Is the Subsurface Manager for Brazil, with responsibilities to lead ExxonMobil’s team working across the Upstream from Production to Frontier Exploration.  Rachel began her career as a geologist, and has been involved in various projects across the globe within ExxonMobil’s companies spanning Exploration, Development, and Production activities. Geoscience assignments have included Nigeria, Angola, the US Gulf of Mexico, Malaysia, Australia, Guyana, Argentina, Brazil, and Qatar. Global roles have been in both formal management as well as technical advisory roles; Technical Team lead for lines of business, supervisor, senior advisor in mergers and acquisitions, and currently as the Brazil Subsurface Manager.  Rachel has focused on how subsurface valuation approaches (particularly assigning risk and characterizing uncertainty) can improve business decisions. She is an expert in Geoscience Integration, Assessment, Subsurface Characterization, and portfolio management. Rachel is recognized internally and externally for her expertise in helping teams link subsurface understanding to a well-defined value proposition. 

Has worked for Equinor for 14 years, and has been project director for Raia, a major offshore gas field development project in Brazil, for the last 4 years. Previously, he has held different leadership positions in Brazil, Norway, and Angola mostly within the areas of project management, corporate strategy, and supply chain management. He has an industrial civil engineering background with an international master’s degree in general management. Before Equinor, he worked for Schlumberger as a procurement manager and in Accenture as a business analyst. 

He is a Geophysicist with over 25 years of experience working for Shell in many technical and managerial capacities, including assignments in R&D, Exploration, Enhanced Oil Recovery, and Reservoir Monitoring, applied to reservoirs onshore and in deep water. He is credited with opening new fields of geophysical technology, multiple patents, and many publications. He moved to Brasil in 2019 and currently is the Manager for Subsurface Technology, tasked with investing the ANP R&D obligation in a diverse portfolio of projects. Jorge holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Wisconsin, USA.

Currently holds the position of global Chief Geophysicist Exploration Data responsible for SLB Multiclient and Geosolutions. After Mr. Zarkhidze received a Masters degree in Geophysics at St.Petersburg State Mining Institute (Technical University) in 1993 he worked for 5 years in the Arctic region asa seismic observer and seismic data processor. He joined Schlumberger in 1998 and has worked innumerous WesternGeco’ Operations, Data Processing and Research Centers in UAE, UK, Russia, Oman,France, Norway, India, Egypt and United States. Alexander’s current responsibilities include geophysical and geo-science support, technical management and coordination of all areas of survey design, data processing, imaging and analysis of geophysical data across worldwide Multiclient and Geosolutions locations within SLB.

He is a salt tectonics specialist and basin researcher for Latin America at S&P Global based in the United Kingdom. Gerardo holds an M.Sc. in Petroleum Geosciences and a Ph.D. in Structural Geology and Salt Tectonics from Royal Holloway University of London. Moreover, Gerardo is the author of the first classification for multi-stage salt structures and is an experienced seismic interpreter, geomechanics analyst, and petroleum system and basin modeler with international technical experience in Argentina, Uruguay, offshore Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Gulf of Mexico, and the North Sea. Gerardo has worked in both exploration and production projects, e.g., from exploring for hydrocarbons under salt canopies to drilling through 3,000 m of salt. Further, Gerardo is the co-founder of the Young Professionals Summit and advises student chapters across Europe; helping fellow young professionals and future geoscientists to kick off their careers and explore different career paths.

He is a geologist graduated from the Federal University of Bahia in 1981 (GEOPET – Petrobras Agreement). He holds an MBA in Oil and Gas from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2000-2001) and attended the StanfordExecutive Program (SEP) at Stanford University, USA, in 2007. He began his managerial career as Head of the Geology Area at Braspetro, a position he held from 1991 until 2001, when Braspetro was incorporated into Petrobras. From 2002to May 2004 he was Non-Operated Assets Manager for the Nigeria Business Unit, based in Rio de Janeiro. In June 2004 he was expatriated to Nigeria asExploration Manager, a position he held until August 2006. He was appointed Managing Director of the Nigeria Business Unit in September 2006, holding this position until June 2009, when the Akpo and Agbami discoveries went into production. From July 2009 to August 2010, he was Manager of Regional Studies at INTER-TEC/EXP. He was again expatriated to Portugal in September 2010, where he held the Exploration Management of PIB-POR until November 2012. Here turned to Brazil in December 2012, as General Manager of Project Management at INTER-AL/GP, until May 2015. With the incorporation of international activities to E&P, from June 2015 to August 2016 he held the Project Management position of E&P-INTER/ASUL/PROJ and from September 2016 to March 2018 the PostInvestment Coordination (CPINV) of TAR/ASUL. In March 2018 he was expatriated to Mexico as Chief Executive Officer of Petrobras Mexico and GeneralManager of PTD Servicios Multiples, a position he held until September 2019, when he returned to Brazil and continued in activities related to Mexico as SpecialCoordinator until April 30, 2020. On May 18, 2020, he resigned from Petrobras. OnJune 1, 2020, he joined Pré-Sal Petróleo S.A.-PPSA as ExplorationSuperintendent.

He is currently the General Manager for Exploration in Brazil. He is a geologist by background and brings a wealth of experience after 23 years in various roles in Exploration, Development and Unconventionals. He joined Shell in 2002 as Exploration Geologist and since have worked as Operations Geologist, Exploration Geoscientist, Subsurface Coordinator, Team Lead, Exploration and Development Manager, in several ventures in Rio and Houston

He is currently Landmark Tech Leader at Halliburton Brazil Technology Center (HBTC) in Rio, has collaborated operators in applied research, development and innovation projects applied to pre-salt and post-sal challenges. Márcio has 26 years of industry experience joined HALLIBURTON in 2000. Before worked in Brazil National Petroleum Agency (ANP) and PETROBRAS/CENPES with FUNCAMP. During his career worked as geoscientist involved with exploration and reservoir consulting, business, product development and tech center leadership.  Márcio is geophysicist from University of Sao Paulo (USP), Master of Science from UNICAMP and MBA from FGV. He is currently UFRJ Tech Park counsel and coordinator of ABESPetro R&D workgroup.

Holds a master’s degree in geology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and has 18 years of experience in the oil industry, working for Petrobras. During this period, since the exploratory phase, he has been involved in subsurface analyses of different pre-salt areas, working for 5 years as a reservoir geology advisor and 6 years as a reservoir manager. He is currently the manager of the reservoir team responsible for identifying opportunities for production development projects in the Tupi, Sapinhoá and Mexilhão fields