Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) Conference 2025

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.

Juan Marcos Braga

VP Carbon Capture US

TotalEnergies E&P USA

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.

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.

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.

Renta Hattori

Director of CCUS

Marubeni America Corporation

Renta Hattori is the Director of CCUS, New Energy Department of Marubeni America Corporation, and is currently based in San Antonio, Texas. With over a decade of experience in energy infrastructure, Renta began his career in oil and gas and later transitioned to CCUS and RNG project development and investment, helping to catalyze the low carbon future. His expertise spans project development, M&A transactions, and business origination in North America. Renta has led significant initiatives, including a CCS investment in Texas and a dairy RNG investment in Indiana. He holds a Master's degree in Chemical Material Engineering from Hokkaido University. Prior to his current role, Renta worked in various positions within Marubeni, including corporate planning and business development in New York and Tokyo, demonstrating his global perspective in the energy sector.

Abby Weaver

Vice President, Business Operations and Strategy

Entergy Texas

Abby Weaver is the Vice President of Business Operations and Strategy of Entergy Texas, an electric utility that serves more than 524,000 customers in 27 Southeast Texas counties. In this role, Weaver leads the development of the company’s overall strategy to drive growth and enhance operations, while working collaboratively across the corporation to achieve strategic objectives and execute key initiatives. Additionally, as chief of staff to the CEO of Entergy Texas, Weaver manages large, cross-functional projects and strategic initiatives across the organization. Since joining Entergy as an intern in the accounting department, Weaver has held a variety of leadership roles, including finance director for Entergy Texas and a director in the system planning and operations organization. Most recently, she served as Entergy Texas’ director of resource planning and market operations, where she led fuel, generation, transmission, and wholesale power planning for the company. Weaver holds a Master of Business Administration from Sam Houston State University and a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from the University of New Orleans.

Nan Ransohoff

Head of Climate

Stripe

Nan Ransohoff is head of Frontier and Stripe Climate, where she and her team are focused on kickstarting a market for permanent carbon removal. Prior to Stripe, Nan led product and business teams at Opower, Nest, Uber, and Nuro. She received her BA from Harvard University and her MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Aymeric Chauveau

Managing Director, Energy Transition & Natural Resources

Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking

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.

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.

Tim Stedman

Chief Executive Officer

Storegga

Tim Stedman is Chief Executive Officer at Storegga. Joining the company in May 2024, he brings over 30 years of experience from the chemicals industry. Prior to Storegga, he was the CEO of Agilyx Corporation, a leader in recycling technologies that unlocks value from plastic waste to enable a circular economy, where he served from 2020 to 2024. He also held a variety of leadership roles at Trinseo before he ultimately became Senior Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development. Tim also served on the board of Americas Styrenics, a Joint Venture between Trinseo and CP Chem. Before his time at Trinseo, he spent over 20 years at ExxonMobil serving in a variety of leadership roles. Tim holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering with French from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, U.K., and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques, Nancy, France. He is also a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institute of Chemical Engineers (U.K.).

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.

Omer Farooq

Head of Sustainable Asset Finance

Bank of America

Stephan Rupert

Chief Investment Officer

Canada Growth Fund Investment Management

Antonio Vicente Castro

Business Developer – Downstream, Midstream, and Energy Transition

Petrobras

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.