| Fernando Samaniego Verduzco |
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He was born in Lamadrid, Coahuila, in 1946. He obtained a bachelor and a master's degree in Petroleum Engineering at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) [National Autonomous University of Mexico], and received his Ph.D. in this area at Stanford University, California. He is currently a full professor at the UNAM and belongs to the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI) [National Researcher System]. His projects and academic life have been closely related to the priority issues of Mexico’s oil exploitation. Although his career has been clearly linked to oil field engineering, he keeps close contact with Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) [Mexico’s government owned oil company], where for the last few years, through the Pemex-UNAM collaboration agreements, has been involved in a technical capacity with the Ku-Maloob-Zaap and Bellota-Jujo active wells located in Villahermosa, Tabasco and Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche, respectively. He has authored or co-authored more than 190 works published in Mexico and many other countries in the area of oil field engineering. He is a member of several associations, including the National Academy of Engineering and the Society of Petroleum Engineers, both in the United States and, locally, the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias [Mexican Academy of Sciences] and the Academia Mexicana de Ingeniería [Mexican Academy of Engineering]. He also belonged to the SPE’s Ad Hoc Committee on Global Petroleum Engineerieng Program Equivaliencies. For the past ten years he has been Mexico’s representative at the World Petroleum Congress Scientific Program Committee. He is a member of the Consejo Consultivo de Ciencias de la Presidencia de la República (CCC) [Sciences Consulting Council, Presidency of Mexico]. He has received various awards, among them the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes [National Award for Science and Arts]; the "Juan Heffram" Prize; the Premio Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo [Mexican Petroleum Institute Prize]; the Society of Petroleum Engineers Formation Evaluation Award. He was awarded "The Rapitsa Gold Medal of Honor" of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, of which he is a distinguished member. He also received the "Section Service Award" of the Academy of Petroleum Engineering of the United States. He has published nearly one-thousand papers and his work has been cited more than 1200 times, in research and technical papers both nationally and abroad. He has tutored over 50 bachelor, master’s and doctorate theses. |