Board of Directors | American petroleum professionals of Iranian Heritage

APPIH'S DIRECTORS

DR. SIMIN SADEGHI

PRESIDENT

Simin is a petroleum engineer at Biota Technology in Houston, where she specialized in using subsurface data to optimize well spacing and completion design and maximize well economics.

MR. FRED ARASTEH

FORMER PRESIDENT

Fred is a veteran of the petroleum industry with over 25 years of experience developing major international petroleum projects.

MS. ASAL RAHIMI

SECRETARY FORMER PRESIDENT

Asal is Completions Evaluation Team Leader at MicroSeismic Inc. in Houston, where she specializes in monitoring and mapping of hydraulic fracture operations in unconventional oil and gas plays.

DR. VIDA GHOLAMI

TREASURER

Vida is a Storage Field Engineer in the Storage Risk Management Organization of SoCalGas. Vida’s main responsibility is DOGGR,

DR. HAMIDREZA SAMOUEI

AT LARGE

Hamid has chemistry background and actively doing chemistry-related research in oil and gas industries, especially on scales, viscoelastic surfactants and corrosion inhibitors.

MR. IMAN ORAKI

INTERNAL AFFAIRS

Iman received his B.Sc. degree in Petroleum Engineering, from Petroleum University of Technology (PUT) of Ahwaz

DR. MOJTABA ARDALI

MEMBERSHIP

Mojtaba Ardali is currently senior Reservoir Engineer at California Resources Corporation (CRC).

MR. MOJI KARIMI

EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

Moji is the co-founder and CEO at Cemvita Factory, a biotech startup on a mission to create a carbon-negative future by transforming CO2 into valuable products.

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