A seasoned leader in carbon capture and sequestration, I've spearheaded pivotal projects at Air Products and Chemicals Inc., enhancing global Blue Hydrogen initiatives through innovative geologic sequestration. My expertise in reservoir engineering and strategic advisory roles, combined with a talent for fostering multi-disciplinary collaborations, has significantly advanced CCUS technologies and financing.
• Established the Air Products Sub Surface Team under the Air Products Technology Organization, now a high performing, multi-disciplined team developing mega-scale geologic sequestration in support of Air Products global Blue Hydrogen initiatives.
• Explored for and identified three geologic structures in the GOM leading to the first lease for pore-space by issued by the Louisiana Department of Energy and Natural Resources in fall of 2021.
• Conceived the well architecture, infrastructure concept and provide technical direction of the $600M-10Mtpa Louisiana Clean Energy Complex sequestration site, currently under development
• Teamed with Baker Hughes on the Saudi Aramco Jubail Industrial Gases hub decarbonization program in 2021-2022.
• Providing technical oversite for sequestration, pipeline and compression on the development of the Porthos project, 60 km offshore Rotterdam, along with partners Shell, EOM and Air Liquid
• Collaborating with Wolf Midstream and Whitecap Resources in developing the Blue H2 hub near Fort Saskatchewan in Northern Alberta
• Collaborating with Baker Hughes and UzbekNefteGaz (UNG) to determine the viability of developing sequestration for a CTL Gasification plant in central Uzbekestan.
• Oversite of the development and execution of the first environmental risk assessment at the request of the Air Products Executive Risk Council.
• US EPA Class VI, California Air Resource Board Permanence Protocol and ISO 265 – Carbon Dioxide Storage Standards expertise.
• Energy and Environmental Research Center as Principle CCUS Strategist
• Subject Matter Expert for CCS technology for several law firms, private equity investors and tax equity investors
• Notable projects include Minnkota Power- Project Tundra, Basin Electric and Un. of WY Dry Fork CarbonSAFE, Red Trail Energy CCS, Blue Flint CCS and Summit Carbon Solutions Storage.
• Submitted first Class VI permit application in EPA Region 9 for Chevron/SLB/Clean Energy Systems Bio-gasification with CCS Mendota Project in California Central Basin
• Worked with SLB Executive VP Ashok Bilani as SME for sequestration in the creation of the Schlumberger New Energy Division
• Notable projects include, ICF Synthetic Fuels Project (8MT) - Illinois Clean Fuels, Matoon, IL.; Lake Charles Methanol (4MT) – Lake Charles, LA; Project Pouakai (3MT) – 8 Rivers, New Zealand; Project Tundra – Minnkota Power (2 MT), Bismark, ND; DOE Brine Extraction Test projects in North Dakota and Pensacola, FL; Carbon America Adena CO2 EOR
• Elevated to Business Manager of SLB Carbon Services in 2016, completely reshaping the team and business model culminating in the first profitable year (2017) since it's inception in 2005.
• Editor of National Petroleum Council, “Meeting the Dual Challenge – A Roadmap to At-Scale Deployment of Carbon Capture and Storage”, Chapter 6-section 3 “Enabling At-scale deployment”
• Drilling Manager for FutureGen 2.0 Monitoring Well and Injection Well Drilling and Construction Project. Illinois Basin, IL. Managing contracting, union negotiations, cost development for well drilling and completions, scheduling and project management of an eleven well drilling program. Managed plug and abandonment operations on characterization well. Project currently suspended pending government action.
• Project Manager for Rocky Mountain CCS Project Craig, CO. Managed all field activities for the RMCCS Site Characterization project including: well construction, coring and logging a 10,000’ stratigraphic well and conducting a 2D surface seismic survey. This project was within the Trapper Mine posing significant contractual, safety and regulatory complexities.
• BSCSP Phase III – Kevin Dome Project, Shelby, MT, USA. Managing field operations for coring, logging, well instrumentation, completions, geologic modeling, risk assessment, site safety, Underground Injection Control (UIC) permitting and field operation coordination.
• SWP/Chaparral Energy Phase III – Farnsworth Project, Perryton, TX, USA. Managing field operations for 4D surface seismic survey, 4D Vertical Seismic Profiles, time-lapse cross-well tomography, passive seismic deployment, real-time field data acquisition and transmission, coring, open hole and cased hole logging, well instrumentation, well completions, geologic modeling, risk assessment, site safety, and field operation coordination.
• PCOR/Denbury Resources Phase III – Bell Creek Project. Managing field operations for 4D pulsed-neutron logging program.
