Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) Conference 2025.

Laura Sorey

Policy and Rules Manager

Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy

Laura Sorey is the Policy and Rules Manager for the Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy – Office of Energy where she supports the development of policy and regulatory framework for the commercial utilization of Louisiana’s energy resources. Laura previously served as the geology manager for C&E’s Underground Injection Control program where she oversaw the permitting and compliance of all injection wells in the state of Louisiana. Prior to joining the agency, Laura worked as a geologist in the oil and gas industry and in environmental consulting. She is a licensed professional geoscientist in Louisiana and holds a bachelors in geology from Millsaps College and a masters in geology from Louisiana State University.

Juliet Irvin

Asst Software Manager

Rose Subsurface Assessment

Juliet Irvin, MSc Petroleum Geoscience (with Geophysics), Imperial College London; BSc Applied & Environmental Geology, University of Birmingham With over 27 years in the oil & gas industry, including more than two decades at ExxonMobil followed by a move to Rose Subsurface Assessment in 2024, Juliet is a distinguished geoscientist whose specialties include prospect/play assessment, risk & uncertainty analysis, and geologic–geophysical integration. Her career spans global projects across Africa, Offshore & Onshore Europe, the Black and Caspian Seas, and North America. She has developed expertise in deep and shallow water reservoirs, clastic and carbonate environments, and conventional and unconventional environments. She has lived in Aberdeen, London and Houston, and has held a variety of positions in Exploration, Development, Production, Research and IT functions within ExxonMobil. These include Oil and Gas Assessment Specialist, Lead Assessor for Europe / Africa / Caspian Exploration, Senior Exploration Geologist, Reserves Coordinator, Seismic Interpreter and Development Geologist. For the past 15 years she has been an authority on Risk & Volumetric Assessment, leading internal consultancy, mentoring, and assurance. She helped establish regional and global best practices in Risk and Volumes performance tracking, Prospect Inventory tracking, Column Height modelling, Technical and Commercial integration workflows, and integrating DHI information into prospect risking. Since 2007, she has been an award winning instructor in geoscience topics including risk & volumetrics, cognitive bias, seismic interpretation, and proprietary technical tools. This included serving as Lead Instructor and Assessment SME for a global ExxonMobil training program for professional geoscientists.

Keith Shoemaker

Chief Commercial Officer

Coastal Bend LNG

Keith Shoemaker is Chief Commercial Officer and brings extensive leadership experience across the full natural gas value chain. With a career that began as a pipeline engineer and progressed through key roles in transportation, trading, risk management, and business development, Keith has built and led high-performing commercial teams at some of the industry’s most respected organizations, including Rice Energy and EQT. He is known for a distinctive ability to identify market value, distill complex challenges into client-focused solutions, and prudently manage risk to drive revenue. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and an MBA from the University of Houston.

Steven Lowenthal

Co-CEO

Frontier Infrastructure

Steven helps oversee the commercial development and capital formation efforts at Frontier Infrastructure, the largest permitted independent carbon sequestration firm in the US. Prior to co-founding Frontier, Steven spent more than 10 years in public and private investing roles in the energy sector, most recently serving as a VP at Riverstone Holdings, a $40B energy-focused alternative asset manager, with prior roles at PennantPark Investment Advisors and Nomura Securities. He holds a B.A. from Columbia University.

Antoine Schellinger

SVP, Corporate Development

Strategic Biofuels

Antoine Schellinger is a peer-recognized industry leader and author, having served the capital intensive fuel and chemicals manufacturing space for 30 years. His knowledge areas include emerging technologies, commercialization programs and use of biomass-based feedstocks. Antoine serves as the Senior VP, Corporate Development for Strategic Biofuels, a deeply carbon-negative carbon-negative power generator. Prior to his current role, Antoine served in leadership positions with project management consultancy firms, an ESG-oriented corporate venturing group, multiple engineering and construction houses and operations leader of a West African midstream company. He holds a JD from South Texas College of Law Houston, MBA from University of Houston, and BS in chemical engineering from WPI. He resides in Houston with his spouse, 2 teenagers and 4 Australian Shepherds.

Dave Yanni

Head of Development

Heirloom Carbon

Dave joined Heirloom in 2024 to lead the company's global development efforts. In this role, his focus is on delivering viable project sites for Heirloom's deployments, working with a variety of stakeholders across real estate, energy utilities, carbon sequestration and local authorities to help realize Heirloom's goal of removing billions of tons of CO2 from the atmosphere. Prior to joining Heirloom, he spent 16 years working in the energy space, leading development, strategy and sales for a number of renewable developers including subsidiaries of Shell Energy and LS Power.

Greg Adams

Chief Financial Officer

Chestnut Carbon

Greg Adams is Chief Financial Officer of Chestnut Carbon, bringing more than 25 years of experience in corporate, project, and structured finance, treasury, risk management, business development, and strategic planning across the energy, decarbonization, power, and metals sectors. Prior to Chestnut, Greg served as Senior Vice President, Finance, Risk Management and Treasurer at FuelCell Energy. He spent the preceding 17 years in banking at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley, Société Générale, and Goldman Sachs, advising institutional and corporate clients on complex risk management, financing, and capital markets solutions. Earlier in his career, Greg held finance, strategy, M&A, and business development roles at AES Corporation and Entergy, working across the power and LNG sectors. Greg holds a bachelor's degree from Denison University and an MBA from Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business.

Chris Roeder

VP & GM, Renewable Chemicals and Low Carbon Solutions

International Paper

Since joining International Paper in 1996, Chris has held leadership roles across marketing, business development, commercial groups, and corporate strategy. In 2023, he was appointed a company officer and led International Paper's packaging business across the Eastern United States. In 2025, he assumed his current role as Vice President and General Manager, Renewable Chemicals and Low Carbon Solutions. In this position, Chris oversees International Paper's renewable chemicals business and leads the development of initiatives to capture value from more than 10 million tons per annum (TPA) of biogenic CO₂ emissions generated by the company's containerboard mills. Chris holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He and his wife, Tiffany, reside in Collierville, Tennessee, and have three sons: Luke, Jake, and Max.

