CCUS Featured Speakers
An exciting line-up of industry speakers and experts will drive the discussions on current CCUS developments and the future of energy.
Timothy Duncan
Talos Energy
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Tim Duncan is the President and CEO and a co-founder of Talos Energy Inc. (NYSE: TALO). Headquartered in Houston, Texas and founded in 2012, Talos Energy is a leading offshore energy company focused on offshore oil and gas exploration and production as well as the development of future carbon capture and storage opportunities in the U.S. Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico and offshore Mexico. Talos became a public company in May 2018 following its merger with Stone Energy, transitioning from a private company initially funded with $600 million of capital commitments by two leading global investment firms. Talos is the third company that Duncan has built with partners over the last twenty years, following the success of Gryphon Exploration and Phoenix Exploration. Since inception, Talos has grown from 5 original employees to over 550 employees and is today one of the largest independent producers in the basin. Talos has been named a Houston Chronicle Top Workplace for the last ten consecutive years.
Mr. Duncan is the past Chairman (2021-2022) and a past Vice Chair (2020-2021) of the National Offshore Industries Association (NOIA) and serves on their board of directors. He is a member of the board of directors of Chesapeake Energy Corporation and of the American Cancer Society CEOs Against Cancer. He also serves on various academically focused boards including the College of Engineering Dean’s Advisory Council and the Foundation Board at Mississippi State University. Mr. Duncan holds a BS in Petroleum Engineering from Mississippi State University and an MBA from the Bauer Executive Program at the University of Houston.
Peter Findlay
Wood Mackenzie
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A Principal Analyst in the Energy Transition Practice, Peter joined Wood Mackenzie in 2021 to help grow the firm’s understanding of CCUS economics and to develop specific expertise on North American projects. Peter has extensive experience with major energy infrastructure project conception and development, including major North American CCUS and hydrogen project development and transactions.
Starting his career as a fluid dynamics engineer at Pratt & Whitney, Peter then joined at strategy and management consulting firm A.T. Kearney, working for six years primarily with supermajors, NOCs, large corporates and major investment funds in the oil, gas, and power sectors. He then led the Financial Modelling and Decisions practice at PwC in Western Canada including a one-year secondment in London, UK, before working as a Vice-President at EY Parthenon and as a Partner with Criterium Group, where he conducted commercial due diligence engagements for energy transactions and projects.
Peter has been affiliated since 2015 with the Oxford Institute Energy Studies, focusing on Canadian oil and gas, a subject on which he has authored several peer-reviewed papers and spoken at the OPEC meetings and other international conferences.
Peter is a mechanical engineering graduate of the University of Alberta and later earned an MSc. degree in Computational Fluid Dynamics of Turbine Engines from McGill University and an MBA degree in Finance from ESSEC, Warwick and Mannheim Business Schools in Europe.
Peter speaks fluent French, is a registered Professional Engineer in the province of Alberta, and is a member of the Society of Decision Professionals.
John Litynski
U.S. Department of Energy
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John currently serves as the Director for Carbon Transport and Storage in the Department of Energy’s Office of Carbon Management. He previously served as the Deputy Director for Research and Development in the Office of Clean Coal and Carbon Management, Program Manager for Carbon Capture at Department of Energy, and as a senior team lead on environmental compliance and assessment with the U.S Army. He has over 25 years of experience working on environmental compliance and technology development for the energy industry and Department of Defense. He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and M.S. from Johns Hopkins University in Environmental Engineering and Science.
Cindy Yeilding
Denbury, CHF
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Cindy Yeilding is the Independent Director of Denbury Inc. Previous roles included Senior Vice President of BP America; Vice President Gulf of Mexico Exploration & Appraisal, and Global Geoscience Research and Technology Manager for BP. Yeilding’s specialties include exploration and technology, and she is currently leading the working team for the US National Petroleum Council study on Carbon Capture, Use, and Storage (CCUS). Yeilding is Chair of the Offshore Technology Conference and serves on the Board of Directors of BPX&P and the Greater Houston Partnership. She is BP’s Executive Sponsor for Princeton University and serves on the Advisory Board for the Jackson School, University of Texas and the Executive Board of Dedman College, Southern Methodist University (SMU). She has served as an American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Distinguished Lecturer and was named a “Legend in Exploration” by AAPG. Yeilding actively promotes STEM education and created the OTC High School Energy Challenge. She was recognized as one of Houston’s “Top 15 Business Women” by the National Diversity Council, received a “Women in Energy Leadership” award from the Houston Business Journal, and was named one of Houston’s “50 Most Influential Women” by Houston Woman Magazine. She holds a BS in geology from SMU and an MSc in geology from the University of North Carolina.
