Biography
Vice President Exploration Americas Assets, Repsol E&P USA Corp.
Tomás Zapata has a geology degree from Buenos Aires University, Argentina, where he worked as Assistant Professor from 2001 to 2011. He holds a Ph.D from Cornell University in structural geology and tectonics.
Since 1996, he has conducted exploration activities working at Repsol, occupying different technical and managerial positions, throughout Latin America basins. He has focused his exploration studies on the Andean fold and thrust belt, where he participated on several oil and deep gas discoveries in the Austral, San Jorge and Neuquen Basin of Argentina, and the SubAndean basin of Bolivia, Perú and Colombia, and recently in Alaska and offshore Gulf of México and México.
Dr. Zapata worked as a structural geology specialist for the exploration study teams and published more than 40 papers on structural geology and tectonics of the Andes. He has occupied various managerial positions as well as executive ones such as Director of International Exploration, Director of Geology, and Director of Exploration Operations. He is currently working as Director of Americas Exploration Assets, managing the Exploration and Low Carbon Project Business for Bolivia, Perú, Colombia, Guyana, Brazil, México and the U.S.
I believe my contribution to the Advisory Council would be to provide my views about how the engineering and geoscientists career needs to be adapted to the energy transition requirements.