Daniel Yergin is a highly respected authority on energy, international politics, and economics, and a Pulitzer Prize winner. He is Vice Chairman of IHS Markit, one of the leading information and advisory firms in the world with 16,000 employees worldwide.

Time Magazine said, “If there is one man whose opinion matters more than any other on global energy markets, it’s Daniel Yergin.” Fortune said that he is “one of the planet’s foremost thinkers about energy and its implications.”

Dr. Yergin’s new book The Map: Energy, Climate and the Clash of Nations is described by the London Sunday Times as a “wonderful book”. In it, The Wall Street Journal observes, “Daniel Yergin turns his considerable talents to explaining how the world continues to be shaped by oil.” USA Today said, “At a time when solid facts and reasoned arguments are in full retreat, Daniel Yergin rides to the rescue.” Another review called The Map “a page turner”. He was named Energy “Writer of the Year” in 2020 by the American Energy Society.

A Pulitzer Prize winner, Dr. Yergin is the author of the bestseller The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World (published in China by PIP). The Quest has been described by the Financial Times as “a triumph.” The New York Times said it is “necessary reading for C.E.O.’s, conservationists, lawmakers, generals, spies, tech geeks, thriller writers,” among many others.

Bill Gates summed up his review of The Quest by saying, “This is a fantastic book.”

Dr. Yergin is known around the world for his book The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil Money and Power, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. It became a number one New York Times best seller and has been translated into 20 languages, including Chinese.

Of Dr. Yergin’s book Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy, which has been translated into 13 languages, The Wall Street Journal said, “No one could ask for a better account of the world’s political and economic destiny since World War II.”

Dr. Yergin has served on the U.S. Secretary of Energy Advisory Board under Presidents Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump.

In 2019, Yergin and former U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz led a major 229-page study, Advancing the Landscape of Clean Energy Innovation, which was conducted for the Breakthrough Energy coalition, led by Bill Gates. The study, which the Financial Times described as “lighting some torches”, identified ten areas for transformational energy breakthroughs.

Dr. Yergin chairs the annual International Energy Executive Forum in Beijingit and the India Energy Forum. He is a director of the Council on Foreign Relations and a trustee of the Brookings Institution. He serves on the Energy Advisory Council of the Dallas Federal Reserve.

Dr. Yergin is on the advisory boards of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative and the Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy and is a member of Singapore’s International Energy Panel and the Energy Think Tank for India’s ministry of petroleum.

Dr. Yergin holds a BA from Yale University, an M from Trinity College, Cambridge University, and a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar.

Cindy Yeilding is the Senior Vice President of BP America. Previous roles include 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.

Dr. Shuvajit Bhattacharya is a researcher at the Bureau of Economic Geology, UT Austin. He is an applied geophysicist/petrophysicist by background. Dr. Bhattacharya is primarily interested in extracting and integrating fundamental rock and fluid properties across multiple scales of resolution. Prior to joining BEG, he worked with the University of Alaska Anchorage, Battelle, and other organizations in different roles, such as an assistant professor and petroleum geoscientist. He completed multiple projects for energy resources exploration and carbon sequestration in the US, Australia, South Africa, and India. He has published over 50 technical articles in different journals and conferences.

Dr. Camelia Knapp is a Professor of Geophysics and serves as the Head of the Boone Pickens School of Geology at Oklahoma State University (OSU). She received a Ph.D. in Geophysics from Cornell University and a B.S. - M.S. degree in Geophysical Engineering from the University of Bucharest in Romania. She was also a Fulbright fellow at Cornell University. In the early years, she worked with the Romanian State Oil Company and the Romanian National Institute for Earth Physics. She spent 18 years at the University of South Carolina were she was a Professor and the Director of the Earth Sciences and Resources Institute. Dr. Knapp’s research interests include: (1) the application of seismology to the structure, composition, and physical properties of the Earth, (2) environmental and hydro-geophysics, (3) gas hydrates, and (4) carbon sequestration.

David Carr is a subsurface geologist and stratigrapher. He has characterized reservoirs at field and regional scales in both industry and research, for underground gas storage, carbon sequestration and the exploration and production of petroleum. He holds geology degrees from Colorado State University and the University of Texas at Austin.

