period of 2003-2006 to identify innovative, high-interest technical information for publication in the area of Formation Evaluation.