Speaker Mariano Gurfinkel, Hess
Mariano Gurfinkel is currently the Planning Manager for Portfolio Evaluation for the Global Onshore Business Unit of Hess Corporation. At Hess he has served in multiple roles within Global Exploration and New Ventures organizations. Prior to joining Hess, he worked at the Bureau of Economic Geology where he contributed to …
Mariano Gurfinkel is currently the Planning Manager for Portfolio Evaluation for the Global Onshore Business Unit of Hess Corporation. At Hess he has served in multiple roles within Global Exploration and New Ventures organizations.
Prior to joining Hess, he worked at the Bureau of Economic Geology where he contributed to the National Petroleum Council’s 2007 study on energy “The Hard Truths”.
Before working at the BEG, he held positions of increasing responsibility at PDVSA-Intevep, the R&D affiliate of the Venezuelan national oil company. His focus was on the production, handling and in-situ upgrading of extra-heavy crude oil. Trained as a Mechanical Engineer (Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas) he also obtained a MSME and PhD from MIT. He holds three patents.
Active within the SPE, he has been a member of the Editorial Committee of the JPT, multiple SPE conferences and Forums and is currently the Chair of the R&D Technical Section of the SPE.
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