Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Conference 2023

David Brown

Director, Energy Transition Practice

Wood Mackenzie

David is a Director, Energy Transition Pracitce. He began his career with Wood Mackenzie in 2011 as an analyst covering European markets. From 2014-2016, he was posted in Wood Mackenzie's Beijing office where he led the integration of our China energy research. He presented regularly on China’s macroeconomic outlook, gas and LNG markets, and coal to gas switching goals. Leveraging his global experience across multiple areas of the energy industry, David transitioned to Wood Mackenzie’s Houston office in 2016. He is a key author of Wood Mackenzie’s Energy Transition Outlook, Accelerated Energy Transition Scenarios, and emerging technology coverage. He regularly advises strategy groups, company leadership teams, and investors on major long-term questions facing energy markets.

Carl Fortin

Global Business Manager, Carbon Capture & Storage

ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions

Carl Fortin joined ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions in early 2022 and leads Global Marketing for its Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage business, based in Spring, Texas. In this role, Carl oversees strategy, market development, alliances, and customer offerings. Carl is a 32-year veteran of ExxonMobil, mostly in Chemicals with experience across multiple business lines and geographies. Carl has held a variety of leadership roles in Manufacturing, Business, Technology, and Acquisitions & Divestments. He has a BS in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In his spare time, Carl enjoys tennis, skiing, and travel.

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 Watt University.

George Bilicic

Vice Chairman of Investment Banking, Global Head of Power, Energy & Infrastructure

Lazard

Mr. Bilicic heads the Firm’s global Power, Energy & Infrastructure Group, an effort including power and utilities, oil and gas, all aspects of the energytransition, infrastructure, agribusiness and nutrition, certain general industry clients and Lazard’s Climate Center. Mr. Bilicic also serves on the Firm’s Global Executive Committee. Mr. Bilicic’s areas of activity include mergers & acquisitions (of all types), activism and traditional takeover defense, capital structure advice, capital-raising (of all types), special committee and other board advisory roles, restructurings, long-term client advisory work (of all types), and others. Previously, Mr. Bilicic was Group President of Sempra Energy and President and Chief Legal Officer of Sempra Energy, in each case with broad responsibilities across various Sempra businesses, legal, compliance, strategy and business development, and where he served as a member of the Board of Directors of Oncor and IEnova. Mr. Bilicic also served as a Managing Director and Head of Infrastructure at KKR where he was responsible for initiating and leading KKR’s global infrastructure investing efforts.

Elena Belletti

Head of Carbon Research

Wood Mackenzie

Elena joined Wood Mackenzie in November 2021. She works with the Carbon team to improve and expand the Emissions Benchmarking Tool, provide clients with more intelligence in recent developments in the carbon landscape, and share Wood Mackenzie’s view on future developments and trends in carbon markets and mechanisms. Elena joined from the United Nations headquarters in New York, where she had worked since 2015, most recently as an economist in the office for financing sustainable development. She was the focal point on taxation and climate, advising senior government officials from low-income countries on the development of policies that generate revenues while protecting the environment. She focused on carbon pricing and on the role of taxation in attaining environmentally-related sustainable development goals (SDGs). Previously, she was a senior economist for Palantir Economic Solutions and a senior advisor at Eni; in both roles, she provided commercial, economic and strategic advisory to improve the value of economic opportunities in the oil and gas upstream.

Armando Infanzon

Director of Business Development

SoCal Gas

Armando Infanzon is Director of Business Development for Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) since June 2020. Mr. Infanzon is responsible for advancing several low carbon infrastructure initiatives including hydrogen, carbon capture, utilization & sequestration, biogas and distributed energy resources. Prior to joining SoCalGas, Mr. Infanzon served as director of operations for Peru at Sempra Energy International between 2014-2020. Between 2011-2014, Mr. Infanzon was Smart Grid Policy Manager for San Diego Gas & Electric working on several grid modernization initiatives including energy storage. Mr. Infanzon joined Sempra in 1998 and had several positions of increasing responsibility.

