Ahmed Kareem

About

Senior PM, Hydrocarbon Infrastructure.

I have spent 22 years delivering oil & gas projects in the Middle East — beginning offshore in Egypt, expanding into onshore operations, and now running mega-program packages for a Tier-1 NOC through Worley.

Ahmed Kareem
Ahmed Kareem Senior PM · 2026

Where I sit today

I am the Senior Project Manager for the Hydrocarbon Infrastructure Package on a $60M+ Tier-1 NOC upstream mega-program — gas compression facilities and cross-country pipelines, 120+ multi-disciplinary resources across global delivery centres. My remit covers scope, budget, schedule, and technical integrity under Program Director governance, with a parallel mandate to advise the client PMT on package restructuring, vendor data milestones, and inter-package interface dependencies.

Around 2023 I made a deliberate move alongside that delivery role: instead of accepting that the spreadsheet layer of EPC project management was permanent, I started building tools to replace it. Engineering estimation engines, resource planning dashboards, organisational design systems — every one of them came out of a real bottleneck I had hit on a real program. They run locally on a laptop with a small open-weight model. No cloud egress, no telemetry, no vendor lock-in.

I am not a software engineer and I am not a consultant. I am a PM who learned to deliver — because the tools I needed did not exist, the vendors selling them did not understand the workflow, and the budget was not coming.

Career arc

  1. 2024 — Present

    Worley · Saudi Arabia

    Senior Project Manager — Hydrocarbon Infrastructure Package

    $60M+ Tier-1 NOC upstream mega-program. 120+ multi-disciplinary resources spanning process, piping, mechanical, E&I, and civil. Pioneered AI-enabled scope-framing tool delivering 25% time reduction. Predictive risk model attributed with $8M+ cost avoidance.

  2. 2017 — 2024

    Worley · Saudi Arabia

    Project Manager

    Delivered eight major Tier-1 NOC programs totalling $100M+. 100% on-time milestone achievement, 8% average cost underrun. Improved estimating accuracy by 5% through lessons-learned framework + benchmark database.

  3. 2014 — 2017

    Worley · Saudi Arabia

    Senior Project Engineer

    Coordinated 40+ engineers across Process, Piping, Mechanical, E&I, and Civil disciplines on seven simultaneous Tier-1 NOC programs. Primary technical interface with client PMTs across client + international codes.

  4. 2013 — 2014

    Gulf Consolidated Contractor (GCCC) · Saudi Arabia

    Senior Project Engineer (EPC Execution)

    EPC contractor representative — design-construction interface management. Resolved 12 major design-field interface issues on a 32″ cross-country pipeline extension, preventing an estimated $2.4M cost impact.

  5. 2006 — 2013

    NATGAS · Egypt

    Site Manager / Senior Pipeline Engineer

    Led construction of 18 gas distribution networks (~230 km total, $15M+). Sustained zero LTI for six consecutive years across multidisciplinary teams of 30+. Full lifecycle: route survey through commissioning.

  6. 2004 — 2006

    Sea-Bulk International · Egypt

    Offshore Engineer

    Subsea gas pipeline installation and platform hook-up serving production platforms. DNV / ABS / Egyptian offshore HSE compliance.

Career receipts

$160M+

Capital Programs Delivered

$18M+

Cost Avoidance via Predictive Risk

22

Years · Zero LTI

120+

Engineers Led

85%

AI-Enabled Efficiency Gain

8+

Tier-1 NOC Mega Programs

Credentials

  • Project Management Professional (PMP®) — Project Management Institute (active to 2027)
  • Tier-1 NOC Registered Project Manager — GES+ Preferred Roster for Mega Programs (Active)
  • Saudi Council of Engineers — Registered Member (Active)
  • Project Management Institute — Professional Member
  • Egyptian Engineers Syndicate — Registered Member
  • B.Sc. Mechanical Power Engineering — Benha University, Egypt (2004)

Toolkit

Project Controls
Primavera P6 · EcoSys · Cleopatra · MS Project · Earned Value Management Systems
Engineering Design
AVEVA E3D · SmartPlant 3D · Navisworks · CAESAR II · Aspen HYSYS · MicroStation · AutoCAD
Digital & AI
Python (Pandas / NumPy) · Power BI · AI-powered review automation · LLM scope extraction · model-based design review
Standards
Client engineering & PM standards · ASME B31.3 / 31.4 / 31.8 · API 650 / 1104 · FIDIC Red & Yellow · Client GTC
Document Management
Aconex · SharePoint · client eReview

What I'm looking for

Director-level Project Management or PMO roles in EPC, PMC, or owner organisations across KSA and the wider GCC, where the brief is to actually move the needle on delivery — not produce another transformation slide deck. Equally open to senior-IC tracks reporting to a project director or executive, with a digital-PM remit alongside the technical scope.

The fastest way to me is the contact page. I read every message myself.