Mario V. Rodriguez Email & Phone Number

United States

Energy and Oil & Gas, freelance and for GLG Group.Professional with extensive experience in negotiating energy projects, particularly in the oil and gas industry with either host countries, NOCs, majors and private concerns. Said experience include ventures in Nigeria, Egypt, Angola, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela, among others.

Usa

New Busines North & Latin America

Venezuela

• Lead and manage the GE business the 650 people organization in Venezuela (around $1 billion per year, established in 1927);• Lead growth in the country – Developed long term business strategies with both private and public sectors to further the growth of the sustainable business; identified and executed several multi-sector business opportunities;• Implemented the strategy and policies of the Oil & Gas business in Venezuela of GE, furthering the sales penetration of this business in the country;• Single point of contact with both Corpoelec and the Ministry of Electrical Energy for tending the energy needs of the country: master umbrella agreement for maintenance of GE’s thermal park in Venezuela (8 GW). New opportunities landed.• Established and maintained high-level contacts with policy makers administrators and influencing entities; establishing mechanisms to coordinate GE's overall engagement with Government.• Represented the company with Local governments and institutions, professional associations, trade & industry representatives, including serving as a Director in VENAMCHAM.

Houston, Texas Area

Manage Eni’s asset portfolio in the Americas, encompassing USA, Venezuela, Ecuador, Trinidad & Tobago and Brazil, as well as to generate new business opportunities for the company in the area of coverage. Responsible for the execution of mergers, acquisitions and divestments (both at the asset and/or company level) in the Americas for Eni. Responsible to execute Eni’s strategy in the area in regards to the growth or shrinkage of its business in the region. Provide executive-level support for Eni Group oil and gas production and exploration initiatives and ongoing activities in the Americas region, and other geographies, as required by the business. Developing and overseing the implementation of strategies for new oil and gas exploration and production investment activities in the Americas region and other parts of the world where Eni operates. Acquisition and divestment of oil and gas assets participation. Cooperation with Eni’s ETS (Eni Trading and Shipping S.p.A.) for developing the trading business of the company in Latin America.

Milano,Italia

Direct Report to the Executive Vice President in charge of the Americas, North Europe & Russia of Eni S.p.A. As Regional Business Support Manager for the countries in which Eni conducts business in the Americas (principally the U.S., Venezuela, Trinidad & Tobago and Ecuador); North Europe (U.K and Norway); and Russia, provided executive-level business and commercial support to the Executive Vice President of the area, to Eni’s Chief Operating Officer, and to the different Country Managers of Eni in the assigned region. Said support was centered in delicate areas such as oil & gas assets divestments, acquisitions, asset swaps, business development, partner issues and relations, government contacts, and concession-type contracts negotiation and re-negotiation, among others. Led operations of nearly $400 million worth of contracts re-negotiation, and asset-related transactions.

Milano,Italia & Caracas, Venezuela

• Responsible for conducting an integrated feasibility study for bringing finished hydrocarbon products into the international markets, derived from the production of heavy oil from the Junín 5 Block of the Orinoco Belt in Venezuela.• Responsible for the conduction of: (a) the quantification and certification of oil reserves of the block; (b) execution of the concept, vision and pre-basic engineering of the facilities of the integrated project (upstream, downstream facilities, transport pipelines and export marine facilities); (c) logistical survey of the existing site and infrastructure of the project areas; (d) elaboration of detailed marketing plan for the project; (e) formulation of an economic model of the project; (f) HSE and sustainability studies for the proposal of social projects within the project’s areas; (g) formulation of the best plants configurations and localizations: production capacity, product quality, product types, environment, economic returns; (h) formulation of the best business concepts available (commercially, economically and fiscally) for the project.• Work executed up to pre- Basic Engineering (upstream, downstream, pipelines and marine export facilities), entitling the use of around 45,000 man-hours of both project personnel (team of 27 highly-qualified multi-disciplines professionals) and six outside consultants. Project definition: production of 240,000 bopd of heavy oil (PETROJUNIN), for further processing in a medium conversion refinery PETROBICENTENARIA) for the production of diesel (Euro quality), naphtha and LPG (liquid petroleum gases). Estimated Total Project Cost around 23 billion dollars.• Negotiation of entry Bonus, Joint Venture Agreements for both upstream and refinery companies, and ancillary documentation.• Project works continue under the structure of each joint venture.

