At the 2018 The Oil & Gas Conference®, Jim Park, CEO and director of South American E&P GeoPark (ticker: GPRK), was interviewed by EnerCom’s Angie Austin.
Park has worked in all phases of the upstream oil and gas business with a strong background in the acquisition, implementation and management of international joint ventures, including assignments in North America, Latin America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
Early in his career, he worked as a research scientist in earthquake and tectonic studies after earning a degree in geophysics. In 1978, Park joined an oil and gas exploration project in Guatemala with Basic Resources International Limited which pioneered the development of commercial oil and gas production in Central America.
GeoPark is currently ranked the third-largest private oil and gas operator in Colombia and the first private oil and gas producer in Chile. It also has a non-operating working interest in one of the largest non-associated gas fields in Brazil.