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WHO WE ARE

Decision Quality Fails When Assumptions Break

R2Core was founded on a single observation: the oil and gas industry doesn’t have a data problem. It has a decision-quality problem — and it shows up when assumptions finally break.

OUR ORIGIN

We’ve seen what breaks.

R2Core was built by practitioners — engineers and strategists who spent years inside complex oil and gas operations watching the same failure mode repeat itself across companies of every size.

Plans were rational. Teams were experienced. Data was abundant. And yet, value kept getting destroyed — not from single catastrophic errors, but from the accumulation of good decisions made in silos, under assumptions that were never tested together.

We built R2Core to solve that specific problem. Not with more dashboards, not with better forecasting software — but with a fundamentally different architecture for decision-making: one that integrates technical, operational, and financial risk into a single coherent framework before capital is committed.

The result is what we call Decision Infrastructure — the structural layer that operators have been missing.

WHAT WE BELIEVE

The principles we don’t negotiate.

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Uncertainty is unavoidable. Pretending otherwise is the real risk. The organizations that survive volatility are not the ones who predicted it — they're the ones who designed for it.
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Leadership deserves clarity, not more complexity. Every decision should roll up to one question: are we creating value or destroying it? If your framework can't answer that, it's not a framework — it's a filing system.
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Most plans fail not because they are wrong, but because their assumptions were never stress-tested together. A plan that only works in ideal conditions isn't a plan. It's a hope.
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Good decisions are not about being right. They are about understanding the consequences of every option before committing capital. Confidence without visibility is just expensive guessing.
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Value destruction is structural, not accidental. Siloed optimization across drilling, completions, and production creates a system that looks efficient in parts and leaks value at the whole.
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We don't tell operators what to do. We show them the consequences of every option. Judgment belongs to leadership. Visibility is what we provide — and without it, judgment is flying blind.

OUR TEAM

Engineering practitioners first.
Always.

R2Core was not built in a consulting firm. It was built in the field — by people who have been accountable for the decisions that go wrong when assumptions break.

Gus Vegas
Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineer, MS Business and Project Management
Gus brings over 20 years of experience across conventional and unconventional oil and gas assets around the globe to his role as CEO of R2Core, with a balanced background in operations, asset management, and commercial leadership. Previously, he served as Director of Business Development for the Americas at Solomon Associates, the global gold standard in oil and gas benchmarking and a leading consulting firm in the industry, where he worked with operators to improve performance and strategic decision-making.
E&P OPERATIONS
CAPITAL ALLOCATION
RISK ARCHITECTURE
DECISION FRAMEWORKS
Medardo E. Yáñez
Mechanical Engineer, MS Reliability , ME Petroleum Engineering, MBA, PhD in Stochastic Risk Analysis
Medardo brings over 34 years of experience across the oil and gas value chain, combining operational, managerial, and consulting leadership in both technical and executive roles. His career spans key disciplines including reservoir engineering, production and operations, strategic planning, maintenance, marketing, among others. He is a permanent member of the Center for Reliability and Risk Studies at the University of Maryland and was recognized with PDVSA’s prestigious “Excellence Award” in 2001, highlighting his long-standing contributions to industry performance, innovation, and risk-informed decision making.
SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
METHODOLOGY DESIGN
SCENARIO MODELING
VALUE ENGINEERING
Michele Leccese Petrucci
Mechanical Engineer, ME in Industrial Systems Reliability
His extensive professional background spans key leadership and engineering roles across the oil and gas value chain, including Operations, Engineering and Planning. Throughout his career, he has contributed to high-impact portfolio optimization initiatives, supporting drilling and well repair prioritization, and defining optimal execution timelines for critical maintenance, rehabilitation, and operational improvement activities
SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
METHODOLOGY DESIGN
SCENARIO MODELING
VALUE ENGINEERING
Luis Fernandez
Industrial Engineer, Master in Business Management specialization in Reliability Engineering
Luis has built a broad and integrated view of the business through extensive experience across operations, service, maintenance, and planning functions, focused on improving core production and asset integrity activities. He has led multidisciplinary teams in land transportation operations, maintenance planning, and the enhancement of operational reliability across production assets. In addition to his technical leadership, Luis brings deep expertise in human capital development.
SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
METHODOLOGY DESIGN
SCENARIO MODELING
VALUE ENGINEERING
Alis Fernandez
Industrial Engineer, MS Reliability and Risk Engineering, MF and Business Management
Alis brings strong expertise in process improvement, project management, and performance systems, including the application of the Balanced Scorecard. She has led benchmarking and management system implementations, operational reliability initiatives, and contributed to Business Continuity Management programs aligned with ISO 22301 standards. She also offers extensive experience in budgetary control, cost analysis, and operational performance optimization.
SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
METHODOLOGY DESIGN
SCENARIO MODELING
VALUE ENGINEERING
Juan Carlos Regardiz
Attorney, Venezuela
Over the last 30 years Juan has been representing companies in the energy and oil sector, specializing in Administrative Law, Hydrocarbons, and Compliance. Served as Legal Counsel and Compliance Officer for Exterran Services B.V. and its subsidiaries in Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru, and began his career at Corpoven S.A. (PDVSA).
SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
METHODOLOGY DESIGN
SCENARIO MODELING
VALUE ENGINEERING
Jose Gregorio Fariñas
Petroleum Engineer , M.S Gas Engineering
Jose brings 30 years of experience in well productivity, production and reservoir operations including, the development of CAPEX and OPEX scenario profiles linked to production forecasts, and techno-economic modeling under technical, financial, and operational uncertainty. He applies advanced multi-criteria scenario frameworks to assess project reliability, quantify risk exposure, and structure value-based decision metrics.
SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
METHODOLOGY DESIGN
SCENARIO MODELING
VALUE ENGINEERING
Miguel Aguero
Mechanical Engineer, MS Sub oil- Surface Operational Reliability
With more than 30 years in the industry, Miguel combines operational and service expertise to assess maintenance costs and economic drivers that shape asset availability and performance. His combined industry experience delivers maintenance cost and economic evaluations that directly support improved operational availability.
SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
METHODOLOGY DESIGN
SCENARIO MODELING
VALUE ENGINEERING

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