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Mr. Briens joined BPZ as Vice President of Engineering in December 2004 and was named Chief Operating Officer in May 2005. From 2002 through 2004 Mr. Briens served as Geosciences and Business Development Manager for Perenco in Venezuela. From 1999 to 2002 Mr. Briens was the Chief Reservoir Engineer for Lundin Petroleum in Switzerland. Mr. Briens is a petroleum engineer with over 20 years of operating experience in international oil and gas projects spanning the globe. He has also served in senior technical and operating positions with Conoco Schlumberger and Chevron. Mr. Briens holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University an MBA from Colorado State University and an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale de Paris.
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