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.

Rachel Schelble

Head of Corporate Carbon Management and Infrastructure

Wood Mackenzie

Rachel Schelble joined Wood Mackenzie’s corporate research team in 2021 as Head of Corporate Carbon Management and Infrastructure, working to develop new content offerings focused on corporate midstream and carbon management. Rachel works with oil and gas industry clients to understand the business models, emerging technologies and strategies driving the energy transition. Her research is focused on understanding the role of the evolving carbon markets, decarbonization strategies and technologies, and the unique ways that the oil and gas industry can develop low carbon solutions. Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie, Rachel worked at ExxonMobil for 15 years where she held multiple positions in competitor analysis, commercial negotiation, value chain integration, infrastructure development, geoscience and resource evaluation.

Doris Fujii

Head of Hydrogen and CCUS Analysis

BP

Doris Fujii leads on providing analysis and insights on the role of hydrogen and CCUS in the energy transition in bp. She previously led early-stage development of CCUS projects in the US, provided subject matter expertise in carbon management, acted as business advisor to the CEO of the alternative energy division, and was business development lead for a California CCUS project. She has also held various roles in the refining business, including process engineering, commercial and business development roles. She has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from UCLA.

Chris Powers

Vice President, Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS)

Chevron New Energies

Christopher A. “Chris” Powers, 43, is vice president, Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) for Chevron New Energies (CNE), a position he assumed in October 2021. He is responsible for leading and growing Chevron’s CCUS business worldwide and is based at CNE’s headquarters in Houston, Texas. Previously, Powers served as General Manager of Strategy and Business Performance for Chevron North America Exploration and Production Company (CNAEP) since 2020. In this role, he was responsible for leading efforts to shape strategies and competitive plans for each business unit across the North America region, including the leading Permian position. Chris led the merger integration of Noble Energy’s North American assets into CNAEP. Powers’ recent leadership roles include General Manager, Maintenance & Reliability, at the Pascagoula, Mississippi Refinery, Chevron’s largest wholly owned manufacturing facility, and Area Operations Manager in Bakersfield, California, within the San Joaquin Valley upstream business unit. Previously, he served as Advisor to the Vice Chairman and EVP of Upstream, and as General Manager of CUEL, a former joint venture in Thailand. Powers began his career as a process engineer in the Chevron Energy Research and Technology Company in Bellaire, Texas. Over his 20-plus year career with Chevron, he has held business and technical leadership positions of increasing responsibility in Kazakhstan, Thailand, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas

Alexander Shelby

Director, Investment Banking

Barclays

Alex Shelby is a Director in the Corporate and Investment Bank in the Global Energy 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.

Micah Maher

Head of US Energy Sales

Wood Mackenzie

David Ramos

Geological Low Carbon Solutions Director

Repsol

David leads the newly created Repsol’s Geological Low Carbon Solutions Direction since July 2022. His worldwide responsibilities include all business, commercial and technical aspects related to Geothermal, CCS and H2 Geological Storage within Repsol. David joined Repsol in 1998. He has developed all his professional career in Repsol within the Exploration Organization working on international assignments in Egypt, the U.S., and Indonesia. He is currently based in Madrid. Before joining Repsol, David started his professional career in 1996, working as technical project manager in Geotecnia 2000, a geological engineering consulting firm in Spain. Within Repsol, David has held positions as Director of Exploration Eastern Hemisphere (Madrid), Director of Exploration Central Functions (Madrid), Senior Exploration Manager SE Asia (Jakarta), Exploration Manager Alaska and Exploration Manager GOM (Houston). David holds a B.S. in Geology and an M.Sc. In Engineering Geology from the Complutense University in Madrid (Spain)

Ryan Duman

Director-US Upstream Research

Wood Mackenzie

Ryan joined Wood Mackenzie in 2012 and currently works on the US Upstream Research team responsible for developing thought leadership and analysis on tight oil. He specializes in supply forecasting, basin characterization, upstream decarbonization, decline curve analysis and economic modeling. Before joining Wood Mackenzie, Ryan worked as an Energy Market Analyst for Ponderosa Advisors in Denver, CO. While at Ponderosa he focused on upstream markets constructing supply forecasts, field and producer economics and analyzing market trends. Ryan holds a BS in environmental science from the University of Michigan and an MS in Natural Resource Economics from Michigan Technological University.