Heinz Weirdmann

Managing Director – Carbon Authentication

Tracerco

Heinz Weidmann is Managing Director of Tracerco’s Carbon Authentication Business Unit and a global energy executive with more than 30 years of leadership experience across oil & gas, industrial technology, midstream, power generation, and carbon capture and storage. His expertise includes commercial strategy, business transformation, operational excellence, and the commercialization of innovative technologies. He has held senior leadership positions with Tracerco, ChampionX, Exterran, and Nabors and holds an MBA from Purdue University.

Linda Htein

Director, Carbon Management

Wood Mackenzie

Over the last 10 years, Linda has been in a variety of roles across Wood Mackenzie’s research and consulting businesses. Currently, she serves as Head of Carbon Mitigation Research, leading global research teams and overseeing Wood Mackenzie's research agenda for CCUS and carbon offsets. In this role, she drives the development of the Lens Carbon product and delivers high-impact research and data solutions that advance client understanding of these decarbonization pathways. Prior to Wood Mackenzie, Linda was a reservoir engineer with BP supporting the development of onshore and offshore oil and gas fields in the US. Linda holds a BS in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from the University of Houston-Downtown.

Jonah Margulis

Head of Commercial, North America

SLB Capturi

Jonah Margulis leads all commercial activities in the North American market for SLB Capturi, the joint venture between SLB and Aker Carbon Capture. Mr. Margulis joined Aker Carbon Capture in February 2023 and has significant leadership experience from his roles spanning over 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 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.

Tania Alvarez

Analyst, Americas CCUS

Wood Mackenzie

Tania is research analyst on Wood Mackenzie’s CCUS research team. Based in Mexico City, she focuses on developing valuation models for projects across North America and analysing emerging CCU technologies. She also supports the team on policy and market research in the North and South American CCUS landscape.​ Tania joined Wood Mackenzie in 2024. Prior to joining the team, she worked on several projects as an engineering consultant trainee, where she contributed to the design of sustainable processes for various industries.​

Jonathan Wiens

CEO

Low Carbon Infrastructure (LCI)

Jonathan Wiens is the CEO of Low Carbon Infrastructure (LCI), a company focused on developing and executing high-impact energy transition, power, and industrial projects. He also serves as President of Broadwing Energy, a power and steam project under development in Decatur, Illinois, with Archer Daniels Midland and Google as offtake partners. LCI is actively advancing multiple additional projects across the energy transition landscape. Prior to founding LCI, Jonathan held executive and management roles at several energy companies. Earlier in his career, he served for seven years as a U.S. Army Officer, including two combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, one with the 75th Ranger Regiment. Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Science from the United States Military Academy at West Point and a Master of Engineering in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University.

Joseph Sticca

VP, Sales Americas

Mitsubishi Power Americas, Inc.

Joseph Sticca is Vice President for New Equipment Sales in the Americas at Mitsubishi Power Americas. In this role, Mr. Sticca leads a team of Sales Directors to cover all aspects of the sales and marketing activities for Mitsubishi Power’s full product portfolio of new equipment in North & South America. Mr. Sticca holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida and a Master of Business Administration from Rollins College.

Fredrick Tyler

Global sales executive – Carbon Authentication

Tracerco

Fredrick Tyler is a global energy executive with more than 20 years of international experience in the energy industry, including drilling, production, reservoir technologies, and carbon capture and storage (CCS). He has also spent nearly a decade as an energy entrepreneur, building and growing companies that support hydraulic fracturing operations through water sourcing, transfer, logistics, injection, and integrated field services. As Global Sales Executive for Carbon Authentication at Tracerco, Fred leads the deployment of advanced tracer-based monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) solutions for CCS projects across North America and Europe. His work focuses on CO₂ plume tracking, storage verification, leak detection and quantification, source attribution, and regulatory compliance, helping operators reduce risk while building confidence in long-term carbon storage. Fred has worked throughout the United States, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Latin America, combining deep technical expertise with commercial leadership to deliver innovative solutions across the evolving energy sector.

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.

Carmen Hinds

CCS Project Delivery Manager

Tracerco

Carmen Hinds is a distinguished senior reservoir and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) engineer with over 20 years of experience in conventional field development, enhanced oil recovery operations, and carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCS, CCUS). Throughout her career with Chevron, Hess, Ecopetrol, and Schlumberger, she has led technical cross-functional subsurface engineering teams in North and Latin America. Her expertise span reservoir surveillance, monitoring, design, implementation for field development, Class II, and VI UIC permitting and compliance, and comprehensive Measurement, Monitoring & Verification (MMV/MRV) frameworks.

Kristen Allison

Director of Carbon Markets

ADM

Kristen Allison is the Director of Carbon Markets at ADM, where she leads the commercialization of carbon removals from the company's carbon capture and storage operations. Prior to joining ADM, Kristen served as Senior Director of Product Sales & Marketing at LanzaTech, where she led the company's low-carbon ethanol and derivatives businesses across markets including fuels, chemicals, personal care, and textiles. Before LanzaTech, she spent 10 years at BASF in a variety of technical and commercial leadership roles. Throughout her career, Kristen has combined technical expertise with commercial leadership to build and scale businesses across global low-carbon markets, helping bring innovative low-carbon products and carbon removal solutions to market. She holds a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Columbia University and an MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.

Mhairidh Evans

VP, Head of Carbon Management

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.

Lucas Mozetic

Senior Project Manager

Repsol

Lucas Mozetic is a Senior Project Manager with 18 years of extensive experience in successfully developing large capital projects from the visualization stage to operations within the energy sector. He is currently focused on developing Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) projects in the US. His prior expertise spans across North Africa, Southern Europe, the North Sea, and the Gulf of America. Lucas holds a M.Sc in Industrial Engineering from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain) and has earned the PMP® certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI).

