Ricardo Garzon Rangel is an industrial engineer and energy economist with over 15 years of international experience in sourcing, managing and promoting oil & gas and mineral exploration projects.
He was a significant team member in Baraka Petroleum’s acquisition of a 260,000km2 tract of the Taoudeni Basin in West Africa, and participated in a producing oil field and two brownfield oil exploration projects in Colombia. After serving as a board member of Baraka in 2009, Mr Garzon Rangel identified and progressed several exploration opportunities in South America and Australia.
As a dual Australian and Colombian citizen, Mr Garzon Rangel has a depth of experience in Latin America and a proven ability to expand business operations into new regions and establish relationships with governments & other industry participants.
Mr Garzon Rangel holds a Bachelors degree in Industrial Engineering from Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas in Bogotá Colombia, and a Master of Science in Energy Economics and Management from
Curtin University. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