Dave Hopper

President

Equinox Engineering USA

Dave Hopper is the President of Equinox Engineering USA Ltd. He is responsible for all Equinox CCS, RNG, Gas Processing and Power Generation EPCM projects in the Lower 48. Dave has been with Equinox for 26 years. He began his technical career in 1996 as a Chemical / Process Engineer and has comprehensive knowledge in sour gas processing and CO2 recovery. Dave is an expert in facility engineering design and has been responsible for the concept planning, process design, cost estimating and overall project scoping and development for all Equinox CCS and RNG projects globally over the last 15 years. Equinox Engineering is a global EPCM – with offices in the USA, Canada, Australia and India. The company is a leader in gas processing, CCS and RNG projects.

Leslie Savage

Chief Geologist | Oil and Gas Division

Railroad Commission of Texas

Leslie Savage is the Chief Geologist for the Oil and Gas Division of the Railroad Commission of Texas. Over her almost 40 years of employment with the Commission, Ms. Savage helped develop and/or supervised the Commission’s programs for underground injection control, surface waste management, hazardous oil and gas wastes, naturally occurring radioactive material, waste minimization and recycling, and geologic storage of carbon dioxide. Most recently, Leslie is spearheading the effort to gain primacy for the federal Class VI UIC program for geologic storage of carbon dioxide.

Mercy Renteria

National BDM Hydrogen and CCS

Endress+Hauser USA

Mercy Renteria is an Energy Sector professional with over fifteen years of experience with background in project management, business development, offshore engineering and technical sales in the Upstream and Midstream sector. She has secured multimillion dollar opportunities around the world with top tier NOC and IOCs based on delivering cutting edge solutions. She has several patents in downhole technologies. A passionate advocate for cleaner energy, Mercy’s expertise in the Oil and Gas industry has fueled her role at Endress and Hauser, leading the Green Hydrogen and Carbon Capture team on a national level. She has a BBA from the University of Texas Pan American and Marketing from Harvard University along with advanced studies from Harvard Business School and a Petroleum Engineering Certificate from the University of Tulsa.

Jonah Margulis

Head of North America

Aker Carbon Capture

Jonah Margulis leads the North American market entry for Aker Carbon Capture. Mr. Margulis joined Aker Carbon Capture in February 2023 and has significant leadership experience from his roles spanning nearly a decade within the Aker group. Most recently, he was responsible for launching and leading the U.S. organization for Aker Offshore Wind and Mainstream Renewable Power in addition to previous roles as U.S. Country Manager, Head of Front-End North America, and General Manager of the Subsea Production Alliance at Aker Solutions. Mr. Margulis’s primary responsibilities include developing the strategy and operations plan for scaling the business in the region along with building and managing the local team and legal entity. He currently sits on the Advisory Board of Texas A&M University’s Subsea Engineering Program while previously serving on the Board of Directors of the National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA), Vice Chair of Offshore Wind California (OWC), member of the Offshore Wind Council at American Clean Power (ACP), and multiple API/ISO working groups. Mr. Margulis obtained his engineering degree from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania and MBA with an Energy Management certificate from the University of Houston.

