ASSOCIATE PROF. DR. MEOR HAKIF BIN AMIR HASSAN
Department of Geology
Faculty of Science
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Dr. Meor Hakif is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Geology, University of Malaya (UM). He teaches undergraduate courses in Stratigraphy and Sedimentology, as well as postgraduate topics in Reservoir Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy. Previously, he was the Coordinator for the MSc in Petroleum Geology Programme for 5 years. Currently, he is Vice President of the Geological Society of Malaysia. Dr. Meor graduated with a BSc. (Hons) in Geology from UM in 2002, which included an early exposure to the petroleum industry through an internship with Esso Production Malaysia Inc. (EPMI) on abnormal pressure in offshore Sabah. While being a Tutor at UM, he graduated with a MSc. (with distinction) in 2005, with a dissertation revising the stratigraphy of NW Peninsular Malaysia. The MSc. included research and training on graptolite biostratigraphy at the Technische Universitat Berlin in Germany, which was supported by a German Academic Exchange (DAAD) Scholarship. In 2005, Dr. Meor worked as an Executive Geoscientist in the Petroleum Resource Assessment and Marketing division, Petroleum Management Unit (PMU) of PETRONAS, mainly working on sequence stratigraphy and sequence biostratigraphy of the Sarawak Basin, and also gaining experience in resource assessment, well log interpretation, seismic interpretation and well operations monitoring. Dr. Meor graduated with a Ph.D and DIC from Imperial College, University of London in 2011. His Ph.D project was on the sedimentology of the Nyalau Formation and Balingian Province of the Sarawak Basin. Since then, he has been actively involved as a consultant on many sedimentological related studies with several oil and gas companies. Part of the PhD included fieldwork in Bintulu, Sarawak, core description at PETRONAS and a secondment to Petrofac Malaysia (PM-304) Ltd in Kuala Lumpur. Dr. Meor also took the advantage during his PhD to visit the textbook outcrops of the Book Cliffs (Sego Fm, Ferron Sandstone, Chinle Fm., Morrison Fm.) in Utah, USA, as well as the Welsh and Wessex Basins of the UK. Dr. Meor Hakif frequently leads sedimentology, stratigraphy and petroleum geology fieldtrips to the Palaeozoic strata of NW Peninsular Malaysia and the hydrocarbon-bearing, Neogene strata of Sarawak and Labuan. He maintains good relationships with industry, with several consulting projects and fieldtrips organized for companies. He is also the Faculty Advisor for the AAPG Student Chapter of UM. Dr. Meor's current research interests in sedimentology mainly lies in the facies composition and stratal architecture of siliciclastic rocks, and how they are used to infer depositional and basin history. In particular, many of his publications are on tidal deposits preserved in the Oligo-Miocene rock record of Malaysia. The work involves integration with fields and specialists beyond traditional geology, including geophysics and engineering. His work is mainly field-based, with field experience in northwest Peninsular Malaysia (Perlis, Kedah, Langkawi), Pahang, Kelantan, Sarawak (Kuching, Sibu, Bintulu, Miri, Marudi, Limbang, Lawas), Labuan and Sabah (Klias, Kota Kinabalu area, Kudat). Dr. Meor is also a worker on the stratigraphy of the Palaeozoic succession of northwest Peninsular Malaya, specializing in the palaeontology and biostratigraphy of Devonian tentaculitoids and graptoloids and Carboniferous ammonoids. Results of this work include the discovery and naming of a new species of ammonoid, Praedaraelites tuntungensis, from Bukit Tuntung in Perlis as well as a new species of foraminifera, Crenulosepta perlisensis. Dr. Meor also uncovered a previously unknown Devonian stratigraphic unit, now called the Sanai Limestone. Dr. Meor is a certified Professional Geologist (P.Geol.) with the Board of Geologists Malaysia.
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Predicting Hydrocarbon Reservoir Geometries In Deepwater Deposits: The Miocene Kudat Formation As An Analogue For Offshore Sabah Oil Reservoirs |
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Pleistocene-holocene Stratigraphy And Sedimentology Of The Kelantan Delta |
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Integrated Pore Network Modleling, Digital Core Analysis And Sedimentology For Improved Characterization Of Thin-bed And Low-contrast/low-resistivity Hydrocarbon Reservoirs: |
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A new fusulinid species from the early Permian of northwestern Peninsular Malaysia: Evidence of the Artinskian warming event in the eastern Peri-Gondwanan Sibumasu Block
Sedimentary facies analysis of a thin-bed-dominated turbidite succession in the Miocene Temburong Formation, Kampung Bebuloh, Labuan Island, Malaysia
Sedimentary facies and stratigraphy of the Campanian-Maastrichtian Taloka Formation, southeastern Iullemmeden Basin, Nigeria
Sedimentary and stratigraphic characteristics of the Maastrichtian Dukamaje formation of southern Iullemmeden Basin: Implications for the paleogeography of the Upper Cretaceous trans-Saharan seaway
The Pulau Langgun section in the north-western Terrain (Upper Devonian)
Malaysian translation of the IGCP 596 project summary.
Sedimentology and stratigraphic architecture of a Miocene retrogradational, tide-dominated delta system: Balingian Province, offshore Sarawak, Malaysia
Development of Carbonate Buildups and Reservoir Architecture of Miocene Carbonate Platforms, Central Luconia, Offshore Sarawak, Malaysia.
Deep water channel fill deposits and possible contourites in a submarine fan complex: The Palaeogene Belaga Formation, Sibu, Sarawak.
Carboniferous (Mississippian) dropstones and diamictite from the Chepor Member, basal Kubang Pasu Formation: Earliest record of glacial- derived deposits in Peninsular Malaysia
Fossil composition and biostratigraphy of the Carboniferous Chepor Member, basal Kubang Pasu Formation, Perlis, Malaysia