Biography - Rafael Sandrea, Ph.D.

Dr. Sandrea graduated cum laude in petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa and received his Ph.D. from Penn State University.  He headed the petroleum engineering department at the Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela and later was the Ford Foundation Professor in the Graduate School of petroleum engineering at the Universidad Nacional of Mexico. Dr. Sandrea and his professor from Penn State, Dr. Ralph Nielsen, published Dynamics of Petroleum Reservoirs under Gas Injection, Gulf Publishing, 1974, a book used extensively in petroleum engineering courses around the world.
 
In 1974 he founded a Caracas-based engineering company, ITS Servicios Técnicos.  During his 30-year tenure as President and CEO, ITS provided the oil and gas industry a wide range of technical services and products, including project management, reservoir engineering, geology, seismic processing, E&P data management, and business archiving.  ITS carried out projects in several countries around the world including the US, Chile, Pakistan, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.  During this time Dr. Sandrea served on the Board of Joint Venture Alliances with international companies from the United States, Great Britain, and France.

Today Dr. Sandrea is President of IPC Petroleum Consultants, Inc., a Tulsa-based international petroleum consulting firm that specializes in oil and gas reserves appraisals and risk analysis for international upstream petroleum investments.  He is very active giving seminars, workshops, and speaking on the reserves theme around the world.   

He is a life member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the forthcoming Petroleum Encyclopedia, of the Board of The Open Petroleum Engineering Journal, and of the UN Ad Hoc Group of Experts on Fossil Resources.  Dr. Sandrea has published over 30 technical papers, eight within the last four years.  His latest publications cover areas such as risk analysis for international upstream petroleum investments, appraisal of global oil and gas reserves, development of algorithms for estimating the production capacity of new oil fields, global offshore oil reserves potential, assessment of global oil and gas resources and their potential for enhanced oil recovery.   Some of these articles have been featured in CNN Money and Petroleum World. com.  They are available on IPC’s website at www.ipc66.com.