Mahmoud Mohammed Samir Desouky Nour ElYamani

Position

Assistant Professor

Faculty

Faculty of Science

Department

Geology

Fields of Interest

Petroleum Geology, Applied Sedimentology, & Subsurface Energy Geoscience 

List of Publications

El-Yamani, M. S., John, C. M., & Bell, R. (2024). Mechanism of Island dolostones formation in the cretaceous calcitic ocean: insights from the mid-pacific guyots. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 163, 106741.

El-Yamani, M. S., Al-Ramadan, K., & Cantrell, D. (2022). Diagenetic controls on porosity evolution and reservoir quality of an outcrop analogue of the Jurassic carbonate reservoirs in the Arabian Plate: An example from the Middle Jurassic Tuwaiq Mountain Formation, Central Saudi Arabia. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 208, 109669.

El‐Yamani, M. S., John, C. M., & Bell, R. (2022). Stratigraphic evolution and karstification of a Cretaceous Mid‐Pacific atoll (Resolution Guyot) resolved from core‐log‐seismic integration and comparison with modern and ancient analogues. Basin Research, 34(5), 1536-1566.

El-Yamani, M. S., Al-Ramadan, K., Munnecke, A., Cantrell, D., Abdulghani, W., & Reub, L. (2018). Microfacies, depositional environments and meter-scale cycles of the middle Jurassic Tuwaiq Mountain Formation, Central Saudi Arabia. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 145, 80-101.

El-Yamani, M. M., Sultan, A. S., & Al-Ramadan, K. A. (2017, April). Effect of carbonate microfacies on contact angle: Study from Middle Jurassic Tuwaiq Mountain Formation. In SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition (p. D033S017R004). SPE.

Research Groups

Projects

• Deciphering the Controls of Limestone Texture, Mineralogy, Microfacies, and Diagenesis on Lime Formation through a Novel Integration of Laboratory-Based Analytical and Machine Learning Approaches. - Project PI