UKCCSRC Conference 2026 (Sheffield, 24-25th June 2026)

Our 2026 Conference took place on 24-25th June, at The Edge, University of Sheffield.

Over the two days, we had plenaries giving the most up-to-date overviews of Capture, Transport, Storage, and People, Place & Policy, as well as what’s next for CCS/UKCCSRC.  No matter what area of CCS you work in, it is always invaluable to understand the whole chain – helping connections to be made and synergies to be seen!

There were also be lots of opportunities for networking and conversation, including a poster reception and hot buffet dinner on the Wednesday evening.

Registrations closed on 9th June 2026.

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Agenda

Day 1 – Wednesday 24th June 2026

Sandra Bogelein, Climate Change Committee

Sandra completed a PhD in Environmental Psychology focused on the social dilemma of climate change mitigation and has worked on research projects exploring environmental behaviour and low-carbon consumer choices. In 2021, she joined the civil service as a Government Social Researcher. At the CCC, Sandra leads on public engagement with Net Zero and adaptation, household low-carbon choices, and the role of local authorities in mitigation and adaptation.

Diarmaid Clery, University of Manchester

Diarmaid is a Lecturer in Engineering for Net Zero at the University of Manchester. His background is in engineering, having worked as an engineer in the energy industry and having published academic work on technical aspects of Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) and greenhouse gas removal (GGR). He now works with stakeholders and communities in the UK’s industrial clusters to assess the factors influencing the social licence to operate for industrial decarbonisation.

Zeynep Clulow, University of Cambridge

Zeynep is a Research Associate at the Energy Policy Research Group at Cambridge Judge Business School and Supervisor at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Zeynep’s research explores stakeholder attitudes towards energy technologies, particularly negative emission technologies and practices (NETPs) and broader socio-political challenges to energy transition. She is the sole author of a policy brief for Education International about the detrimental effects of fossil fuel subsidies on educational performance and is currently exploring their wider implications for other aspects of sustainable development. Zeynep is experienced in designing public surveys and experimental methods for investigating stakeholder attitudes towards energy and the environment. She is currently researching the implications of communication techniques that are used to frame new climate technologies for stakeholder perceptions and the just governance of carbon removal options. She has published in leading academic journals including Global Environmental Change, Climate Policy, Sustainability, Energy & Environmental Science and PLOS One.

Iain de Jonge-Anderson, University of Strathclyde

Iain is a Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde and brings several years of experience as a geoscientist across both industry and academia. His research focuses on CO2 geological storage, specifically how industrial scale-up, injectivity, and pressure behavior are integrated into forward-looking models. He currently works on the Horizon-EU project UPTAKE, where he collaborates closely with the Integrated Assessment Modelling community.

Hannah Galbraith-Olive, Global CCS Institute

Hannah is a Senior Technical Policy Manager for Europe within the Strategic Advocacy, Growth and Engagement team at the Global CCS Institute. Prior to joining the Institute, Hannah was a Senior Consultant at ERM, delivering advisory projects in industrial decarbonisation for both public and private clients in Europe and internationally. Hannah has a PhD in Earth Sciences (Geophysics) from the University of Cambridge and an MSci in Geology & Geophysics from Imperial College London.

Jon Gibbins, UKCCSRC and University of Sheffield

Jon 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 over 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 as much as possible by pilot testing, most recently at 30 tonne/day scale in China through links with the Guangdong CCUS Centre.  He is active in reviewing post-combustion capture technology status to support UK guidance on deployment and is also a Vice Chair of the UNECE Group of Experts on Cleaner Electricity Systems, specialising in CCS.

Clair Gough, University of Manchester

Clair 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. He is also the Director of SCCS and co-Director of the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute.

Ben Kek, bp/NEP

Ben has been working on the East Coast Cluster and its original component projects including Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) for over 7 years, initially as the Appraisal General Manager since project inception. This was followed by technical, commercial and leadership roles throughout concept development and FEED, culminating in FID and Financial Close with the award of the UK’s first TRI licence and store permit for CO2 Transportation and Storage (T&S) via the NEP Incorporated Joint Venture. In his current role as COSA General Manager, he is responsible for delivery of the initial and expansion phases of the T&S infrastructure to NEP and is involved in all aspects of technical and commercial integration across the full CO2 value chain. His career with bp has taken him to many countries where he has worked across the full lifecycle of several large mega projects from drawing board to production operations. Ben is a Chartered Engineer, Project Management Professional and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Sam Krevor, Imperial College London

Sam is a Professor and a Shell Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Earth Science & Engineering at Imperial College London. He leads the Subsurface CO2 Research group which investigates the physics of reactive flow in porous rocks, reservoir engineering, and resource use and scaleup in application to subsurface CO2 storage. He is the Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control.

