Ahmed Al-Fatlawi

Petroleum & Gas Engineer · Basra, Iraq

Ahmed Abdul Hussein
Sarhan Al-Fatlawi

Fourteen months on the commercial edge of Iraq's oil and gas sector — where the technical specification meets the tender.

Available now/ eng@ahmedfatlawi.com/ 07839453161

100+

Offers quoted

$200K+

Tender value

State operators & refineries

Certified training hours

Profile

I hold a Bachelor of Petroleum and Gas Engineering from Basrah University for Oil and Gas.
For fourteen months I ran the Yokogawa product line at Scientific Solutions Company — reading client specifications, selecting and quoting field instrumentation, and carrying offers through site visits, technical clarification and contract signature with Iraq's state operators and refineries.
That work sat between the process and the paperwork, and it taught me both. I am now deepening the instrumentation and control side, and looking for a role where the two fit together.

Experience

Measurement to action — the loop this work sits inside

Sales Engineer — Yokogawa line

Jun 2025 – Aug 2026

Scientific Solutions Company · Basra

Held responsibility for the Yokogawa product line: field instrumentation and control equipment for oil, gas and refining clients.
Prepared and issued more than 100 technical and commercial offers, on tenders reaching above US$200,000.
Visited client sites at ROO, SRC, IOTC and MRC to follow up quotations, resolve technical specifications with end users, and carry contracts through to signature.
Translated process requirements into instrument selection — pressure, temperature, level and flow — rather than quoting from the catalogue alone.

Technical specifications Tendering Client site visits Contract closing Yokogawa

Operations Coordinator

Nov 2021 – Dec 2022

AlADDA Company for Oil Services · Basra

Acted as the link between the office and the field supervisors — daily reports in, instructions out — keeping both sides working from the same picture.
Held the role for over a year while studying full time for the engineering degree.

Yokogawa differential pressure transmitter with a five-valve manifold, held in hand

Yokogawa differential pressure transmitter and manifold assembly during incoming inspection

Yokogawa transmitter head with the local indicator window

Nameplate of a Yokogawa DPharp transmitter showing model, style and output

Magnetic level gauge scale, marked in millimetres, in its shipping crate

Level transmitter housing with its cover in place, held in hand

Hy-Lok stainless steel instrument manifold, still bagged

Panel-mounted process controller with process value and setpoint displays

Instruments received, checked against the order and handed over — Basra, 2025–2026.

Education

Bachelor of Petroleum & Gas Engineering

Graduated 2025

Basrah University for Oil and Gas

Graduation project — Formation Integrity Test. The pressure test run after a casing string is cemented, confirming the shoe and exposed formation will hold the mud weight planned for the next hole section before drilling continues.
The study covered how the test is planned and executed, how the result converts into an equivalent mud weight, and how that figure becomes the working pressure limit for the section below — including what it means when a formation fails to hold.

Certified training

In progress

Siemens PLC

Programmable logic controllers — programming and control fundamentals, extending the instrumentation side of my work toward the systems that act on the measurement.

Currently studying

IELTS

Preparing for certification to formally document the English I already use daily in technical documentation and client correspondence.

Currently preparing

Self-driven

I am a petroleum and gas engineer first — reservoir and process fundamentals, simulation software, and the commercial side of the industry. Instrumentation and control is the ground I am adding to that, and I started adding it while I was still selling it.

The degree gave me the process side: formation integrity testing, wireline log interpretation, and simulation work in Petrel and Aspen HYSYS. That is the base everything else sits on.
On my own time I am working through measurement principles, control loops and Siemens PLC fundamentals — building on the instrumentation training and on fourteen months of reading real client specifications.
Comparing vendor specifications side by side to understand where one measurement principle suits a service better than another — working from manufacturer documentation and standards, and using AI tools to cover ground faster.
The aim is an engineer who can read the process, specify the instrument and hold the commercial conversation — not just one of the three.

وَمَن يَتَهَيَّبْ صُعودَ الجِبالِ

يَعِشْ أَبَدَ الدَّهرِ بَينَ الحُفَرِ

And whoever dreads climbing the mountains
lives out his days among the hollows.

أبو القاسم الشابّي · Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi

Capabilities

Pressure

Transmitters and gauges

Temperature

Thermowells and RTD assemblies

Level

Differential pressure measurement

Flow

Coriolis and magnetic meters

Field instrumentation

Pressure, temperature, level and flow measurement. Reading P&IDs and client specifications, and selecting instruments to match process conditions. Yokogawa product line.

Technical sales & tendering

Specification review, offer preparation, pricing, submission through client procurement portals, follow-up and contract closing.

Petroleum engineering

Formation integrity testing, wireline log types and their uses, subsurface modelling in Petrel, and process simulation in Aspen HYSYS.

Safety

HSE-certified through South Refineries Company: H₂S hazards, working at heights, firefighting practice and risk assessment.

Software

Petrel · Aspen HYSYS · Microsoft Office · client procurement and tender submission portals.

Languages

Arabic — native. English — proficient, including technical documentation and client correspondence.

Contact

Based in Basra and available now. Looking for instrumentation and control roles with operators, refineries, EPC contractors and service companies in Iraq’s oil and gas sector — field instrumentation, commissioning, or technical sales and tendering.

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