Pedro A Restrepo

At the helm of PETRONAS' Structural Geology division, my role capitalizes on my specialization in seismic interpretation and advanced structural geological solutions. With a focus on global exploration and production, we have conducted over 200 technical QC Prospect Evaluations, greatly enhancing the company's strategic positioning in multiple basins.

Multidisciplinary Geoscientist with 30 years of experience across more than 60 basins, specializing in structural geology, exploration, and asset management. Demonstrated success in finding oil and gas reserves in Colombia, Vietnam, and Malaysia. Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Structural Geology and technical leader with a proven ability to mentor teams, drive creative problem-solving, and deliver strategic vision. Recognized for making high-impact contributions to exploration projects and advancing subsurface mapping technologies.

• Recipient of full scholarship for four years as a result of Top of Class standing: MSc., Ph.D. University of Arizona. GPA 4.0/4.0
• Recipient of Distinguished Talent Visa (Resident Visa)- Australian Government
• 3.2 Tcf of gas discovered in Malaysia and 5 Tcf in Colombia.
• Redetermination mapping for the certification of the Pyang 5TcF field in NW Papua New Guinea.
• Developed and implemented new exploration strategies at Ecopetrol, resulting in the discovery of 5 Tcf of gas reserves and the reactivation of offshore exploration. As a result of the strategic actions production increased from 538KBOD to 1MMBOPD in 6 years, averting imports .

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1. Jaswal, J.S., Sherkati, S., Restrepo-Pace, P.A., Domzig, A. and Nik A Asiss, F. 2024. A New Insight on the Structural Evolution of North Luconia, Deep Water Sarawak. APGCE Conference and Exhibition. Kuala Lumpur.

2. Restrepo-Pace, P. and Naar, J. 2024. Old School-New Tools’ in NW Borneo Exploration Portfolio Rejuvenation. AAPG International Conference and Exhibition. Oman.

3. Restrepo-Pace, Pedro Alonso. 2024. Mature Basin Exploration: There is a Method to Madness. EAGE New discoveries in Mature Basins. Kula Lumpur.

4. Mahoney, L. , Furnass, M and Restrepo-Pace, 2021. Application of LiDAR for hydrocarbon exploration in logistically and geologically challenging environments: examples from the Papuan Fold and Thrust Belt, Papua New Guinea. Australian Geoscience Exploration Conference. Brisbane.

5. Pedro Restrepo-Pace, 2019. Beyond Geometry: 2D Structural Thermo-Kinematic Models of the Papuan fold and Thrust Belt . AAPG Conference and Exhibition Port Moresby and Houston 2020

6. Pedro Restrepo-Pace, Mike Szczepaniak, Keith Bradey and Subash Chandra, 2019. Technical Progression in Tackling the Papua New Guinea Fold Belt : A Fit for Purpose Tool-kit, a Learning Curve and the Persistence that Led to Success in One of the Most Challenging Surface and Geological Settings. AAPG Conference and Exhibition, Buenos Aires-Argentina.

7. Pedro Restrepo-Pace, 2019. Beyond Geometry: 2D Structural Thermo-Kinematic Models of the Papuan fold and Thrust Belt . PESA Newsletter Aug-November/2019

8. Pedro Restrepo-Pace, 2017. Proterozoic Basement, Northern South America Basement Tectonics and Implications for the Paleocontinental Reconstructions of the Americas. In Northern Andes Regional Geology, Fabio Cediel (editor) In publication, Springer_Verlag

9. Pedro Restrepo-Pace, 2017. ‘Ductile vs. Brittle' – Alternative structural interpretations for the Niger Delta. In Passive Margins, Ken McClay (editor). Geological Society of London Special Publications.

10. Restrepo-Pace.P.A. , Dalrymple, M. and Morley, R. 2015. Finding New Exploration Targets in ‘Mature’ Petroleum Basins Offshore Thailand: All About Nuance. AAPG International Conference. Istanbul, Turkey.