Melany Vargas

Global Head of Hydrogen Consulting

Wood Mackenzie

Melany leads the Global Hydrogen Consulting Practice at Wood Mackenzie. She has supported a number of established energy companies and new developers as they grow their footprint in or enter low-carbon H2 markets, including developing market entry strategies, screening for regions and opportunities, developing analysis and reports for policy and regulatory advocacy, and performing commercial due diligence and capital raise efforts across the hydrogen value chain. She has also supported the development of Wood Mackenzie’s proprietary hydrogen modelling capabilities across low-carbon hydrogen supply, demand and technoeconomic analysis. Melany has extensive experience solving strategic problems for clients across the energy value chain, including oilfield service companies, E&Ps, IOCs, gas and NGL infrastructure and logistics, chemicals, utilities and mining. Since 2015, she has focused her career on applying her deep expertise in fossil fuel value chains to solving Energy Transition issues, and supporting clients as they evaluate the technologies needed to achieve decarbonization targets. Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie Melany worked in Accenture’s Energy Strategy practice in Houston. In 2016, she was selected to serve as the project manager and lead author for the World Energy Council’s World Energy Scenarios 2060 (published in 2016), a process that involved engagement with senior executives and policy stakeholders across all regions and parts of the energy value chain and evaluated a broad spectrum of potentially disruptive technologies. She is also currently working on a hydrogen study for the DOE on behalf of the National Petroleum Council, leading the Task Group on Integrative Economics and partnering with MIT on the modeling efforts required for all chapters of the study. Melany holds a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs with a specialty in Energy Management and Policy. She also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Maryland.

Erik Mielke

Senior Vice President, Corporate Research

Wood Mackenzie

Erik leads our Corporate Research, leading data-driven analysis and insight into companies’ strategies, performance and outlook, across the energy and natural resources sectors. Erik brings more than 25 years of energy industry research and corporate management experience to his role. Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie, he was VP Business Development and Commercial at Buried Hill Energy. He was also previously a managing director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, leading emerging markets energy and US oil and gas research, and a research fellow with Belfer Center’s Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group at Harvard.

Nigel Jenvey

Vice President CCUS & H2 Project Development

Baker Hughes

Nigel is an industry leader in the Energy Transition, Decarbonization and Carbon Management, and an expert in Carbon Capture, Use and Storage (CCUS), Hydrogen and Energy Storage. With over 25 years of global energy industry experience with major international energy companies Shell and bp, Nigel has lead public-private partnership technology programs, policy and regulatory development organizations, project development and operations, and capability building efforts in low carbon energy. This includes roles such as global head of CCUS at bp, chair of the CO2 Capture Project, chair of the North American CCS Association, peer-reviewer for International Energy Agency reports, and alternate chair for execution of the National Petroleum Council CCUS Study. At Baker Hughes, Nigel guides the company’s strategy and growth initiatives to advance new frontiers for energy that will position the company to help meet global energy demand by offering lower carbon solutions across industries. Nigel is Baker Hughes’ board member for Ekona Power, a methane pyrolysis technology to produce low carbon hydrogen. Nigel also is an industry lecturer at the University of Houston in their executive education courses on CCUS, Hydrogen Economy and Sustainable Development. He also serves as an independent board director for Natural Gas Services Group, and is chair of the Safety and Sustainability Committee and member of the Audit and Nominating & Governance Committees. Nigel graduated from Imperial College, London with a Master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering, and from The University of Leeds, UK with a Bachelor’s degree with honors in Mining Engineering. Nigel now lives in Houston, Texas with his wife and 2 children.

Mhairidh Evans

Head of CCUS Research

Wood Mackenzie

Mhairidh leads our global research on carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS). Her team provide insight and strategic analysis on the CCUS landscape to project developers, technology providers, investors and governments. Her work includes cost assessments, economic modelling, market and policy tracking. Mhairidh previously spent seven years as a lead analyst in our upstream oil and gas division, focusing on the offshore supply chain and the North Sea region. Before joining Wood Mackenzie in 2014, she spent six years in commercial and project management roles in the subsea oil and gas sector. Mhairidh is an alumni of Scotland’s Future Industry Leaders Programme and enjoys engaging with the wider industry.

