Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) Conference 2024

Lauren Read

Vice President, Operations – dCarbon Ventures

BKV Corporation

Lauren is the Vice President, Operations for dCarbon Ventures at BKV Corporation, overseeing the project design, planning, implementation and operations of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) initiatives in support of BKV’s ambitious Net Zero goals. Lauren’s career passion is to modernize the management of natural gas resources to provide clean and reliable energy. Lauren is an experienced leader in both engineering and operations with a proven track record of increasing production, decreasing emissions, reducing costs, managing resources efficiently, operating safely and responsibly, and using technology and automation effectively. Prior to BKV, Lauren worked at ExxonMobil where she spent a decade overseeing seven unconventional plays across California, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. During this time, Lauren served in reservoir engineering, operations engineering, and asset management roles across the full well lifecycle from early-stage geologic studies, resource estimation, prospecting, and D&C design to late-stage profitability optimization, remedial well work, and P&A. Lauren received a BS from The University of Utah, where she graduated cum laude. In her free time, Lauren dabbles in musical pursuits, debates the various merits of pet chickens, and tries to level-up mountain and water sport skills with her husband and two children.

Carrie Lalou

Head of CCS Commercial & Marketing, Americas, Geologic Low Carbon Solutions

Repsol

Ms. Carrie Lalou is the Head of CCS Commercial & Marketing, Americas, for Repsol’s Low Carbon Solutions business, responsible for driving the development of their carbon capture & storage (CCS) business. She is a 27 year veteran of the energy industry with most all of her career centered around the design, development, negotiation and execution of syngas generation projects aimed towards the clean energy market. Prior to joining Repsol this June, she held several executive leadership roles at Linde – developing clean hydrogen projects and negotiating the first blue hydrogen-based CCS agreement on their behalf, and most recently was Linde’s Vice President of Global Strategic Accounts. She is a native Houstonian with her Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Texas. In her spare time, she enjoys time with her two teenagers, and has a passion for volunteering in the local Houston community as a committeeman with the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo, and with various other organizations aimed at improving the wellbeing of local underserved teens.

Caitlin Cain

Community Engagement Lead

Heirloom

Caitlin Cain is an urban planner and certified economic developer who enjoys complex project planning and advocacy-related work centered on community investment strategies; she currently serves as the Community Engagement Lead for Heirloom, one of the country’s first (Co2) commercial Direct Air Capture facilities. Caitlin specializes in complex project management, community-building and policy work that strengthens social, economic and environmental opportunities in communities. Caitlin brings a multi-sectoral mindset to her work, drawing on experience ranging from the financial sector (former Vice President of LISC - a national Community Development Financial Institution); non-profit advocacy/policy (former CEO of the World Trade Center of New Orleans); and government/policy (former federal appointee at SBA Advocacy and former Director of Economic Development at the Regional Planning Commission). Caitlin also served as a Fulbright specialist/scholar in Perth, AU and is a two-time recipient of City Business Magazine’s “Women of the Year”. She has been honored as “New and Notable” by Biz New Orleans and as “Star of the Southwest” by the Economic Development Administration. She was also recognized by Gambit Magazine as one of the “40 Under 40” for 2014. Caitlin received a Master of Urban Planning degree from the University of Michigan and her bachelor’s from the University of Toronto. She is a graduate of the New Orleans Leadership Institute and remains active with various nonprofit boards and organizations including the LA District Export Council. Caitlin also thoroughly enjoys a good game of tennis.

Edward Stones

Business Vice President, Energy and Climate

Dow

Edward Stones is business vice president, Energy and Climate for Dow. He is responsible for delivering business profitability and more than 7 GW of steam and power at the 14 company-operated power facilities, as well as steam, utilities, and energy service to more than 100 manufacturing facilities globally. He leads Dow’s energy conservation and greenhouse gas reduction efforts, serving as a member of the Company’s Climate Steering Team, and as executive sponsor for its scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions reductions efforts. He actively participates in the Company’s global advocacy efforts for energy sustainability and climate change. Stones is a respected thought leader in the areas of energy transition, climate change, and industrial decarbonization. He has provided testimony to the US Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on the opportunities and challenges of deploying advanced nuclear technology in the industrial sector. He has also testified before the US Senate Energy Committee on the role of natural gas in climate change, and to the House of Representatives Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. He was appointed to the Texas Energy Reliability Council. Prior to his current role, Stones served as Dow’s global business director for Energy and Climate Change. He joined Union Carbide Corporation in 1997, now a subsidiary of Dow, as a manufacturing engineer at the St. Charles, Louisiana site. After a number of manufacturing, finance and commercial roles in Hydrocarbons, Specialty Chemicals and Plastics, he was named Director, Energy Risk in 2007. He relocated to Horgen, Switzerland and was named Director, Hydrocarbons Business Development and EMEA Plastics Strategic Development in 2010. In 2012, he was appointed Director, Global Hydrocarbons Business Development and Hydrocarbons Risk Management. In 2014, Stones relocated to Midland and was appointed Senior Director for Investor Relations. Stones holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering and a master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from Louisiana State University.

