Renato Bertani |
Chief Executive Officer |
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Renato Bertani is the CEO of Barra Energia since May 2010, responsible for defining business strategies, implementing an investment plan for exploration and development of production in certain sedimentary basins, and for the operational and corporate management of the company.
In December of 2011 Mr. Bertani was elected President of the World Petroleum Council, an organization that congregates 66 member countries whose main objectives are to promote the development of oil and gas resources to the benefit of mankind and promote the debate of the global energy issues. He previously served as Vice President of the WPC since 2005 and was responsible for the technical program for the World Petroleum Congress that took place in Doha, Qatar, in 2011, and Madrid, Spain, in 2008. He serves in the advisory board of the board of the Maguire Energy Institute of the Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. He served as a trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston from 2003 to 2006, as President of the Brazil Texas Chamber of Commerce from 2002 to 2007, and as Director of the Brazilian Petroleum Institute from 1995 to 1997.
Before assuming his current position at Barra Energia, he was the CEO for Thompson & Knight Global Energy Services, LLC, a subsidiary of Thompson & Knight established to provide development services and business portfolio management for the energy industry in general.
Previously, Bertani worked for 31 years at Petrobras, a Brazilian state oil company, performing various roles in technical level and senior management. Among them, he served as the President of Petrobras America, Inc., a subsidiary of the Brazilian state company with headquarters in Houston, where he was responsible for an investment plan very successful, resulting in the creation of a valuable exploration and production assets portfolio (2001-2006). He was also Executive Director of Petrobras UK (1998-2001) and International Director of the Petrobras E&P Group (1992-1997).
He has over 33 years of international experience in exploration and production projects, acquisitions and divestitures in Latin America (particularly Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Argentina), West Africa, UK and Gulf of Mexico (USA), being directly responsible for implementing innovative strategies and leading teams that led to major discoveries of oil and gas such as gas fields of San Alberto and San Antonio in Bolivia, the offshore oil fields of Akpo and Agbami, in Nigeria, and the Cascade, Chinook, Saint Malo in the Lower Tertiary in the Gulf of Mexico (USA).
Renato T. Bertani holds a degree in Geology from the University of Rio Grande do Sul and obtained the degrees of Ms. Sci and Ph.D. in Sedimentary Geology and Geochemistry from the University of Illinois, USA. He also developed and taught a course in E&P Business Management that has been taught with great success in Houston (five times), Rio de Janeiro (four times), China, Uruguay and Nicaragua.
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Brian Byrne |
Chief Financial Officer & VP Business Development |
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Brian Byrne has been Chief Financial Officer since November 2013 and Vice President Business Development since May 2010. Mr. Byrne’s responsibilities include directing Barra Energia’s corporate finance activity, overseeing its accounting and control functions, maintaining relationships with key financial institutions and independent auditors, and optimizing Barra Energia’s international tax structure. Mr. Byrne is also responsible for Barra Energia’s transaction evaluation, structuring and execution activity.
Mr. Byrne has been involved in the oil and gas industry for 20 years, working as an investment banker as well as a member of project execution teams at an integrated oil major.
Prior to joining Barra Energia, Mr. Byrne served as a Director in Citigroup’s Global Energy investment banking group where he was responsible for origination and execution of merger and acquisition initiatives as well as capital markets transactions in the oil and gas sector. Before joining Citigroup, he was an Associate in the Energy Group at Wasserstein Perrella & Co where he also focused on mergers and acquisitions in the E&P space.
Mr. Byrne began his career at Atlantic Richfield Company where he was involved in executing capital markets transactions as well as acquisition and divestiture projects.
Mr. Byrne received a BA in Political Science from Syracuse University and an MBA from Georgetown University where he received Beta Gamma Sigma honors.
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Cesar Cainelli |
Vice President Exploration and Production |
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Cesar Cainelli is currently the Vice President Exploration and Production since Out/2010, being responsible for the company's upstream activities that lead to a formation of a balanced and profitable portfolio of exploration and production assets, mainly in the Santos, Campos and Espírito Santo basins.
Before joining Barra Energia, he worked 31 years at Petrobras - Petroleo Brasileiro S/A (1979-2010) in several management and technical functions, being his last post, from 2008 to 2010, in Petrobras´ headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, as Exploration Manager of the Espírito Santo basin, in 15 large offshore exploration blocks in addition to supervising the activities on the land area of the basin.
Among his most important positions, he was the Exploration VP for PETROBRAS AMERICA INC. in Houston (USA), from 2004 to 2008, acquiring over 200 blocks in the Gulf of Mexico and driving the company´s findings and/or delimitation of important discoveries such as Cascade, Chinook, Saint Malo, Stones and Tiber. Between 2002 and 2004, he was the Exploration Global Manager of Petrobras, being responsible for all the international activities of the company, especially in the Americas and Africa.