Ed Crooks

Vice-Chair Americas

Wood Mackenzie

Ed Crooks joined Wood Mackenzie in 2019 as Vice-Chair for the Americas region, based in New York. He is one of the leaders of the firm’s research into commodities, companies and global trends, with a particular focus on the Americas. He writes ‘Energy Pulse’, a weekly column on the latest developments in the business, finance, technology and politics of the industry, and hosts the podcast, ‘The Energy Gang’. Before joining Wood Mackenzie, he was an award-winning energy editor for the Financial Times, first in London and then in New York, where he wrote the popular ‘Energy Source’ newsletter. He joined the FT in 1999 as economics editor, and took over the energy team in 2006. From 1990-99 he worked for BBC News, starting as a researcher in the economics team and ending as a correspondent on radio and television. He began his career in journalism in 1988 as a reporter covering chemicals and oil companies for the Investors’ Chronicle, and also worked as an economic researcher at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. His other roles have included membership of the UK government’s Sustainable Development Commission. He has a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University.

Chendhil Periasamy

Vice President, Energy Transition

Air Liquide Americas

Dr. Chendhil Periasamy is the Vice President, Energy Transition, for Air Liquide based in Houston, TX. Chendhil is responsible for leading implementation of the Air Liquide Americas hub energy transition roadmap and continually evolving the strategy to achieve Air Liquide Group’s ambitions. Collaborating across various internal teams, customers and partners, he is supporting energy transition growth projects that reduce carbon emissions and advance the development and deployment of the renewable, low-carbon hydrogen economy. Previously, Chendhil led an R&D team at Air Liquide Innovation Campus in Delaware and established R&D demonstration projects and strategic partnerships with the US Department of Energy and industrial/academic players. Chendhil has been with Air Liquide for 15 years and holds a Ph. D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma.

Scott Goldberg

VP – Carbon Solutions

EnLink Midstream

Scott Goldberg is Vice President of the Carbon Solutions Group for EnLink Midstream. In this role, Goldberg leads a team responsible for identifying and pursuing energy transition opportunities, including carbon capture, transportation, and sequestration (CCS). His group is executing on EnLink’s first-mover advantage and extensive Louisiana footprint, which includes approximately 4,000 miles of pipeline and existing connections to emitters in one of the nation’s largest concentrations of industrial CO2 emissions, to become the CO2 transportation provider of choice in Louisiana. Goldberg joined EnLink’s predecessor company over a decade ago. Prior to leading the Carbon Solutions team, he focused on acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and other strategic transactions. He also has a background in engineering, legal, and corporate development that is well suited to developing opportunities in the carbon solutions business. He graduated from Colorado School of Mines with a Bachelor of Science in petroleum engineering and earned a Juris Doctor from Southern Methodist University School of Law.

Tim Duncan

President & CEO

Talos Energy

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.

Equinox Engineering Ltd.

Equinox Engineering Ltd. is a private company operating in the United States, Canada, Australia and India. We have provided the highest quality EPCM services to our clients domestically and worldwide since 1997. We pride ourselves in successfully executing projects that are safe, high quality, cost effective and completed on-time. Our primary focus is on the hydrocarbon industry including facility and pipeline projects for natural gas, conventional oil and heavy oil markets.

Endress+ Hauser

Endress+Hauser, is a global leader in measurement and automation technologies for process and laboratory applications. It is a $3.6 billion family-owned company with 16,000 employees headquartered in Switzerland with a broad portfolio of services, solutions and instrumentation. Endress+Hauser serves customers in the chemical, food and beverage, life sciences, power and energy, hydrogen, CCUS, biomethane, oil and gas, water and wastewater industries. Endress+Hauser has been a pioneer in CCS with more than fifteen years of experience working with developers and operators to provide solutions and valuable knowledge on their applications. Today, Endress+Hauser has more than 8,600 patents and patent applications. The company is committed to serve, improve their products, work economically and at the same time protect people and the environment.

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.