Rohan Dighe

Research Analyst, CCUS

Wood Mackenzie

Rohan is an analyst in our CCUS economics and valuations function. He focuses on developing financial models of North American CCUS projects, analysing market and regulatory trends in the United States and exploring emerging technologies in the CDR and CCUS space. Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie, Rohan worked in various process, operations and optimisation engineering roles at Chevron Phillips Chemical Company in Texas.

Zach Liu

Director of Subsurface CCUS

Harvestone Low Carbon Partners

Zach is the Director of Subsurface CCUS at Harvestone Low Carbon Partners, overseeing the active Class VI CO2 injection operation at the Blue Flint CCS site in North Dakota. With over 20 years of experience in oil and gas, including a decade focused on CCUS with Kinder Morgan, and Harvestone, he has drilled more than 100 CO2 wells. Zach is a licensed Petroleum Engineer, Professional Geologist in Texas, and a CFA charter holder. He also served as president of SPWLA International in 2018. Outside of work, Zach enjoys golf and has achieved a 202-yard hole-in-one.

Mhairidh Evans

VP, Global Head of CCUS Research

Wood Mackenzie

Mhairidh leads Wood Mackenzie’s global research on carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) and co-leads Wood Mackenzie’s Carbon Management research practice. She is responsible for a team that provides insight and strategic analysis to project developers, technology providers, investors and governments. Based in the UK, she frequently travels to spend time with industry players, to develop the team and to hone the research agenda. Mhairidh joined Wood Mackenzie in 2014. Prior to focusing on energy transition topics, she spent seven years as a lead analyst in Wood Mackenzie’s upstream oil and gas division, concentrating on the North Sea and offshore supply chain. Before joining Wood Mackenzie, Mhairidh started her career in 2005 with various commercial, advisory and project management roles in the oil and gas technology sector. Mhairidh is an alumni of Scotland’s Future Industry Leaders Programme. She enjoys engaging with the wider industry, is an active mentor and is a regular speaker at conferences.

Jimmy Powell

Chief Operating Officer

Summit Carbon Solutions

Mr. Powell has extensive global project execution and operating experience across a diverse array of energy related businesses. Currently, Mr. Powell is the Chief Operating Officer for Summit Carbon Solutions leading development and execution of a large Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) project in the upper Midwest. Prior to joining Summit in 2021, Mr. Powell served as COO of Greenfield Midstream, an EnCap Flatrock Midstream portfolio company. Prior to that, Mr. Powell was V.P., Projects & Engineering and V.P., Operations for Kinder Morgan, which acquired Hiland Partners, a diversified midstream energy company where he was Executive Vice President and COO. Previously, Mr. Powell was with BP, where he led the development and delivery of several multi-billion dollar infrastructure projects in the US, South America, and the middle east.

Catherine Witt

Head of Subsurface

Storegga

Catherine leads Storegga’s Subsurface & Wells team, responsible for subsurface and wells for Storegga’s global carbon storage projects. She joined Storegga in March 2021. She began her career as a Reservoir/Petroleum Engineer with BP and has broad experience across exploration, development and production. Catherine spent some time in BP’s central reserves team and was their Upstream Segment Reserves Authority (2019-2021), reviewing assets across BP’s global portfolio; she was also the lead assurer for carbon storage projects as part of BP’s Global Technical Assurance team from 2019-2021. She joined Storegga as the company grew its project portfolio beyond the Acorn project in Scotland, expanding into Northern Europe, the US and Asia Pacific. Catherine has an MEng Degree in Engineering Science from Oxford University.

Adam Chalkley

Director, Low Carbon Development

Enbridge

Adam Chalkley joined Enbridge in January 2020 and is responsible for low carbon development opportunities across Enbridge’s North American liquids pipeline footprint, including the development of the Wabamun Carbon Hub. To be located north and west of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the Wabamun Hub has the potential to sequester a significant portion of the emissions originating from the Edmonton and Fort Saskatchewan area. It represents a unique collaboration among a broad range of industries and local Indigenous groups. Prior to joining Enbridge, Adam was the founder and owner of a crane and rigging company servicing Western Canada. He also worked in various strategic and operational roles at an energy services company. Adam began his career as a corporate commercial lawyer in Calgary, Alberta. Adam holds a Bachelor of Arts, an MBA (specialization in Natural Resources and Energy) and a Bachelor of Laws, all from the University of Alberta.

