Dr. Ferreira has more than than 20 years of domestic and international experience in the oil and gas industry. He is currently the President and CEO for Surpetrol Inc., an engineering company based in Houston and also serves on the Board of Directors for Ecopetrol (Colombian company). 

He has conducted research in optimization of multiphase meters, underbalanced reservoir engineering, real time reservoir and production analysis, reservoir simulation and waterflood techniques with horizontal wells.

Before Surpetrol, Dr Ferreira worked for Weatherford and Roxar as team leader in reservoir engineering applications using state-of-the-art technology.  Dr. Ferreira holds MS and PHD in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M.  He has several publications in reservoir management.