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Richard Hinkley
Richard J. Hinkley is currently Vice President Northern Australia and Timor-Leste Energy Solutions, responsible for all operational and commercial activities associated with midstream assets, late life upstream assets, and carbon capture and storage in North Australia and Timor-Leste. This includes Bayu-Undan, Darwin LNG plant, Bayu-Undan carbon capture and storage, Darwin LNG life extension, and clean fuels project maturation. His portfolio also includes Devil Creek, and the Reindeer carbon capture and storage project in Western Australia.
Richard joined Santos in early 2022 after a 25-year career in Chevron Corporation and is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Dr. Paul Feron
Dr Paul Feron is a CO2-capture science leader in CSIRO Energy in Australia. He has contributed extensively to the development and conduct of large multi-party, multinational CCS R&D programs in Europe, Australia and China and was a lead author for the IPCC Special Report on CCS. He co-authored more than 150 publications, is co-inventor on 16 patent applications and edited the first monograph on post-combustion CO2 capture (Absorption-Based Post-Combustion Capture of Carbon Dioxide – Woodhead Publishing). Dr Feron is a member of the Australian mirror committee for ISO TC265, which is developing standards for CO2 capture and storage (CCS). He also is a member of the IEAGHG Executive Committee representing the Australian consortium. His current interests are in the realisation of concepts for integrated CO2-capture and utilisation in industry and Direct Air Capture.
Mousa Namavar
With a track record of more than 2 decades in the energy sector, Mousa has held diverse management roles in subsurface, drilling and project management across 4 continents, contributing to both the Petroleum and Geothermal industries. The last 10 years has been in Business and Strategy management in Asia and Pacific region. Currently based in Perth, Mousa is at the forefront of the Carbon Capture and Storage business, driving industrial decarbonization efforts across the Asia-Pacific.
Katarina Van Der Haar
In her role as CCS Engagement Lead, Katarina leads client and project integration of the entire CCS value chain across emitters, transport and storage. She is a study manager for strategic CCS projects and is working with industry to provide tangible tactical energy transition solutions. With a background in petroleum engineering, Katarina has been involved in providing technical and economic assessments for oil and gas and LNG assets for due diligence and auditing purposes, the interpretation of CCS subsurface certification guidelines, the optimization of life-cycle field development plans for a large-scale LNG plant, developed a new way for production prediction for multi-layer tight gas reservoirs, optimized field development plans for underbalanced drilling operations, and in drilling operations.
She holds a Bachelor of Petroleum Engineering with First Class Honours, a Bachelor of Science in Geology and Geophysics and a Bachelor of International Studies in Arabic and International Relations. Katarina has authored journals and spoken at several key technical and commercial conferences and is on the Board of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the Energy Club in Perth, Western Australia.
Antonio Dimabuyu
Antonio is an Executive Director at S&P Global Commodity Insights with over 20 years' experience in the upstream energy industry. Currently he leads the Asia Pacific upstream research team working on E&P subsurface data, upstream valuation and market intelligence at S&P Global. He is also an expert in subsurface research for CCUS projects. Antonio started as an asset geologist for Chevron, working on geothermal exploration and development in the Philippines and Indonesia. He joined IHS Markit (now a part of S&P Global) in 2007, initially handling basin research prior to moving to a management role. He has been involved in various research, thought leadership and advisory projects covering Asia Pacific upstream and CCUS. Antonio holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from the University the Philippines. He is an active member of the South East Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX) and Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA).
Kara Peach
Kara is the manager of the offshore CCS team within the Offshore Resources Branch at DISER. Part of her remit includes the management of the acreage process for greenhouse gas assessment permits, as well as developing policy advice and guidance to industry for the management and administration of the regulatory regime for offshore CCS projects.
Rosie Johnstone
Rosie is a technical authority on CCS in Australia, engaging with federal and state government regulators, research institutions, local communities and emitters.
