HRT Oil & Gas — a wholly-owned subsidiary of HRT Participacoes — will be run by geologist and businessman Marcio Mello, who worked for more than 25 years at Petrobras. He picked John Forman, former head of the country’s National Petroleum Agency (ANP), for the position of executive vice president and Antonio Agostini as its E&P director.
“This is the dream of any geologist.