EPRINC Welcomes Dr. Octavio F. Pastrana as a New Distinguished Fellow

Dr. Octavio F. Pastrana is joining EPRINC as the organization’s newest Distinguished Fellow. Octavio has forty three years of professional experience in world class companies in the oil and gas, and energy sectors, and as top executive for engineering and construction companies in South America and Mexico, in power generation and infrastructure.

Octavio has extensive experience in the oil and gas industry. For the past five years until May 2019,  Octavio was member of the Board of Petroleos Mexicanos, PEMEX. His deep engagement as advisor to the top executives and as leader of company planning far exceeded his duties as a non-executive board member, and while serving for four years as Chairman of its Strategy and Investment Committee, Octavio drove the transition of the company on a month to month basis to a new focus on performance and results.  During his thirteen years with BP, Octavio worked for five years as Chairman and CEO of Chaco, the oil and gas company which was formed during the privatization of the Bolivian national oil company YPFB, and for seven years as Country Head and General Director of oil and gas business units in Alaska, Venezuela, and México.

During 2013 and 2014, Octavio advised the Energy Commission of the Mexican Senate in development of the Constitutional Reform and subsequent Laws, engagement which led to his appointment as board member of PEMEX. 

The rest of Octavio’s bio can be found here.