Dave Riestenberg is a Vice-President at Advanced Resources International, Inc. He has been involved with many aspects of geologic CO₂ storage activities, including characterization of the recently awarded U.S. DOE sponsored CarbonSAFE Phase III demonstration in Kemper County, MS, named Project ECO₂S.

Don White is a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada whose career includes 20 years of research related to seismic applications to CO₂ storage monitoring. Don has served as a Theme Leader in the IEAGHG Weyburn-Midale CO₂ Monitoring and Storage Project and is a member of the Aquistore Science & Engineering Research Committee. He also serves on the Society of Exploration Geophysicists CO₂ Research Sub-Committee and ISO Technical Committee-265 (CO₂ Capture, Transport and Geological Storage).

Eugene Holubnyak, Petroleum Engineer, Kansas Geological Survey (KGS), has over 14 years of experience in applied geoscience and energy-related research. Eugene has managed several DOE research and field- scale projects as PI/Co-PI, including the Wellington Field CO₂ EOR and storage pilot and CarbonSAFE Phase II project. He has actively participated as an engineer for the Kansas Induced Seismicity Task Force (2013-2015) and helped shape waste fluid injection policy to minimize induced seismicity in Harper and Sumner Counties, Kansas. Mr. Holubnyak is serving as Co-PI Carbon Utilization Partnership (CUSP) as well as leading Kansas CCUS Task Force and representing KGS at the Regional Carbon Capture Deployment Initiative.

John Underhill is Professor of Exploration Geoscience at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is Academic Director of the Doctoral Training Centres in Oil & Gas and GeoNetZero. He populates the Scottish Science Advisory Council and UK’s Exploration Task Force. John is a recognised expert on the North Sea Basin and is leading efforts to re-purpose it for carbon storage and the energy transition. He has been an AAPG member for almost 40 years during which time he has received the AAPG’s George C. Matson, Grover E. Murray Distinguished Educator and Ziad Beydoun awards and as well as the Geological Society’s Lyell Medal and Energy Group’s Silver Medal.

Dr. Kayla Kroll received a BSc in geological sciences from Cal Poly Pomona in 2008 and her MSc and Ph.D. from in Earthquake Physics from the University of California, Riverside in 2012 and 2015, respectively. At UCR Kayla applied observational seismology and numerical earthquake simulation methods to understand earthquake nucleation and triggering, fault interaction, and induced seismicity. Kayla completed a postdoc and converted to Research Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2018, where she focuses her efforts on understanding induced seismicity and developing mitigation methods related to energy applications. Kayla serves as the Deputy Group Leader of the Seismology Group and to serve on the LLNL management team for the DOE’s SMART Initiative for Carbon Storage.

Science-informed Machine Learning to Accelerate Real Time (SMART) Decisions in Subsurface Applications (U.S. DOE [Leidos] Contract CON00029885). Mr. Kelley is developing ML tools to rapidly evaluate distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) stress monitoring data for indicators of CO₂ leakage.

Development of A Non-Invasive Approach for Characterizing in-situ Stress in Deep Subsurface Geologic Formations Considered for CO₂ Storage (DOE AWARD DE-FE0031686) (2018-2021). Mr. Kelley is the principal investigator for a U.S. DOE project to develop a method to characterize geomechanical stress in subsurface geologic formations considered for CO₂ storage. The method uses a novel processing method to determine stress orientation from conventional seismic reflection data, laboratory triaxial ultrasonic velocity testing of rock core samples to characterize relationships between stress magnitude and ultrasonic p-wave and s-wave velocities, and numerical stress modeling to extrapolate regional stress field.

Carbon Storage Assurance Facility Enterprise (CarbonSAFE) – Phase I: Integrated Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Pre-Feasibility (DOE Award DE-FE0029276) (2017-2018). Mr. Kelley was technical lead for a U.S. DOE study to assess commercial-scale CO₂ storage opportunities in the Michigan Basin geologic province (see Kelley et al., 2018).

U.S. DOE Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (U.S. DOE Award DE-FC26-05NT42589) (2013-2020). Mr. Kelley was responsible for evaluating the technical and cost effectiveness of multiple geophysical (seismic) monitoring technologies in conjunction with a large-scale CO₂ injection test (1 million tonnes) conducted in multiple pinnacle reef reservoirs in northern Michigan, including vertical seismic profile (VSP) geophysical survey, distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) VSP, cross-well seismic, and microseismic monitoring.