Catherine D. Little

Partner

Bracewell LLP

For more than 30 years, Catherine Little has counseled oil and gas pipeline, storage, and LNG clients across the United States on traditional and renewable energy, transportation and safety-related legal matters at federal, state and local levels. At the forefront of cutting-edge legal issues for this industry, including with respect to the energy evolution, and carbon dioxide and hydrogen in particular, Catherine and her team regularly assist clients in navigating complex regulatory compliance and enforcement defense matters, encompassing construction, operations, maintenance, and inspection, incident response, and security issues. Catherine also routinely advises clients on litigation strategy and legislative and rulemaking developments, and frequently manages compliance audits and confidential internal and governmental investigations. As to the latter, Catherine and her team have favorably resolved criminal investigation matters led by the Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General and the US Department of Justice and successfully challenged administrative agency actions at the federal appellate level.

Jean-Philippe Hiegel

Head of Strategy & Growth

RepAir

Jean-Philippe Hiegel, has over 15 years of experience in upstream O&G industry, including large-scale project development, operations and 7 years heading business development units in Carbon Capture and Storage projects. He has a MEng degree in Electrical Engineering and MSc degree in Energy Economics

Brandon Bromberek

Vice President Oil & Gas, Measurement Solutions

Emerson

Brandon Bromberek is a vice president in Emerson’s measurement solutions business. His focus is on enabling customers achieve more sustainable operations, optimize production and decrease costs through the use of Emerson’s automation technology. Bromberek’s expertise centers on oil & gas and carbon capture, and how automation is advancing developments across these value chains. Bromberek joined Emerson in 2018 after 13 years in oilfield services. He sits on the board of directors for the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ Flow Measurement Technical Section and holds a project management license from the Project Management Institute. He holds a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Purdue University and a Master of Science in management for the oil and gas industry from Heriot.

Alex Shelby

Director, Investment Banking

Barclays

Alex Shelby is a Director in the Corporate and Investment Bank in the Global Energy Transition Banking group at Barclays. Alex has advised on energy industry transactions across a range of products including corporate and asset M&A, initial public offerings, private placements, acquisition financing, and restructuring. Previously, Alex was a Project Manager for an offshore oil & gas specialty equipment manufacturer after serving in the U.S. Army as an Armor Officer. Alex earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and a Masters of Business Administration from Rice University with concentrations in finance and accounting.

Tracy Evans

CEO

CapturePoint LLC

Mr. Evans is a Founder of CapturePoint and has served as Chief Executive Officer since company inception. Under his guidance, CapturePoint is defining the leading edge of carbon management services and pioneering the creation of onshore deep underground carbon storage hubs in the United States. During his career, Mr. Evans has been at the forefront of the CCUS frontier, leading several large-scale CO2-EOR and CO2 pipeline projects. At CapturePoint, he has built teams to identify the next generation of carbon storage sites and to assemble the financing and resources necessary to make permanent, safe CO2 storage a reality. He is a nationally recognized trailblazer in carbon management, and he maintains company relations with international, U.S., state, and local partners. Mr. Evans was President and Chief Operating Officer of Denbury Resources (NYSE: DNR) from 1999-2011. Prior to Denbury, he held various management, technical, and operations positions with Matador Petroleum and Enserch Exploration. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Discovery Natural Resources, and past board appointments include Inventys (CO2 capture technology), Genesis Energy midstream services (NYSE: GEL), and Encore Energy (NYSE: ENP). Mr. Evans holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from The University of Texas at Dallas.

Tim Cesarek

CEO

Synata Bio

Tim Cesarek, CEO of Synata Bio, has over 30 years of business development and private equity experience, with over 20 years in leadership roles in renewable fuels, chemicals, and energy. He was Chief Commercial Officer at Gevo, leading commercial development and project origination. At Enerkem, he served as Senior Vice President of Global Business Development. As Managing Director at Waste Management, he focused on waste conversion into biofuels and renewable chemicals. Tim also led Koch Genesis Company LLC, specializing in early-stage investments. He has served on over 20 boards and holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Milwaukee School of Engineering and an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University.

