CCS Training Course (Sheffield, 22-23 October 2025)

On Wednesday 22nd – Thursday 23rd October 2025, we ran another CCS Training Course, bringing together leading experts in CCS to provide both a high-level overview of the CCS chain and deep-dive parallel sessions into specific topics.  The venue was INOX at the University of Sheffield.

The course was targeted at the UK government (Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), devolved governments and other government departments), regulators, industry and others new to CCS, who wanted to increase their knowledge and understanding of CCS.

The UKCCSRC is a member of the CPD Certification Service and this course will be submitted for CPD certification. The agenda is below.

Bookings closed 1pm, Tuesday 7th October.

Agenda (subject to change)

Day 1 – Wednesday 22nd October 2025

Jon Gibbins, University of Sheffield and UKCCSRC

Jon Gibbins is Professor of CCS at the University of Sheffield and director of the UK CCS Research Community Network+.  He has worked on energy engineering, fuel conversion and CCS for 45 years, initially in industry and then as a university academic.  Since 2002 Jon has been heavily involved in CCS activities, working on post-combustion capture and its effective integration and, through the UKCCSRC, helping to start now-mainstream UK initiatives on industrial decarbonisation (2012) and CCS clusters (2016). His personal research activities now centre around practical aspects of CCS deployment, with an emphasis on policy and economic requirements plus detailed analysis of matching capture plant designs to market conditions, supported in particular by the facilities at the Translational Energy Research Centre in Sheffield.  He is active in reviewing Best Available Technology (BAT) status for CO₂ capture technologies and is also a Vice Chair of the UNECE Group of Experts on Cleaner Electricity Systems, specialising in CCS.

Stephen Glenville, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Stephen is a Senior Policy Advisor in the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero, part of the UK Government. For the last 3 years, Stephen has worked on the policy design of the Dispatchable Power Agreement, the commercial framework to support investment and deployment of the natural gas fired power stations equipped with CCS. Stephen is working on the Track 1 Power CCUS project, seeking to bring forward construction and operation of the worlds first commercial scale Power CCUS facility by the late 2020’s. Stephen has also been involved in the development of the CO2 Transport & Storage Network Code. Prior to joining the Department, Stephen was a pollution inspector for the Environment Agency for twelve years, regulating large combustion and waste incineration plant in Yorkshire, including Drax Power Station and Triton Power CCGTs, latterly working on the regulation of capture solvent emissions.

Clair Gough, University of Manchester

Dr Clair Gough is a Senior Research Fellow at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Manchester, with a focus on CCS and biomass energy with CCS (BECCS). She has extensive experience in energy-related social scientific research, including expert elicitation processes, public attitudes and responses, as well as integrated socio-technical assessments. Clair’s research aims to better understand social, technical and climate implications of CCS, and its role in achieving net zero. Her current research includes analysis of the conditions for establishing a social licence to operate decarbonisation and carbon removal technologies, including CCS and BECCS.

Stuart Haszeldine, UKCCSRC and University of Edinburgh

As Professor for CCS at the University of Edinburgh, Stuart has created the UK’s largest University group examining CO2 storage geology. He has over 40 years research experience in energy, innovating new approaches to oil and gas, radioactive waste, carbon capture and storage, and biochar. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2002 for research on radioactive waste disposal, awarded the Geological Society William Smith Medal in 2011 for work on the geochemistry of oil and gas field reservoir quality, appointed OBE in 2012 for service to climate change technologies, and in 2021 he was appointed Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He is also the Director of SCCS.

Mathieu Lucquiaud, University of Sheffield

Mathieu Lucquiaud is Professor of Clean Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) at the University of Sheffield and Deputy Director of the UKCCSRC. He has 20 years of experience in R&D of post-combustion CO2 capture technologies. He holds MEng in Energy and Environmental Engineering from the National Institute of Applied Science (INSA Lyon, France ) in 2004 and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London, UK in 2010. He joined the University of Sheffield in 2022, after 12 years in the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh where he was a post-doctoral Research Associate (2010), Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow (2012), Senior Lecturer (2016) and Reader (2019).

