CCUS 2026 Technical Program Committee
Dedicated experts and leaders guiding the technical excellence, strategic direction, and successful delivery of the CCUS 2026 event.
Co-Chairs
Scott Singleton
Consultant
David Riestenberg
Advanced Resources International, Inc.
Caroline Wachtman
Oxy
Committee Members
Aaditya Khanal
The University of Tulsa
Ali Tura
Colorado School of Mines
Amanda Ardill
Shell
Ariel Bennett
PGICCUS Consulting
Babak Shafei
AquaNRG
Bo Ren
Aramco
Camelia Knapp
Oklahoma State University
Daisy Ning
Colorado School of Mines
Damilola Ogunlana
SLB
David Hume
University of Houston
Eleine Vence
ConocoPhillips
Elshalom Omokpariola
Halliburton Energy Services
Erkan Ay
Rice University
Fabio Bordeaux Rego
Oxy
Friso Veenstra
TNO – Geological Survey of the Netherlands
Gabriel Casanova
Advanced Resources International
Gregor Baechle
Aramco
Heather Quevedo
Halliburton
Jenny Joyce
ExxonMobil
Joel Le Calvez
SLB
Jorge Barrios Rivas
Stratum Reservoir
Katerina Yared
3M
Khawaja Hasnain Iltaf
Veolia
Luis Paz
Advisor – Well Engineering – Baker Hughes
Manoj Valluri
ARI
Martin Ma
Singapore Institute of Technology and New Mexico Tech
Matt Flannery
Stratum Reservoir
Matthias Imhof
4111Spyglass Consulting
Melissa Northcott
Haas and Cobb Petroleum Consultants
Michel Verliac
TotalEnergies
Mohamed Mehana
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Nihal Darraj
Imperial College London
Nimisha Vedanti
CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute
Oumer Tahir
Hunting Energy Services
Patricia Montoya
ExxonMobil
Rita Okoroafor
Texas A&M University
Ross Harrison
Sahar Bakhshian
Rice University
Sara Minisini
Shell
Seyyed Hosseini
The University of Texas at Austin
Shuvajit Bhattacharya
Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin
Stephanie Nwoko
Gulf Coast Sequestration LLC
Yi Shen
China University of Petroleum (East China)