Elizabeth L. McGinley

Partner, Tax Department Chair, Energy Transition Practice Chair

Bracewell LLP

Elizabeth McGinley, chair of Bracewell's tax department, regularly advises clients on acquisitions, dispositions, restructurings, joint ventures and debt and equity investments in the upstream and midstream oil and gas and conventional and renewable power industries. She represents both public and private energy companies as well as private equity funds. Liz is recognized by Chambers USA among America's leading lawyers for tax (2012-2023). From Chambers USA: "Elizabeth is always timely and prompt with her responses. She's very knowledgeable and stays current on tax issues." (2023). In addition to her traditional energy practice, Liz also advises on tax issues arising in connection with the energy transition including federal tax credits and investment structures. Liz regularly works with clients evaluating carbon capture, utilization and storage.

Martha Ramos

Director CCUS and H2

CEMEX USA

Martha holds a master’s degree in engineering from the University of Houston and more than 20 years of experience in the Energy sector. In the last 5+ years she has been working primarily on full value chain projects for CCUS and Hydrogen. She is passionate about developing integrated solutions to address climate change and her roles have included the development of decarbonization strategies and their implementation, novel technologies evaluations and techno-economic risk management. Within CEMEX she is responsible for the CCUS and Hydrogen strategy development and technology implementation for the USA cement plants.

Kash Burchett

Global Head of Carbon Removal Technologies

HSBC

Kash Burchett is an energy economist with over 15 years’ experience in the energy-climate space. In his current role at HSBC, Kash is responsible for scaling up HSBC’s investments into the carbon management space, covering all links in the value chain including capture, removal, transportation, utilization and storage. In the past he has covered energy supply and demand fundamentals at BP and worked on corporate strategy at French utility EDF. He has also worked in various consulting roles where he advised corporates and governments on long term energy strategy. Kash has appeared in multiple media outlets, commenting on energy industry developments and lectured at UCL and SOAS on energy economics and policy.

Ed Crooks

Senior Vice President, Thought Leadership Executive, Americas

Wood Mackenzie

Ed Crooks joined Wood Mackenzie in 2019. Based in New York, he covers the full range of commodities, technologies and sectors, with a particular focus on climate policy, economics and the energy transition. He writes Wood Mackenzie’s popular Energy Pulse newsletter, analysing the latest developments in the world of energy, and also hosts The Energy Gang, one of the world's most popular energy-focused podcasts. Before Wood Mackenzie, Ed was an award-winning energy editor for the Financial Times, first in London and then in New York. He joined the FT in 1999 as economics editor. He previously worked as an economics correspondent for BBC News, a reporter for Investor’s Chronicle magazine, and an economic researcher at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He has also served on the UK government’s Sustainable Development Commission.

Dilanka Seimon

Executive Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer

Enlink

Dilanka Seimon is Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer for EnLink Midstream. In this role, he oversees commercial and marketing efforts for the company’s traditional midstream and Carbon Solutions businesses. Dilanka has over 20 years of experience in strategy and commercial leadership roles across the upstream and midstream energy industries, spanning both traditional hydrocarbon energy and emerging energy sectors, such as carbon capture and storage, renewable fuels, hydrogen, and carbon markets. Prior to joining EnLink, he served as Vice President of Alternative Energy at Energy Transfer. He previously served as Vice President Sales and Marketing at BHP, leading teams responsible for logistics and marketing of BHP’s global oil, gas, natural gas liquids, and liquified natural gas production portfolio, as well as procuring power, natural gas, and diesel for BHP’s mining assets. Prior to that, he held various roles in natural gas trading, marketing, and origination. Dilanka serves on the Board of Directors of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Houston and the Foundation Board of Trustees of Georgia College & State University, his alma mater where he received a Bachelor of Science in economics. He also earned a Master of Business Administration from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and is a graduate of the General Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Jennifer Stewart

Director, Climate Policy

American Petroleum Institute

Jennifer is Director of Climate Policy for API and has decades of executive experience in finance, climate policy, and legislative and regulatory affairs. She leads all carbon management policy work at API at both state and federal levels, including carbon capture and sequestration, voluntary carbon markets, climate policy, ESG reporting, and GHG emissions methodologies. After retiring as an executive of Southwestern Energy, serving in roles as Senior Vice President Finance, Interim Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President Legislative and Regulatory Affairs, she held roles as an independent board member for an environmental services company and an emissions detection technology company. She also served as Vice President for Baker Hughes Emissions Management providing methane monitoring and quantification technologies. Jennifer is an attorney licensed to practice in Texas and has held leadership positions with the Natural Gas Supply Association, American Exploration and Production Council, and Marcellus Shale Coalition. Jennifer received recognition by Hart Energy’s Oil and Gas Investor Magazine as a 2024 Influential Woman in Energy, and she has been recognized as one of Texas’ Most Powerful Women in Oil and Gas by the National Diversity Council, a Top Woman in Energy by the Houston Business Journal, and received the Greater Houston Women’s Chamber of Commerce Trailblazer Award.