Maris Densmore
American Carbon Registry
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Maris Densmore, Director of Industrial Solutions at American Carbon Registry, is responsible for overseeing the investigation, analysis, and implementation of new strategic opportunities to harness the power of markets for high impact emission reduction and removals actions in the energy and industrial sectors including geologic storage of carbon, methane emission abatement, and long-term storage of carbon via other industrial processes. Prior to joining ACR, Maris spent almost 20 years in the environmental and oil and gas sectors and was responsible for developing technical and policy solutions to key industry issues. She specializes in building strategies for challenging technical issues within complicated political and policy environments such as climate change and carbon mitigation, water use and protection, sustainability, and community engagement. Throughout her career, Maris has been active in community outreach, education, and engagement. Maris is a licensed geologist and has extensive field experience in both environmental and oil and gas operations. Maris has a BS in Earth Science from UC Santa Cruz and a MS in Geology from UC Davis.
Kerryanne Leroux
Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC)
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Kerryanne M. Leroux is an Assistant Director for Integrated CCS and Alternative Energy at the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC), holding M.S. and B.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering. Ms. Leroux leads teams of scientists and engineers focusing on various CCS systems such as fossil and/or renewable energy, managing several multimillion-dollar public- and private-sector projects. Ms. Leroux is currently working on project teams supporting regional hydrogen (H2) industry development, including integrated production, transportation, end use, and geologic storage research as well as continuing carbon capture and storage (CCS) evaluation and implementation activities.
Amanda Raddatz Bopp
DNV
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Amanda Raddatz Bopp has 15 years of industry experience as a Geologist, with the past 9 years focusing on Carbon Management related to saline aquifer sequestration, Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR), and depleted hydrocarbon fields. Amanda’s CCUS skillset is broad, with experience selecting CCUS sites, developing subsurface characterization plans, well design and field operations, exploration and production geology, interpretation of seismic and remote-sensing geophysical data, and experience with CO2 sites in mafic geology. In her current role, Amanda provides advisory, risk assessment, and technical assurance expertise to CO2 site developers, investors, and regulators across the globe. She has a master’s degree in hydrogeology and geochemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Lisa Lun
ExxonMobil
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Lisa joined ExxonMobil in 2008 and is the technical team lead of the Carbon Storage Technology Development Team within the Low Carbon Solutions Technology Portfolio at ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Co. Lisa is a chemical engineer by education studying at Northwestern University for her BS and University of Minnesota for her PhD. Lisa is a reservoir engineer by profession specializing in fundamental physics and modeling of multi-phase flow in porous media. Lisa has primarily worked upstream research projects during her career: reservoir simulation and history matching, special core analysis, biogenic reservoir souring, and geologic carbon storage with a stint at ExxonMobil Production as a reservoir engineer for a massive gas field in the ME. In a previous life, before graduate school, Lisa was a process engineer at the IBM microelectronics foundry in Burlington, VT.
Holly Krutka
University of Wyoming School of Energy Resources
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Holly Krutka is the Executive Director of the University of Wyoming School of Energy Resources – overseeing an interdisciplinary program focused on serving the Wyoming energy sector. She came to the university after serving as the Vice President for coal generation and emissions technologies at Peabody and previous to that was with Tri-State Generation and Transmission, Shenhua Group and ADA-Environmental Solutions. Dr. Krutka holds three patents focused on carbon capture, has served in leadership positions in the National Coal Council and the Carbon Utilization Research Council, has participated in the Carbon Capture Coalition, as a judge on the Carbon XPRIZE competition and the Carbon Removal XPRIZE competition, is a board member of the Western Research Institute and an ex-officio board member of the Wyoming Energy Authority. Dr. Krutka holds a bachelor’s degree, graduating magna cum laude, and a Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma, both in chemical engineering.
