Seminar: Oil Industry – How well you know it?

16 março 2016, 09:14 Elisa do Nascimento Pires Costa



Next Friday, March 18th, at 11h00, the seminar “Oil Industry – How well you know it?" will be held, presented by Mr. Manuel Pungo , from Total E&P Angola.

Venue: Room V1.08, Civil Engineering Building, IST - Alameda Campus


Manuel Augusto Jose Pungo graduated with honor in Mechanical Engineering at IST, in Lisbon – Portugal, and was awarded a merit scholarship from Technical University of Lisbon in 1999. He further achieved a Business Management Diploma from Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen – United Kingdom. He has over 15 years of experience in the upstream Oil & Gas industry, within shallow water, deep and ultra deep offshore domains. Manuel Pungo has engineering, green and brown field developments and operation background, having worked in several countries such as Angola, South Korea, France, Nigeria, Indonesia, Argentina, Congo, Gabon, etc.

While working in Angola, he lectured at the university and taught different subjects including but not limited to Production Management, Structural Analysis and Applied Thermodynamics. He was also technical advisor and consultant for the Angolan water supply Company (EPAL)

Currently he is the Operations Technical Support Manager at TOTAL E&P Angola, providing support to 4 FPSO (Floating Production Storage and Offloading) units in several domains such as Maintenance, Production and Process, Subsea Operations, Inspection and plant Turnaround.