Horacio was born in Argentina in 1954 and joined Schlumberger as in-house Sedimentologist to PEMEX in Veracruz in 2000. He held various technical, lead, and research roles in Mexico with IPM and Regional Technology Center (RTC). He went on to Beijing in 2008 as Lead Geologist with Data and Consultant Services (DCS) for a joint project with SLB Carbon Services, SLB Beijing Geosciences Center (BGC), SASOL and DOW Chemical in Inner Mongolia, China. He was promoted to Principal Geologist in 2009. Horacio was seconded to a SPM-Shell-Petronas project in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2011. After a short term assignment in New Delhi for Cairn, he was transferred as Principal Reservoir Geologist to a Schlumberger Production Management (SPM)-PetroAmazonas project in Quito, Ecuador in 2014 until December 2015.

Besides his loving wife Cecilia, Horacio is survived by his three children, Sebastian, Sabrina, and Matias; his son-in-law, Paul, granddaughters, Emilia and Ana; and his daughter-in-law, Cynthia, of Calgary.

Horacio and Cecilia joined us at the 2022 reunion in Thessaloniki, as well as previously in Berlin and Bordeaux.

His obituary is available here.