Venezuela holds the largest proven hydrocarbon reserves on earth. Re-entry is no longer hypothetical: it is being scoped, capitalized, and engineered. Myrina Ventures is the consultancy purpose-built for that work.
Reservoir-grade subsurface depth. Venezuela-specific compliance and ground presence. Secure data and digital operations wrapped around both. Each arm is a complete engagement in its own right; each is more defensible when paired with the others. Every Myrina deliverable is built to be read by an independent auditor, an investment committee, or an OFAC desk without flinching.
Myrina Ventures is a specialist consultancy for Venezuelan re-entry, marginal-field redevelopment, CCUS and UGS positions, and audit-grade reserves work. Our multidisciplinary bench of geoscientists, petrophysicists, reservoir engineers, cybersecurity architects, and governance specialists delivers seventeen fixed-scope engagements across four practice pillars, each with a defined deliverable and a defined scope. No discovery calls are required: the work product is the conversation.
The four pillars build on one another. Subsurface & Reserves tells a client whether an asset is worth pursuing. Subsurface Modeling, Valuation & Equity establishes what it is worth and who owns how much of it, to a standard that survives an auditor, an investor, or a tribunal. Secure Data & Digital Operations makes the evidence behind those answers defensible. Governance, Risk & Program Leadership structures the bid, governs the reactivation, stands up the entity, and de-risks the counterparty: the work that turns a screened block into a producing, then sellable, asset.
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All engagements are contracted and invoiced through Myrina Ventures LLC (Phoenix, Arizona; EIN 93-4903658). Venezuelan technical execution is delivered through Myrina Energy C.A. (Lechería, Anzoátegui) once incorporated in Q3 2026. European-client engagements are invoiced through the Phoenix US LLC until the Italian Partita IVA opens in Q1 2027.
Reply with the target offer number and a one-paragraph description of the asset or block. We confirm fit and any OFAC framing within two business days.
Execute a mutual NDA. We deliver a one-page Statement of Work specifying scope boundaries, data dependencies, and delivery milestones.
On signature, the engagement starts. All work product is delivered on the date stated in the SoW. Short discovery calls; the deliverable is the conversation.
The Live FID Matrix is Myrina’s proprietary investment-screening engine for Venezuelan re-entry. It ranks a portfolio of macro-assets across 22 technical, commercial, and compliance parameters grouped into six weighted categories, and returns a single 0–100 investability score per asset: Invest at 70 or above, Conditional from 50 to 69, Monitor from 35 to 49, Do Not Invest below 35. Five binary veto gates sit above the arithmetic: one failed gate disqualifies an asset regardless of its score. Commercial and economic categories carry half the total weight, because a block that cannot be contracted or financed is not an opportunity. Delivered as a live subscription, the Matrix re-scores as new field data, fiscal terms, or OFAC guidance land, so an investment committee always negotiates from the current picture, not last quarter’s.
Two co-founders carry the firm’s strategic, technical, and operational direction. Around them, a deliberately small bench of expert collaborators, each unsurpassed in a discipline that integrated subsurface work cannot do without.
Myrina Ventures LLC is a Phoenix-headquartered US consultancy with senior practitioners delivering from Milan, Houston, Caracas, and Lechería, and a Venezuelan subsidiary, Myrina Energy C.A., launching in Lechería in Q3 2026. Italian Partita IVA incorporation follows in Q1 2027.
Subsurface depth meets a multi-jurisdictional compliance architecture rare in this market. We translate technical certainty into commercial decisions: for IOCs, NOCs, independents, and the funds underwriting them.
Every configuration is wrapped in the same shield: Gregorio Mogollón’s cybersecurity mandate, embedded from the first project file to the final deliverable.
Most consultancies sell one arm. The Venezuelan re-entry market is buying all three at once. Myrina is built to deliver all three under one coordinated voice, with one chain of custody, from one accountable bench.
Every recommendation traces to the data: logs, cores, seismic, production history. We state findings directly and stand behind them.
Sanctions and regulatory review run in parallel with the technical work, never after it. Due process is a design input, not an afterthought.
We draft, model, build, and deliver ourselves: quantified deliverables, on the date committed.
Senior expertise is captured, automated, and taught. Every project trains the next generation under senior supervision.
Non-exclusive by design, fair by contract. We protect our clients’ confidence the way we protect our own.
Marginal fields, transition markets, hard problems: we go where the work is and we build to last.
Myrina, Queen of the Amazons, recorded by Diodorus Siculus as the first to consolidate empire across two continents. Unstopped in her time, her name became synonymous with martial supremacy. The logo carries her profile: her hair flows like the mighty Orinoco river as she basks in the golden hue of the Venezuelan sun. Beautiful, transparent, unstoppable. Every Myrina deliverable is built to the same standard: defensible, transparent, and rooted in the ground it speaks for.
To unlock Venezuela’s energy potential through technically excellent, transparent, and technology-driven consulting: restoring value to the nation’s resources while generating sustainable returns for our clients and partners.
