Prof. Dr. Maher Mandeel and teacher Dr. Sani Elia Gerges participated in the Fifth International Scientific Conference “Giokrdistan” at the University of Sulaymaniyah, where they presented a scientific research entitled 

Microfacies and depositional model of the Shuaiba Formation (Lower Cretaceous), in selected wells, Southern Iraq The research included the most important facies of the formation of Al-Shuaiba in several fields from Basra Governorate in order to reach a sedimentary model that represents the environment of Al-Shuaiba formation