New Energies Committee Luncheon - "Impact of Regional Carbon Partnerships on Commercial CO2 Storage Projects"

"Impact of Regional Carbon Partnerships on Commercial CO₂ Storage Projects"

Speaker: Dr. Robert Balch

Bio: Dr. Robert Balch is the Director of the Petroleum Recovery Research Center located on the campus of New Mexico Tech. As Director, Robert has consistently grown the research portfolio of the organization to now include 29 active projects with a total active research portfolio of $227 million. The Center has a current focus on Sustainability, Carbon Management, and Hydrogen as well as traditional oil and gas upstream and downstream projects and has worked with companies across the US and the world. Robert has served for 6 years on the ISO TC265 world standard for geologic storage of carbon oxides, as a representative for ANSI, serves on the Reservoir Advisory Board for the Society of Petroleum Engineers, and held an appointment as an Oil Conservation Commissioners for the State of New Mexico between June of 2011 and 2018, the commission serves as the top regulator for the oil and gas industry in New Mexico. Robert is active in Class VI and MRV permitting and is involved with multiple permits in this space including early MRV approvals for Lucid Energy Group and Capture Point LLC. Dr. Balch holds a PhD in Geophysics from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.