Misty Rowe-Davis

CCUS Global Account Manager, Low Carbon Solutions

Halliburton

Misty Rowe-Davis, Ph.D., is the Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) Global Account Manager for Halliburton. In this role, she is responsible for managing Halliburton’s global strategy, existing technologies, customer relationships, and service delivery across the CCUS sector. She has previously served as a Global Cementing Product Manager. Rowe-Davis joined Halliburton in 2011 as a Sr. Scientist. She led research and development for various cementing chemistry and engineering technologies. Prior to joining Halliburton, Rowe-Davis served as co-founder of a biomedical startup company, TheragNos, where she acted as the Chief Technical Lead. There, she developed targeted delivery methods for chemotherapeutics and led efforts to raise government funding and private equity investments. Rowe-Davis started her Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of Southern Mississippi before transferring and finishing her co-sponsored degree in Applied Chemistry from the Colorado School of Mines. She completed a postdoctorate with University of Colorado before founding TheragNos. She is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the American Chemical Society.

Nuomin Han

Head of Carbon Markets

Wood Mackenzie

Nuomin Han joined Wood Mackenzie’s in 2018 and is based in Beijing. She is part of the Carbon Research team, providing clients with insights into emissions and climate-related development. Her primary focus lies in the carbon market sector, leading the analysis of compliance carbon pricing mechanisms worldwide, and the voluntary carbon market, developing and expanding our offering on carbon market dynamics and future pricing trends, and serving clients with a better understanding of a transitioning carbon landscape. Prior to joining the Carbon Research team, Nuomin spent more than three years in our Coal Research team. In this role, she provided insight into market and policy development related to the coal supply of Asian countries.

April Read

Senior Analyst, CCUS

Wood Mackenzie

April leads our discovered resources research within the Subsurface team, and is focused on intelligence and analysis, engaging with industry players and cultivating insights that support clients’ strategic decision-making. April first joined Wood Mackenzie in September 2019 as a senior analyst on our Canada Upstream Research team. She moved into the Subsurface research team in 2021 and spent 18 months managing the Global Unconventional Plays Service. Earlier in her career, April worked as a senior geologist at several junior to intermediate oil and gas companies. In addition to technical and operations geology, she also worked on reserves evaluation, company strategy and A&D activities, with particular focus on tight oil and gas plays.

Matthew Suhr

Senior Director of Fundamental Analysis and Transmission

Calpine

Matthew Suhr is the senior director of fundamental analysis and transmission, and his responsibilities included developing the company’s power, natural gas, and emissions supply and demand fundamentals. Before joining Calpine in 2009, Mr. Suhr worked in various quantitative and market analysis roles at the trading divisions of Louis Dreyfus-Highbridge, Citadel Investment Group, Dominion Resources, and Williams. Mr. Suhr received a BBA from the University of Wisconsin and an MS in Statistics from Purdue University.

David Tatum

Commercial Manager, CCUS & Emerging – Chevron Corporate Business Development

Chevron New Energies

David Tatum serves as the commercial manager of CCUS & E within Corporate Business Development at Chevron, where he oversees the development of new CCUS&E business lines. He led efforts to establish and expand Bayou Bend and acquire new exploration pore space acreage in the US and Asia Pacific regions. Previously, David worked with Chevron’s M&A group where he led the evaluation and acquisition efforts for Noble and Anadarko deals. David joined Chevron in 2006 after earning both a bachelor's and master's degree in geology. Since then, he has taken on increasingly responsible technical roles in New Orleans, Covington, Houston, and San Ramon, along with positions in Corporate Business Development and Global Exploration.

Joe Colletti

USGC CCUS Venture Executive

ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions

Joe is currently the USGC CCUS Venture Executive responsible for developing and operating ExxonMobil’s first carbon capture and sequestration business in the US Gulf Coast. He received his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree from Auburn University and began his career in energy as a Nuclear Engineer for Southern Company based in Augusta, GA. Following his MBA, he moved to Houston to join ExxonMobil Development Company in various global project planning and execution roles. Joe later joined the management team of Zarvona Energy as an owner where he served as Operations Manager and VP of Business Development & Project Execution. He rejoined ExxonMobil in 2018 as the Corporate M&A BD Manager for Upstream Ventures and moved into his current role in Low Carbon Solutions in 2021 following its official formation. Joe’s spare time is fully consumed by dance, and lake recreational activities if he’s lucky. His three daughters dance competitively at The Woodlands Dance Center, co-owned by his wife Lauren.

