Mayela RIVERO is a chemical engineer graduated from the "Universidad de los Andes (ULA)" in Merida - Venezuela, and has over 25 years of international experience in the O&G industry. His petroleum career began in 1984 with PDVSA at the Technology Centre INTEVEP,, working on Heavy Oil transport in pipelines using technologies such as emulsions or annular flow. She owned several patents of invention on the emulsion process at the origin of the Orimulsion product. She got a PhD in Fluid Mechanics from the "Institut de Mecanique des Fluides - Toulouse" in 1991 and came back to PDVSA at the head of the transport in pipelines group. In 1993 she was appointed as Drilling group leader and direct a strategy to develop new fluids and processes specially for underbalance drilling, multilaterals and for HPHT reservoirs. From 2004 to 2007 she joined CSIRO in Australia to create the Production group for development of technologies related to stranded gas fields in the offshore environment in Australia. The “Platform Free field" program was created and progress the studies in Hydrates in pipelines, monitoring of pipelines using RF tags and compact subsea separation. in 2013 construction in West Africa and pipelines installation in North Sea, as well as the French Institute of Petroleum, where he developed new drilling technologies and tools. In 2007, she joined TOTAL E&P Development Studies department in Paris and deal with EOR projects worldwide. She was in charge of the Gas Master Plan for the UAE and develop the architecture for the first EOR Project in carbonates, injection PS. Her current position since 2015 is TOTAL E&P R&T, based in Houston TX, as Deep Offshore Technologies Manager, in charge of the TOTAL portfolio of technological projects with O&G Companies, Research Centres and Universities, in response to TOTAL strategies and to attend worldwide requirements in Deep Offshore.