Vitor dos Santos Abreu

Vitor Abreu received his B.S. and M.S. degrees at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil) and his Ph.D. degree at Rice University (Houston, Texas). He worked for Petrobras from 1987 to 1997, for Unocal from 1998 to 2000, and for ExxonMobil from 2000 to 2015. Vitor has 28 years of experience in the oil industry, with a proven record in evaluating, risking and/or drilling in 22 countries and 31 sedimentary basins in the 6 continents. Vitor spent the majority of his 15 years with ExxonMobil as a Senior Technical Consultant for Deep Water Reservoirs. His areas of expertise include projects in tectono-stratigraphic evolution of basins in different tectonic settings, regional studies to define the petroleum system elements and key plays in frontier exploration, maturing opportunities to drillable status, and play to prospect risking assessment. His experience in development and production includes several field studies mostly in deep water systems, with high-resolution stratigraphic interpretation integrated to engineering data to define reservoir connectivity and main baffles and barriers for effective field development plans. On research, Vitor is considered one of the world leaders on reservoir characterization of deep water systems, proposing new deep water models with strong impact in reservoir characterization and also developing research projects including deep water outcrops in North America and Europe. He has applied his geologic expertise to almost all producing deep-water basins, impacting activities in West Africa, Brazil, U.S., Canada, northern South America, The North Sea, The Black Sea, Russia, South Africa and Tanzania. In the last ferw years, he has also been involved on Guyana exploration and development, describing almost all the cores taken so far, interpreting seismic to map prospects, and building environment of deposition maps to support efforts on reservoir model building.

graduation at Geologia from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (1984), master's at Geology from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (1988) and doctorate at Stratigraphy from Rice University (1998). Has experience in Geosciences, focusing on Stratigraphic