Farhan Ahmed

Chief Program Management Officer

Verra

As Chief Program Management Officer, Farhan leads the Program Management Department, which operates the VCS, SD VISta, CCB, and Plastic Waste Reduction Programs. He is a seasoned sustainability, social accountability, and climate change professional with over 20 years of leadership, strategy, and operations management experience that spans several countries. He has held senior management and executive positions in prominent standard-setting and certification organizations. Farhan holds a mechanical engineering degree. He lives in Houston, Texas with his wife and four children.

Ian MacGregor

Founder

North West Capital

Ian likes to build stuff, an entrepreneur who usually starts from scratch. He likes doing more than talking, an engineer who likes numbers & problems. He is working on a new business to take CO2 out of the air & make hydrogen. This hydrogen can be used to blend with natural gas for power plant fuel & get carbon neutral electricity. It can also be used to blend with blue hydrogen & further reduce its carbon intensity. He thinks it will be good for Alberta. He plans to locate the reference plant for this business in Alberta’s Industrial Heartland where he has a few friends from his time building the Sturgeon Refinery & the Alberta Carbon Trunk Line - now the world’s largest operational system for sequestering manmade CO2. Both of them started with an idea he drew on a napkin. He still has the napkin. He’s got a new napkin. He thinks he can build about 500 of these plants in Alberta first & then Western Canada & North America. Each plant will annually take about 250,000 Tonnes of CO2 out of the air & make about 8000 Tonnes of hydrogen. They use low value & scrap wood as their feedstock. The hydrogen is carbon negative because it preserves the work the tree did in taking the CO2 out of the air. He believes he can get the cost of getting CO2 out of the air, & safely underground, down to about $100/ tonne. At that price he thinks we can afford it & there will be lots of places to do it. Since each plant costs about $300 million, that’s a lot of manufacturing jobs & he thinks that Edmonton is the place to do it. He believes this will be a new Alberta manufacturing industry that is about the size of a car business like Ford Canada. The low value wood feedstock is what’s left over after harvesting for lumber. Collecting & processing this feedstock will create lots of jobs in remote communities & for Indigenous peoples. There’s a forest fire angle too, a place to put the thinning’s to protect remote communities from forest fires, a place to put the fuel that is going to have to be removed from the forest floor to reduce the severity of future fires & a place to put the standing dead trees that are left after a fire to reduce fuel for the next fire & improve the speed of the new growth. Ian thinks it’s a shame to waste the work of the trees in extracting CO2 from the air. He has an idea to put the plants at existing sour gas plants, to share under-utilized facilities & extend their lives doing something new because many of them are on their last legs.

Lily R Barkau

Groundwater Section Manager

Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality

Lily Barkau is the Groundwater Section Manager of the Water Quality Division at the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality and has been with WDEQ for 18 years. Ms. Barkau has over 25 years of experience in corrective action at hazardous waste sites under RCRA and CERCLA. In her role at WDEQ, she oversees the Underground Injection Control Program (Class I, V, and VI) and groundwater contamination cleanup activities across the State. She worked on the UIC Class VI primacy application with Wyoming receiving primacy of the Class VI program in 2020. She was recently appointed to the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s Federal Lands CCS Permitting Task Force. Ms. Barkau holds a Bachelor of Science in Geology from Wichita State University and a Master of Science in Environmental Science and Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. She is also a licensed Professional Geologist in Wyoming.

Peter Findlay

CCUS Economics and CCUS North America Lead

Wood Mackenzie

Based in Calgary, Peter Findlay leads the economics and project valuation function for CCUS projects globally at Wood Mackenzie and contributes CCUS growth, incentive, and cost insights to the firm’s Energy Transition Scenarios team. Mr. Findlay has led corporate finance and strategy consulting projects in oil and gas, power & renewables, decarbonization, petrochemicals, and other sectors since 2008 with Kearney and other management consulting firms, working on transactions and projects ranging in value from $50 MM to $40 billion for the world’s largest energy companies as well as much smaller operators. From 2015–2018, Peter led the Financial Decision and Analysis function for Energy at PwC in Calgary and London. He also advises on emerging technologies, primarily relating to decarbonization. Mr. Findlay is a Research Associate at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies where he has published on Canada’s oil sands and natural gas markets, as well as presented at the OPEC technical meetings. Mr. Findlay began his career as an aerodynamic engineer with Pratt & Whitney and has a Master’s of Science/Engineering degree in computational fluid dynamics and advanced numerical methods from McGill University, an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alberta and a finance-focused MBA from ESSEC, Warwick, and Mannheim Business schools in Europe. He is a Professional Engineer in the Province of Alberta, is a past member of the Society of Decision Professionals, and speaks fluent French.