April Read

Principal Analyst, Americas 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.

Jennifer Atcheson

SVP Product

ION Clean Energy

Jenn Atcheson has over 15 years of experience in the CO2 Capture and chemicals industries, currently serving as SVP of Product at ION Clean Energy in Boulder, CO where she is responsible for global product ownership, project management, and strategic partnerships with EPCs and OEMs. She’s been a key contributor to the development of the company’s transformative solvent technology via several U.S. Department of Energy awards and is currently a vital part of the ION team working to deploy their technology at commercial scale. Jenn’s prior work experience includes Global Marketing, Product Management and Operations Engineering roles at Kemira Chemicals and BASF. Jenn holds a B.S.. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Matt McQueen

Low Concentration CCS Venture Manager

ExxonMobil

Mr. Matt McQueen became ExxonMobil’s Low Concentration CCS Venture Manager in July 2026. Mr. McQueen began his career with Imperial Oil Ltd. in 2007 in Calgary, Alberta. From 2007 to 2013, he held several technical, commercial, and planning assignments supporting both Downstream Refining and Upstream Production assets in Alberta. In 2013, he assumed the role of Reservoir Surveillance Engineering Supervisor at Imperial Oil’s Cold Lake thermal in-situ oil sands asset, followed by an assignment in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador as Reservoir Engineering Supervisor. In 2018, he was seconded to Exxon Mobil Corporation in Houston, Texas for a series of planning and finance roles supporting the Vice President, Americas for ExxonMobil Production Company. In 2020 he assumed the role of Advisor to the ExxonMobil Upstream Oil & Gas President, supporting the business response to the COVID-19 pandemic. From 2021 until 2023, Mr. McQueen was the Asset Manager of ExxonMobil’s LaBarge Wyoming sour gas asset where he was responsible for 20 percent of global helium production and the operation of the world’s largest carbon capture operation. Most recently, he was the Production Manager of ExxonMobil’s interests in Angola where he led the safe and reliable operation of ExxonMobil’s Block 15 offshore assets. Mr. McQueen’s leadership skills, extensive work experience, and diverse background with respect to responsibilities, geographies, and cultures over 20-year career has provided him with a broad understanding of the opportunities and challenges in the oil and gas and CCS industries.

Igor Mitschka

Manager, Energy Transition Funds - Investment Team

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP)

Igor Mitschka is a Manager on the Energy Transition Fund team at Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) in New York. His investment activities focus on projects in carbon capture and storage, carbon removal, and other emerging decarbonization technologies. Igor also serves as a Board Member representing CIP in its joint venture with BKV, overseeing the development of carbon capture and storage projects across the United States. Prior to joining CIP, he held investment roles at Global Infrastructure Partners, Kommunalkredit Austria, and Goldman Sachs. Igor holds a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University and an M.A. in Energy Economics from the New Economic School.

Patrice Lahlum

VP of Industrial Innovation and Carbon Management

Great Plains Institute (GPI)

Patrice Lahlum is Vice President of Industrial Innovation and Carbon Management at the Great Plains Institute (GPI), where she leads national efforts to advance industrial decarbonization and carbon management solutions that strengthen US manufacturing, support economic growth, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. She oversees major initiatives, including the Carbon Capture Coalition and the Industrial Innovation Initiative, working with industry leaders, policy makers, labor organizations, environmental advocates, and communities to develop practical, consensus-based solutions. Patrice is recognized for bringing diverse stakeholders together to address complex challenges and accelerate the deployment of carbon capture, transportation, storage, and other low-carbon industrial technologies.

Jennifer Aurandt-Pilgrim

Vice President, Carbon Development

Marquis Inc.

Mercy Renteria

National Business Development Manager - Hydrogen/CCUS, Strategic Business

Endress & Hauser

Mercy Renteria has 15+ years of experience in the energy sector, specializing in project management, strategic business development, and technical sales. She has successfully managed $1B in business across renewables, oil & gas, hydrogen, and CCUS. As the leader of the National CCS and Hydrogen segments at Endress+Hauser, she plays a key role in advancing decarbonization and energy transition strategies. She has built strong relationships with global energy leaders, held prominent positions driving oil & gas technology advancements, and co-authored patents for innovative energy technologies. With expertise spanning reservoir analysis, offshore engineering, chemicals, digitalization, and clean energy, Mercy provides a unique perspective on the global energy transition. Mercy holds a BBA from the University of Texas Pan American, with further studies in Marketing from Harvard University, advanced business studies from Harvard Business School, and a Petroleum Engineering Certification from Tulsa University. She is a board member at the Gulf Energy Catalyst, Joy of Living, OTC Emerging Technologies and the Founder of Totus Tuus Authentic Leadership conference. She is an active member of antihuman trafficking associations and protection of Children at UNICEF.

James Lopez

Subsurface CO2 Storage Advisor

CEMEX

Vijnan Batchu

Managing Director & Global Head - Center For Carbon Transition, Investment Bank

JP Morgan

Vijnan Batchu is a Managing Director and the Global Head of the Center For Carbon Transition, Investment Banking and works out of the New York office. He is focused on working with our clients to achieve JPMorgan’s portfolio decarbonization targets and developing expertise in the emerging energy transition space. During his 20-year career at JPMorgan, he has done a variety of roles covering investment banking coverage, research, portfolio management and risk analytics. Vijnan started off his career with HSBC Markets in Mumbai where he worked with corporate clients to help them manage their FX and money market priorities. He has an MBA from the NYU Stern School and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

Chris Stavinoha

GM CCS Americas

Chevron New Energies

Philip Llewellyn

Research & Technology Senior Advisor to CO2 Techno Hub

TotalEnergies

Dr Philip Llewellyn is Senior Scientific Advisor for the Strategic Research and Technology Program focused on CO₂ at TotalEnergies. Before taking up this role, he served for five years as CCUS R&D Program Manager, following a 30-year career at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). His work focuses on identifying, assessing, and benchmarking next-generation carbon capture and utilization technologies, with particular emphasis on their integration into industrial assets and their contribution to full CCS/CCU value chains. This broad scope spans academic discovery, start-up evaluation, and engineering design studies. Philip represents TotalEnergies in the IEAGHG Technology Collaboration Programme. He is the author of more than 200 scientific publications, has delivered over 50 invited and keynote lectures, and has received more than 34,000 citations.

