Rio Pipeline 2017

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

Caio é engenheiro sênior da Comgás, empresa de distribuição de gás natural de São Paulo, Brasil. Atualmente, lidera a pesquisa e as avaliações de corrosão nos gasodutos da companhia. Ele é responsável pela avaliação de danos nos tubos de aço para sistemas de distribuição de gás natural. Ele também trabalha como professor na Faculdade das Américas.
Caio é graduado em Engenharia de Materiais, pela Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, com mestrado em Ciência dos Materiais pela Universidade Federal de São Carlos e doutorados em Energia Nuclear (Materiais), pela Universidade de São Paulo, e em Físico-Química, pela Universitè Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI).

Formação acadêmica/titulação:
1981 - 1986 Graduação em Engenharia Mecânica. Universidade Católica de Petrópolis, UCP, Rio de Janeiro - Brasil. Título: Trabalho Final. Orientador: Eng° Osvaldo Guimarães.

Formação Complementar:
2000 - 2001 Curso de Especialização em Engenharia de Gás Natural (Carga horária: 384h). Universidade Potiguar, UNP, Brasil.
1994 - 1994 Especialização em Gerência. (Carga horária: 90h).
Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia, IMT, Brasil.
1987 - 1987 Extensão Universitária em Engenharia de Terminais e Dutos. (Carga horária: 872h). Petróleo Brasileiro - PETROBRAS - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil.

Experiência Profissional:
1987-2006 – Desenvolvimento de atividades de profissionais no Terminal de Dutos da PETROBRAS em São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro.
2000 – até a presente data – Desenvolvimento de atividades de Engenharia , Operação e Manutenção na Companhia de Gás do Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul – MSGÁS, Capital.

Cliff Johnson joined Pipeline Research Council International (PRCI) in September 2010 as President. He has overseen the creation of the new PRCI Technology Development Center (TDC) in Houston, Texas, which opened in 2015. The TDC will be a cornerstone for PRCI research and deployment for key solutions for the pipeline industry. As President, he has been able to grow PRCI membership by 20%. Today PRCI represents over 60% of the world’s transmission pipeline mileage.

Prior to joining to PRCI, Mr. Johnson spent 13 years at NACE International, where he has held a variety of positions during his career. His most recent position was as NACE’s Director of Public Affairs where he led NACE’s legislative initiatives.

Mr. Johnson earned his Master of Public Affairs from the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Austin College in Sherman, Texas. He has obtained his Certified Association Executive (CAE) designation and is active in the America Society of Association Executives.

He currently lives with his wife, Courtney, and 5 children (Emma, Oleg, Vivian, Lena, and Hana) in Centreville, Va.

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.