To be the most trusted and technically capable independent energy consulting firm operating in Venezuela: the bridge between the country’s extraordinary reserves and the international capital and technology required to produce them responsibly and efficiently.
Venezuela’s 300 billion barrels of proven reserves are not in question. What has been in question, for two decades, is whether the institutional, technical, and capital architecture exists to monetize them again. Venezuelan production trades near a one-million-barrel-per-day floor, against a 1998 peak of 3.2 million and a reform ceiling of 5 million.
The delta between the floor and the ceiling is the largest single re-entry opportunity in the global upstream today. It is also the single most technically demanding. Myrina Energy is here to increase production potential and maximize asset value.
A significant portion of Venezuela’s top technical talent transitioned to roles across the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East. Their expertise matured within operator-grade, highly competitive environments. This globalized cohort now represents one of the most seasoned Venezuelan diasporas in the energy sector; Myrina’s founders and bench among them.
Selective OFAC licenses widen. Chevron returns with material scope. Eni and Repsol expand European-licensed gas streams. ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, and Shell send scout teams. The conversation moves from whether to how, when, and with whom.
A US LLC in Phoenix, a Venezuelan subsidiary launching in Lechería Q3 2026, and Italian Partita IVA incorporation in Q1 2027: the reverse diaspora in action, the technical inheritance returning home.
PDVSA? A productive carve-out. Irúa Euribe’s thesis on the structural reform required to revive Venezuela’s national oil company, published on the front page of Italy’s leading financial daily. The argument: PDVSA is not a company to be sold. It is a productive system to be carefully disassembled and re-aggregated, block by block, with each operating unit attracting its own capital and operator.
Subsurface depth dictates the carving lines; sanctions architecture dictates the counterparty structure; on-the-ground presence dictates execution. It is the same thesis Myrina Ventures was built to execute: before the article was written, and now after it.
Twenty-five years executing operator-side reservoir modeling across six basins on three continents. PDVSA Lechería exploration scientist running 24/7 geosteering on extended-reach horizontals across four rigs, with technical-liaison relationships with Eni, Repsol, Mitsubishi, Chevron, and Petronas, and a 30% production efficiency uplift via local sector modeling. Chief Geologist at OMV Petrom in Bucharest, integrating seven data vintages into one coherent static model of the Ţintea Field. Shell Maracaibo on Urdaneta West (25% drilling cost reduction per well). Kuwait’s Greater Burgan, Colombia’s Sinú-San Jacinto, Petrozuata multilateral-well design in the Faja.
Now consulting from Milan: CCUS and UGS site work in the US Smackover (20% lithium plume efficiency improvement) and SEC-compliant reserves certification across European and Latin American operators. Petrel-native, Stanford-certified project manager, working in Spanish, English, Italian, and French. Published in Il Sole 24 Ore. The technical voice on every Myrina engagement.
Principal cyber-security architect since 2016, designing and operating enterprise-grade security systems at a top-tier US financial institution. Founder of Global IP Systems LLC, seventeen years engineering open-source VoIP and Asterisk-platform infrastructure, including PDVSA’s national VoIP migration: a direct Venezuelan operator-side technology credential. Earlier, United Nations Unix administration for a 10,000-person global user base and connectivity engineering across Latin America, once to the entire island of St. Helena. BS Computer Science, Washington University in St. Louis.
The Shield is built, configured, and patched by his hands, not a vendor’s: US administrative core, counterparty due diligence, and energy-infrastructure security behind every Myrina contract, invoice, and data handoff.
JD in Environmental, Oil & Gas, and Intellectual Property Law (University of Houston Law Center) on top of twenty-nine years of operator-side geomodeling at Conoco/ConocoPhillips, Noble Energy, and Murphy Oil. Built the Petrel geologic models for the giant Leviathan and Tamar gas fields. Led the geologic team for ConocoPhillips’ Zuata Heavy Oil Expansion acreage selection, the Conoco-PdVSA Faja joint venture, and built the Petrozuata and Hamaca field models that underwrote the 2001 project-financing performance test. SEPM Distinguished Service Award, twice.
Houston-based, and Houston is where the oil-and-gas industry meets. He drafts the OFAC license analyses, red-lines the contracts, renders the Petrel surfaces himself, and walks into the conference room in person.
Seventy million barrels of oil added via his patented Advanced Petrophysical Model. 41% reduction in hydraulic-fracturing stage count at PEMEX Reynosa-Tampico, $2.1M saved on a single asset; 25% production uplift at PEMEX Activo Abkatún Pol Chuc. Eighteen years across ten countries. Three IP patents he authored and uses daily. Energy-transition reservoir characterization as a working specialty: CO₂ storage, natural-gas storage, underground hydrogen storage, geothermal. The hand on every Myrina petrophysical model, not the supervisor of one.
Over a thousand stratigraphic, intermediate, and horizontal wells drilled with her hands on the geosteering. Thirty-plus years of operational geology from the North Sea (a 1990 world depth record from the Brent platforms) through twenty years across Venezuela’s Faja with Petrozuata, Cerro Negro, Ameriven, and PDVSA Petropiar: planning well pads, running wellsite geologist teams, supervising drilling 24/7 on real-time data feeds, and training the next generation. A Latin America TVD horizontal-well record in 1996. The hand on the geosteering decision when the bit is moving, not the supervisor of it.