In 2018, Mathieu launched the first Massive Open Online Course on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) to increase awareness and understanding of the key role of CCS towards climate change mitigation. The course has now been taken by over 35,000 people in over 150 countries.

Richard Marsh, Cardiff University 

Richard Marsh is a Professor specialising in energy systems. His teaching expertise covers thermodynamics, energy studies and energy management at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His main research interests are: Combustion Biomass to energy systems; Fuel injection Gas turbine engineering; Chemical and process engineering; and Waste Management.

Richard graduated from Warwick University in 1999 with a BEng in mechanical engineering and a MRes in advanced engineering, specialising in optical diagnostics for combustion systems. In 1999 he took a position as an engineer with DERA (later privatised to QinetiQ). In 2002 Richard joined Cardiff University as a PhD student in the School of Engineering. Post PhD he worked as a research associate and project manager on a range of energy related projects including gasification and combustion of biomass and waste. Richard took a lectureship in the School of Engineering in 2008 and became involved with the School’s Gas Turbine Research Centre (GTRC).

Daniel Mullen, SSE Thermal

Dr Daniel Mullen is a chartered engineer with over seven years’ experience in the energy industry and a PhD in Post Combustion CCS. He acts as the CCS technology engineer for SSE Thermal, providing technical support to commercial projects to help them deploy post-combustion CCS to their thermal fleet, notably the proposed CCS enabled CCGTs at Peterhead and Keadby. Daniel also leads SSE Thermals engagement in number of R&D projects, many of which are in partnership with the UKCCSRC and is an avid supporter of open research and knowledge sharing in CCS.

Jen Roberts, UKCCSRC and University of Strathclyde

Dr Jen Roberts is the UKCCSRC Deputy Director and ECR Programme Lead, as well as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Strathclyde, and Deputy Director of the cross-faculty Strathclyde Institute for Sustainable Communities (SISC). Jen’s research interlinks technical, social and environmental risks for sustainable transitions at different scales, and with particular focus on CO2 geological storage. To date, Jen has authored over 40 peer-reviewed publications and +1,000 citations, and she is Deputy-Editor-in-Chief for the journal Earth Science, Systems and Society.

Miriam Townshend, Environment Agency

Miriam Townshend has worked for the Environment Agency and predecessor bodies for almost 30 years with the majority of her roles being in permitting. She is currently a Senior Permitting Officer in the Combustion, Energy from Waste and Industrial Decarbonisation team in the Installations regime. She is the national Co-lead for Industrial Decarbonisation for Permitting. In this role, she supports other permitting officers with their applications and pre-applications that include carbon capture, and work with other parts of the Environment Agency to find solutions to issues raised, to develop both internal and external guidance and to support with external training on permitting issues. She is familiar with a range of industrial sectors, and has previously been the Permitting sector lead for landfill and, more recently, for medium combustion plant.

James Watt, WSP

James Watt is Technical Director – Hydrogen in the UK for WSP. He is responsible for hydrogen projects, predominantly production and infrastructure, and supports other sectors. In addition, he supports industrial decarbonisation and CCUS projects, particularly CCUS pipelines and the importance of cluster developments. Prior to joining WSP he was a Process Engineering Manager for Wood plc, as well as a specialist in CCUS. He has been involved in a number of CO2 pipeline and cluster studies including the Teesside Collective, MASDAR and Net Zero Teesside’s network design. James is also a board member of the UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre.

Ben Wetenhall, Newcastle University

Ben Wetenhall is a lecturer at Newcastle University. His research interest is decarbonising industrial processes and energy generation, primarily through transportation by pipeline of carbon dioxide (CO2) for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) schemes and hydrogen for use as an alternate energy source. Examples of previous research topics include material and specification requirements for novel pipelines, the impact of impurities on CO2 pipelines and shipping, pipeline failure frequency and consequence analysis (including developing analytical and CFD CO2 building ingress models), CCS network flexibility, and the effect of injecting cold CO2 on the surrounding rock.