Deep Borehole Field Test (DOE, Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Fuel Cycle Technologies (FCT) Program Contract DE-NE0008467) (2016). Mr. Kelley was project manager responsible for developing plans to drill and test a 5-km deep borehole into crystalline rock to develop drilling and geologic, hydraulic, and geomechanical testing protocols for evaluating crystalline rock formations throughout the U.S. for hosting nuclear waste.

Underground Injection Control (UIC) Permit for the U.S. DOE FutureGen 2.0 CO₂ Storage Facility, Illinois (2012-2013). Mr. Kelley was part of the team that developed the UIC Class VI permit application for four CO₂ injection wells at the FutureGen 2.0 facility in Morgan County, Illinois. The permit application was submitted to the U.S. EPA Region 5 in March 2013, and in April 2014, the U.S. EPA issued the draft Class VI UIC permit for public comment, the first of its kind in the U.S.

Project Definition Phase for a Commercial-Scale CO₂ Capture and Storage Project (2010-2011). Mr. Kelley was part of a team that developed a design and +/- 25% life-cycle cost estimate for a 1.5 million tonnes per year CO₂ injection and storage facility for the American Electric Power (AEP) Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI) project. Mr. Kelley’s responsibilities included reservoir characterization and testing to generate critical data to support the design/cost estimate and designing and costing the injection wells and monitoring wells and selected CO₂ monitoring technologies. Mr. Kelley also participated in agency and stakeholder meetings on behalf of AEP.

Pilot-Scale CO₂ Injection Project – U.S. DOE Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (MRCSP) Phase II (2009-2010). Mr. Kelley was technical lead for a 1,000 tonne pilot-scale CO₂ injection test in the Mount Simon Sandstone at Duke Energy’s East Bend Kentucky power plant. Mr. Kelley’s responsibilities included overall task lead, management of subcontractors, reservoir testing and characterization, well design and permitting, planning and coordinating the injection test, monitoring, and data analysis and reporting.

Geomechanical Assessment of Caprock-Reservoir Systems for CO₂ Storage (Ohio Development Services Agency Grant/Agreement OOE-CDO-D-13-22) (2013-2017). Mr. Kelley was Task Leader for a project to evaluate the long-term mechanical integrity of caprock formations in the Cambrian Ordovician geologic sequence in the Appalachian Basin portion of Ohio. The project used advanced geophysical logs, image logs, and core data to characterize spatial variability in mechanical rock properties throughout the study area; and, numerical modeling was performed with a coupled fluid-flow and geomechanical model to simulate CO₂-injection induced stress effects on the sealing capability and mechanical integrity of the caprock formations (see Raziperchikolaee, M. Kelley, and N. Gupta (2018)).

Deep Borehole Hydrologic Testing Program for the AEP Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI) Project Definition Phase, American Electric Power Mountaineer Plant, New Haven West Virginia. Mr. Kelley was co-principal investigator responsible for designing and conducting a hydrologic testing program to evaluate the injection potential of several geologic formations within a 2,000-foot long open borehole section in an ~8,000-foot deep test well. Several types of open borehole hydrologic tests were completed, including a fluid-logging test of the entire open borehole, packer tests (slug, DST) for multiple intervals within the open borehole, and a constant-rate injection test. The testing successfully characterized key hydrologic properties of the tested formations and identified three candidate intervals for CO₂ injection.

Defining CO₂ Storage Options in Upper Ohio River Valley – Advanced Characterization of Geologic Reservoirs and Caprocks (Ohio Development Services Agency Office of Energy Grant/Agreement OOE-CDO-D-13-22) (2013-2017). As part of a collaborative program with industry to characterize potential reservoirs and containment zones for CO₂ storage within the Cambrian-Ordovician sequence in the Upper Ohio River Valley, Mr. Kelley planned and conducted open borehole hydraulic testing in six newly drilled brine disposal wells in the study area, including dynamic flow-meter tests to identify candidate CO₂ storage zones and injection fall-off tests to quantify hydraulic properties of the identified zones. As a result of this work, three candidate CO₂ storage zones were identified and correlated across a multi-county region in the study area.