11. Robert J Morley, Tony Swiecicki and Pedro Restrepo Pace, 2015. Correlation across the South China Sea Using VIM Transgressive-Regressive Cycles. AAPG Asia Pacific Region Geosciences Technology Workshop, “Tectonic Evolution and Sedimentation of South China Sea Region,” Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, May 26-27, 2015. AAPG.

12. Spuij, Roland & Restrepo-Pace, Pedro & Soeteber, Angela. (2014). New Play Concepts and Innovative Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Re-vitalizing Exploration in the Gulf of Thailand (GoT). 10.2118/172098-MS.

13. Restrepo-Pace_, P.A., King, S., Jones, R., Goulder, C., Chim, Y.Ah and Russell, C. 2010. The Penyu Basin Revisited: The Abandoned Mate of the Malay-Natuna Basins. PGCE Conference. Kuala-Lumpur, Malaysia.

14. Hamilton, Robin1, David Steele2, Colin Grant3, Pedro Restrepo-Pace1, Larry Garmezy1 (1) Shell International, Houston, TX (2) Shell Houston, Houston, TX (3) Shell International Exploration and Production, Houston, TX. Identifying New Material Hydrocarbon Plays. The Challenge and an Approach. AAPG Annual Meeting April 1-4, 2007, Long Beach, California

15. Pedro Restrepo-Pace (EPT-RXR), Jack Filbrandt & Kehinde Ladipo (EPX-G-XNTC) with contributions from Fidel Onichabor & Scott Gagen (EPX-G-XNEF) & Pascal Richard(PDO-DSC93s). Structural styles in Deltas: The Niger Delta case Global Exploration Newsletter Vol. 2, No.6. October 2006

16. Camilo Montes, R. D. Hatcher, and P. A. Restrepo-Pace. Tectonic reconstruction of the Northern Andean blocks; oblique convergence and rotations derived from the kinematics of the Piedras-Girardot area, Colombia (in) Tectonophysics (April 2005), 399(1-4):221-250

17. Dolan, P, Burgraff, D., Soofi, K, Restrepo-Pace, P., Fitzimmons, R, Aydemir, E., Senneseth,O. , Strickland, L. Challenges to Exploration in Frontier Basins – The Barbados Accretionary Prism. AAPG International Conference: October 24-27, 2004; Cancun, Mexico

18. Pedro A. Restrepo-Pace, Fabio Colmenares, Camilo Higuera, and Marcela Mayorga.2004. A fold-and-thrust belt along the western flank of the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia; style, kinematics, and timing constraints derived from seismic data and detailed surface mapping (in Thrust tectonics and hydrocarbon systems, McClay,) AAPG Memoir (2004), 82 598-613

19. Morley R.H., Morley H.P and P. A. Restrepo-Pace. 2002. Unraveling the tectonically controlled stratigraphy of the West Natuna Basin by means of the paleoderived Mid tertiary climate changes. In 29th IPA Proceedings. 1.

20. Montes,C., Restrepo-Pace, P.A. and. Hatcher, R.D. 2002. Three-dimensional structure and kinematics of the Piedras-Girardot fold belt; surface expression of transpressional deformation in the Northern Andes (in the circum-Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean; Hydrocarbon habitats, basin formation, and plate tectonics) AAPG Memoir (2003), 79 849-873

21. . Pedro A. Restrepo-Pace. 2002. Barbados accretionary prism geometry, structural controls, kinematics and mass balance calculations (in 16th Caribbean geological conference; abstracts, Anonymous,) Program and Abstracts of Papers - Caribbean Geological Conference (June 2002), 16 101

22. Coral, M.G., McClay, K. , Comrie-Smith, N. and Restrepo-Pace, P.A. 2000 Structural analysis of inversion structures in the Belanak area, West Natuna Basin, Indonesia (in AAPG international conference and exhibition; abstracts, Anonymous). AAPG Bulletin (September 2000), 84(9):1413

23. Pedro A. Restrepo-Pace and Mike Unger Structural framework and inversion kinematics of the Bawal Graben, West Natuna Sea; implications for sediment dispersal and HC migration (in AAPG international conference and exhibition; abstracts, Anonymous). AAPG Bulletin (September 2000), 84(9):1481