Corey Shircliff
Louisiana Department of Natural Resources • Geology Section
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Corey Shircliff, P.G., is the Manager of the Geology Section in the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources – Injection and Mining Division. She oversees the geologic permitting and compliance processes for injection wells in the state and has supported the development of Louisiana’s Class VI Carbon Sequestration program. Corey has worked for LDNR for seven years and has previously worked in the energy industry. She holds a B.S. in Geology from Beloit College, M.S. in Geology from Louisiana State University, and a M.L.S. in Energy Law from the University of Oklahoma.
Owain Tucker
Shell
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Owain Tucker is the Manager for CCS capability, assurance and project support, and the Principal Technical Expert in Carbon Storage in Shell. In these roles he leads a team of experts who support the delivery of CCS projects around the world, and are responsible for storage exploration and appraisal; technical assurance; integration; technology maturation; helping to shape the CCS research agenda; and the development of competences and capacity within Shell. Owain worked directly on the maturation of the Goldeneye CO2 store in the UK North Sea for over six years and lead the sequestration team who delivered the storage permit application and Storage development plan. Owain represents Shell in global taskforces which focus on the development of CCS. He is a member of the UK Exploration Taskforce, co-chairs the SPE group developing a Storage Resource Maturation System, and the Oil & Gas Climate Initiative Storage Working Group. He is on the executive committee of the IEA GHG R&D programme, the board of the UKCCSRC, and is a member the ZEP taskforce technology. He is also an Honorary Associate Professor at Heriot-Watt University where he lectures in CO2 storage. In previous roles Owain worked in Shell as a reservoir engineer, economist and eBusiness consultant; and at McKinsey & Company as a strategy consultant. He read Physics and Geophysics at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa; and holds a D.Phil in Experimental Solid State Physics from the University of Oxford
Autumn Haagsma
Michigan Geological Survey
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Autumn Haagsma is the Director of the Michigan Geological Repository for Research and Education and Assistant Director of the Michigan Geological Survey. She is responsible for leading research, team building, conducting outreach and engagement, and mentoring and training students. Prior to her current role, Autumn was a lead geologist at Battelle focusing on CCUS research including reservoir characterization, 3D modeling, risk assessments, data analytics, and outreach. Autumn is also a PhD candidate at Miami University, earned her M.S. in geophysics from University of Minnesota, and B.S. in geology and physics from Central Michigan University.
Nikki Martin
EnerGeo Alliance
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Nikki Martin is President of the EnerGeo Alliance, the global trade organization for the energy geoscience industry. Nikki joined EnerGeo (then IAGC) in 2013 and previously served as the Vice President of Government and Legal Affairs. An attorney and government affairs professional, Nikki has years of experience championing effective global advocacy and strategic cross-industry collaboration for the energy industry.
Before joining EnerGeo, Nikki was the Regulatory and Legal Affairs Manager at the Alaska Oil & Gas Association and worked in the U.S. Capitol and Alaska State Capitol for the U.S. Senate President Pro Tempore, the Alaska State Senate President and Alaska State House Majority Leader.
Nikki sits on the Board of Directors for the Western Resources Legal Center and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of South Carolina and a Juris Doctor from the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College. She spends all her “free” time chasing her 2 young boys.
Randy Robichaux
Denbury, Inc.
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Randy Robichaux, Vice President – Health, Safety, and Environmental, joined Denbury in 1997 and has over 25 years of HSE experience in the energy industry. Prior to being named Vice President, Mr. Robichaux served as the Denbury’s Director of HSE and Asset Integrity. During his tenure at Denbury, Mr. Robichaux has worked in both the field and corporate organizations while developing and implementing Denbury's HSE program. Before joining Denbury, Mr. Robichaux worked for the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality as an Environmental Quality Specialist. Mr. Robichaux holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Nicholls State University and is both a Certified Safety Professional (CSP) and a Registered Environmental Manager (REM).
Dawn Lima
CCUS Speakers Committee
An engineer with 25yrs of experience in the energy industry, Dawn graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada as an Airforce Officer and began her engineering career in Alberta, Canada. In her role at Foss & Company, Dawn works closely with the Managing Director of Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technologies to manage all aspects of origination of carbon capture development projects including business development, risk analysis, contract negotiation, diligence, engineering design, project management, regulatory reporting, stakeholder engagement and portfolio management. She also advises clients on ESG investments and decarbonization plans as well as financing solutions.
