Rafael Sandrea President IPC Petroleum Consultants, Inc./IOR 2008 Plenary Speaker

Rafael 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. Dr. Sandrea is very active giving seminars and workshops and speaking on the reserves theme around the world. He graduated cum laude in petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa and received his Ph.D. from Penn State University. Sandrea 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 is the coauthor of 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 its 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. He is a member for life of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and a 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. 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.