He graduated from Rice University with a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering and completed the Executive Management Program at Western Business School, the University of Western Ontario, and the Leadership Program at Yale School of Management, Yale University.

Soheil has over 40 technical and business publications with reputable Canadian and U.S. journals in the areas of reservoir engineering, production engineering, enhanced oil recovery, horizontal drilling technology, risk analyses, reserves estimation, economic evaluation, statistical analyses, heat transfer and solar energy. He is a distinguished author of the Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology (JCPT) and co-author of the first Petroleum Society Monograph - "Determination of Oil and Gas Reserves".

He has served the Petroleum Recovery Institute as First Vice Chairman, the Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada (PTAC) as a director, and The Petroleum Society of CIM as Chairman.
Soheil is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta, and CIM.