Rio Pipeline 2017

Darron Phillips – Mr. Phillips has served various engineering, project, and testing management roles with Oil States Industries, Inc. over the past 25 years. He is currently Senior Project Manager, and managed the flexible joint products deliveries for two pre-Salt rigid riser projects. Mr. Phillips is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, and of the University of Dallas, holding degrees in mechanical engineering and business management. Mr. Phillips is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas, U. S.

Engenheiro Mecânico formado pela UFRJ em 1998, Eduardo Merçon trabalha no sistema Petrobras desde 2001, atuando sempre na área de dutos e terminais da TRANSPETRO, onde desde 2005 exerce cargos gerenciais nos segmentos de Óleo e Gás. Foi Gerente do Centro de Controle Operacional de Gasodutos de 2013 a 2015 e atualmente exerce o cargo de Gerente de Operações do CNCL, Centro Nacional de Controle e Logística da TRANSPETRO, órgão responsável pela operação de mais de 14.000 km de oleodutos e gasodutos em 17 Estados do país. Especializou-se na primeira turma do curso de Engenharia de Dutos da PUC-Rio, em 1999, e concluiu em 2005 curso de Master in Business of Petroleum - MPB da COPPE/UFRJ.

Civil Engineer from the University of Buenos Aires. Postgraduate in Control Systems in the University of Buenos Aires, Master’s degree in Maintenance Management at Universidad Austral, MBA at the ADEN Business School in Mendoza
He has 34 years of experience in the petroleum industry, the last 17 years he has worked in the Logistics of Hydrocarbons of the Argentine Republic.
He is currently Manager of Pipelines of YPF SA. He is a member of ARPEL's CODyTE, co-author of the ARPEL Manual for Pipelines Integrity Management

Environmental Engineering PhD, Industrial Engineering Master with a Mention in Operations and Productivity, Chemical Engineer, Gas Transmission Professional, International Certificate by the Department of Transportation (DOT) as Master Trainer, Master Evaluator and Qualified Operator in Pipeline Transportation System Operation.
Professional experience as Head of Transportation, Control Room Chief, Fractionation Plant and Pipeline supervisor for about 20 years.

Dr. Guerrero is a mechanical engineer who assists and guides corporations globally with their technology development needs. Dr. Guerrero has worked in research and development (R&D) and business development for several years in diverse companies such as Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, MA; Schlumberger Research (SLB) in Houston, TX and Cambridge, MA; and FIAT-IVECO in Torino Italy. Dr. Guerrero's technical expertise includes analyzing, designing, and developing mechanical systems, including those for harsh and extreme conditions. He has extensive experience with the energy and oil and gas industries and is an owner of over 20 mechanical system patents worldwide. Dr. Guerrero earned his master's and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and was awarded the Honorary Doctoral degree from Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería in Lima-Peru in 2015. In 2014, he became a member of the Pan-American Academy of Engineering (32 countries). He was the 2015-2016 President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), an organization of almost 140,000 engineers in 150 countries.

Since 2003, Dr. Guerrero has collaborated with MIT professors, graduate students, and WHOI researchers and lectured in engineering at MIT. He developed applications for Draper Laboratory’s technological capabilities and assets in the energy industry, including oil and gas exploration and the nuclear industry. Dr. Guerrero served as a principal research scientist at SLB, where he helped develop robots to convey equipment in horizontal oil and gas wells. He also established numerous research collaborations with professors and students from universities and research centers around the world and led the 2,400-member SLB/Eureka Mechanical Engineering Community in 3 continents and all SLB engineering centers for 5 years.

He is fluent in several languages, and loves skiing and swimming, history, economics, and Renaissance Italian art.