Milano,Italia

• Responsible for negotiations of the LNG-related agreements regarding Eni’s upstream interests within the Africa, Italy and Middle East Division.• Documentation negotiation and implementation of the Brass LNG Ltd. Project in Nigeria• Closing of Angola LNG equity acquisition from Sonangol• Gas Supply and Pipeline Network Agreements negotiation of the Angola LNG LLC project• Documentation negotiation and implementation of the Damietta Train 2 in Egypt• MOU with Shell for potential monetization of Eni’s gas cap in Intisar-D, Libya • Preparation of diverse documents and presentations for pursuing diverse LNG-related opportunities in the AIM area.

Caracas, Venezuela

• Management of the Commercial & Business Development area• Management of the Information Technology Unit (Department of 13 people). • Member of the Management Team and Tender’s Board LASMO Venezuela B.V.• Dación divestment effort• Gas business assessment, qualification for LG 2000, strategy layout (hedging)• Assessment of different opportunities within Venezuela of oil-producing fields.• Farm-in Golfo de Paria Este• Plataforma Deltana strategy implementation• Commercial representative of Agip in the Venezuela & Trinidad assets• Liaison with government, other operators • Scout for new business opportunities• Commercial representative in Block NCMA1 T&T for Eni/ Closing of T4 agreements• Manage governmental & PDVSA relations

• Head of the Oil & Gas business unit of ING Barings in Venezuela; sourcing and execution of advisory and project financing services for major energy clients (team of 4 bankers).• Developed the Oil & Gas business for the bank in Venezuela.• Sourced and executed around US$1,900 MM transactions, including, among others the Petrozuata Project Financing, the Pigap II Project (High Pressure Gas Re-injection Project) and ING’s co-manager role in the PDVSA Finance issue.• Sell side advisory services of an M&A cellular service transaction in the Caribbean.• Developed important relationships with a number of national and multinational corporate clients for the bank.• Fostered the cross-selling of opportunities for the bank’s businesses in other countries of Latin America.

• Origination, structuring and syndication of limited recourse financing transactions in Latin America. Relationship management and utilization of different financing sources such as banks, capital markets, ECAs and multilateral agencies.• Financial advisor to Petrozuata.• Execution of the first telecommunications project finance in Latin America, the Alcatel Sesa Telecommunications Project in Colombia (ALCATEL ALTSHOM). Structuring, syndicating and placing a $102 million limited recourse senior loan for partially financing the installation of a 200,000 land line network in five departments of Colombia. • Syndication with institutional investors, international banks, and ECAs. • Petropower. Foster Wheeler/ENAP-Chile Delayed Coker/ Hydrotreater and a 61 MWh coke-fired co-generation Project in Talcahuano, Chile. Financial advisory and arranging of US$ 160 million limited recourse 18-year 144-A term financing.• Origination, structuring and execution of corporate finance transactions for major corporate clients of Citibank in Venezuela.• Origination of the Petrozuata exclusive financial advisory mandate. • Execution of the advisory services to Conoco/Maraven (Petrozuata).• Execution of different local private placements for prime local corporations.• Structuring and implementation of the “Bonos Petroleros” for SOFIP.• Sale of diverse derivative products.

• Senior staff position in the International Finance/ New Business Group of Pequiven. Coordination and execution, together with diverse financial institutions, of the financing and implementation of the Pequiven expansion plan (around US$ 3 billion).• Implementation and financing of a 350/130-thousand tpy olefins plant. Total investment US$ 430 million, financing was sourced from a combination of debt-to-equity conversion, export credits (mainly Hermes/KFW) and equity. • US$ 203 million implementation and financing of a linear low density polyethylene plant, Resilin C.A. • US$ 204 million implementation and financing of a 760 thousand tpy methanol plant, Metor, S.A. • Led negotiations with IFC and a number of banks for the debt re-structuring of Propilven (polypropylene plant) and Pralca (glycol plant).

Professor of materials science in both undergraduate and graduate schools of the university. Research activities were also conducted during the period resulting in three publications in international journals.

Professor of materials science in the undergraduate curriculum.

Ph.D. & M.S., Materials Engineering

Activities and Societies: Alpha Sigma Mu Member 1983

Engineer, Materials Engineering

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