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Vitor Abreu
ExxonMobil Exploration
Houston
Background:
Vitor Abreu received his B.S. and M.S. degrees at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil) and his Ph.D. degree at Rice University (Houston, Texas). His Ph.D. work had a strong impact in the SEPM 60 Special Publication, where he documented possible global links for sequence stratigraphic surfaces in the Cenozoic and Upper Cretaceous. He has published more than 50 papers and abstracts on subjects ranging from sequence stratigraphy, paleoceanography, evolution of passive margins, and deep water reservoirs. He worked for Petrobras from 1987 to 1997 and for Unocal from 1998 to 2000. Vitor has been working for ExxonMobil since 2000, starting at the Upstream Research Company (former Exxon Production Research, EPR), and currently working as Stratigraphy Advisor in the ExxonMobil Exploration Company. His work in ExxonMobil span from reservoir characterization of deep water systems in the Gulf of Mexico and West Africa, developing research projects including deep water outcrops in North America and Europe, and regional stratigraphic projects in several sedimentary basins around the world.
Vitor has been an Adjunct Professor at Rice University since 1999, where he took responsibility for the course on Sequence Stratigraphy after Peter Vail’s retirement. Vitor was also appointed Adjunct Professor at the University of Houston. He has been a diligent member of both AAPG and SEPM, organizing technical sessions and teaching short courses in the annual meetings. He recently ended his term as Councilor for Research Activities of SEPM (2004-2006), and he was also SEPM Technical Program in the 2002 AAPG/SEPM Annual Meeting in Houston. Vitor was a member of the AAPG Subcommittee on Technical Programs.
Vitor has given numerous talks, presentations, seminars and short courses within industry and academia. Vitor’s latest achievement was to be the recipient of the Jules Braunstein Memorial Award for the best poster presented at the 2002 AAPG/SEPM Annual Meeting and ExxonMobil's Excellence in Instruction Award.