Our Board of Advisors
Our developments and projects are supported by outstanding personalities of the Oil & Gas Sector, including people from the Academia as well as experienced managers from the industry.
Dr. Ovadia Shoham
Ovadia Shoham is professor of petroleum engineering at the University of Tulsa. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tel Aviv University and his M.S. and B.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston and the Technion in Israel. Dr. Shoham teaches and conducts research in the area of modeling two-phase flow in pipes and its application in the oil and gas production, transportation and separation.
He has served as the Associated Director and the Director of Research of the Tulsa University Fluid Flow Projects for 10 years. Since 1994 Dr. Shoham directs the Tulsa University Separation Technology Projects (TUSTP), conducting research on compact separators. He has taught short courses on multiphase flow for various oil and gas companies worldwide.
Dr. Shoham has authored or co-authored more than 80 publications in the areas of multiphase flow and separation and production operations. He was a member of the SPE Production Operation Technical Committee (1990-1992 and 1998-2000) and received the SPE Cedric K. Ferguson award in 1999.
Dr. Mauricio Prado
Mauricio G. Prado is Associate Professor of the Petroleum Engineering Department of The University of Tulsa and also the Director of TUALP – The University of Tulsa Artificial Lift Projects, an industrial academic cooperative research consortium formed in 1983 to conduct research on artificial lift.
He joined the TU Petroleum Engineering Department in 1999. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Instituto Militar de Engenharia, a M.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering from Universidade Estadual de Campinas, and his Ph.D. is from The University of Tulsa.
Dr. Prado has 16 years of industrial experience, gathered from 1983 to 1999, when he worked as a Production Engineer in the areas of artificial lift and multiphase flow for Petrobrás in Brazil. His main areas of academic interest include artificial lift, production optimization and multiphase flow modeling. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Petroleum Society of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum.
Dr. Wen Chiang
Wen Chiang is Professor of Operations Management at The University of Tulsa. He obtained his BA from National Taiwan Normal University, and his MBA and PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Chiang has published articles in prestigious journals including Management Science, IIE Transactions, Decision Sciences, International Journal of Production Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, and INFORMS Journal on Computing, among others. He has received the Mayo Research in Excellence Award six times.
Professor Chiang is currently a Senior Editor for Production and Operations Management, and Editor of the International Journal of Revenue Management. He is also a guest editor of the International Journal of Production Research, and has been named Business Professor of the year.
Abraham Bríñez, M.E. Petr. Eng.
Abraham Brinez is Chairman of the Board for Asesores Petroleros del Golfo, a consulting company based in Mexico with operations in several places in Latin America. He obtained his BS in Petroleum Engineering from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in 1981, and his Master's degree in Petroleum Engineering from The University of Tulsa in 1992.
Mr. Brinez has 27 years of experience in the oil industry, having been appointed to supervisory and management positions for operating companies in several areas of the oil business including drilling engineering, technology management, reservoir engineering, integrated studies, production operations, and human resources. His areas of expertise include drilling and completions, thermal recovery planning and operations, management, and strategic planning.