Mr. Cainelli has over 30 years of experience in the national and international oil sector, being recognized by the industry as an experienced geologist oil finder. He has great knowledge of the depositional models and petroleum systems of deep waters in Brazil, West Africa and Gulf of Mexico, and in the formation and management of multi-functional teams to identify areas with high hydrocarbon potential, explore and delineate large accumulations of oil and gas in deep waters.
Cesar Cainelli holds a degree in Geology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), and a PhD degree in Geology from the University of Texas at Austin (USA). In addition, has participated in dozens of conferences, seminars and symposiums in Brazil and abroad as a participant, lecturer, professor and chairman. Has taught several courses in Stratigraphy, Sedimentation and Oil Systems in the Brazilian and foreign universities as a visiting professor and in the guidance of masters and doctoral students, being instructor of the AAPG, SEPM, and SEG courses on the geology of Brazilian sedimentary basins.
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Shiniti Ohara |
Vice President Operations |
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Shiniti Ohara is Vice President Operations at Barra Energia, responsible for analyzing and following drilling performance, cost calculation and helping on technical and business strategic analysis. He also is responsible for the implementation of the Health, Environment and Safety Management System.
Shiniti is also a collaborator Professor of the Polytechnic School’s Petroleum Engineer Course - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) where he lectures Well Engineering and Advance Drilling Courses since 2005. He also taught Drilling at MBA in E&P Management Course of Brazilian Institute of Petroleum, Gas and Biofuel (IBP) from 2006 to 2010. He was chairman of the Operation Subcommittee of the IBP for several terms. He has deep knowledge of local content definition and requirements for each ANP Bid Round having participated in the Work Group of Local Content of Prominp (Program of Mobilization of the National E&P Industry coordinated by the Minister of Mines and Energy). He also cooperated to write the IADC (International Association of Drilling Contractors) Deep water Well Control Guidelines, and he was author and co-author of many technical papers presented in Conferences and published in technical magazines. He also participated in many examination boards of Graduation Projects, Master and Doctoral thesis. He is a member of SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineer), and he was the Director of Technology Transfer from 2003 to 2005 and Director of Continued Education of SPE’s Brazil Chapter. He also participated in various Technical Committees of the Rio Oil &Gas Conference and Exhibition and OTC (Offshore Technology Conference) in Houston and Brazil.
Before assuming his current position at Barra Energia, he was the Drilling Manager of HRT Petróleo e Gás, BP do Brasil and Devon Energia do Brasil Ltda (where he stayed for five years) and managed to drill a Brazilian extended reach record well with 6,500m measured depth and 5,600m departure. He also was the Managing Director of Seapos Ltda, a subsidiary of Shell Brasil Ltda, Vice President of Operations of Pecten, Asset Manager of Merluza (gas production platform), E&P Supply Chain Manager and Drilling Superintendent of Shell Brasil where he worked for six years and participated in the first oil discoveries after the opening the Brazilian O&G market in the blocks BC-10 and BS-4. He participated in the Brazilian water depth record well (2,887m) using surface BOP and dynamically positioned rig. He also was the Technical and Contract Manager for R&B Falcon (Transocean).
Previously, Shiniti worked for 20 years at Petrobras performing various roles in technical level and management. Among them, he was the Manager of the Exploratory Drilling for South and Southeast Region, and Head of the Directional Sector where he leaded the drilling of the first horizontal well of Latin America in 1989 in the Bonito Field. He was the Deep water Well Control Coordinator and Coordinator of the Dynamically Positioned Safety Program (DPPS). He participated in the drilling of more than 500 offshore wells being 200 wells in deep waters, in his career, being among them the discovery wells of Albacora, Marlim and Roncador giants fields.
Shiniti Ohara holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) where he also attended B.S. in Computer Science Course (incomplete) and received the M.Sc. degree in Petroleum Engineer from the same University. He also holds a Ph.D. degree in Petroleum Engineering from Louisiana State University (LSU) in the U.S. He was elected by the students the Honored Professor of the first graduation ceremony in Petroleum Engineer of UFRJ in 2009 and again in 2014. He is a member of the honorific Petroleum Engineer Society Pi Epsilon Tau.
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Luis Groppo |
ADM/HR Manager |
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Luis Groppo has been the Administration and Human Resources Manager with Barra Energia since May 2016, with responsibilities over the pay roll, including employee’s benefits and labor regulations, management of administrative contracts, selection and hiring of new team members and support to the upper management of the company in all admin/hr and labor related matters.
