Dr Owain Tucker is the manager for CCS capability and project support, and the Principal Technical Expert in Carbon Storage in Shell. He has the technical overview of all Shell CCS projects, and leads a team of experts who are responsible for guiding storage exploration and appraisal; technical assurance; integration; technology maturation; the CCS research agenda; and the development of CCS competences and capacity within Shell. Owain worked directly on the Goldeneye CO2 store in the UK North Sea for over six years, and led the team who delivered the storage permit application and storage development plan.
Owain represents Shell in technical taskforces: he is a member of the UK Subsurface Taskforce, co-chaired the SPE group developing the Storage Resource Maturation System, and the Oil & Gas Climate Initiative Storage Working Group. He is on the executive committee of the IEA GHG R&D programme, the board of the UKCCSRC, the UK CCS ISO mirror committee, and is a member of the ZEP taskforce technology. He is also an Honorary Associate Professor at Heriot-Watt University where he lectures in CO2 storage.
Since 1995, Owain has worked in Shell as a reservoir engineer, economist and eBusiness consultant; and at McKinsey & Company as a strategy consultant. He studied Physics and Geophysics at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa; and holds a D.Phil in Experimental Solid State Physics from the University of Oxford.