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Dr. Carlos Cramez

Dr. Carlos Cramez is a Swiss citizen. He was born in 1939, in Vila Real, Portugal. After getting a baccalaureate, in Vila Real (Camilo Castelo Branco Academy), he studied Geology at the University of Porto. With a scholarship of the Calouste Gulbenkian Fondation he spent five years in Switzerland and Norway studying and working as assistant to Prof. C. E. Wegmann at the University of Neuchatel, where he obtained a Ph.D. in Tectonics.

Starting his professional career as Chief Geologist in a subsidiary of ALCAN, in Brazil, he joined Total in 1968. Since then, he has worked in the Petroleum Exploration around the world (Angola, Indonesia, Canada, USA, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Philippines, North Sea, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Yemen, Syria, China, Russia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, India, Pakistan, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Vietnam, etc.). After being in charge of Total’s Seismic Interpretation Department he was appointed, in 1987 Adviser to Senior Vice President of Exploration & Production.Besides experience in Hydrocarbon Exploration, where he was responsible for several important oil discoveries (Bekapai and Handil in Indonesia; Lombo Est, in Angola, Cusiana in Colombia, etc), he has carried out intense academic and scientific activities, lecturing at the Universities of Neuchatel (Switzerland), Besancon (France) and Institut Francais de Pétrole (France). Between 1989 and 2003, he was Adjunct Professor of Geology and Geophysics at the Rice University in Houston (USA), working in collaboration with Profs. A. Bally y P. Vail. He has presented several important papers in scientific Symposiums and Conventions, mainly in Seismic Interpretation, Sequence Stratigraphy, Salt Tectonics, Petroleum Systems, Inversion Tectonics, Tectonic Regimes, Sedimentary Basin & Petroleum Systems, etc.

At the end of 2000, he pre-retired from Total. Since then, he is President of H.E.A.T Consulting Switzerland. He advises several oil companies as well as major American Financing Companies in International Exploration.

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