Gustavo Hernández-García
General Director, PEMEX E&P
[:en]35 years of professional experience. He holds a B.S. in petroleum engineering and a M.Sc. in Reservoir Engineering, both from the U.S and Mexico. Started his professional career at the Mexican Petroleum Institute in 1979 where he worked as assistant researcher, researcher and senior researcher with interest in applied geostatistics in reservoir simulation and history matching of reservoir simulators. He had teaching experience at the U. of México at undergraduate and graduate level in the School of Engineering and the Applied Math & Systems Research Institute, as well as part time researcher on the Energy Program at the Colegio de México. He also spent two years at the Ministry of Energy (1983-1985) as Subdirector on Hydrocarbon Investments and advisor to the Undersecretary of Energy.
In 1992 he joined Pemex where he had held several positions as head of the department of reservoir characterization, exploitation vice manager, planning manager, asset manager, vice president of an offshore region, and Vice President for Planning in Pemex E&P responsible for: conducting and leading the E&P Strategy, to allocate investment funds in the E&P Project portfolio, leading the reserves team to internally certifying the Pemex Hydrocarbon reserves and to comply the regulatory topics issued by the National Hydrocarbon Commission. On June 1st, 2014, he was designated as General Director of Pemex E&P.
He ended his tenure as National President of the College of Petroleum Engineers of México (2010-2012), he is currently the President of the Petroleum Engineering Commission at the Academy of Engineering (2012-2014) and his achievements allowed him to be recognized as the 2011 National Petroleum Engineering Award recipient.
He has written over 70 technical papers presented in domestic and international forums and is well known as lecturer and speaker of topics such as Planning, Exploration, Production, Hydrocarbon Reserves and E&P Regulatory issues in México and abroad.[:]