Lee Stockwell

General Manager - United States Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage

Shell

Lee has 25 years’ experience with Shell, developing deep expertise in the Upstream business and holding various engineering and leadership roles in exploration, major projects development, asset management and operations, safety & environmental management, commercial as well as R&D in the offshore Deep Water, Onshore, and Renewables lines of business. As General Manager for CCS in North America, he is responsible for building the CCS portfolio across a number of internal and external value chains in line with Shell’s global strategy, representing Shell externally in the development of the industry and supportive regulation, and integrating across the various lines of business to develop scale in decarbonization.

Patricia Scozzafave

Global Commercial Manager Decarbonisation Technology Licensing

Shell

Irina Markina

Managing Director and Chief Decarbonization Officer

Ara Partners

Irina Markina is the Managing Director and Chief Decarbonization Officer at Ara Partners. Irina leads the firm’s decarbonization strategy, decarbonization investment diligence, portfolio decarbonization performance measurement and management, and value creation. Prior to joining Ara Partners, Irina was a global Corporate Sustainability Manager at Baker Hughes, a c. $60B billion energy technology company, where she was instrumental in operationalizing the company’s sustainability strategy and operating model across its global business. Prior to this, Irina served as the Senior Energy Advisor at the European Union Delegation to the United States, where she provided technical guidance and directed the European Commission’s cooperation on energy and decarbonization strategy with U.S. government agencies.

Jennifer Wilding

General Manager, Asset Development

Chevron New Energies

Jennifer was appointed General Manager, Asset Development in March 2025. In her current role, Jennifer is responsible for the subsurface technical maturation for Chevron’s Lithium, Geothermal and CCS portfolios globally to support lowering the carbon intensity of Chevron’s existing assets as well as provide solutions for customers that desire lower carbon solutions. As General Manager, Jennifer leads a team of subsurface practitioners focused on multiple opportunities across the US to enable American energy dominance and across Asia Pacific. Jennifer joined Chevron in 2000 after receiving her Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University. She has held a variety of technical and leadership positions focused on asset development, reservoir management, portfolio management, acquisitions and divestitures, and agile digital product development. She has spent majority of her career working in upstream oil and gas including Gulf of America, Southern Africa Angola, Mid-continent shale and tight assets, and Chevron Technical Center Subsurface digital team. Her past roles include reservoir, production, and workover engineer, business planning analyst, and technical and managerial leadership roles. Jennifer lives in Houston, Texas with her husband and teenage son. She enjoys Astros/baseball games, has a goal to visit all 30 major league baseball parks, reading, and occasionally golfing.

Peter Carragher

General Manager

Rose Subsurface Assessment

Pete Carragher has been involved in oil and gas exploration since 1974 (after receiving his B.S. degree in Geology from King’s College London). He has evaluated and drilled prospects in most of the world’s oil and gas provinces. Since 1990, he has been involved in developing and applying exploration risk assessment techniques and portfolio management processes. From 1989 to 1994, Carragher served as Manager of Amoco’s Basin Analysis Group for Worldwide New Ventures and was then led Amoco’s Prospect Quality Team from 1994 until 1997, an effort directly responsible for creating value for Amoco’s Worldwide Exploration effort. He then served for two years as Manager, Upstream Portfolio Analysis for Amoco immediately prior to the merger with BP. In 2003, BP named him as Head of Discipline for Worldwide Exploration, and later named him VP of Geoscience and Exploration, helping assess new resources and identifying new areas of exploration potential. Pete has been at Rose since 2010, served as Managing Partner from 2014 to March 2026, and following the transaction with CMG serves as the General Manager of Rose Subsurface Assessment. He has extensive experience in designing exploration and appraisal strategy, process, and organization capability that has proven to lead to improved business performance. With colleagues at Rose, he has extended that skill set to unconventional resources and carbon sequestration. Pete is proud to support the Rose Consulting and Training lines of business together with the continuing development and application of the Rose software suite, and the Rose DHI Consortium and Risk Coordinators network.

Lucy King

Principal Analyst, Americas CCUS

Wood Mackenzie

Lucy is a principal analyst on our CCUS team, providing insight and strategic analysis on the CCUS landscape to project developers, technology providers, investors and governments. Lucy previously spent four years as an analyst in our North Sea Upstream team, focusing on the UK sector. Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie in 2018, Lucy worked as a geoscientist at Adrok, carrying out subsurface data collection, processing and interpretation.

Lee Blank

CEO

Cornerstone Ag & Energy Advisors (former CEO, Summit Carbon Solutions)

Lee Blank is a proven chief executive with over 35 years of experience in agriculture, energy, and infrastructure. He has led multibillion-dollar companies, delivered record earnings, and built innovative platforms that connect U.S. agriculture to global markets. His career spans entrepreneurial ventures, private equity–backed projects, and Fortune 100 leadership, consistently marked by operational excellence and growth. Most recently, Lee served as Chief Executive Officer of Summit Carbon Solutions (2022–2025), a $9 billion carbon capture and storage initiative. The project was designed to lower the carbon intensity of the U.S. ethanol industry and unlock access to global low-carbon fuel markets. Lee directed the full scope of strategy and execution, including senior leadership management, government affairs, stakeholder engagement, capital formation, and legal strategy—making Summit one of the most ambitious decarbonization projects in North America. Previously, Lee was CEO of Advance Trading (2020–2022), a commodity risk management firm. He modernized operations, strengthened client services, and led the company to record earnings in consecutive years during a period of intense market volatility. From 2013 to 2020, he served as CEO and Board Member of GFG Ag Services, an agricultural services provider operating across Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska. Under his leadership, the company expanded its geographic footprint, diversified its product and service portfolio, and enhanced its value proposition to farmers at the U.S. farm gate. Earlier, Lee was President & CEO of Twin Rivers Technologies, a Canada-based global vegetable oils and proteins business backed by the Malaysian government with revenues exceeding $800 million annually. Under his leadership, Twin Rivers operated across international markets, supplying products to the food, feed, renewable fuels, and industrial sectors. Lee oversaw global operations, strengthened supply chain integration, optimized production assets, and guided the company through commodity market volatility while maintaining profitability. His tenure positioned Twin Rivers as a leading international player in the vegetable oils and proteins industry. He also held senior leadership roles as President & COO of Alternative Energy Sources (2006–2008) and Founder & President of Cornerstone Ag Advisors (2012–2013), where he applied his deep industry expertise to emerging energy and agricultural ventures.

