Meet our Speakers
Ramin Soltanmohammadi is a Ph.D. candidate at UNICAMP university. His main interest is in simulating fluid propagation in highly heterogeneous/complex porous media (pore scale modelling). He finished his master's degree in petroleum and mining engineering at Politecnico di Torino in Italy, and has done his master's thesis at TU Delft, Netherlands. Currently, he is working on Stromatolite core samples collected from Lagoa Salgado in Rio de Janeiro. To better understanding fluid behavior, these cores are divided into fine-grained and vugular samples. In this paper, he investigated petrophysical properties such as porosity, permeability, and flow pattern behavior during fluid injection (multiphase) in Stromatolite core samples.
Nathalia Cruz is a senior reservoir geophysicist at Petrobras ultra-deep waters exploration and production division. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Geology from the State University of Rio de Janeiro and over 15 years’ experience in national and multinational companies focused on the acquisition, processing, interpretation and modeling of geophysical data. Since 2009 with Petrobras, she has been part of several exploration and development teams, working in the pre-salt projects of Lapa, Sapinhoá, Iracema and Tupi. Today, she is the leading geophysicist in the seismic characterization and monitoring of Tupi field, the first Santos basin Pre-salt area to make use of 4D seismic to monitor WAG (water-alternating-gas) injection.
Nelson Zuñiga is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (POLI-USP) and Researcher at Research Centre for Gas Innovation (RCGI). PhD in Geophysics at University of São Paulo (USP) with supervised period at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), Master's Degree in Geophysics at University of São Paulo (USP) and Bachelor's Degree in Petroleum Engineering at Catholic University of Santos. Experience in Applied Mathematics, focused in Inversion Theory, Numerical Modeling and Topological Analysis applied to Geophysics and Engineering.
Leandro P. Figueiredo has experience primarily in inverse problems in geophysics, Bayesian inference, stochastic methods and geostatistics. Received his Ph.D. in Physics in 2017 and he continued his work in Bayesian seismic inversion as a postdoc for one year at University of Wyoming. Now he is part time research fellow at the university and part time R&D manager at LTrace. His current work focuses on joint facies seismic inversion and deep learning applied to CT images.
Adna Vasconcelos is a Research Associate at Schlumberger Brazilian Technology integration Center. She holds a B.Sc. from Federal University of Campina Grande and a M.Sc. degree in Civil Engineer from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, with emphasis on seismic modelling and full wave-form inversion. She is a D.Sc. candidate of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, currently studying upscaling methodologies for carbonate reservoir rocks
Fernando Vizeu obtained his bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering at UENF (Macaé, RJ, Brazil) in 2013. In 2016 he obtained his master's degree, also in Petroleum Engineering, from the same University. Since 2017 he is pursuing his PhD degree in Geophysics at UFF (Niterói, RJ, Brazil). He has experience working with scientific software development in R&D projects both at the academy and industry. From 2013 to 2016 he participated as a scientific programmer in a research project developed by UENF in partnership with Petrobras. Since 2017 he has worked as software developer at Emerson E&P Software (previously Paradigm). His main research interests are reservoir characterization and machine learning.
Dr. Charles Breithaupt is a carbonate geologist working in ExxonMobil’s carbonates research team. His primary focus has on understanding the dynamic performance and genesis of non-matrix pore systems. Specifically, the development of vug and cave systems in young carbonates whose unique hydrological settings pose challenges to conventional models for cave formation. Dr. Breithaupt’s recent work in Bahamas Archipelago has provided critical insights on flank margin caves, suggesting their genesis could be tied to perched aquifers, and that they are not only important storage elements, but may also be integrated with regionally efficient touching vug pore networks.
Jonatan Dias has a BSc in Geophysics (UFF), an MSc in Carbonate Rock Physics (PUC-Rio) and is currently a PhD candidate (UFRJ) working with 4D quantitative seismic interpretation for pre-salt carbonates in the Lula Field. He also has experience working with the Mero and Gato do Mato Fields in the Santos Basin and Coquinas reservoirs in the Campos Basin. During his MSc he was a graduate intern with IBM Research Lab in Rio (2016-2018). In his PhD, he was a PhD intern in Shell Brazil R&D during the summer of 2020 working on a topic aligned with his graduate research. In July 2021 he started another graduate internship in Shell Brazil working with near-field exploration.
Dr. Fernando A. Neves is an explorationist with over 30 years of experience in oil and gas industry working for operators (Total, ADNOC, Petra Energia, Shell International and Saudi Aramco) and service company (PGS Reservoir). He has held managerial positions and technical leading roles, primarily in Exploration activities on onshore and offshore domains targeting both conventional and unconventional clastics and carbonate reservoirs. He took part of a number of commercial discoveries spanning from North and South America, Europe and to the Middle-East. Mr. Neves holds a Ph.D. in Geophysics from the University of Cambridge-England and did Pos-Doctoral studies at Colorado School of Mines-USA. Fernando published more than 100 full articles and conference expanded abstracts. Presently, he is a researcher at the Laboratory of Sedimentary Geology (Lagesed) at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro-Brazil working on exploring pre-salt reservoirs at Santos Basin.
Mikael Arnemann is a Geologist and works as an Expert in Geology & Geophysics at the Brazilian Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) since 2013. He was leader of the geoscientists team responsible for the petroleum potential assessment and geological risk analysis of all recent bid rounds areas around the country, in different geological settings and exploration stages, from exploratory frontier as the Pelotas and Foz do Amazonas basins to the Pre-salt giant play of the Campos and Santos basins. Currently, he is dedicated to his postgraduate studies at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), oriented by the co-authors of present work. His research is the core of the ATLANTIS project, that will provide solid basis for ANP’s assessments through integrated, regional interpretation of a large available dataset.
Eloisa Moreira de Lira - Bachelor in Geology from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) in 2008. In the same year, she joined Petrobras as Geophysicist Interpreter applied to reservoirs. From 2009 to 2012, she supported geophysical modeling of reservoirs in siliciclastic and carbonate rocks in the central offshore portion of the Campos Basin. From 2012 to 2018, it supported production assets in the Potiguar Basin rift areas. It also includes acting in the drift portion of the Canto do Amaro field. At the end of 2018, she moves to Vitória, Espírito Santo. Where she is currently located, working on the characterization of production development projects, located in the northern region of the Campos Basin. Since 2018, as an enthusiast, she has been studying Data Sciences, AI, and related fields, focussing on Geosciences applications.
Ole Petter Wennberg is currently holding a position as a geology specialist in research at Equinor ASA in Bergen Norway. He has a MSc from University of Oslo in 1990 and PhD from University of Bergen in 1998 and about 25 years experience in the industry largely within reservoir characterization and modelling of fractured reservoirs.