24. Pedro A. Restrepo-Pace and Mike Unger Structural framework and inversion kinematics of the Bawal Graben, West Natuna Sea; implications for sediment dispersal and HC migration (in AAPG international conference and exhibition; abstracts, Anonymous). AAPG Bulletin (September 2000), 84(9):1481

25. Camilo Montes, Robert D. Hatcher, and Pedro A. Restrepo-Pace .Three-dimensional geometry and kinematic modeling of a transpressional fold belt in central Colombia (in Geological Society of America, 2000 annual meeting, Anonymous,) Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America (2000), 32(7):506

26. Pedro A. Restrepo-Pace, K. H. James, and Tomas Villamil. Fold and thrust belt hydrocarbon plays along the eastern margin of the middle Magdalena Valley, Colombia (in AAPG international conference and exhibition; abstracts, Anonymous). AAPG Bulletin (August 1999), 83(8):1336

27. Pedro A. Restrepo-Pace, Fabio Colmenares, Camilo Higuera, Marcela Mayorga, and Jairo Leal. Fold and thrust belt along the western flank of the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia; style, kinematics and timing constraints derived from seismic data and detailed surface mapping (in AAPG international conference and exhibition; abstracts, Anonymous,)AAPG Bulletin (August 1999), 83(8):1336

28. Tomas Villamil, Pedro A. Restrepo-Pace, and K. Svela Campanian-Oligocene evolution and tectonostratigraphic development of northwestern South America (in AAPG international conference and exhibition; abstracts, Anonymous,) AAPG Bulletin (August 1999), 83(8):1344

29. Pedro A. Restrepo-Pace Field assessment of true stratigraphic thickness, stretching, shortening structural style and kinematics of the Eastern Cordillera, Colombia (in The role of geological fieldwork in hydrocarbon exploration and production). Cambridge Arctic Shelf Program, Cambridge, United Kingdom (1999)

30. Tomas Villamil and Pedro A. Restrepo-Pace Stratigraphic and structural constraints on Campanian-Oligocene tectonostratigraphic development of northwestern South America (in AAPG international conference and exhibition; abstracts, Anonymous). AAPG Bulletin (October 1998), 8(10):1979

31. Pedro A. Restrepo-Pace, Fabio Colmenares, Camilo Higuera, Marcela Mayorga, and Jairo Leal. Fold and thrust belt along the western flank of the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia; style, kinematics and timing constraints derived from seismic data and detailed surface mapping (in AAPG international conference and exhibition; abstracts, Anonymous,) AAPG Bulletin (October 1998), 82(10):1956

32. Pedro A. Restrepo-Pace, Fabio Colmenares, Camilo Higuera, Marcela Mayorga, and Jairo Leal.Fold and thrust belt along the western flank of the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia; style, kinematics and timing constraints derived from seismic data and detailed surface mapping (in AAPG international conference and exhibition; abstracts, Anonymous,) AAPG Bulletin (October 1998), 82(10):1956

33. Pedro A. Restrepo-Pace, Joaquin Ruiz, George E. Gehrels, and Michael Cosca. Geochronology and Nd isotopic data of Grenville-age rocks in the Colombian Andes; new constraints for late Proterozoic-early Paleozoic paleocontinental reconstructions of the Americas Earth and Planetary Science Letters (August 1997), 150(3-4):427-441

34. P. Restrepo-Pace, J. Ruiz, and M. Cosca. Geochronology of basement uplifts in the Colombian Andes and evidence for terrane transfer from NW South America to southern Mexico in mid-Paleozoic time (in AGU 1994 fall meeting, Anonymous,)Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union (November 1994), 75(44, Suppl.):199

35. P. Restrepo-Pace, Joaquin Ruiz, and M. Cosca. Basement of southern Mexico; a transferred terrane from NW South America in Acadian time (in Geological Society of America, 1994 annual meeting, Anonymous,) Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America (1994), 26(7):340

36. P. A. Restrepo-Pace. Petrotectonic characterization of the Central Andean Terrane, Colombia. Journal of South American Earth Sciences (January 1992), 5(1):97-116