Carbon capture and storage - Biographies

David Bone - CEO - Ocean Resource Ltd

David Bone has worked in the offshore industry for over 30 years having been involved at high level in a wide range of ground-breaking projects. He has been responsible for developing many highly innovative solutions to Marginal or Remote Field Oil and Gas Production. In particular David invented and developed the autonomous production buoy concept for remote autonomous production which is creating great interest in the offshore oil industry at this time.

In addition to his innovations in the oil industry David and his companies Ocean Resource and Xanthus Energy have been working at the forefront of new technologies in Offshore Wind, Offshore Wave Power and Carbon Sequestration.

Mike Claydon - Project Manager - Ayrshire Power Ltd

Mike Claydon is Project Manager for Peel Energy’s Ayrshire Power project at Hunterston in North Ayrshire, Scotland having joined them in February 2010 to lead the submission of the related application for consent to construct this multi fuel power station with demonstration scale Carbon Capture and Storage capability, and to associated communications and funding activities. Prior to joining Peel, Mike’s career has taken him through progressively more senior roles in continuous process manufacturing businesses up to and including that of Managing Director and has included the successful delivery of some major capital projects. For the last few years Mike has been involved in taking a number of significant projects through the planning process and subsequently to financial close.

Professor Stuart Haszeldine - University of Edinburgh

Stuart Haszeldine is the world’s first Professor of Carbon Capture and Storage; funded by ScottishPower at the University of Edinburgh. His research examines the full-chain of carbon capture and storage, in the context of changing climate, energy generation, and use. He co-leads SCCS, the UK's largest university research group for CO2 storage (at Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt and British Geological Survey at Edinburgh) www.sccs.org.uk/, examining the whole chain from capture to storage and public understanding. He is currently (2010-) a member of the DECC Science Advisory Group reporting to the Chief Scientist and the DECC CCS Development Forum. He also provides advice to UK and Scottish Government Ministers, as well as comment to science and public media.

Matthew Healey - Staff Consultant - MSI Kenny

Matthew Healey has 12 years experience modelling pipeline systems in the oil and gas industry. Matthew's expertise relates to multiphase flow assurance modelling of hydrocarbon systems from well to end user. As the oil industry has moved towards carbon capture and storage to reduce CO2 emissions, and mitigate the environmental cost of hydrocarbon production, Matthew has been at the forefront of efforts to adapt flow assurance technology for non-hydrocarbon applications.

Hamish Holt - Principal Consultant - DNV

Hamish is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with just under 25 years experience working in various fields within the energy industries. For the last 18 years he has delivered consulting services in safety risk management with particular focus on the effective management of major accident hazards. Since 2001 he has been a Principal Consultant with DNV in Aberdeen.

Hamish has been responsible for the development of a wide range of risk assessments including those for offshore production platforms, mobile drilling rigs, pipeline laying operations, ship operations, power stations and refineries. He has considerable experience assisting companies gain and maintain legislative compliance within the UK’s major accident hazard legislation (e.g. OSCR, PFEER, COMAH, PSR, etc.).

Hamish has been heavily involved in the emerging CCS industry since 2006. He has helped deliver two CO2 research projects with BP and Shell, both involved large releases of dense phase CO2 at the Spadeadam test site.

Hamish is active within the CCS market place helping to shape and promote an appropriate and effective approach to major accident hazard management. He has provided significant input into a number of industry guidance documents and DNV Recommended Practices. He is currently project manager for Work Package 1 of DNV’s CO2PIPETRANS Phase 2 JIP which will deliver a number of large scale dense phase CO2 release programmes for the capture of data for release model development and validation.

Hamish is also in the process of launching the CORISKMAN JIP which will develop industry guidance for the effective management of CO2 major accident risks within the CCS industry.

Pernille Holtedahl - Principal Consultant, Cleaner Energy and Utilities UK - Det Norske Veritas Ltd

Pernille Holtedahl is a PhD economist with 15 years of project and policy experience in energy and climate change. She has an international background that includes working for financial institutions, government, consulting, and academia. In DNV, Pernille works on CCS projects as well as offshore wind, focusing in particualr on econmic and regulatory issues.