• Other projects including the WESTCARB Kimberlina Risk Assessment, WESTCARB King Island Phase II project, BSCSP Wallula Phase II project, C12 Halliday Project, CO2 Energy Storage LTD/Basin Electric CO2 Energy Storage Project, Chicago Clean Energy Calumet River SNL Plant Storage Project, Australian-American Energy Many Stars CTL Project.
• Williston Basin Consortium project to develop horizontal well stimulation best practices for the Bakken Shale with Amerada Hess, ConocoPhillips, Continental Resources and others. Technology included down-hole and real-time micro-seismic monitoring and novel lateral multi-stage techniques, completion fluids, and proppants.
• Anadarko Resources Natural Buttes Project in NE Utah to develop economically optimized completion technology for multi-stage CO2 hydraulic fracturing and field development.
• EnCana Oil and Gas multi-well/multi-stage pad well completion project in NW Colorado using real-time micro-seismic monitoring for real-time hydraulic fracturing manipulation for production optimization.
• Warro Field Exploration Project, Perth, Australia. Geologic modeling, reservoir engineering, economic evaluation, completion design, reserves estimation and investor relations. Our team’s engineering designs, production forecasting and reserve predictions and investor support directly led to sale of prospect to Alcoa Corp. The field is now confirmed to be one of the largest undeveloped onshore gas fields in Australia with total gas in place of 8-10TCF confirmed by recent studies.
• Las Lajas tight gas completion design and optimization project with Repsol-YPF, Neuquen, Argentina.
• Jonah completion design, evaluation, execution and field optimization, with BP, Amoco Production Company, EnCana Oil and Gas and Ultra Petroleum. Pinedale, WY.
• Jonah Gas Field and Pinedale Anticline multi-layer tight gas completion design, evaluation, execution and field optimization, Questar and Ultra Petroleum. Pinedale, WY
• San Juan Basin Coal-Bed Methane resource development with ConocoPhillips, XTO Operating Corporation and Amoco Production Company, Farmington, NM and Durango, CO.
• Venneco Platform Grace Monterey Shale, Santa Clara Field production evaluation, reservoir assessment and re-completion project. Santa Barbara, CA, USA
• KCS Mountain Resources - Production Enhancement Enhanced Oil Recovery Project, Manderson Field, Washakie County, WY, USA
• Co-developer of a Non-provisional patent for metering and monitoring CO2 injection into discrete reservoir units across multiple injection wells
• Plains CO2 Reduction Partnership (PCOR) 2016 Pioneer Award recipient
• Latest in Geologic Storage. The 11th Annual EOR Carbon Management Workshop – Midland, TX December 11, 2013
• The “Toolbag”: Logging Methods Utilized in CO2 Flood Surveillance. CO2 Conference Short Course: “Surveillance and Monitoring of CO2 Injection Projects” – Midland, TX December 11, 2013
• Keynote Speech: EOR, Carbon Sequestration and the Impact of the EPA Class VI Regulations. 2013 New Technology Seminar – Denver, Colorado. October 23, 2013
• Geologic Carbon Storage Webinar. 90-minute webcast produced and broadcast by EUCI. September 10, 2013
• Carbon Capture and Storage. 2012 Association of Independent Petroleum Geologists and New Horizons in Oil & Gas Conference – Rapid City, SD. September 24th, 2012
• The Role of Risk Assessment in Designing MVA programs. Carbon Tech Alliance CCS 101 Course. Richland, WA. June 14, 2011
• T. A. Harting, J. Dahlem, W. Rowe, J. Villalobos, J. Lassek, “Application of Novel Fiber Based Fracturing Fluid with Various Proppants in Jonah Field, SW Wyoming”. SPE 103084. June 27, 2006
• D.W. Sobernheim, A.M. Aly, S.A. Denoo, W.S. Rowe, S.D. Sturm, D.J. White, 2003. "An Integrated Technique to Optimize the Completions in Low Permeability Gas Reservoirs While Improving Efficiency and Productivity." SPE 84171-MS.
• J.H. Heidt, T.A. Harding, M. D. Glover, W. Rowe, K.A. Adegbola, L.R. Rucker, 2003. “Completion Optimization in the Wamsutter Field, SW Wyoming. SPE 84212
• Kordziel, Walter R., Dowell; Rowe, Wayne, Dolan, V.B., Ritger, Scott D., 1996. "A Case Study of Integrating Well-Logs and a Pseudo 3D Multi-Layer Frac Model to Optimize Exploitation of Tight Lenticular Gas Sands." SPE 1996
• U.S. Patent. "Method of Performing Wireline Perforating and Pressure Measurement Using a Pressure Measurement Assembly Disconnected from Perforator". United States Patent 4,971,153. November 20, 1990.