Ravi Krishnamurthy, PhD

Ravi has over 18 years of experience in the upstream and downstream oil and gas industry, especially in metallurgical engineering, fracture mechanics, sour service design, pipeline integrity and corrosion engineering. He is an expert in applications of in-line inspection to pipeline integrity. Ravi received his Ph.D in Materials Science from the University of Virginia.

Ming Gao, Ph.D, Met Eng

Ming has over 25 years of experience in application of Fracture Mechanics to complex engineering design and life assessment problems. More than 90 publications in the areas of Fracture Mechanics Structural Reliability and Failure Analysis. Ming has authored 24 publications in the area of Pipeline Integrity and Management of Pipeline Stress Corrosion Cracking. Ming is responsible for coordinating work at Blade Labs.

Pablo Cazenave, Gas Engineer - Specialist

Pablo has over 16 years of professional experience in the Oil & Gas industry, with the last 9+ years specialized in Pipeline Integrity (ILI technologies, Fitness for Purpose/Service, Structural Pipeline Integrity, Risk Assessment, Pipeline Integrity Management, Corrosion Management, Crack Management and Rehabilitation programs). With excellent communication skills in both Spanish and English, Pablo plays a key role in Blade Energy business for Latin America.