Stefan Ali

Vice President, Energy Transition

Enerflex

Stefan Ali, J.D., is a seasoned business leader with over 15 years of experience in developing and executing value creation strategies through a career in Law, Finance, Corporate Strategy, and Business Development. As Enerflex’s Vice President, Energy Transition, Stefan leads a team of professionals in identifying and fostering new industry partnerships, and enabling industry uptake of low-carbon solutions by growing the company’s portfolio of economical, modularized gas compression and processing solutions. Prior to joining Enerflex, Stefan honed his legal expertise at a leading global law firm, specializing in corporate tax, M&A, and cross-border finance. He holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Western Ontario and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Calgary.

Damian Beauchamp

President & Chief Development Officer

8 Rivers

Damian is President and Chief Development Officer at 8 Rivers, whose technologies, projects, and business model innovations have raised over $2B in capital and created >$4B in market-based value. Throughout his career, he has developed expertise in CCUS-related projects and technology development. Damian was also a member of the Board of Directors for NET Power for 3 years prior to its going public on the NYSE (NPWR). In 2020, he was a co-author of the US National Petroleum Council’s comprehensive CCUS report “Meeting the Dual Challenge A Roadmap to At-Scale Deployment of CCUS,” which was commissioned by then-US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry. He has won several awards and holds pending patents in chemistry, chemical engineering, and other fields. Prior to joining 8 Rivers, Damian founded two companies for which he has been featured in Forbes (Forbes 30Under30) and Fortune magazines, while also having received several entrepreneurial awards along the way. Additionally, his work in the field of chemistry related to solar energy conversion and storage into hydrogen and electrochemical potential (batteries) has been published and featured in Nature Chemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, and C&E News. Damian holds a master’s in chemistry from The Ohio State University during which time he received the SciFinder Future Leader in Chemistry Award from a division of the American Chemical Society and won the US DOE Clean Energy Business Plan Prize. His bachelor’s degree in chemistry was earned magna cum laude from Kent State University while a National Science Foundation scholar. In 2016 he received the Outstanding New Professional Award from his alma mater.

Jon Story

Vice President, Global Head of CCUS Consulting

Wood Mackenzie

Jon is a vice president and global head of Wood Mackenzie’s CCUS consulting. He has more than 30 years’ energy industry experience having joined in early 2024 after three years with Storegga – a CCS developer - as EVP M&A and Portfolio. Jon was responsible for driving Storegga’s international expansion strategy and was instrumental in helping the company secure an offshore CCS license in Norway with Sval and Neptune, as well as helping to grow the business in the US with Talos, Kimmeridge and others. He also spent time in Asia Pacific, developing an MOU with Petronas, and leading discussions with other key players in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Australia. Jon has advised a wide variety of energy clients on M&A transactions as a managing director leading upstream M&A for Standard Chartered Bank and others: in Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia, Australia and the Americas. In energy consulting, his experience has included transaction due diligence, valuation, strategy, technology outlook, supply studies, licensing rounds and cost benchmarking. More recently, over the past six years, his focus has been on low carbon and CCS in particular. Jon began his career as a petroleum engineer with British Gas E&P, followed by roles in commercial positions at Hardy Oil and Gas and British-Borneo Oil and Gas.

Renee Morales

Director, External Affairs

Talos Energy

Renee Morales is Talos Energy’s Director of External Affairs, overseeing Corporate Communications, State and Local Public Affairs, Government Affairs, and Community Relations. Before Talos Energy, she was a public affairs manager with Crown Castle from 2007 to 2023, covering 18 states. Prior to Crown Castle, she was with the Oklahoma House of Representatives for over ten years and finished her career in the Chief Clerk’s office as the Reading Clerk on the House floor. Renee is a fifth-generation Oklahoma ‘89er and Daughter of the American Revolution. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Central Oklahoma. She lives in Katy, Texas, with her husband and two children.

Olivia Woodruff

Director, Decarbonization

Kimmeridge

Olivia Woodruff is Director of Decarbonization at Kimmeridge supporting the investment team and facilitating the implementation of carbon solutions across the portfolio. Ms. Woodruff has over 13 years of experience across the energy and environmental sectors in both technical and investment functions. Prior to joining Kimmeridge, Ms. Woodruff served as a geoscientist at Pioneer Natural Resources focused on business development & new ventures, M&A, asset planning, and active operations. In addition, Ms. Woodruff was a physical scientist at the US Geological Survey within a geochemical research team. Ms. Woodruff holds a BS from University of Colorado in Geology and an MS from University of Kentucky in Geology.

