Martin Terrado has served as our Chief Operations Officer since July 2022. He previously served as our Director of Operations since he joined GeoPark in August 2018. Mr. Terrado has more than 29 years of experience in the oil industry and has held leadership roles in asset development, operations and planning. Prior to joining GeoPark, Mr. Terrado worked for Petrolera Argentina San Jorge and Chevron in different international operations, including Argentina, the United States and Venezuela. He led Chevron technical and operations teams of heavy oil assets in eastern and western Venezuela with production of 160,000 and 100,000 bopd respectively. Prior responsibilities include waterflooding, CO2 flooding and setting up Chevron’s operated unconventional Wolfcamp program in Midland, TX. Mr. Terrado has a degree in Petroleum Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA) and an MBA from the IAE Business School at the Universidad Austral in Buenos Aires. He is an active member and mentor at the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and is President of the Board of the Association of Oil, Gas and Renewable Energy Companies of Latin America and the Caribbean (Arpel). Mr. Terrado has published several papers at SPE and has US Patent #8175751 on EOR/IOR screening and performance prediction systems.