Sara Minisini
Shell
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Minisini is a member of Shell’s Reservoir Integrity and Containment team and is a Subject Matter expert in Microseismicity. In the past 12 years, Sara has worked as a research geophysicist on a variety of projects related to elastic waveform modeling, seismic imaging, seismic acquisition, and induced seismicity. Since 2020, she has focused her time on delivering a range of technical solutions for CO2 monitoring and MMV. This included management for one of Shell's key R&D programs involving the maturation of more affordable and effective monitoring technologies for large scale CCS deployments. Sara Minisini holds a Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering and a PhD in Modeling and Applied Mathematics both from the Politecnico of Milano, Italy.
Richard Esposito
Southern Company
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Richard is a veteran of the electrical utility industry and has served in various leadership roles for the last 30 years at Southern Company. He is current a R&D Program Manager in the Net Zero Technologies Group at the National Carbon Capture Center. Prior to Southern Company, he worked as an environmental regulator at the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.
Richard is a technical expert with a wide range of CCUS issues including capture, transportation, and storage, UIC permitting, and the Section 45Q tax credit. He has a diverse academic background with a B.S. and M.S. degree in Geology, a M.S. in Environmental Management, and a Ph.D. in Engineering. He serves on the Ph.D. research faculty, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and serves as the committee chair for numerous Ph.D. students. He has published extensively and lectured internationally on a wide range of energy related issues.
Ali Tura
Colorado School of Mines
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Ali Tura is Professor of Geophysics at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) with over 30 years of industry experience prior to academia. Dr. Tura was Geophysical Senior Fellow at ConocoPhillips, Geophysical Advisor at Chevron, and 4D subject matter expert at Shell. Dr. Tura is currently Chief Scientist at Tulip Geosciences and co-director of the industry consortium Reservoir Characterization Project (RCP) at CSM. Dr. Tura’s expertise is in CCUS, time-lapse, reservoir characterization and monitoring, fiber optics, machine learning, and compressive sensing. He was SEG Distinguished Lecturer in 2021 and received the Best Paper Award at SEG-IMAGE in 2021.
William Maloney
Balex Technologies
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Bill Maloney currently serves on the Energy Advisory Board of the University of Houston and is an Executive Advisor for Balex Technologies. Bill is also on the Corporate Advisory Board for AAPG and Co-chairman of AAPG's Sustainable Development Committee. Bill retired from Equinor in 2015 where he was Executive Vice President, leading Development and Production North America. In this capacity he played a key role in Equinor’s Corporate Executive Committee and was Equinor’s senior executive in North America. Before retiring from Equinor, Bill served on the National Petroleum Council and was a member of the board of API. After retiring from Equinor Bill served as an energy advisor for Warburg Pincus from 2015 - 2020. Bill also was on the board of Trident Energy from 2016 - 2021.
Patricia Loria
Carbon Capture, Inc.
CCUS Speakers Committee
Patricia Loria is VP of Business Development at CarbonCapture Inc, a CA based direct air capture company. She is responsible for sales, partnerships, and policy development for the company. Prior to taking this role, Patricia was Senior Client Engagement Lead at the Global CCS Institute, where she supported companies and governments looking to deploy carbon capture solutions from point sources or ambient air to achieve net-zero goals. Based in Washington, DC, Patricia is a seasoned marketing and business development professional with more than 20 years of experience in financial services, insurance, and NGO sectors. Patricia received an MBA from Darden Business School and a master’s degree in Natural Resources from Virginia Tech’s Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability.
Deniz Dindoruk
Shell Int'l. E&P Company
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Deniz Dindoruk is a senior front end development manager of Canada CCS projects in IG and Growth Development Upstream. She has more than 25 years industry experience, 22 years with Shell. She has held both R&D, and development/asset/strategy assignments mainly in Unconventional resources (oil shale and heavy oil and other EOR projects) as well as working as Integrated Project lead, front end development manager roles in deep water and EOR/CCS projects in projects and technology organization. For the last 7 years she has been leading technical development for CCS/CCUS projects in North America. Before joining Shell, she has worked at Amoco Tulsa Research Center on technology development for tight gas/ gas condensate reservoirs and horizontal wells. She holds BSc and MSc degrees from Middle East Technical University, and a PhD degree from Stanford University, all in petroleum engineering. She has several patents issued on Insitu Conversion/Upgrading Technology both in US and internationally. She is also serving as a technical editor for JPSE and SPE Reservoir Engineering journal.