Rosie has 25+ years’ experience in both oil and gas exploration and carbon capture and storage (CCS) across Australia, the Asia-Pacific region and the UK. Rosie was Shell Australia’s focal point for CCS sink identification in the Australia/Asia-Pacific region, from high-level screening to injection site planning in the Petrel Sub-Basin. She joined GeoVault as Head of CCS Solutions in 2021 where she is now identifying and developing onshore CCS opportunities.
Rosie has BSc (Hons) Geology from the University of Liverpool, UK where she studied sedimentology under Professor Trevor Elliot and is the Interim Chair of the Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage Network of Australia (CCUSNA) which formed in 2023.
Brad Lingo
Mr. Lingo has extensive experience in formulating and implementing growth strategies to create and maximize value across the energy value chain– from the energy resource through to the point of energy utilization. Throughout his 40-year career, Mr. Lingo has held a number of Board, C-Suite and senior executive roles namely at Drillsearch, Commonwealth Bank, Sunshine Gas and Epic Energy – focusing on delivery of cost competitive energy solutions aimed at growing and delivering shareholder value. In 2014, Mr. Lingo received industry recognition including winning the SMH/East Coles S&P/ASX 200 Energy Best CEO.
Mark Trupp
Mark Trupp is an independent consultant specialising on CO2 storage. He is currently consulting to Mitsui EP Australia. Prior to consultancy, he was a corporate CO2 storage SME for Chevron. That followed 12 years as the Gorgon CO2 Subsurface Team Leader. During those 12 years the 4 Mtpa Gorgon CO2 injection project matured from pre-FID project design and costing through to CO2 injection operations. He was responsible for the subsurface development plan including well count and locations, then drilling and completion operations, the monitoring and verification plans, subsurface approvals, risk assessments, preparations for operations and managing early operational activities.
Mark has 34+ years of experience with Shell, Woodside, Chevron, Buru Energy and Mitsui. He has been an exploration and development geologist and has led a number of multi-disciplinary subsurface teams. He was a member of the OGCI storage working group and was also Chevron’s representative on the CO2CRC programme advisory committee for more than 10 years. He has co-authored several conference papers on CO2 storage.
Daein Cha
With over 25 years of energy and resources industries experience and through senior roles for international business development, major capital project management, and commodity sales and trading at Tokyo Gas and Chevron, Daein brings extensive expertise, experience and network to originate and develop multi-billion dollars industrial projects.
Daein is currently the Managing Director of deepC Store, a commercial scale CCS project developer headquartered in Perth WA. He is also serves as Senior Project Manager for the Future Energy Exports Cooperative Research Center, an Australian Commonwealth, WA State, and industry funded R&D organisation striving to decarbonise LNG exports and grow clean hydrogen production for Australia.
Daein received his Bachelor’s degree in management from the International Christian University (Japan), Master’s degree from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business (USA), and qualification as Certified Cost Professional of AACE International. Daein is also a certified member of the Association of International Energy Negotiators and the Society of Decision Professionals.
Dr. Andrew Feitz
Dr Andrew Feitz is Director of Low Carbon Geoscience and Advice at Geoscience Australia. He holds a Bachelor of Environmental Engineering (Hons) from the University of Queensland and PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Andrew worked as a senior researcher in air and water treatment technologies at UNSW before undertaking further research at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany). Andrew joined Geoscience Australia in 2008 where he led development of a research program (2009-2015) to investigate monitoring approaches for geological storage of CO2.
Andrew led a large multi-institutional team through the conceptualisation, site characterisation and modelling components of the CO2CRC Otway Shallow Fault project (2016-2022) and was advisor on the recently completed experiment. He leads Geoscience Australia’s technical advice to federal and state policy agencies on hydrogen and geological storage of CO2 and his recent professional service includes Advisory Group member for the National Hydrogen Strategy Review (2024). He has published over 50 journal papers, 2 patents, over 100 conference papers, and is the recipient of several prizes and awards, including most recently the 2023 Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Sustainability (Economic Fairways Mapper Team).