SBGf - Sociedade Brasileira de Geofísica

Escola de Geologia e Geofísica em Óleo e Gás

Committee

Pedro Zalán (ZAG Consulting)

Pedro Zalán worked for Petrobras for 34 years where he held the positions of well site geologist, interpretation geologist, explorationist, coordinator of technical teams and exploration manager for several basins in Brazil and worldwide, notably for the North Sea, Gulf of Mexico, West Africa and South America. He was appointed top senior consultant in his last 8 years with the company. His technical interests are mainly structural geology, tectonics, architecture of rifts/ruptured continental margins, exploration in deep/ultra-deep waters, seismic interpretation/mapping, and integration of regional data in order to evaluate the economic potential of major petroleum systems. Zalán has produced several tens of publications and has given presentations in numerous international conferences. He received a Bachelor degree in Geology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. titles in Geology from the Colorado School of Mines, Golden. He was awarded the Orville Derby Golden Medal in 2005 by the Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia, the Gabriel Dengo Memorial Award from the AAPG (2010) and the Giuseppe Bacoccoli and Rodi Ávila Medeiros Medals (2012 and 2017) by the ABGP (Brazilian Association of Petroleum Geologists). Upon retirement, Zalán founded ZAG Consulting in Petroleum Exploration, based in Rio de Janeiro. Since 2012 he has been a consultant for exploration matters for more than 30 companies in Brazil and abroad; as well as for Brazilian government entities such as ANP, EPE and the Navy.

Luiz Braga (Invision Geofísica & SBGf)

Luiz Braga is an exploration geophysicist with more than 20 years of experience in the O&G industry, and over 40 years in the Earth Sciences. He has been involved in acquisition, processing, and interpretation of almost all kind of geophysical data applied to petroleum exploration, with major experience in Multiphysics integrated to Seismic works. Dr. Braga has a strong involvement with most of the Geophysical Departments and Research Institutions in Brazil because of his former extensive cooperative work as a Professor, Thesis Advisor and/or member of thesis committee. He has worked with geophysical data of all Brazilian basins during the 14 years he spent at Petrobras as Field Supervisor, Processor, and Interpreter and, during the last 8 years before leaving the company in 1998, as Petrobras non-seismic division General Manager, spread over all its exploration branches, internationally. Dr. Braga is a founder member of the Brazilian Society of Geophysicists (SBGf) for which he was elected Secretary in 1999. He has been in the position of Vice-President of SBGf since 2019. He is also a SEG, EAGE, and AAPG member, and former member of AGU. From 2008 to 2013 he was based in Houston working for Fugro in the position of VP of Global Business Development, promoting the geoscience technologies offered by the Company worldwide. After the acquisition of Fugro Geosciences by CGG in early 2013, Dr. Braga returned to Brazil taking the position of VP and Geomarket Director for CGG Latin America. In Sept 2015 he was appointed Director Brazil for Seabed Geosolutions -JV CGG-Fugro. At present Dr. Braga is the R&D and New Ventures Director for Invision Geophysics.