Dr. Juan Jose Manzano-Ruiz has extensive international oil & gas field development experience over the past 40+ years in shallow, deepwater, and onshore Flow Assurance (FA), as a technical team lead, project manager, asset manager, and R&D technical contributor. He is currently President of PetroConsulting and Associates, LLC in Katy, Texas. Prior to this, he worked for over 23 years at two major integrated companies, PDVSA and BP, in a variety of roles as Team Lead of R&D, Manager of Commercialization, Team Lead of Process Engineering, Facilities Manager, Sr. Production Engineer, and Asset Manager of an oil field in western Venezuela. He also served as Manager of Process Engineering for Jacobs Engineering, Manager of Flow Assurance for Technip-Genesis, and Flow Assurance Manager for Bechtel Oil & Gas, supporting numerous offshore/onshore oil & gas field development projects, on behalf of Clients such as BP, Exxon-Mobil, Shell, Chevron, Pemex, CNOOC, ADNOC, Petrobras, Enterprise, Enbridge, Burlington Resources, Lukoil, Newfield Exploration, Oiltanking, PTTEP, Schlumberger, and West Engineering. While working at PDVSA, he taught for 16 years several graduate and undergraduate mechanical and chemical engineering courses in Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Turbulent Fluid Flow, Compressible Fluid Flow, Multiphase Fluid Flow, Advanced Heat Transfer, Numerical Methods, and Optimization of Thermal Systems, at Universidad Simon Bolivar and Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas, Venezuela. After some time as an Adjunct Professor, he was granted Tenure as Full Professor of Engineering at Universidad Simon Bolivar.

In the period 1991-1994, he was admitted into the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Bristol, UK, as a Visiting Professor and Researcher in drag-reduction of turbulent fluid flow. He has received the SME recognition from Technip's College of Experts (Paris, France) and the Bechtel's Distinguished Engineer acknowledgment. He has been engaged in several professional organizations throughout his career, including the GPA Midstream, ASME Multiphase Flow Committee, SPE Flow Assurance Technical Group, and AIChE Flow Assurance Forum; and has taught a number of training courses to oil & gas industry personnel with the Fleming organization. He received his PhD, Mech. E. and MSc degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and his BSc degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Catolica Andres Bello, Caracas, Venezuela. He also completed his MBA Minor Program from MIT Sloan Business School and holds a Professional Engineering license in the State of Texas, USA.