Energy expansion, CO2 management requires integration

From left, Kyle Simpson, board member, Permian Energy Development Lab, Nijel Jenvey, vice president, energy transition project development at Baker Hughes, and Jerrel Branson, chief development and financial officer at Roosevelt Resources, discuss CO2's role in energy expansion.

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Rather than an energy transformation, many experts are referring to an energy expansion that encompasses not only fossil fuels, but nuclear, renewables and development of new sources like geothermal and hydrogen.

Facilitating that expansion will require integration and collaboration, according to panelists at the 30th annual CO2 Conference this week.

That is the primary goal of the Permian Energy Development Lab, according to Kyle Simpson, a board member.

He told the gathering that the lab works with local companies, junior colleges and universities and other stakeholders “to create a platform for companies with all sorts of ideas to research, develop and demonstrate new technologies and see how they fit together.”

The lab has 320 acres near Plains, courtesy of Roosevelt Resources, that serves as a living laboratory for those ideas to be tested and developed.

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