2013 Honorary Lecturer Central & South America | Marco Polo P. Buonora PETROBRAS E&P and University Federal Fluminense
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil The use of mCSEM for deep-water hydrocarbon exploration in Brazil | | Biography  Marco Polo Pereira Buonora is the manager of Non-Seismic Geophysics at Petrobras, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is responsible for the acquisition, processing and interpretation of all non-seismic data – gravity, magnetic and EM methods, particularly marine controlled-source electromagnetics (mCSEM). He has been based in Rio de Janeiro since 1969. He earned a BS in geology in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, and began his career as a geologist at the Brazilian Ministry of Mines and Energy, working with gravity and magnetics data acquisition and interpretation, and later worked for a mining company looking for base metals and gemstones, and as a geophysicist in a service company focused on acquisition, processing and interpretation of airborne-magnetics and gammaspectromety data. In mid July 1974, he was granted a Fulbright scholarship and went to St. Louis University where he earned master's and PhD degrees in geophysics, with emphasis on gravity and magnetics. After returning to Brazil in 1980, he joined Petrobras where he has been active in gravity and magnetic interpretation of several onshore and offshore sedimentary basins in Brazil. He has worked in the areas of vertical seismic profiling, both on land and offshore, and nuclear magnetic resonance. In the last ten years, he has been involved with the acquisition, processing, and interpretation of mCSEM. He is also a part-time associate professor at the University Federal Fluminense in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he teaches applied gravity, magnetics, digital signal analysis, and inversion of geophysical data. He is a member of the Brazilian Geophysical Society, serving as president in 1989-1991, and of SEG and EAGE. | | | | | | |
