Our Team Members

Edgard Ramirez

Gas, Oil and Energy Project Development Specialist

MBA, Petroleum Engineer, Senior Consultant in the development and implementation of energy projects in the public and private sector in Latin America.

Developer of Investment Projects in Oil and Gas, Upstream and Downstream, 30 years of experience in engineering and operations as well as in economic and financial analysis of projects, development of investment project in the oil & natural gas chain, production, process plants, transport and distribution of natural gas by pipeline, commercialization of natural gas in the wholesale market, secondary market, and commercialization to the end user, analysis of prices of oil and gas and supply-demand and regulation of prices and tariffs.

Miguel Zabala-Bishop

INTERNATIONAL OIL & GAS AND ENERGY ADVISORY

With over 25 years of experience, he has cultivated a global network in the oil, gas, and energy sectors, earning recognition from industry and professional bodies for his expertise. As a lawyer and consultant, he specializes in business development within oil and gas, energy, contracts, and international relations. Demonstrating a proven track record, he has successfully represented multinational corporations. He has excelled in delivering consulting services and skillfully led, produced, and organized diverse events in the oil and gas, energy renewables, energy services, and energy supply-chain sectors.

Some of the companies and organizations he has built strong relations with include Shell (formerly BG), Repsol, BP, Total Energies, Petrobras, Oxy, Halliburton, SLB (formerly Schlumberger), CNPC-BGP, Sinopec, and many more. Additionally, he has collaborated with industry associations and institutions such as SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers), AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists), GIZ (German Agency for International Cooperation), Swisscontact (Swiss Foundation for Technical Cooperation), and ARPEL (Association of Oil, Gas, and Renewable Energy Companies of Latin America), among others. His contributions extend to government agencies, ministries, and NOCs (National Oil Companies) in Energy, Oil and Gas, Mining, and beyond.

Marcelo Hirschfeldt

Operations and Production Engineer

Petroleum Engineer with 29 years of experience in activities related to Operations and Production Engineering, in Fields of the San Jorge Gulf Basin, Argentina and Latin American countries. He has experience in training and advice in the area of ​​Production Technologies, having given 49 courses to 924 professionals (1843 hours) from 60 organizations from 9 Latin American countries (Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela). Experience in consulting and advice for the optimization of production and management of production assets.

Juan J. Fattobene

GEOLOGIST

With over 30 years of experience, I completed a postgraduate course as a Geologist specializing in Petroleum Engineering at the Petroleum Institute of the National University of Buenos Aires

Eduardo Cristancho

Oil & Gas Mechanical Integrity Specialist

PETROLEUM ENGINEER, Gas Engineering Specialist, Gas Pipeline Integrity Specialist and oil and gas plants, Active Member of the National Association Corrosion Engineer (NACE). Eduardo Cristancho is a specialist in Engineering and has 18 years of experience in the energy sector, in the development of conceptual and basic engineering studies for pipeline transportation systems. In his consulting activity, he has participated in studies and gas projects in Colombian Gas Company Ecogás, Colombian Oil Company – Ecopetrol, SKANSKA Consortium – Conciviles Transportadora de Gas del Interior TGI SA, among others.

Alexei Huerta

Oil and Gas reservoir engineering specialist

Petroleum Engineer, with a master’s degree in Energy and Environment, collegiate with extensive experience in characterization, management and numerical simulation of reservoirs (using Petrel RE, T-Navigator and Eclipse, business development and investment projects, development of integrated models (through GAP, PROSPER and MBAL), evaluation and management of reserves and resources (following SEC regulations and PRMS standard), preparation of development plans, production forecasts and analysis of flow of box under deterministic and probabilistic approaches (using OFM and applications in Excel), as well as risk analysis and decision making (developing applications in Crystal Ball and @ Risk).

Rafael Rodriguez Villalobos

Project Planning and Control Engineer

Industrial Engineer, with 10 years of experience in Oil & Gas Projects, focusing in Engineering and construction projects, as a Project Planning and Control Engineer, Control of work progress, Coordinate with the construction team the activities to develop 3W lookahead, weekly plan, analysis of restrictions, prepare the base “S” curve, follow-up of planned progress, actual progress, projected, cost control and project cost forecast, elaboration of Valuations of Work, Control management of time, scope, cost, quality of each Project.

Felipe Villegas

Energy cost and tariff specialist

CIVIL ENGINEER, MBA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LOS ANDES. Felipe Villegas is a cost and tariff specialist with 18 years of experience in the energy, natural gas and electricity sectors. In his consulting activity, he has advised Itansuca, Pacific Rubiales Energy, Llanogas del Meta, Gas Natural FENOSA de Bogotá, the Ministry of Mines and Energy of Colombia, among other companies in the sector, and has worked at the CREG as a technical advisor on gas regulation natural, in teaching he has taught courses at Pacific Rubiales and at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá.

John O’Brein

Financial Economic Analyst

ECONOMIST, Double MBA at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and at the Maastricht School of Management – ​​The Netherlands, Ph.D. (c) in Strategic Business Administration at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. In his consulting activity, as part of the Latin Energy firm, he has participated in different studies and projects related to the economic-financial analysis of investment projects. Economic regulation of natural gas prices and tariffs, Market study, supply and demand of hydrocarbons, Studies of detailed Models of Investment Costs of Transportation and Distribution Systems, for different State Institutions: Osinergmin, Petroperú, Perúpetro, among others, and for private sector companies: Crosstex, Duke Energy, Gnera Energy, among others.

Juan Carlos Romani

 Operations and Production Engineer

Chemical Engineer, Degrees Master of Business Administration and Master of Energy Management, and studies PhDs in Strategic Business Management. 33 years of experience in the hydrocarbons industry, locally as international, Business Development Management in Oil and Gas, Operations Management of Marine Terminal of Hydrocarbons and Operations Management of the Bolivian Hydrocarbons Logistics Company (CLHB).

Gustavo Prado

Electrical engineering specialist

Professional specialized in electrical engineering, Master of Administration with a mention in business management, diploma in energy markets and their regulation, with more than 5 years of experience as a business analyst in the electrical sector.

Alexandra Rojas

Petroleum Engineer

Petroleum engineering, experience as a commercial bidding assistant, registration of selection procedures, support in the coordination of contractual execution and compliance with the bases, control and monitoring of market studies.

Kevin Meza Ventura

B.Sc. Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Professional in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering. Specialization in Natural Gas Management and in Regulation and Energy Market. Experience in the development of research projects in the TRM Research Group, focused on the application of Machine Learning in the energy industry.

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