Born May 30, 1931. After graduation from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale du Pétrole in Paris, he participated with Compagnie Francaise des Pétroles (now TOTAL) in the Sahara exploration with the discoveries of two supergiant fields: Hassi Messaoud and Hassi R'Mel. He went to explore Central, Southern and Western Australia. He was in charge of exploration in Canada for TOTAL in Calgary where he started exploring Labrador Sea and Michigan.
After 15 years overseas, he went to TOTAL headquarters in Paris where he was in charge successively of the new ventures negotiation, technical services and research, basin exploration departments and finally deputy exploration manager.
He was member of the Safety Panel of the Ocean Drilling Program (JOIDES). He was President of the Exploration Commission of the Comité des Techniciens of the Union Française de l'Industrie Pétrolière where he directed the publication of a dozen of manuals. He was director of Compagnie Génerale de Geophysique, Petrosystems and various TOTAL subsidiaries. After 37 years of worldwide exploration with TOTAL, he retired in 1991.
He is now writing articles and giving lectures. He has written several reports with Petroconsultants and Petroleum Economist on world's oil and gas potential and future production. He was a member of the "Society of Petroleum Engineers/World Petroleum Congress ad hoc Committee on joint definitions of petroleum reserves" and also a member of the task force on "Perspectives Energie 2010-2020" for the "Commissariat Général du Plan".
His graphs are used in the International Energy Agency 1998 report "World International Outlook" and in the World Energy Council reports 2000 "Energy for tomorrow's world - Acting Now" & 2004 "Drivers of the energy scene". He chaired the 2002 World Petroleum Congress (Rio of Janeiro) panel on hydrates (RFP9 "Economic Use of Hydrates: Dream or Reality?"). He is a member of ASPO (Association for the Study of Peak Oil and gas).

Carlos Cramez is a Swiss and French citizen. He was born in 1939, in Vila Real, Portugal. After getting a baccalaureate, in Vila Real (Camilo Castelo Branco Academy), he studied Geology at the University  of Porto. With a scholarship of the Calouste Gulbenkian Fondation he spent five years in Switzerland and Norway studying and working as Assistant to Prof. C.E. Wegmann at the University of Neuchâtel, where he obtained a Ph.D. in Tectonics.
Starting his professional career as Chief Geologist in a subsidiary of ALCAN, in Brazil, he joined Total  in 1968. Since then, he has worked in the Petroleum Exploration  around the world (Angola, Indonesia, Canada, USA, Tunisia, Algeria,  Libya, Philippines, North Sea, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Yemen,  Syria, China, Russia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, India,  Pakistan, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Vietnam, etc.,). After being in charge of Total's Seismic Interpretation Department he was appointed, in 1987 Adviser to the Senior Vice President of Exploration & Production.
Besides experience in Hydrocarbon Exploration, where he participated in several major oil discoveries (Bekapai and Handil in  Indonesia; Lombo East, in Angola, Cusiana in Colombia, etc..), he has  carried out intense academic and scientific activities, lecturing at  the Universities of Neuchâtel (Switzerland), Besançon (France) and  Institut Français du Pétrole (France). Between 1989 and 2003, he was Adjunct Professor of Geology and Geophysics at the Rice University in Houston (USA), working in collaboration with Profs. A. Bally and P. Vail.
He has presented several important papers in scientific Symposiums and Conventions, mainly in Seismic Interpretation, Sequence Stratigraphy, Salt Tectonics, Petroleum Systems, Inversion Tectonics, Tectonic Regimes, Sedimentary Basin & Petroleum Systems, etc.
At the end of 2000, he pre-retired from Total. Since then, he was President of H.E.A.T. Consulting Switzerland, till 2004.
Presentlty, he advises several International Oil Companies, as well as major American Financing Companies, in International Exploration Businesses.

Pedro Prieto is a Spaniard, born in Madrid, in 1950. As a Telecom Technical Engineer he has been working in the industry since his graduation in 1972. He worked in R&D activities and as professor in the R&D labs of ITT in Madrid. He then became Export Director of a public owned Spanish telecom company in the field of broadcasting in 1984. Finally, he joined Alcatel as commercial director for the Eastern and Central Europe and South East Asia. He then was appointed as Marketing and Commercial Director of Alcatel in Poland in 1989. Later covering Latin America, also as commercial director and finally as Vice president of the Radio Communications Division of Alcatel for Portugal, Spain, Latin America and China. He has visited and traded in more than 60 countries and lived, on permanent basis, in 6 different countries, many of them energy producers, as Iraq, Venezuela, Colombia, China or Argentina. He retired in 2002 and became a part time ecological farmer in Western Spain and a specialist in energy issues.
His interest in energy started when he saw black snow flakes falling and covering the Katowice city in Poland, in the late eighties. Ever since, he has been increasingly involved in energy issues and founded Crisis Energética (www.crisisenergetica.org) in 2003, the reference web in Spanish language for the ASPO organization and newsletters. He also created the Association for the Study of Energy Resources (AEREN) in Spain, a non profit organization, aimed to raise awareness on the fossil energy depletion at global level and its consequences for mankind.
He is also consultant for renewable energies, today assessing various solar photovoltaic projects in Spain and leading a pioneering cooperative and turnkey project of 1 Mwp solar plant in Western Spain, with a challenging concentration technology at 400 suns, with double axe tracking systems.