Fluidsdata Welcomes DFA Spearhead Hani Elshahawi and Expands Fluids Intelligence into DFA
September 2025
Fluidsdata announced that Hani Elshahawi has joined the company as an advisor to help expand Fluids Intelligence AI solutions into the downhole fluids analysis (DFA) market. Elshahawi brings more than three decades of leadership across service, consulting, and operating roles in the energy industry, including deep technical authority in formation testing and fluid sampling, several patents, 150+ technical publications, and broad industry recognition as past chair of the Offshore Technology Conference committee, president and foundation chair of Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA), and distinguished lecturer for SPE and SPWLA.
"Our mission is simple. Turn decades of ALL fluids characterization data, be it lab, wellsite or downhole in an asset that helps our client take fast and trusted decisions, and saves costs. Hani's experience in real world DFA, from wellsite to workflow, strengthens our ability to deliver physics-backed, domain driven AI solutions that reduces cost and improves confidence for operators. As we are the AI-first, digital fluids characterization company and not the measurement and sampling service company, our incentives align with our clients' objective to leverage their existing data assets."
"Bringing DFA into Fluids Intelligence closes a critical loop. By unifying fluids characterization data at all points of the data journey, from downhole to wellsite to lab, within one AI framework. Our clients will be able to obtain never-seen before insights, validate interpretations with an expert digital companion, and not a black box."
"I am excited to be part of Fluidsdata to scale practical DFA insights. The team blends scientific rigor with cutting-edge AI and a clear focus on real world impact. DFA delivers the most value when paired with holistic fluids knowledge. Fluidsdata's approach brings that discipline to real time operations so engineers can act with confidence while taking crucial decisions for DFA that impacts the reservoir lifecycle."
Fluidsdata's end-to-end Fluids Intelligence AI software will be extended to include DFA.
Fluidsdata will integrate DFA centric capabilities into its platform, including ingestion of downhole optical and pressure data, interpretation and contamination workflows, real-time sampling decisions, and explainable recommendations aligned with established reservoir engineering practices. Early focus will include the streamlining of existing DFA data irrespective of measurement service company, gather all associated fluids data from lab, and update the physics backed, domain-driven AI model to include DFA model predictions on client's data.
About Fluidsdata
Fluidsdata turns decades of fluid characterization data into an asset with domain-driven AI and Fluids Intelligence. Instead of re-sampling and re-analyzing fluids, operators get measurement-quality predictions from the data they already have, cutting lab analysis costs by up to 80% and fluid sampling costs by 50%.
With new downhole fluids analysis capabilities, the platform ingests optical and pressure data from formation testers, applies rigorous QA/QC and physics-backed interpretation, and delivers explainable recommendations for faster fluid typing, contamination assessment, and planning and execution of sampling programs in real time. Fluidsdata also provides secure data management, advanced visualization, dashboards, and exploration tools, plus an Agentic AI that acts as a digital fluid expert to support decisions from reservoir to wellsite to surface.