Evanan Romero

Evanan Romero graduated in Petroleum Engineering from Zulia State University, Venezuela. Immediately thereafter, he entered Shell Oil Company of Venezuela working as field and reservoir engineer in Western Venezuela. He was granted a Fulbright scholarship as an exchange student and received a MS in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. He later joined the Venezuelan Atlantic Refining Co, and worked as the company’s representative overseeing the joint venture operations in their oil concessions operated by Venezuelan Sun Oil Co. in Lake Maracaibo
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Upon leaving Venezuelan Atlantic Refining Co. he joined the Engineering School of the Zulia State University, as a professor for graduate and undergraduate levels, and was instrumental in the organization of the Engineering Graduate School and the University’s Petroleum Research Institute. Back in Venezuela, he was appointed member of the Board of Directors of the then recently founded Venezuelan Institute for Petroleum Research – (INVEPET), predecessor of the Research and Development Center (INTEVEP ) of the national petroleum company, PDVSA.In 1979, upon the incorporation of INTEVEP as the Research and Development affiliate of PDVSA, Romero was promoted to executive Vice-president and C.O.O. of the new corporation. In 1984, Romero was appointed as one of the Managing Director of Meneven S.A (in charge of exploration, production and refining in eastern Venezuela) and Bariven S.A ( purchasing and procurement services), which were two operating subsidiaries of PDVSA. In 1986 Romero resigned the State Oil Company (PDVSA), to work on his own as a private consultant to several national and international corporation.
 
In 1992 he joined Teikoku Oil of Japan as Executive Vice-president and chief operating officer of their two oil subsidiaries in Venezuela in charge of the reactivation of mature oil fields.In the first quarter of 1996, Romero was appointed Deputy Minister of Energy and Mines of Venezuela. In February 1999 Romero took early retirement from PDVSA and accepted an invitation as visiting scholar at The Center for Business and Government of the Kennedy School of Harvard University. For this post, Romero was also granted a Senior Fulbright Scholar’s appointment by the USA’s government to work on Latin America’s energy policy research. He is currently International Energy Director for the Washington, D.C. consultancy group, TD International.