Our Team

JOSE Rafael TERAN

With over 30 years of experience in corrosion and materials engineering, this professional specializes in the oil and gas industry. As an Inspection and Corrosion Advisor at the Petropiar upgrader, he led projects ensuring operational continuity and economic impact. Skilled in API and NACE standards, inspection software like Meridium, failure analysis, and non-destructive inspection, he has audited high-performance assets and manufacturing processes globally, including hydrogen reforming trains and catalytic tube production in Europe.

CORE COMPETENCIES

  • Training, experience and knowledge of API standards (510, 570, 571, 580, 581, 560, 94G, 94J, 936RP, 650, 653, API576, 660), NACE standers and other basic professional competencies in

  • Corrosion and inspection.

  • High performance in Meridium (software for planning, controlling and recording inspections, repairs and data).

GLOBAL EXPERIENCE

  • Appointed as Inspection and Corrosion Advisor, to professionals’ team, assigned to Technical Services Management, in the Petropiar heavy crude oil upgrader (Alliance between Chevron and PDVSA in Venezuela)

  • University Technician in Metallurgy, + 30 years of experience, sharing Research and Development in Corrosion and Materials laboratories, as well as in routines and plant shutdowns in oil industry and industry in general, in Venezuela and abroad.

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • Technical leader of Petropiar Delayed Coking Drums Mechanical Integrity project. This project has allowed the four coking drums to remain operational without major shutdowns for the last 8 years, resulting a high economic impact for Petropiar, by enabling it to meet its commercial commitments to its customers.

  • Technical advisor for non-destructive inspection and subsequent repair of assets with non-conventional metallurgy of hydrogen reforming trains in Petropiar.

  • Assets Failure analyst which has collapsed due to poor quality metallurgy and stress corrosion cracking, refractories failure and other mechanisms associated with corrosion, operations outside the operating the same parameters, both in oil company and in private sector.

  • Leader of audit team of Petropiar, in the process manufacturing catalytic tubes for hydrogen reforming furnaces (Schmidt + Clemens, Germany) and refractories manufacturing (Gouda Factory, Netherlands)

  • Lead technical auditor of Petropiar oil upgrader, in contracts committee, for 3 years.