Charles McConnell

Energy Officer UH Energy / Executive Director, Carbon Management and Energy Sustainability

University of Houston

Global Executive with accountability for growth of multimillion-dollar existing business and new business units. Skilled in operations, sales, business, marketing, and domestic/global management, and managing senior-level technology teams. Experienced in both domestic and international markets and posted in Singapore for 6 Asia country companies, including China, India, Indonesia, Korea, and Malaysia. Worldwide recognition in development and advocacy of climate change and carbon policies, e.g., Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS), 45Q CCUS/ EOR policy, etc. Global manager who guides multiple business units through change while communicating with diverse stakeholders, external clients, and investors to create sustainable and profitable growth. Captures new opportunities by assessing market trends, building, motivating and educating high-performing teams, and evaluating technology and business portfolio options. Revitalizes operations and business models for the energy transition marketplace. Leverages strong strategic planning, tactical client execution, and relationship building collaboration for growth in energy markets challenged by lower carbon future. Technology Subject Matter Expert (SME) within energy and power, petrochemicals technology, and investment business development marketplace. SME in CCUS, petrochemical, and industrial gases industry; selected for National Coal Council, Board of the Energy and Environment Foundation North Dakota, and EPA Science Advisory Board.

CapturePoint LLC

Our Business is Carbon Management in an Era of Energy Transition. CapturePoint LLC provide a full range of carbon management services, including capture, transport, utilization and storage. We deliver leading edge expertise to significantly reduce industrial CO2 emissions, to support direct air capture, and to advance clean energy options. And with rights to over 285,000 acres of deep underground geologic carbon storage space and carbon management opportunities in regional sites across the United States, we are developing the capacity to provide safe and permanent sequestration for billions of tons of CO2 over the coming decades.

BKV Corporation

BKV is a forward thinking, growth driven energy company focused on creating value for our stockholders. Our core business is to produce natural gas from our owned and operated upstream businesses, which we expect to achieve net zero Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions, for our owned and operated upstream and midstream assets, by the early 2030s. We maintain a “closed-loop” approach to our net zero emissions goal with our four business lines: natural gas production, natural gas midstream, power generation, and carbon capture, utilization and sequestration (“CCUS”). BKV was founded in 2015, and our employees are committed to building a different kind of energy company. We are a group of innovators passionate about how the energy industry can change the world. We understand the impact climate change has on our community, the world and future generations, and addressing these impacts in how energy is produced is a top priority. Through our CCUS business, we aim to reduce man-made GHG emissions to the atmosphere by capturing CO2 emitted in connection with natural gas activities, whether from their own operations or third- party operations, as well as from other energy and industrial sources. BKV commenced operations at its inaugural CCUS project, Barnett Zero, in November 2023. BKV is one of the top 20 gas-weighted natural gas producers in the United States and the largest natural gas producer by gross operated volume in the Barnett Shale. We believe that our differentiated business model, net zero emissions focus, highly experienced management team and technology-driven approach to operating our business will enable us to create stockholder value. BKV Corporation is the parent company for the BKV family of companies.

Enerflex

Enerflex is a premier integrated global provider of energy infrastructure and energy transition solutions, deploying natural gas, low-carbon, and treated water solutions – from individual, modularized products and services to integrated custom solutions. With over 4,800 engineers, manufacturers, technicians, and innovators, Enerflex is bound together by a shared vision: Transforming Energy for a Sustainable Future. The Company remains committed to the future of natural gas and the critical role it plays, while focused on sustainability offerings to support the energy transition and growing decarbonization efforts.

Synata Bio

Synata Bio uses a single-step, feedstock-flexible fermentation process to convert synthesis gas from low-cost feedstocks into high-value products in the most economical and scalable manner. Synata Bio is engaged in licensing a proprietary biocatalyst, media, process, and technology that converts waste gases, hydrogen and on purpose syngas into ethanol. In addition, to licensing, Synata Bio provides engineering, operational, and technical services in support of its licensed technology. Further, Synata Bio also works with additional technology providers upstream and downstream to the extent agreed upon by the Parties to optimize delivery of a lower carbon footprint or product optionality. Examples of our application(s) are utilization of biogenic carbon dioxide emissions from various processing industries, utilization of carbon emissions from hard to abate industrial sectors such as chemicals, petrochemicals, steel and power plants.

Emerson

Emerson (NYSE: EMR) is a global technology and software company providing innovative solutions for the world’s essential industries. Through its leading automation portfolio, including its majority stake in AspenTech, Emerson helps hybrid, process and discrete manufacturers optimize operations, protect personnel, reduce emissions and achieve their sustainability goals. For more information, visit Emerson.com.