Kamal Malick

Kamal Malick has been working in the energy industry for more than 25 years in a variety of technical and leadership roles. He has worked globally including in the USA, Canada, UK North Sea, and Asia-Pacific regions on various complex oil and gas fields under both natural depletion and EOR schemes.

Kamal is currently working for privately-held Anschutz Exploration Corporation in Denver, Colorado developing exploitation plans for the various clastics and unconventional formations of the Powder River Basin in Wyoming. He has also worked on conventional, tight, and unconventional plays in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin in Alberta, Canada. Previously, he was the Subsurface Manager for one of the largest onshore gas fields in Indonesia consisting of multiple naturally fractured stacked zones. He was responsible for managing its subsurface development and commercial aspects on behalf of the joint-venture partners. Kamal has also worked on volatile oil and retrograde-condensate gas fields in Algeria and on several oil fields in UK North Sea. Kamal started his career from Pakistan where he worked in Badin Basin of Sindh province and Kirthar fold belt in Balochistan, province.

Kamal's areas of expertise are reservoir engineering, field development planning, resource evaluation, and economic analysis. He has been involved with teaching and mentoring throughout his career. He conducts industry courses through the Canadian Energy Geoscientists Association (CEGA), Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and in-house for various companies. He has given talks at technical forums and universities and mentored junior professionals from around the world through the SPE e-Mentoring program. He holds a Professional Engineer designation with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) and is a member of its Registration Committee. Kamal holds a Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from NED University of Engineering and Technology in Karachi, Pakistan, a Master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University in the USA, and an MBA from the University of Calgary, Canada.