Anna Pavlova

Senior Vice President Market Development, Government Affairs and Sustainability

CarbonQuest

Anna Pavlova brings twenty-five years of experience at the intersection of energy markets, energy and power technology, and commercial strategy. She has held executive roles at Fortune 100 companies including Schneider Electric and Johnson Controls, and has led strategy and market development at growth-stage companies focused on decarbonizing power, data centers, and industrial operations. At Schneider Electric, Anna served as Vice President of Public Affairs and Sustainability, leading commercial growth with regulatory and advocacy tools, as well as designing the company’s external sustainability program, leading to the company's recognition as the Most Sustainable Company in the World. At Johnson Controls she built the company's government affairs and sustainability function, bringing grant and Congressional funding to the energy management and industrial decarbonization space. Anna currently serves as SVP of Strategy, Market Development, and Sustainability at CarbonQuest, a carbon capture and low-carbon power company with commercial deployments across industrial, campus, and data center markets. She pioneered the company's entry into the data center power market in 2022 — ahead of the AI-driven demand surge — and leads a team developing low-carbon power and carbon capture solutions for large energy consumers. Anna has been recognized as a Globe Street Woman of Influence and a CRE Tech Influencer. She is a frequent speaker at data center, industrial, and sustainability conferences including COP, and has been quoted in Bloomberg, Canary Media, and other publications. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a Master of Fine Arts from the Corcoran College of Art and Design.

Sam Plishtin

Vice President

Frontier Infrastructure

As Vice President of Corporate Development & Capital Markets at Frontier, Sam brings +6 years in both investment banking advisory and project finance in the power sector. Prior to joining Frontier, Sam was an Investment Banking Associate at PEI Global Partners, a boutique investment bank in NYC focused on power, energy and infrastructure in North America. He has closed $1B+ across gas-fired and renewables M&A and capital raising transactions, specialty manufacturing and energy services transactions. Sam holds a B.A. from Colby College.

Timothy Vail

CEO

ION Clean Energy

Tim Vail joined ION Clean Energy as Chief Executive Officer in April 2024 and led the company through its Series A financing with Carbon Direct Capital and Chevron New Energies. Mr. Vail is a seasoned cleantech entrepreneur with experience in taking alternative energy companies from the conceptual stage to listing on a major public stock exchange. Prior to joining ION, Mr. Vail was previously CEO of Arbor Renewable Gas, LLC, founder and CEO of G2X Energy, Inc., and he also serves as an Operating Partner for OGCI Climate Investments, LLP. While not working to capture CO2 emissions with ION’s technology, Mr. Vail enjoys spending time with his wife, Elizabeth, and their family, turning wrenches on vintage automobiles, and cheering on his alma mater, the University of Texas—a university that holds special significance for the Vail family, as both of their children are also proud Longhorns.

Elena Belletti

VP, Head of Research & Engagement, Carbon Management

Wood Mackenzie

Elena leads our carbon research, working with a growing team to help clients accelerate their energy transition journey. The team delivers intelligence, thought leadership and data to support the best decision-making on emissions, decarbonisation options, carbon markets, carbon prices and offsets. Elena joined Wood Mackenzie from the United Nations in New York, where she advised senior government officials from low-income countries on issues like carbon pricing. Previously, she was a senior economist for Palantir Economic Solutions and a senior advisor at Eni; in both roles she provided commercial, eco

Peter Findlay

Director, Carbon Management

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.

John Rayis

Senior Strategic Advisor

Lockton

John Rayis is a Senior Strategic Advisor for Lockton’s Tax Insurance Practice. Mr. Rayis advises clients on tax insurance and other transaction-related insurance solutions. Mr. Rayis joined Lockton following a distinguished 25+ year career as a tax partner at the global law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where he served as tax partner for companies in a variety of complex corporate and partnership tax law matters, with a particular focus on real estate investment trusts (REITs), as well as external tax counsel for several large private equity funds. Mr. Rayis repeatedly has been selected for inclusion in Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business in the “Capital Markets: REITs” category, in Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business as one of America's leading REIT tax lawyers, and in The Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Rayis has served as a Director on the board of both Apartment Income and Management Company (NYSE:AIV) and Apartment Income REIT Corp. (NYSE:AIRC). He was the Chairman of AIRC's Compensation and Human Resources Committee, and a member of the Audit, Nominating and Corporate Governance, and Redevelopment and Construction Committees of both AIV and AIRC. Mr. Rayis has been admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of The University of Chicago Medical Center, and is a member of the Audit, Development, and Science Advancement Committees. He also serves as a member of the Longboat Key Florida Citizens Tax Oversight Committee.