Mr. Matthew Wallace is a Project Manager with Advanced Resources International specializing in unconventional oil and gas resource analysis and carbon storage. He has fifteen years of professional experience; five years in energy data analysis, and ten years in unconventional resource modeling, carbon storage assessment, and reservoir data analysis. Mr. Wallace has contributed studies to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and Energy Information Administration (EIA), as well as numerous unconventional resource and carbon storage assessments for international oil and gas operators. His work includes CO₂ enhanced oil recovery (CO₂ EOR) modeling of both onshore and offshore reservoir environments, and tight oil and gas resource and cost model development. Recent work includes “Characterization of Offshore CO₂ EOR Resource Potential” presented at the Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership meeting and carbon storage resource characterization for the report “Making Carbon a Commodity” published by ClearPath. Mr. Wallace holds a B.S. degree in Environmental Studies from Washington & Lee University.

Richard Ness is a geologist with Advanced Resources International, Inc. and works on a variety of projects that span from Carbon Capture Storage (CCS), to Carbon Dioxide Enhanced Oil Recovery, and unconventional oil and gas projects. Richie's work currently focuses on CCS projects located in the Powder River Basin, coastal Texas, and the Kansas Midcontinent. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and a master’s degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Rick Schrynemeeckers began his career in the oil industry at Sun Oil Company in the Enhanced Oil Recovery division. After several years in the environmental arena he joined Baseline Resolution setting up satellite geochemistry laboratories around the world. He now works for Amplified Geochemical Imaging as their Business Development Manager for North America.

Robert Dilmore is a research engineer in the Geologic & Environmental Systems Directorate of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory, and Technical Director of the U.S. DOE’s National Risk Assessment Partnership - a multi-national laboratory research collaboration to assess and manage environmental risks associated with geologic carbon storage. Robert holds a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, is a licensed professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and is board certified by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists.

Sallie E. Greenberg, Ph.D. is a Principal Scientist of Energy & Minerals at the Illinois State Geological Survey - University of Illinois. She led the Decatur storage project and is the co-principal investigator for the Midwest Regional Carbon Initiative (MRCI), a new CO₂ Regional Deployment Initiative focused on Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage deployment in the Midwest and Northeast United States. Over the last 20+ years, she has consulted or contributed to more than 30 energy and carbon capture and storage projects, especially in the areas of strategic project development, risk reduction, and stakeholder engagement.

Scott Frailey is a reservoir engineer for the Illinois Geologic Survey, where he is involved with the technical aspects of the CO₂ storage and CO₂ EOR programs and provides technical expertise in the areas of reservoir characterization and engineering including pressure transient analyses, core analyses, well log analyses, and reservoir modeling. Previously, Scott was an associate professor of petroleum engineering at Texas Tech University and a reservoir engineer at BP Exploration (Alaska). He graduated from the University of Missouri-Rolla with B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in petroleum engineering. He is a registered professional engineer in Texas, New Mexico, Illinois, and Indiana

Scott Pantaleone received his MS in Geology from the University of Alaska Anchorage in Spring of 2020. He is currently participating in the Postgraduate Research Program (PGRP) on site at the National Energy technology Lab (NETL) in Albany, OR. The PGRP is managed by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE).

Steve Whittaker is Director of Energy & Minerals, Illinois State Geological Survey, at the University of Illinois and leads a team researching carbon capture and storage, critical mineral resources, blue hydrogen, energy storage, and carbon utilization. Steve and his team are leading the Illinois Storage Corridor project to develop Class VI permits for two commercial CCS sites and two other CarbonSAFE projects designed to accelerate commercial deployment of CCS. Steve is a geologist with a PhD from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, and Post-Doctoral Fellowships at Queen’s University and McGill University.

Talib Syed, P.E. holds a B-Tech (Chemical Engineering – Univ. of Madras, India) and an M.S. in Petroleum Engineering (Univ. of Oklahoma) and is a Registered Petroleum Engineer in CO and WY. Talib started his oilfield career with ARAMCO – Saudi Arabia and has U.S. and international experience – both onshore and offshore. Talib is a Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Distinguished Lecturer on Life Cycle Well Integrity (2020 – 2021) and currently serves as SPE Denver Section Chair – HSES/Facilities and as SPE Member-at-Large CCUS Technical Section. Talib is a member of SPE, American Association of Drilling Engineers (AADE), Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC) and Ground Water Protection Council (GWPC).

