management
Krishna Vathyam President, CEO and Director (Calgary & Bogota)
  • Over 25 years of international oil and gas experience with Schlumberger
  • Experience includes management, operations, field developments, production enhancement and heavy oil
  • Country Manager in Colombia and Venezuela (operations, financial, regulatory and security)
  • Executive level peer network with Pacific Rubiales, Sincor, PDVSA, StatoilHydro, ONGC, Ecopetrol, Schlumberger, Baker Hughes, M-I Swaco and TransOcean

 

Max Rolla - Vice President Exploration (Bogota)
  • 23 years of oil and gas experience with Maraven (PDVSA), Amoco, ConocoPhillips and StatoilHydro
  • Masters Degree in Geophysical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines in 1995
  • Executive level peer network with Pacific Rubiales, BPZ and StatoilHydro

 

Arturo Lara - Chief Geoscientist (Bogota)
  • 30 years of oil and gas experience in South America with Maraven (PDVSA), Total and Gazprom
  • Masters in geology from IFP (French Institute of Petroleum)
  • Expertise in exploration geology play and location identification
  • Executive level peer network with Pacific Rubiales, Gazprom, Total, PDVSA and Maraven

 

Emir Arzola - Chief Reservoir Manager (Bogota)
  • 29 years of oil and gas experience in Colombia and Venezuela
  • Maraven (PDVSA), Perez Companc and Petrobras
  • Colombia Operations Mgr with Tecnopetrol (pre-cursor to Pacific Stratus)
  • Reservoir Engineer

 

Jorge Garcia - General Manager (Colombia & Peru) (Bogota)
  • 17 years of International Oil & Gas experience with Schlumberger and Mobil
  • Worked in Colombia, USA, France, Spain, Portugal, Australia, North Africa
  • Engineer and MBA

 

V.C. Mohan - Consulting Chief Geophysicist (India)
  • 50 years of oil and gas experience with ONGC
  • Founder of ONGC's geophysical processing centre, discovered KG Basin (India) and initiated ONGC Videsh
  • Executive level peer network with ONGC and OVL