Elizabeth McGinley

Partner, Energy Transition and Tax Practice Chair

Bracewell LLP

Elizabeth McGinley heads Bracewell’s Energy Transition practice and serves as chair of the firm’s Tax Department. She advises strategic and financial investors on tax matters related to energy transition projects, including federal tax credits, transaction structures, transaction documentation, and tax credit monetization. Liz regularly counsels clients on carbon capture and sequestration, clean fuels, low-carbon power generation, hydrogen, and other energy transition projects. Her experience includes credit qualification analysis, negotiating transaction agreements, and advising on tax equity, direct pay and credit transfer transactions. She is a frequent speaker and author on federal tax issues related to the energy transition. Her recent representations include Tallgrass Energy in the development of the Trailblazer pipeline system and related sequestration assets capable of transporting and storing over 10 million tons of industrial source carbon dioxide annually; major gas processing companies in the development and operation of carbon capture and sequestration assets as well as the sale of carbon capture assets; Equinor in its $1.1 billion sale of a 50 percent interest in the Empire Wind and Beacon Wind offshore wind projects to BP; and Navigator CO2 Ventures in the development of a 1,200-mile carbon dioxide pipeline network across five Midwest states. Beyond energy transition matters, Liz advises public and private energy companies and private equity investors on acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, project development, and debt and equity investments across the upstream, midstream, and conventional power sectors. She was recently named a “2026 Distinguished Leader” by the New York Law Journal and has been recognized by Chambers USA among America’s leading tax lawyers since 2012.

Amy Fuller-Riley

VP Sales, US Natural Resources

Wood Mackenzie

Amy Fuller-Riley leads the US Sales Team for our Natural Resources Vertical. She joined WoodMac in January 2025 and held previous leadership roles at S&P Global and IHS Markit.

George Yoshida

EVP, President of Engineered Systems Division

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America

Yusuke “George” Yoshida is Executive Vice President and President of the Engineered Systems Division at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc. (MHIA). Mr. Yoshida oversees MHIA’s U.S. businesses in carbon capture technology licensing, chemical plant engineering and transportation systems. With more than 30 years of experience in the engineering and construction industry, Mr. Yoshida has held leadership roles in marketing, business development, contract negotiations and international operations in Japan and the United States. From May 2022 to March 2026, he served as Director of the CCUS Strategy Department within GX Solutions at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), where he helped shape the company’s global carbon capture strategy. Mr. Yoshida previously served as General Manager of MHIA’s Engineered Systems Division in Houston from 2015 to 2019. During his tenure, he was co-sponsor of the Petra Nova project, completed in 2016, with MHI serving as technology licensor and engineering contractor. The facility is among the largest post-combustion carbon capture plants in commercial operation in the United States. Born in Kamakura, Japan, Mr. Yoshida grew up in Westchester County, New York. He holds a bachelor’s degree in social sciences from Waseda University and completed Columbia University’s Sustainable Finance program in 2021.

Dominic Genetti

SVP Carbon Capture Storage

ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions

For Dominic Genetti, joining the Low Carbon Solutions team became a personal mission. A father of four, Dominic hopes to advance a future for his children where the world’s energy needs can be met while reducing or eliminating carbon emissions. And he’s doing this by focusing on Low Carbon Solutions’ customers in hard-to-abate sectors. Dominic’s career with ExxonMobil spans more than two decades, during which he has applied his deep expertise in both technical operations and global strategic advisory. He started his career with ExxonMobil in 1999 working as a reservoir engineer in Houston. He worked in oil and gas fields in West Texas, Oklahoma, and South Texas. His roles have since taken him across the globe, from Venezuela to Norway to Australia. Most recently, Dominic was based in Qatar with his family for seven years, where he held several leadership roles, including president and general manager of ExxonMobil Qatar, president of Al Khaleej Gas, and vice president & ventures manager, ExxonMobil Qatar. While in Qatar, Dominic, and his wife, Mckenize, were board members and trustees of the American School of Doha, where he says some of his proudest moments were seeing students he knew overcome challenges, graduate, and then move on to successful lives. Dominic grew up in Montana and Mississippi. He holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in chemical engineering from Brigham Young University.

Caitlin Cain

Head of Public Affairs, Gulf Coast

Heirloom Carbon

Caitlin Cain, CEcD, is the Head of Public Affairs (Gulf Coast) and Community Engagement Lead for Heirloom, a direct air capture technology company, bringing over two decades of leadership in urban planning, policy, and economic development to drive community reinvestment and CDR advocacy. Her multifaceted career spans leadership roles across sector lines, including Vice President at national LISC (community finance), CEO of the World Trade Center New Orleans (international trade/policy), Small Business Administration Region Vl Advocate (policy/advocacy), and Director of Economic Development for the New Orleans Regional Planning Commission. A Fulbright Scholar and certified economic developer, Caitlin holds a Master of Urban Planning from the University of Michigan and an Honors Bachelor’s from the University of Toronto. Her community and strategic investment work has garnered recognition from the International Economic Development Council, Department of Commerce, Biz New Orleans and Gambit Magazine.

Taylor Chapman

Investment Principal

New Climate Ventures

John Litynski

Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage, Program Director

EQT

John Litynski currently serves as the Head of CCUS in EQT Corporation New Ventures where he leads the development of both CO2 enhanced recovery and geologic storage opportunities. He previously served as a Senior Advisor at the University of Wyoming’s School of Energy Resources and Director of the Wyoming Integrated Test Center. He also served as the Deputy Director for R&D at the Office of Fossil Energy and several other leadership position in the department. He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and M.S. from Johns Hopkins University in Environmental Engineering and Science.

Duane Sherritt

Vice President, Low Carbon Solutions

Halliburton

Duane Sherritt is vice president of Low Carbon Solutions at Halliburton. In this role, he is responsible for driving success for decarbonization and new energy services. He brings more than two decades of energy industry experience. Sherritt joined Halliburton in 2000 as a chemical engineer and progressed through roles of increasing responsibility in Operations, Business Development, and senior leadership. He has worked for Halliburton in North America, Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia Pacific. Sherritt holds a Bachelor of Arts in Commerce from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and is a 2009 graduate of the Halliburton President’s Leadership Excellence Program.

