People, Partners, Project Funding, and Advisory Committee

Principal Investigators, University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Susan D. Hovorka, Dr. Timothy Meckel, Ramón H. Treviño

GCCC, the project leaders, have been working in carbon capture and storage (CCS) for 19 years and conducted the first assessment of large-volume offshore storage resources in the GoM in 2008.

Using insight gained over the last 19 years of GCCC’s CCS research, GoMCarb will apply the capacity and retention research to the entire Gulf of Mexico and applying it to sub-seafloor storage.

The partnership includes an Advisory Committee with international experts in offshore storage, business leaders that have expressed interest, and key participants such as state and federal stakeholders, regulators, advisors and land owners. The Advisory Committee will help guide Partnership  activities to assure that current best practices are used, that technical approaches are well-adapted to the region, and that appropriate communication strategies add value to project outcomes.

Tim Dixon / Advisory Committee Chair
IEA GHG R&D development program

Melissa Batum
BOEM

Thomas Berly
IEA

Doug Connelly
National Oceanography Centre, U.K.

Zhou Di
South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Robert Finley
FinleyGeology
Illinois Geological Survey (retired)

Heron Gachuz
PEMEX

Stuart Haszeldine
Scottish CCS Centre, University of Edinburgh

Robert Hatter
Texas General Land Office

Bruce Hill
Clear Air Task Force

Nick Hoffman
CO2 GeoNET

Anastasia Ilgen
Sandia National Laboratories

Noel Kamrajh
South African National Energy Development Institute

Jun Kita
Marine Ecology Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan

Jazmin Mota Nieto
Secretaría de Energia (SENER)

Kari-Lise Rørvik
Gassnova

Gary Teletzke
Exxon-Mobil

Owain Tucker
Shell

Christopher Walker
BP

Ziqiu Xue
RITE, University of Kyoto

---

Last Updated: August 25, 2023