Class VI permitting and subsurface risk for CO₂ storage
Danny Kingham is a Principal Hydrogeologist at GSI Environmental Inc. and a licensed Professional Geoscientist in Texas, Louisiana, and New York. With over 20 years of experience, she specializes in UIC Class I through VI injection wells, oil and gas, critical minerals, and data centers.
Serving on the Texas Board of Professional Geoscientists and the ASBOG Council of Examiners, she provides expert guidance on regulatory compliance, permitting, operations, litigation support, and environmental risk assessment.
Pathways to Commercial-Scale CCUS: Deployment Strategies, Risk Allocation, and Market Readiness
A panel on what it actually takes to move CCUS from demonstration to commercial scale — how projects are de-risked and financed, where policy and permitting still bite, and how emerging carbon-utilization routes turn captured CO₂ into products with their own revenue stack.
- Leveraging digitalization, automation, and artificial intelligence to enhance operational efficiency and improve commercial-scale CCUS project economics
- Navigating decarbonization challenges and federal tax policy impacts across commercial hydrogen production and storage pathways
- Evaluating commercial bankability and strategic revenue stacks to de-risk projects amidst evolving market and policy uncertainties
- Mitigating subsurface environmental risks, legacy well integrity issues, and Class VI permitting challenges through advanced numerical modeling and monitoring
- Accelerating commercialization of emerging carbon-utilization technologies through value-added product revenue streams, technology de-risking, and strategic industry-lab partnerships
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