Steve Hirsh

President & CFO

ION Clean Energy

Steve is the President and Chief Financial Officer of ION Clean Energy, a leading carbon capture technology company. Steve has over 25 years of experience in capital raises, mergers and acquisitions, and the development, financing, and management of global chemical and energy infrastructure assets while at Proman and Ashmore Energy International. Steve holds a Masters of Business Administration from Duke, Fuqua School of Business in Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A., and a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Elizabeth Clem

Director of Operations, CCUS

BKV

Shashank Atreya

Senior Analyst, Americas Carbon Markets

Wood Mackenzie

Shashank Atreya is a Senior Carbon Markets Analyst at Wood Mackenzie's Houston office. At Wood Mackenzie, Shashank focuses on the North American carbon market and covers both the voluntary and compliance markets. Prior to Wood Mackenzie, Shashank worked at BGC Partners as part of their carbon brokerage desk and supported trading of environmental commodities. He also worked at APG Asset Management, pension fund based in New York, as an analyst on their responsible investment team.

Reda Bouamra

Gas Power Decarbonization Director

SLB

Reda Bouamra is Gas Power Decarbonization Director within SLB New Energy. His team at SLB is responsible for the strategy and commercial development of solutions that reduce emissions from gas-fired power generation, including generation serving data centers. Reda is focused on applying carbon capture and storage to gas power plants and on building the partnerships needed to take these solutions to commercial scale. Over more than 20 years in the energy industry, he has held leadership positions in operations, marketing, digital transformation corporate strategy. He received his PhD in Oil & Energy from IFP School and his Global Executive MBA from INSEAD.

Geoff Salomons

Senior Policy Analyst, Carbon Management, Office of Energy Research and Development, (OERD)

Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)

Dr. Geoff Salomons is a Senior Policy Analyst in Carbon Management at Natural Resources Canada, where he focuses on bilateral Canada–EU cooperation on carbon capture, utilization, and storage policy. He is an experienced pracademic working on climate, energy, and energy transition programs and policy within the Government of Canada and academia for nearly two decades. Previously he served as an international affairs analyst for NRCan's Fuels Sector coordinating the departments participation in multilateral forums and international events such as CERAWeek. Geoff holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Alberta, where his research examined the long-term governance of non-renewable resource wealth.

Michelle Chang

Program Manager, Advanced Energy Technologies

Google

Michelle Chang is a commercial program manager on Google’s Advanced Energy Technologies team. Her team at Google is responsible for strategy and partnerships with advanced clean electricity technologies that provide clean firm capacity to support Google’s operations and advance Google’s 24/7 carbon-free energy goals. Michelle is focused on partnering with and scaling new advanced clean electricity technologies, such as advanced nuclear, next-generation geothermal, carbon capture and storage on power plants and long-duration energy storage. Prior to Google, Michelle worked in sustainable infrastructure and energy investment banking in New York City and in Houston. She received her BA from Harvard University and her Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Natasha Tyrina

Senior Analyst, Americas CCUS

Wood Mackenzie

Zainub Noor

Director, Low Carbon Solutions

Halliburton

Zainub Noor is Director of Low Carbon Solutions at Halliburton, leading global strategy for decarbonization and new energy initiatives. Since joining Halliburton in 2010, she has held leadership roles across operations, technology, business development, and innovation, including Director of Technology and Innovation at Halliburton Labs and Global Head of Technology for Field Development and Production Operations. Noor holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Western University and a master's degree and PhD in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University.

Matthew Thomas

Vice President, Carbon Capture

Kiewit Energy Group Inc.

Matthew serves as Vice President, Carbon Capture for Kiewit Energy Group Inc. where he helps formulate Kiewit’s strategy in the carbon capture market, sets the strategy for individual pursuits, and leads commercial, legal, and technical negotiations for projects with clients and OEMs. A degreed mechanical engineer, he has spent his entire 25-year career with Kiewit serving in various technical, commercial, and market leadership roles with experience on over 50 engineering projects and multiple EPC projects throughout North America.

Jakob Krummenacher

Vice President, Low Carbon Products

LSB Industries

Jakob Krummenacher, Vice President of Low Carbon Products at LSB Industries, leads the decarbonization strategy, which includes driving initiatives to lower the company carbon footprint, improving environmental sustainability, and developing markets for future low carbon products, like using ammonia as a fuel in marine applications and power generation. Mr. Krummenacher is a member of the board of directors at the Ammonia Energy Association and a co-leader of their low-carbon ammonia certification efforts. Mr. Krummenacher has over 19 years of experience in the energy and chemical industry. He began his career with BP, where he held various positions of increasing responsibility in the chemicals, oil trading, and energy trading businesses before joining CF Industries where he was an integral part of the Clean Energy Solutions team. Mr. Krummenacher has ample knowledge of commodity markets, energy trading, corporate development, technology, and strategy. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Antonio Montero Pérez

Executive Director - Investment Banking

BBVA

Antonio Montero Perez is an Executive Director in the Low Carbon Advisory team within the Global Advisory group at BBVA. Based in Houston, he advises clients across the energy value chain on the development and financing of complex low-carbon technologies, with a particular focus on structuring solutions that combine tax credits, debt, and equity. Prior to joining BBVA, Antonio was a Project Leader at Boston Consulting Group, where he evaluated and scaled low-carbon and cleantech opportunities for energy and industrial companies in Europe and the U.S. His experience spans renewables, energy storage, geothermal, carbon capture and storage, low-carbon fuels, and sustainable data centers, blending technology expertise with financial analysis. Antonio’s expertise plays a key role in advancing BBVA’s ambition to be a leading bank for sustainability financing.

SLB

SLB is a global technology company that has driven energy innovation for 100 years. With a global footprint in more than 100 countries and employees representing almost twice as many nationalities, we work each day on innovating oil and gas, delivering digital at scale, decarbonizing industries, and developing and scaling new energy systems that accelerate the energy transition.

