Carbon capture clusters

Helen Riordan is a professional engineer with a BSc (Hons) in Process Technology. She has over 25 years’ oil and gas experience. Helen’s role involves developing sustainable business for Worley as industry faces some of the most profound challenges in history. Helen is focussed on striving to develop leaner, more efficient and socially responsible industries. This will be required, both in terms of project execution and operation which is driving a technical revolution, and driving higher levels of artificial intelligence and automation with remote operation and management. Helen works with clients to understand these challenges before working with her own business to work out how we can meet them. Helen’s strength lies in her strong inter-personal skills with multicultural teams and her ability to draw a team together to meet a common goal. Helen’s background is in development planning, FEED, and Detailed Design for Greenfield and Brownfield offshore projects and Operations.

Phil Cohen is a Chemical Engineer MEng (Hons) with over 20 years’ experience across a range of environmental and energy sectors. In his current role he provides advice, at a country level, on the potential for low-carbon hydrogen to support their decarbonisation targets. Prior to working for Advisian, Phil was a civil servant in the UK Government providing technical advice on the energy transition and decarbonisation. Phil was responsible for leading reports into shale gas for both the Chief Scientist and for the Committee on Climate Change, latterly developing and running over £100m of innovation competitions aiming to decarbonise industry through energy efficiency and fuel switching, and developing hydrogen production and storage.

Stella Elkington is a chartered Chemical Engineer BEng (Hons) (IChemE) with over 26 years’ experience across upstream and downstream hydrocarbon processes. Stella has held management positions within operations, engineering and projects around the world. Working for multinational companies like BASF, BP, INPEX and Worley. In her current roles, Stella has managed several strategic hydrogen strategy assessments on behalf of Advisian for government organisations and energy companies. She is also working with companies in Kwinana to support their decarbonisation strategies. Stella has a proven record in successfully working with a diverse group. In her previous roles Stella utilised her Engineering Management and Project Management skills to deliver a portfolio of challenging projects. This required an adaptive approach under a constrained budget. Stella managed the project portfolio and the expectations of the business to deliver on the agreed revised schedule and priorities.