Evanan Romero

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

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. n 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. n 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.

Evanan Romero, an international energy consultant in Venezuela, says he doesn't believe that increased ethanol production - whether with corn or sugar - will contribute to drastically higher prices or hunger among the poor.Instead, he sees ethanol as a development opportunity for poor countries that lack substantial natural energy resources.

"Central America will no longer be known as the Banana Republic, but rather the Alcohol Republic," he says, referring to potential production there.

Evanan Romero, Non-executive Director
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Evanan Romero, Non-executive Director graduated in petroleum engineering from Zulia State University (Venezuela) and from the University of Tulsa and initially worked in Venezuelan subsidiaries of the major oil companies including Shell Oil and ARCO. He obtained an engineer's degree in engineering management and, in 1979, became a board member of the Venezuelan Institute for Petroleum Research and later was an executive vice president and chief operating officer of an affiliate of Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. From 1996 to 1998 he was Vice Minister of Energy and Mines in the government of Venezuela and was appointed as managing director of Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A in May 1998. He retired in 1999 and has been giving lectures or acting as speaker in numerous energy seminars and international forums in North and South America. From 2004 to 2006, he worked as an outside consultant for the Ministry of Energy and Mines of Guatemala and is still associated to the development planning of a heavy oil field in North America.

Evanan Romero, former deputy minister of energy and mines of Venezuela, will discuss the changes in that country's political, economic and energy sectors and their impact on the United States at a luncheon Jan. 8 that's open to the public.

The speech is sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Greater Dallas and the Petro-Hunt LLC/ISEM Lecture Series.

ISEM stands for the Institute for the Study of Earth and Man at Southern Methodist University.

Mr. Romero is also international energy director of TD International , a consulting group based in Washington, D.C., and former managing director of PDVSA, the state-owned petroleum company of Venezuela.

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Romero has recently returned from Venezuela and brings with him up-to-date information on the ongoing crisis in that country.

"Currently, Venezuela is ranked as one of the top four sources of United States oil imports.

"Political turmoil within the country of Venezuela has caused an 85 percent reduction in the production of crude oil exports, and the refining of oil has come to a near halt.

"The implications that this has on our energy markets are of profound importance."