Lockton

Lockton is the world’s largest privately held insurance brokerage, providing risk management, employee benefits, and transactional risk solutions to clients across the globe. Our market-leading Tax Insurance practice helps clients protect the value of complex tax positions and transferable tax credits, providing certainty for investors, lenders, developers, and credit buyers. In the carbon capture sector, Lockton’s tax insurance solutions can insure Section 45Q Carbon Capture and Sequestration Tax Credits, which are generated by qualifying carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) projects. By transferring tax-related risks to highly rated insurers, Lockton helps clients preserve credit value, enhance financing certainty, and unlock investment in clean energy projects

ION Clean Energy

Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, ION Clean Energy has developed a transformative carbon capture technology that is particularly effective in capturing CO2 emissions from natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) flue gas streams.

ION’s solution captures between 95% to over 99% of CO2 emissions with fast kinetics and low energy use, is exceptionally resistant to oxidative degradation and remarkably stable, and has extremely low emissions.

ION has over 20,000 hours of successful performance testing at the National Carbon Capture Center in Alabama and Technology Centre Mongstad in Norway, the world’s largest and most advanced CO2 capture test facility.

ION is the carbon capture technology featured at Calpine’s Sutter Decarbonization Project, a full-scale carbon capture demonstration project at its Sutter Energy Center which recently executed a cost share agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED). The Sutter Decarbonization Project is designed to capture 95% of existing carbon dioxide emissions enabling the Sutter Energy Center to produce firm, dispatchable, low-carbon electricity.

ION is also operating its custom-built, 10 TPD Enterprise Pilot Project at Calpine’s Los Medanos Energy Center in Pittsburg, CA. The pilot began operation in September 2023 without delays and has continued to demonstrate extremely impressive results on a low CO2, high O2 NGCC flue gas since commissioning began.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, headquartered in Tokyo, is one of the world's leading industrial firms with nearly 80,000 group employees and annual consolidated revenue of around 35 billion U.S. dollars.

Spanning energy, smart infrastructure, industrial machinery, aerospace and defense, MHI Group combines cutting-edge technology with deep experience to deliver innovative, integrated solutions that help to realize a carbon neutral world, improve the quality of life and ensure a safer world.

Drawing on more than three decades of carbon capture experience and 18 plants delivered worldwide using its KM CDR Process™, MHI Group is helping advance the CO₂ value chain, from capture through transportation, utilization and storage.

Coastal Bend LNG

Coastal Bend LNG is a privately held energy infrastructure development company dedicated to delivering low-carbon energy to the world. With a focus on sustainability, innovation, and operational excellence, the company is at the forefront of unleashing American energy dominance.

Tracerco

Tracerco’s carbon capture and storage team provides industry-leading diagnostics that help operators gain critical visibility into subsurface CO₂ movement, containment integrity, and storage performance. Using our advanced tracer technologies and decades of reservoir expertise, we help ensure safe, verifiable, and efficient long-term CO₂ storage. 

Whether you’re in the planning phase or active injection, Tracerco delivers actionable data. Our insights give you the confidence to manage complex CO₂ injection and storage projects with transparency, precision, and accountability. We help our customers meet both their operational and environmental goals.

Rose Subsurface Assessment

Since the year 2000, Rose has specialized in E&P Risk Analysis, teaching, and implementing consistent evaluation procedures. We maintain the tradition of systematic, objective prospect and play evaluation, calibrated against real results. Our practice is known for its technical excellence, responsive service, and a legacy of influential professionals.

Find out more in the brochure linked in the Files section.

Bracewell LLP

Industry-Focused Legal and Advocacy Strategies

Bracewell LLP is a leading law firm that is known worldwide for its unique depth and experience in the energy, infrastructure, finance and technology sectors. To complement our sector-focused excellence, we boast an impressive and diversified array of market-leading substantive practices, including award-winning transactional, litigation, regulatory and government relations practices. This robust mix of sector and practice strengths has allowed us to be a firm of choice for many of the world’s largest and most successful corporate enterprises, financial institutions, private funds and governmental entities.

 

Firm of Choice for CCUS Projects and Transactions

Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) are poised to play a central role in the energy transition, with businesses and governmental entities throughout the world announcing aggressive plans for net zero emissions that include the use of CCUS technology.

Bracewell is at the vanguard of policy, regulatory and other legal developments related to CCUS projects and transactions. With one of the world’s largest cross- disciplinary energy teams, we have an unparalleled understanding of the vast business issues facing emitters, developers of carbon capture facilities, CO2 pipeline companies, CO2 storage providers, oil and gas companies utilizing CO2 for enhanced oil and gas recovery and tax equity investors. 

We represent stakeholders in the manufacturing, power, chemical, bio-fuels and oil and gas industries in their efforts to transition to less carbon-intensive operations.

Our global team includes lawyers with broad experience in the midstream and upstream oil and gas sectors, as well as in renewable and conventional power. This experience complements the firm’s strengths in project development and finance, corporate transactions, environmental strategies, land rights, energy regulation, transactional tax and tax policy.

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.

Endress+Hauser

Endress+Hauser, a global leader in measurement and automation technologies for process and laboratory applications, is a family-owned company with a broad portfolio of services, solutions and instrumentation. Endress+Hauser serves customers in the chemical, food and beverage, life sciences, power and energy, oil and gas, water, wastewater and waste and mining, minerals and metals industries. The company’s products provide valuable data and insights into processes along with supporting process optimization, efficiency and safety for people and the environment. Today, Endress+Hauser has more than 9,400 patents and patent applications. 

Endress+Hauser plays a critical role across the CCUS value chain, providing measurement and instrumentation solutions that enable accurate, safe and reliable CO₂ capture, transportation, custody transfer and permanent storage. Our experience across multiple CCUS projects globally gives us a practical perspective on the measurement challenges and opportunities shaping the industry.

Halliburton

Halliburton is one of the world’s leading providers of products and services to the energy industry. We apply 100 years of world-class energy industry expertise, resources, and versatile capabilities to collaborate and help engineer the best solutions for complex carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) and hydrogen storage and transportation projects. Through active collaboration with our customers, we provide end-to-end solutions that help reduce risk and maximize asset value, from planning and site evaluation through construction and long-term monitoring.

Find out more in the brochure linked in the Files section.