Thirty-four years of exploration leadership across Eni and beyond. Exploration Manager for Petrosucre, the Eni-PDVSA mixed enterprise operating Venezuela’s Eastern basin from Puerto La Cruz, then Eni Liaison Manager for Latin America: the corporate hinge between Milan headquarters and operated subsidiaries. Earlier, Eni North Africa in Tripoli, Croatia offshore, Algeria’s Berkine basin, the UK Central Graben. Later, Ecopetrol Technical Team Lead in Bogotá. Italian, English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese, all at full professional level. Joining the bench full-time from August 2027; available for project-specific consulting until then.
Twenty-nine years executing reservoir engineering and well productivity across Venezuela, Mexico, and Colombia. Heavy-oil specialist: PDVSA’s Tierra Este Pesado (300 MBD heavy-oil monitoring), SAGD thermal-recovery design at C-7 Tía Juana Pesado, FEL / VCD methodology rolled out at PEMEX with documented results, and surface-network design on Pacific Rubiales’ Quifa (620 wells) and Rubiales (1,230 wells) that saved $8M on a single asset. Caracas-resident: one of the returnees the 2007–2017 chapter was waiting on.
Project delivery and engagement coordination for Myrina’s Lechería-anchored work: the operational interface between the technical bench in Phoenix and Milan, the OFAC desk in Houston, the governance and reservoir-engineering bench in Caracas, and the Venezuelan client cycle on the ground. In-country procurement and logistics, field-access coordination, contractor and safety protocol management. Anchor of the Q3 2026 Myrina Energy office stand-up: the difference between a subsidiary as a registered entity and a subsidiary as a working office producing deliverables.
Venezuela corporate registration, M&A regulatory filing, supply-chain compliance, and country-risk frameworks: the institutional layer that prepares Myrina Energy for operational launch, drafted, filed, and walked through in person, in country. Twenty-plus years executing the work: international procurement at Schlumberger across Venezuela and Trinidad & Tobago, strategic purchasing at Siemens, infrastructure contract management at Andrade Gutiérrez across three countries, strategic governance and M&A regulatory documentation at Grupo Conroy. Risk Manager ISO 31000. Spanish, English, French, and Portuguese in working use.
Multi-continental presence is not a logistics complication. It is the exact compliance and origination geometry the current market is asking for: a US LLC today, a Venezuelan subsidiary launching Q3 2026, and Italian Partita IVA incorporation in Q1 2027.
Every Myrina engagement carries sensitive data: reservoir models that took millions to acquire, due-diligence files that name counterparties under active sanctions review, fiscal exposure quantified to the dollar, OT/IT architectures protecting critical infrastructure.
In this market, in this decade, data security is not a service line. It is the precondition for every other one. The cybersecurity mandate is embedded in every arm of the Trifecta: from the Petrel project file, to the OFAC counterparty memo, to the wire that closes the engagement.
Discretion is the value. Gregorio is the value made operational. Myrina, like the warrior whose name we carry, is unstoppable because she is unbreached.
Strategic alliances extend Myrina’s bench across disciplines that complement the in-house subsurface depth. Allied firms operate inside Myrina deliverables under common QA and one chain of custody.
Twenty-five years of operator-side reservoir modeling across six basins. Three IP patents in the petrophysics bench. Houston-resident OFAC counsel with twenty-nine years of Faja, Leviathan, and Tamar modeling. PDVSA institutional memory across the Eastern Venezuelan basin. A cybersecurity mandate embedded from the first project file to the wire that closes the engagement.
Petrel-native static modeling, SEC and SPE-PRMS reserves discipline, geosteering, CCUS, UGS, and UHS site work. Auditor-defensible, peer-reviewable, reproducible.
OFAC-conscious counterparty structuring delivered through a multi-jurisdictional entity architecture: US LLC today, Venezuelan subsidiary from Q3 2026, Italian Partita IVA from Q1 2027.
Five cities, five time zones, around-the-clock delivery. Senior practitioners in Phoenix, Houston, Milan, Caracas, and Lechería.
Most consultancies sell one arm. The Venezuelan re-entry market is buying all three at once. Myrina is built to deliver all three under one coordinated voice, with one chain of custody, from one accountable bench.
Most Myrina engagements begin with a thirty-minute scoping conversation and a one-page technical brief. From there, a fixed-fee proposal, typically inside ten business days, is sized to the question, the data, and the deadline.
Tax. Myrina Ventures LLC is a U.S. taxpayer (EIN 93-4903658). IRS Form 6166 is available on request for treaty-rate withholding.
Compliance. All Venezuela-touching engagements are scoped against the current OFAC General License set and reviewed for Specific License triggers before kickoff.
Confidentiality. A mutual NDA precedes any client data exchange. Data handling and chain-of-custody run under the Shield.