The University of Tulsa's Petroleum Engineering Department

Rodolfo is the Manager of Exploitation Technology with Pemex E&P.  Previously, he was the Manager of Technical Information for Production also with Pemex E&P, Manager of Technology Development in Exploration & Production in the Operations Corporate Direction of PEMEX, Manager of Well Productivity Manager with Pemex E&P. Also, he has been the head of the Petroleum Department in the Graduate Division at the Natl. University of México and a Researcher at the Mexican Petroleum Institute.

His professional interests include production data analysis, well-test analysis, well productivity, and reservoir engineering.

Rodolfo Camacho holds a BS degree in geophysical engineering from the University of Mexico and MS and PhD degrees in petroleum engineering from The University of Tulsa.

He has written several technical papers, most of them published by SPE.

He was Mexico Section President of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2004-2007, and he was recognized as an Outstanding Technical Editor for the SPE in 1997 and 2003. For the period between 1997 and 1999, he was a Review Chairman for the SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering Editorial Review Committee. During 2001-2002, he was the Chairman of Education & Professionalism Committee of SPE.

e-mail address: rgcamachov@pep.pemex.com

Camcho in his own words:

Why did you choose TU?

At the time I decided to come to the US to get my MS degree, I was at the Mexican Petroleum Institute and I met José García-Rivera, who studied his MS in petroleum engineering in Tulsa some years before, and he told about the good time he spent at TU. Later I also talked with Tomás Limón, another previous Ph.D. student at TU, and he also recommended me TU. This is reason I selected TU.

Did you get the knowledge you needed to do well in professional career?

Definitely, TU strengthened and developed my life professionally, the knowledge I obtained from several professors has provided me the access to the information and resources needed to develop my career.

Any fond memories you would like to share?

I have very good memories from my stay at TU.  I remember when the graduate students from petroleum engineering used to play soccer some weekends with undergraduate students; we had good 10 minutes games because after this short period the graduate students needed oxygen bottles.  Our physical condition was not so good after many months of hard work in the graduate program.