Tiraz Birdie is a subsurface flow and transport analyst at TBirdie Consulting, Inc. a Lawrence, KS, based engineering consultancy focused on carbon management. For the past 30 years he has specialized in developing computer simulation models for reservoir/aquifer resource evaluation, development, and protection. He obtained his Master's degree in Civil Engineering and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kansas.

Johnathon Osmond is a fourth-year PhD student at the University of Oslo studying trap and seal quality, as well as relevant overburden geology of the Horda Platform in efforts to help derisk potential CO₂ storage sites in the northern North Sea under the Norwegian CCS Research Centre (NCCS). Originally earning his bachelor’s degree at the University of Houston and his master’s at The University of Texas at Austin, Johnathon has experience with project topics ranging from CCS/CCUS assessment to induced seismicity. He now specializes in subsurface interpretation and modeling, with an expertise in fault seal and trap characterization.

Zachary Printz is a geophysicist working for Schlumberger Digital Subsurface Solutions organization. For the past year, Zack has been involved with a variety of carbon storage projects, including multiple commercial feasibility projects in California and Louisiana. In addition, he is part of a team that is developing long-term monitoring programs for various projects that will include 3D seismic surveys and microseismic monitoring. He previously specialized in borehole geophysics, focusing particularly on microseismic processing and interpretation.

Simon O’Brien is the Quest Subsurface Manager, overseeing the subsurface aspects of the Quest CCS project. He joined Shell Canada in 1997 and worked in seismic processing, new technology development, depth imaging and quantitative interpretation for almost 20 years. His work has included a wide variety of projects; structural and stratigraphic, conventional and unconventional, onshore and offshore from across Canada and the United States. Over the last five years, he has focused on getting the Quest CCS facility up and running and ensuring smooth commercial operations. Simon has BSc and PhD degrees from Memorial University of Newfoundland and an MSc from the University of British Columbia, all in Geophysics.

Dr. John D. Pigott is an Associate Professor of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Oklahoma where he instructs courses in basin analysis, carbonate geology, petroleum geology, and seismic stratigraphy, has presented and published more than 180 peer-reviewed professional papers and has directed several high visibility international and domestic industry-sponsored academic consortia. Presently he heads up the OU Permian Basin Research Group. John has accrued more than thirty-five years’ experience in hydrocarbon exploration-exploitation as a petroleum geoscientist. Since working with Amoco International, he has continued to advise energy ministries of governments in Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, North and South America, consult for multinational, national and state oil companies worldwide, and internationally instruct for PetroSkills. John has a BA, BS, and MA from the University of Texas at Austin and a PhD from Northwestern University. If not in the office, you will likely find John with his students (who call him “Dr. P.”) either at or on the Equator or Paleoequator, underwater, or on the tops of mountains, doing what he loves most: practicing carbonate geology and geophysics.

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Dr. Ganesh Thakur, NAE is Director of Energy Industry Partnerships and Distinguished Professor of Petroleum Engineering at the University of Houston since 2016. During a career with Chevron that spanned 37 years, he served in various roles including vice president and global advisor and Fellow. He served as the SPE President in 2012, and currently is a board member and Treasure of Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology, and President of the SPE Foundation.

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John Kaldi is an Emeritus Professor of Petroleum Geology and Engineering at the Australian School of Petroleum and Energy Resources (ASPER), University of Adelaide, and holds the South Australia State Chair in Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS). He is also an Adjunct Professor at Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia, and a Visiting Professor at Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP) in Malaysia. John received his Bachelor's and Master’s degrees in geology from Queens College, City University of New York, and a Ph.D. in Geology from Cambridge University in the UK. His career includes 18 years in the Petroleum Industry in both technical and managerial roles with Shell, Arco, and Vico. John served as Distinguished Lecturer for various professional organisations, including AAPG, SPE, the Indonesian Petroleum Association (IPA), and the Petroleum Exploration Association of Australia (PESA). He has been the author and presenter of more than 150 journal articles and technical conference papers.