Mr. Groppo is a senior executive with professional experience in the areas of Human Resources, Administration, Quality and Compliance, is very result oriented, with a well established experience working with national and multi-national large companies, directly involved in the direct and indirect management of professional teams. His past experience includes 18 years working with Lubrizol do Brasil, a multi-national company in the fuel additives business, and 11 years with Othon Hotels Group, always actively involved in the Human Resources and Admin areas.
Mr. Groppo has more than thirty years of experience in the Admin/HR sectors, has a degree in Corporate Administration with focus on Systems Management and received an MBA degree in Corporate Management from CEFET/RJ.
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Adhara Lopes |
Commercial Manager |
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Adhara Lopes is Commercial Manager of Barra Energia since January 2016, responsible mainly for the commercial and operational management of the company's oil production.
Previously, Adhara worked during four years in OGX/OGPar as Commercial Analyst and Commercial Coordinator. Among her main activities, was the development and coordination of the company's exportation model and the monitoring and analysis of the oil market and transportation. She was also responsible for the qualifications and company registrations for oil export purposes upon the Brazilian authorities.
Prior joining OGX/OGPar, Adhara worked for eight years at Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro), in the commercial area of Import and Export of Oil. Among her responsibilities, which were related to the oil operational area, were imports and exports, offshore sales and domestic sales, through international experiences in Singapore and London. Adhara started her career at Global Transporte Oceânico, being responsible for maritime monitoring and programming of ships.
Adhara Lopes graduated in Foreign Trade from the University Estacio de Sá and has MBE in Foreign Trade from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ.
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Antonio Rocha |
Senior Geophysicist |
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Antonio Rocha is a Senior Geophysicist at Barra Energia since October 2010. He works with the interpretation of BM-S-8 Block, with particular focus in the appraisal interpretation of Carcará Field, in the Pre-Salt, including reservoir static model building. In BS-4 Block, he has performed a complete exploratory evaluation of all leads and prospects, working as secondee for the operator, QGEP. Moreover, he has done a detailed interpretation of Atlanta Field. He has worked also in the new ventures, with the evaluation of exploratory blocks offered in the Espírito Santo Basin in the Round 11 and also in the integration of all available data aiming Pre-Salt in Santos Basin.
Before assuming his current roles at Barra Energia, he was team leader at BG E&P Brasil, being responsible by the operation of BM-S-52 block and by the studies and follow up of the exploration of the blocks BM-S-50, BM-S-10 and BM-S-9 (exploration part), all in the Pre-Salt of Santos Basin. He was also in charge of the new areas evaluation of this basin. Rocha worked for more than 23 years in the international branch of Petrobras, a Brazilian state oil company, performing several technical roles and some in the management, among them as Exploration, Reserves and Reservoir manager of Bolivian assets between 2000 and 2004. In this period, he was the responsible for the program and follow up of the appraisal program of the giant gas fields of San Alberto and Sabalo and also for a new ventures aggressive approach that allowed the acquisition of three exploration blocks. Later, acted as coordinator in the Southern Cone portfolio management. After leaving the company and worked for Hocol in Colombia, he came back as Exploration Manager of a Libyan asset, including new ventures roles of Libyan and Algerian basins.
Rocha has more than 34 years in exploration/development projects. He worked in basins of all South American countries with petroleum tradition (Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia e Venezuela). As far as African basins are concerned, he worked for a long time with Angola exploration and new ventures in Gabon, Congo, Ivory Coast and Algeria.
Rocha has a degree in Geology by the São Paulo State University in Brazil and a Ms. Sci in Petroleum Geo-engineering by Campinas State University (also in São Paulo State, Brazil), with thesis in the reservoir geophysics area.
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Liliane Tucci |
Controller |
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Liliane Tucci has been Controller of Barra Energia since May 2014 and is responsible for preparing all the Company’s financial statements and other managerial reports used in internal deliberations and executive decision making. Ms. Tucci also oversees the Company’s accounting compliance and control functions and is the primary interface with Barra Energia’s outside auditors. She joined the company in July 2011, initially serving as Accounting Manager where she was an integral member of the team that developed the Company’s financial reporting infrastructure and ERP system. Prior to joining Barra Energia, Ms. Tucci worked as Accounting Coordinator at Anglo Ferrous Brazil (producer of iron ore pellets).
Ms. Tucci spent nine years at the largest accounting firm in Rio de Janeiro, Domingues and Pinho Contadores, where she was a managing partner responsible for an accounting department focused primarily on service providers. She was also in charge of development and administering training for employees, customers and new trainees.
Ms. Tucci has over seventeen years of professional accounting and control experience and received her degree in Accounting from Centro Universitário da Cidade and her MBA in Controlling and Finance from Universidade Cândido Mendes.
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