Experience

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  Zag Consultoria em Exploração de Petróleo

  • Consultant

    • Jun 2012 - Present

    Provide expert advise on all aspects of petroleum exploration for upstream petroleum companies, banks, investors, investment funds, news media, government agencies, both in Brazil and worldwide. Teach training courses in several aspects of petroleum exploration, especially prospecting, mapping, risk analysis, structural geology, exploration in deep and ultradeep waters and interpretation of ultradeep seismic sections.

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  Petrobras

  • Rio de Janeiro Area, Brazil

  • Senior Consultant

    • Feb 1978 - May 2012
    • Rio de Janeiro Area, Brazil

    I was involved in Exploration all these years. From wellsite geologist to Senior Consultant, through the positions of explorationist, coordinator of special study groups, including coordinationg the deep water exploration of Petrobras, as well as manager of exploration teams domestic and abroad and technical consultant. I participated in the peer review groups that analyzed and judged all exploratory locations proposed in the company in the last 25 years. I was also heavily involved in training, teaching several courses to generations of geologists and geophysicists. These courses were taught in Brazil and in countries where Petrobras had offices, such as Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Cuba, USA, Lybia and Turkey. I also participated as co-author of a proprietary artificial intelligence software termed Siplex that nowadays is used in Petrobras to guarantee the quality and the optimal risk evaluation of the proposed locations. I worked for five years in international exploration (Braspetro)