Dr Marcio Mello | CEO
HRT

Marcio Rocha Mello, PhD, Petroleum Geologist and Geochemist, expert in petroleum geochemistry, petroleum exploration and petroleum systems. Worked 24 years in PETROBRAS, most of them as the Head of the Petroleum Geochemistry Group. In 1996, foundered and headed the First Center of Excellence of Petrobras (CEGEQ) up to 2000. From 1990-2000 he was responsible for the development of petroleum systems studies for most of the sedimentary basins of Brazil, West Africa and Latin America. In 2000, Marcio Mello left Petrobras and founded Analytical Solutions (AS) and Petroleum and Environment Geosciences (PEG), in Rio de Janeiro, considered the leading private petroleum G&G services and laboratory companies in Brazil with more than 500 professionals. In July 2004 all the companies were sold.In August 2004, he founded HRT-Petroleum considered to be the leading G&G and environmental services and laboratory company in the Southern Hemisphere. Marcio was the founder and first president of the Brazilian Association of Petroleum Geologist (ABGP) and Former President of American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Section Latin America. In 1998 he received the Distinguished AAPG Achievement Award and in 2000 the Robert H. Dott Sr. Memorial Award for the Petroleum System from the South Atlantic Basin, AAPG Memoir 73, considered as the best Memoir publication of AAPG, in North America, in the year 2000. He has published more than 300 papers, including extended abstracts and books about geology and geochemistry linked to petroleum exploration all around the world. In 2009, Marcio incorporate, through a private placement, HRT Petroleum, the largest G&G service company in Brazil, in HRT Participações with two subsidiaries: HRT Oil/ Gas that is an E&P company and IPEX that is a G&G and environment service company. Today, Marcio is the CEO of HRT Participações and HRT Oil & Gas.