Juan Pedro Morales Salazar is a drilling and geomechanics scientist; he is also a consulting professor of petroleum engineering subjects at the School of Engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Currently, he works at PEMEX-PEP as an external technical advisor in different topics regarding geomechanics applied to well drilling, pore pressure prediction, pressure management drilling, drilling transient flow and cutting transport, hydraulic fracturing, directional drilling, cementing, among others. He holds a B.S. degree, a M.S. and Ph.D. all in petroleum engineering from the UNAM. He is a SPE member and has had many presentations in technical conferences in the Mexican Petroleum Congress (CMP) and the Mexican Petroleum Engineering Association meetings (AIPM).