Petrobras director speaks at Coppe about the challenges of exploring the Equatorial Margin
Planeta COPPE / Energy / Institutional News / News
Date: 16/10/2024
Coppe/UFRJ will promote, on October 24th, an Open Class with Executive Director for Exploration and Production at Petrobras, Sylvia Anjos. With the theme “Energy Independence and environmental preservation: The challenge of exploring the Equatorial Margin to replenish oil reserves”, the class will be carried out at 10 a.m. in Coppe’s auditorium at UFRJ’s Centro de Tecnologia, block G, room 122 – Avenida Horácio Macedo, 2030, Cidade Universitária.
The event is free of charge, open to the public, and students will have the right to a participation certificate. Those interested in attending, must register via Sympla: https://abrir.link/UnHqZ
Appointed as director in June of this year, Sylvia Anjos has held the position of special consultant to the Petrobras presidency since 2023. She has a Geology degree from UFRJ and a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (EUA). She has supervised numerous master’s and doctoral theses, with dozens of national and international publications.
A retired Petrobras geologist, she has more than 42 years’ experience in the E&P area, having held various managerial positions throughout her career at the company, with special emphasis on the roles at Cenpes, in the General Exploration Management, as General Manager of Technologies for the Libra Asset.
She also worked on the “Competitive Gas & Energy” program, preparing Petrobras for the new competitive scenario for natural gas in Brazil. Member and co-founder of IBP’s Diversity Committee since 2018, she was also president for two terms of the Brazilian Association of Petroleum Geologists – ABGP and also vice-president of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists – AAPG Latin America.