Nick O'Neill - Director - SLR Consulting Ireland

Nick O’Neill is a senior manager in the international energy sector, a trained petroleum geologist with 25 years experience of strategic energy exploration and management in Europe, Middle East, Africa, South America. Educated in Ireland, he has acquired energy experience worldwide in a variety of economic settings, for international oil companies with differing acquisition strategies. His current research interests are offshore methane gas hydrates, geothermal evaluation strategies in Ireland and CO2 sequestration. Nick has contributed to a number of strategic reports for the Irish Government on energy policy including geothermal energy, strategic gas storage, CO2 sequestration and has contributed as a stakeholder to the development of the soon to be completed new Geothermal Energy Bill and reviewed its expected impact on the geothermal sector. He has also been involved in developing assessment protocols for the geothermal sector in Nova Scotia. He is responsible within SLR Ireland for generating new business in the Energy sector with particular focus on renewable energies including geothermal energy. Nick has developed applications of oil and gas exploration and resource risk evaluation risk strategies for the geothermal sector.

Jane Paxman - Policy and Communications Director - 2Co Energy Limited

Jane has been the Policy and Communications Director at 2Co Energy since the company was set up a little less than a year ago. 2Co is a UK based company committed to delivering substantial CO2 emissions reductions on Carbon Capture and Storage projects. Key to the company’s strategy is to inject the CO2 into oil fields for Enhanced Oil Recovery and permanent storage of the CO2. Immediately prior to this, Jane led the CCS programme at the UK based NGO, The Climate Group, with a particular focus on private sector investment in CCS. Prior to that she spent four years as policy and communications manager for BP’s CCS business, and latterly for the Hydrogen Energy joint venture it formed with Rio Tinto. She managed the advocacy work for the government policy needed to both provide incentives, and the regulatory environment, for CCS; as well as the communications activities for projects in the UK, Australia, USA, Abu Dhabi and Canada.

She spent most of the previous decade in a number of overseas political affairs posts – on secondment from BP to the UK Foreign Office as the Environmental Attache at the British Embassy in Washington D.C., with BP in both New York and in Brussels working at the oil industry’s refining and marketing association.

Earlier in her career Jane worked in a number roles for BP’s exploration and production business in the UK (London and Aberdeen) and USA (Cleveland, Ohio) as a business and government and public affairs analyst focusing on competitor analysis and environmental and fiscal issues.

Jane has a geography degree from Oxford and spent a couple of years as a civil servant before joining BP.

Mark Raistrick - Geologist - Senergy

Mark Raistrick is a geologist and recognised expert in CO2 storage monitoring and geochemistry. His background includes hands-on experience of operational CO2 injection, completing his PhD on the Weyburn oilfield in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Since joining Senergy in 2007, Mark has assisted clients in overcoming subsurface technical challenges, with regulatory development, investment decision making and the clean development mechanism. In addition to being the technical lead for National Grid’s Southern North Sea CO2 storage prospecting, Mark leads the risk assessment work package of the Energy Technology Institute’s UK-wide CO2 storage project.

David Rennie - Scottish Enterprise

David Rennie has been Director, Oil and Gas/Thermal Generation and Carbon Capture and Storage since April 2010. He initially joined on secondment from the Scottish Government where he held the post of team leader for Oil and Gas and CCS. He has been involved in the setting up of the Oil and Gas Industry Advisory Board, which advises Scottish Enterprise on key priorities from an industry perspective, as well as being the main author of the joint Scottish Government and Scottish Enterprise CCS roadmap. He has also been involved in the development of a number of CCS research and policy projects. He is also currently leading on work to bring the oil and gas and offshore wind sectors together to discuss issues around collaboration and working more closely together to maximise the opportunities that will arise from the development of offshore wind. He is also currently undertaking a refresh of the Scottish Enterprise Oil and Gas Strategy.

Prior to his last post in the Scottish Government, David worked in a number of areas in that organisation including in the Strategy Unit and a number of economist posts. His initial career was as an economist and he worked in that field for the Welsh Development Agency and Highlands and Islands Enterprise, as well as for a small private sector economic consultancy firm.

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