Xi Liang, University College London

Mathieu Lucquiaud, UKCCSRC & University of Sheffield

Mathieu 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 an 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.

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 50,000 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).

Stavros Michailos, University of Hull

Stavros is a Lecturer in Engineering at the University of Hull. He holds a PhD from the University of Manchester and has postdoctoral research experience at the University of Manchester, Aston University, and the University of Sheffield. His research focuses on CCUS, including post-combustion capture, direct air capture, CO₂ utilisation pathways, and negative emissions technologies, alongside broader work in low-carbon energy systems. His work has particularly explored ultra-high post-combustion CO₂ capture fractions, solvent thermal reclaiming and management, and the integration of post-combustion capture with direct air capture systems to improve process efficiency and reduce energy and capital requirements.

He has extensive expertise in process design and modelling, as well as techno-economic and life-cycle assessment of decarbonisation technologies. He has authored over 50 research papers, book chapters, and technical reports, and has contributed to multiple research projects as principal investigator or co-investigator, supporting multidisciplinary efforts to advance practical solutions towards industrial decarbonisation and net-zero.

Alex Milward, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Alex joined the Civil Service in 2021 after nearly thirty years working in the private sector, specialising in leading large-scale multi-year programmes within the energy sector focused on organisation transformation, operational improvement, commercial innovation and supply chain.  Alex’s experience spans working for large international oil & gas companies, as well as water, gas, and electricity utilities.

Alex is co-leading the UK’s Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage Programme within DESNZ, setting the policy, legislative, regulatory and funding frameworks to launch a new carbon capture UK industry in collaboration with the private sector. The UK CCUS framework is considered a global exemplar for its thoroughness and balanced approach.

Daniel Mullen, SSE Thermal

Daniel is a chartered engineer with over seven years’ experience in the energy industry and a PhD in Post Combustion CCS. He acts as the Senior 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.

Jacqueline Penn-Morley, ROSEN UK

Jacqueline is a Materials, Corrosion and Testing Engineer at ROSEN UK, specialising in the integrity of CO₂ and hydrogen pipelines. She holds an MEng and PhD in Chemical Engineering, with her doctoral research focused on CO₂ separation technologies for carbon capture and storage. She works on materials testing, corrosion assessment, and consultancy services to support safe pipeline operation in the transition to net-zero. Prior to joining ROSEN, she worked in the energy industry on the development of low-carbon post-combustion CCS and hydrogen energy projects.

Jen Roberts, UKCCSRC & University of Strathclyde

Jen 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.

Zoë Sayer, North Sea Transition Authority

Zoë is a Stewardship Lead in the Carbon Transportation and Storage Team at the NSTA. A geologist by background, she has had a varied career spanning consultancy, education, development geology and technical leadership. She transferred her skills into the area of carbon storage after honing them in oil and gas across the globe. At the NSTA she leads the stewardship of carbon storage licences heading to permit application and beyond, including the four Track projects, and oversees evaluation of the documents submitted for permit application and other licence milestones.

Nick Terrell, Carbon Catalyst

Nick is co-founder of Carbon Catalyst, an UK-based company dedicated to delivering CCS solutions for large-scale decarbonisation. Established in 2020, Carbon Catalyst is advancing two North Sea carbon transport and storage projects, Poseidon and Orion. Notably, Poseidon is subject to UK’s first offshore CO₂ injection test in 2025. Previously, Nick served as Chair of the Subsurface Task Force, a collaborative forum of subsurface experts and scientists from industry and academia that works closely with regulators, policymakers and other key stakeholders to support an orderly transition to Net Zero by 2050.

Nick’s earlier roles include Managing Director of Azinor, Exploration Director at US independent Endeavour Energy, board member of Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) and President of the Geoscience Energy Society of Great Britain (GESGB). He holds an MSc in Petroleum Geoscience from Imperial College London and an Executive MBA from University of Oxford.

James Watt, WSP

James 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.

 Presentations from our conference sessions will be available below after the event (where we have permission to share them).

 Recordings from our conference sessions are available below (where we have permission to share).

Posters from the poster reception on Wednesday 24th June will be shared below (where we have permission to share).