Created for the
technical rebuild
of an oil nation.
Venezuela. Venezuela holds the largest proven hydrocarbon reserves on earth. Re-entry is no longer hypothetical — it is being scoped, capitalized, and engineered. Myrina Ventures is the consultancy purpose-built for that work.

JD in Environmental, Oil & Gas, and Intellectual Property Law (University of Houston Law Center, 2000) on top of twenty-nine years of operator-side geomodeling at Conoco/ConocoPhillips, Noble Energy, and Murphy Oil. Built the Petrel geologic models for the giant Leviathan and Tamar gas fields in the Eastern Mediterranean. Led the geologic team for ConocoPhillips' Zuata Heavy Oil Expansion acreage selection — the Conoco-PdVSA Faja joint venture — and built the Petrozuata and Hamaca field models that underwrote the project financing well-performance test in 2001. Deep-water and onshore work across the Gulf of Mexico, Algeria (Menzel Ledjmat Nord, El Merk, Ourhoud), Russia, the Caspian, the Falklands, and offshore Mexico's Ayin-Batsil. SEPM Distinguished Service Award (twice). Houston-based — and Houston is where the oil-and-gas industry meets. Drafts the OFAC license analyses, red-lines the contracts, renders the Petrel surfaces himself, walks into the conference room in person. Partner with Irúa in Fielder-Euribe Subsurface Associates LLC since 2023.

Seventy million barrels of oil added via his patented Advanced Petrophysical Model. Forty-one percent reduction in hydraulic-fracturing stage count at PEMEX Reynosa-Tampico — $2.1M saved on a single asset. Twenty-five percent production uplift at PEMEX Activo Abkatún Pol Chuc. Eighteen years across Venezuela, Mexico, Trinidad, Canada, Oman, Brazil, Equatorial Guinea, the USA, Colombia, and Argentina — currently at Inter Rock USA LLC in Houston. Three IP patents he authored and uses daily: Advanced Petrophysical Model © (2015, including Porosity Discretization for Carbonates), Integrated Advanced Petrophysical & Interpretation Model © (2023), and Optimization Module of the Operational Window in Well Planning, Design & Drilling © (2024). Energy-transition reservoir characterization as a working specialty: CO₂ storage, natural-gas storage, underground hydrogen storage, geothermal, geological hydrogen. The hand on every Myrina petrophysical model — not the supervisor of one.

Over a thousand stratigraphic, intermediate, and horizontal wells drilled with her hands on the geosteering. Thirty-plus years of operational geology that started in the North Sea with EXLOG (a 1990 world depth record well from the Brent platforms, the UK NIREX coring program at Sellafield), then twenty years across Venezuela's Faja Heavy Oil belt with Petrozuata, Cerro Negro, Petrolera Ameriven, and PDVSA Petropiar — planning well pads, running wellsite geologist teams, supervising drilling 24/7 on real-time data feeds, and training the next generation on Landmark and geosteering protocol. A Latin America TVD horizontal-well record in 1996. Fifteen producing-asset evaluations (1B+ BOE in place) for FAVEL International across Texas, Oklahoma, California, and Colombia's Middle Magdalena. Landmark (SeisWorks, StratWorks, OpenVision, ZMap), Petrel, Gocad, Petrosys, Insite. The hand on the geosteering decision when the bit is moving — not the supervisor of it.

Thirty-four years of exploration leadership across Eni and beyond — and the depth of operator-side experience that makes the basins he maps commercially legible. Exploration Manager for Petrosucre, the Eni-PDVSA mixed enterprise operating Venezuela's Eastern basin from Puerto La Cruz (2009–2011). Eni Liaison Manager for Latin America afterward (2011–2015), the corporate hinge between Milan headquarters and operated subsidiaries. Earlier: Exploration Manager Eni North Africa in Tripoli (Sirt basin), project management on Croatia offshore and Algeria's Berkine basin, senior geophysicist on the UK Central Graben and Atlantic margin frontier. Later: Ecopetrol Technical Team Lead in Bogotá, leading exploration across Colombian near-field and deep-frontier plays. Published on the Sirt basin Nubian play and the Dinaric foredeep. Italian, English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese — all at full professional level. Currently in an academic teaching role; joining the Myrina bench full-time from August 2027 upon retirement from his appointment. Available for project-specific consulting between now and then — the upstream-of-the-upstream view that frames where Myrina's static modeling sits, held by someone who has run actual Venezuelan operations in country.

Twenty-nine years executing reservoir engineering and well productivity across Venezuela, Mexico, and Colombia. Heavy-oil specialist — PDVSA's Tierra Este Pesado (300 MBD heavy-oil monitoring), SAGD thermal-recovery design at C-7 Tía Juana Pesado, FEL / VCD methodology rolled out at PEMEX with documented results: 75-well intervention portfolio at Cinco Presidentes (+7,590 BPD oil + 15.5 MMPCN gas projected) and a 50-well portfolio at Cárdenas-Jacinto-Paredón (+10,198 BPD oil + 25 MMPCN gas projected). Surface-network design on Pacific Rubiales' Quifa (620 wells) and Rubiales (1,230 wells) saved $8M on a single asset. Eight years on Frontera Energy's heavy-crude desk in the Llanos with 25–30% surface water reduction at high-BSW wells while holding 90–95% of oil production. OFM, Pipesim, MBAL, Prosper, Wellflo. Caracas-resident — one of the returnees the 2007–2017 chapter was waiting on.

Project delivery and engagement coordination for Myrina's Lecherías-anchored work — the operational interface between the technical bench in Phoenix and Milan, the OFAC and due-diligence desk in Houston, the governance and reservoir-engineering bench in Caracas, and the Venezuelan client cycle on the ground. The role that makes a multi-jurisdictional consultancy function in practice rather than on paper: a Petrel model originated in Milan, a reserves report cross-checked in Houston, and a corporate or regulatory filing drafted in Caracas all converge through this seat before reaching a Venezuelan operator's desk. In-country procurement and logistics, field-access coordination, contractor and safety protocol management, and the day-to-day operational continuity that lets a five-time-zone delivery rhythm hold its commitments. Anchor of the Q3 2026 Myrina Energy office stand-up — the difference between a Venezuelan subsidiary as a registered entity and a Venezuelan subsidiary as a working office producing deliverables. The on-the-ground discipline that closes every Lecherías-routed engagement — not the supervisor of one.

Venezuela corporate registration. M&A regulatory filing, supply-chain compliance, country risk frameworks. The institutional layer that prepares Myrina Energy for operational launch — drafted, filed, and walked through, in person, in country. Twenty-plus years executing the work: international procurement at Schlumberger across Venezuela and Trinidad & Tobago (Web Procurement System implementation); strategic purchasing at Siemens (Project Procurement Management compliance rollout); international infrastructure contract management at Andrade Gutierréz across three countries; strategic governance, CSR direction, and M&A regulatory documentation at Grupo Conroy, including Chordoma Foundation clinical-trial investment liaison. Currently co-founder of XCity, an AI-cognitive-wellness platform. Risk Manager ISO 31000 (ERCA, 2017). IESA strategic-negotiation, project-management, ontological coaching, and business-agility certified. Spanish, English, French, and Portuguese in working use — the last unlocks Brazilian sponsor conversations few Venezuelan-side firms can have in language.