Peng Ye
Equinor
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Peng Ye is the subsurface manager for Equinor's US onshore production and CCUS storage projects. Peng graduated from Penn State as a Ph.D with major in Energy and Mineral Engineering. He started his career as a reservoir engineer in Hess and spent most of his time in unconventional production. After moving to Equinor, Peng continued to work on unconventional assets while getting involved in Equinor's energy transition effort in US. He is currently leading the subsurface deliveries for Equinor's US CCUS projects.
Alicia Summers
Frontier Carbon Solutions
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Alicia Summers is a founding partner and VP of Engineering for Frontier Carbon Solutions. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Frontier’s focus is to provide full turnkey solutions to CO2 emitters through the development of safe and secure carbon capture and storage. The firm is developing the Sweetwater Carbon Storage Hub in Southwest Wyoming, which is anticipated to be one of the largest open-source CO2 storage hubs in the U.S. At Frontier, Ms. Summers leads the subsurface reservoir and Class VI permitting efforts and was instrumental in drafting and executing the State of Wyoming’s first pore space agreements. Prior to Frontier, Ms. Summers was a partner at Open Water Capital Partners, an investment platform that focused on transitional energy opportunities. Before her time at Open Water, Ms. Summers helped to build an oil and gas investment team at ORIX Corporation USA. While there she sourced, underwrote, and managed upstream, midstream, and oil field services opportunities. Ms. Summers acquired her subsurface experience and expertise during her 17 years of employment at NSAI, one of the top petroleum consulting firms in the world. There she conducted oil and gas resource assessments, reserve evaluations, equity redeterminations and field studies on oil and gas fields worldwide.
Glen Bailey
Carbon Clean
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Glen Bailey is VP of Key Accounts & Partnerships at Carbon Clean. Glen is responsible for developing the North America market, a top priority for the company. Before joining Carbon Clean, Glen was with Siemens Energy where he successfully led international business development with major accounts. Before Siemens, Glen led major account sales for several computing and software companies. Glen earned an electrical engineering degree from the University of Oklahoma, and a certificate in Business Administration & Management special studies from Harvard University.
Pramod Patil
Saudi Aramco
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Dr. Patil has 17 years of experience in sustainable upstream technologies such as CCUS, hydrogen storage, and enhanced oil recovery. He has been involved in more than 20+ technology development projects involving to taking innovation from lab to the field. He has been instrumental in many field deployments in North America (Texas, USA and Canada), Middle East and South East Asia regions.
Currently he is holding a position as a science specialist in Saudi Aramco and working actively on direct and indirect carbon sequestration technologies, and hydrogen production & storage technologies. He is leading the projects on CCUS monitoring & surveillance, CO2 mineralization, conversion of H2S to H2 and hydrogen storage salt caverns.
Previously, He was based in Houston, TX for almost 15 years and worked as a technology leader and scientist at Dow Chemical Company for 12 years. He founded the technology consulting company and O&G software company before joining Aramco. At Dow, he was responsible for innovation, platform growth strategy, & commercial project implementations. He led 20+ field implementations of various innovative technologies globally and launched 22 products.
He has published over 60 journal and conference papers and 20+ patent disclosures and applications (USPTO). He is currently an associate editor for the Journal of Petroleum Science and Technology. He is involved in many SPE events such as conferences and workshops as a committee member or chair. He is actively involved in mentoring and coaching young professionals.
He holds a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, a master’s in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, and an undergraduate in chemical engineering from India.
Syed Fahim
SLB
CCUS Speakers Committee
Syed Fahim serves as the Global ESG Performance Lead for SLB’s Sales and Commercial function, based out of Houston. He holds a bachelors of engineering degree from National university of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan and an Executive MBA from INSEAD, France. He has over 16 years of diverse experience leading operations, quality management, internal controls and technology marketing teams in the Middle East, Asia and the United States. He played a key role in the development of SLB’s seminal framework for quantification of carbon emissions of upstream energy technologies. Since assuming his current role, he has led the strategy for integrating ESG into functional practices, commercial processes and training and development. He has co-authored multiples technical papers on the topics of acoustics, coiled tubing drilling and emissions quantification. He was a designated Future Energy Leader for one of the world's premier energy conferences, CERAWeek 2023