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Dr. Gupta has been involved in CO₂ storage technology development since mid-1990s has conducted numerous US and international projects for the US DOE and industry. As the Principal Investigator and Project Manager for Midwestern Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership, Dr. Gupta oversees a consortium for regional assessment of field projects for CO₂ storage and Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR), including MRCSP Michigan Basin Project. His subsurface resources work includes EOR, brine disposal, geologic characterization; regional hydrogeology; reservoir simulations; geochemical modeling and experiments; seismic assessments; and costing and regulatory aspects.

Jessica Raines is the Oilfield Services Global Discipline Lead of CCUS for Baker Hughes. In this role, she develops the global CCUS approach for the Oilfield Services Company and works to enable the development of new products and services targeted at improving the long-term viability of this critical carbon-reduction pathway.

Prior to serving in her current role, Ms. Raines worked to bring geochemical research and development products and services into commercialization, and cultivated experience in oilfield operations. Ms. Raines previously held positions within the environmental engineering and government sectors, including industrial environment compliance enablement and as a geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey.

She holds bachelor’s degrees in geology and anthropology from Georgia State University as well as a master’s degree in geology from the same institution. Ms. Raines currently serves as the SPE CCUS Technical Session Program Chair.

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Dr. Mohammad Rachmat Sule is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Mining and Petroleum Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) - Indonesia. He teaches several courses at the Geophysical Engineering and Geothermal Engineering Study Programs. He received his both B.Sc and M.Sc in Geophysics from ITB in 1994 and 1996, obtained Ph.D in Geophysics from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology – Germany in 2004 and did post-doc in Kyoto University in 2010. Currently he is the Head of Continuing Education Sub Directorate, Directorate of Non-Regular Academic of ITB. His recent work has been in the extension of high resolution seismic imaging for geothermal and petroleum.

Currently he is the Manager of the National Center of Excellence (CoE) for CCS/CCUS and the Manager of the Center for CO2 and Flared Gas Utilization of ITB. One of his main tasks is to prepare the Gundih Enhance Gas Recovery (EGS) Project, which will be the first ever implemented CCUS Pilot Project in South and Southeast Asian regions. He is also coordinating the verification of the Planned Tangguh EGS project, which has a potential to inject 32 – 40 Mio tones of CO2. Other CoE works that he manages are the CO2-source-sink map in Indonesia, strategy for implementing Zero Routine Flaring (ZRF) in Indonesia and promoting BECCS in Indonesia for limiting to well-below 1.5 deg C warming.

Renata Meneguolo holds a M.Sc. degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Padua, Italy, focused on both clastic and carbonate deposits. She has been working in Statoil (now Equinor) both as explorationist and reservoir geologist (notably for the Johan Sverdrup field). Since 2017 she has been principal geologist in the Northern Lights Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project in Equinor.

Richard Jackson is U.S. Onshore Resources and Carbon Management–President, Operations. Mr. Jackson leads the development and operations of Occidental’s U.S. onshore oil and gas businesses while continuing to advance the company’s Low Carbon Ventures technology development and business models. His responsibilities include accelerating subsurface and operational innovation, delivering value-added resource development and progressing low-carbon business value.

Most recently, Mr. Jackson was President and General Manager, EOR and Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, LLC. In this role, Mr. Jackson oversaw Occidental’s use of carbon dioxide (CO2) in enhanced oil recovery (EOR), primarily in the Permian Basin, where the company has more than 40 years of experience and is a worldwide leader in CO2 management. He also led Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, LLC, the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary advancing leading-edge, low-carbon technologies and business solutions that economically grow our business while reducing emissions.

With more than 20 years in the oil and gas industry, Mr. Jackson has significant expertise in worldwide oil and gas project development, technology and business management. His previous roles include Senior Vice President, Operations Support; Vice President, Investor Relations; President and General Manager for Permian Resources–Delaware Basin; and Vice President of Drilling Americas. He began his career with Occidental in Qatar, where he held key leadership roles in drilling and completions. Previously, Mr. Jackson held various engineering roles for ExxonMobil in the United States and Gulf of Mexico.

Mr. Jackson serves on the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative’s Climate Investment Board and on the American Petroleum Institute’s Upstream Committee. He is also chairman of 1PointFive, a development company formed to finance and deploy Carbon Engineering’s Direct Air Capture technology. A graduate of Texas A&M University, he holds a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering.