Stephan
Stephan Weber is CEO & CTO of the Golden Hydrogen Company (TGHC-SPC). He has developed the CO2-2-H2 process and the CO2-2-H2 screening tool.
Stephan looks back on a 34-year distinguished global career with Shell in Reservoir Engineering, Software Development, Hydrocarbon Maturation and Value Assurance.
Stephan has been obsessed with the idea of injecting CO2 into the giant Groningen gas field since the 1990s. In his quest to convince a highly diverse and entrenched group of stakeholders of his concept, he discovered that the CO2-2-H2 process is applicable to any producing conventional gas field and will result in carbon-negative (golden) hydrogen in a profitable manner. He set up the venture with Fariza in order to aggressively market this concept.
Stephan holds a MSc (Diplom) in Mathematics and Mechanics.
Fariza
Fariza Kempirbayeva is co-founder and Chief Financial Officer of The Golden Hydrogen Company SPC.
Fariza has extensive experience in financial spheres such as development and financing of projects and a proven track record in international trade.
Fariza holds a Bachelor degree in Finance from Kazakh British Technical University.
Maksat
Maksat Kamel is Business Development Director for Central Asia and China and acting Chief Commercial Officer of TGHC-SPC
Maksat has 10 years experience in the oil and gas industry. He started his career as an operator in the field and knows the oil and gas business from the workfloor to management.
Maksat has a BSc in Development and Operation of Oil and Gas Fields from Atyrau University of Oil and Gas named after Safi Utebayev, an MBA for the Energy Business Management program from International School of Business of the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas and a Bachelor of Law from Central Kazakhstan Academy
Karl
Professor Karl Rose serves on our Advisory Council.
Karl teaches at the Institute for Electricity Economics and Energy Innovation of Graz Technical University and at the Karl Franzens University and also advises the Austrian government on issues of energy policy. He is a member of the supervisory board of OMV and vice Chairman of ESTAG. He was formerly strategy advisor to the CEO of ADNOC and Chief Strategist at Royal Dutch Shell, as well as senior director of the World Energy Council.
Vanessa
Vanessa Sallee is Communications Director and US Operations Manager
Vanessa is a single mother of two with studies of psychology at UTSA, Kindergarten teacher in Germany and a medical accounting degree from Southern Career Institute.
She has now joined the workforce full time again and has since developed from scheduler to production manager of a big plumbing company.
Vanessa brings lots of people skills, troubleshooting and organizational skills to the venture and will develop our US business together with the GM Americas (to be appointed)
Vipin
Vipin Gupta is our BDD MENA and sub-continent . He also leads our consultancy and training unit.
Vipin is domain expert in Reservoir engineering with over three decades of experience in Oil & Gas having track record of leading and managing projects in field development, reservoir management, reservoir studies, production enhancement and recovery improvement. He possesses very strong skills in critical data analysis and classical reservoir engineering techniques in addition to dynamic modelling
Chai
Chon Fui Chai is our BDD for Southeast Asia and Australia. He also leads our WRFM and Process Safety unit. This includes leak detection and mitigation measures and regulators liaison.
Chai was formerly Senior Vice President at Neubrex (Fibre Optics) Technologies and WRFM and field development manager at Shell in Brunei, Sarawak, New Zealand , Holland and USA.
Our Coaches : Dave Masson
40+ years of experience in the energy industry in operational, technical and functional executive leadership roles, primarily in Shell. Formerly Global Head of Reservoir Engineering for Shell in addition to roles as Global VP for Development for Exploration/ New Business and Joint Ventures. Dave’s core skills are in field development, front-end project management, project review and assurance, and HR capability management
Our Coaches : Christiaan van der Haarst
Senior Energy Consultant with 35+ years of experience in oil and gas field development, geothermal energy, CO2 footprint calculation and Advisor in the set up of Upstream Research. Worked in Shell as Reservoir Engineering Manager for Non-Operated Ventures Globally and Chief RE for the Middle East, accountable for Field Development Planning, production forecasting, reserves reporting, project economics and acquisitions and divestments. Founded Cubes3 Oil and Gas in 2015 and worked as Senior Advisor in Traditional Oil & Gas and Energy Transition projects.
Our Coaches : Hans Goeijenbier
Over 37 years of experience and leadership in development planning, and subsurface asset valuation including reserves and final investment decisions. Formerly employed at Shell as Global Head of Geoscience following worldwide assignments. Hans defined Shells’ HSE standards for overpressures, top seal integrity, shallow gas, fraccing & H2S prediction. He holds a MSc degree in Geoscience and Geophysics from Leiden University, complemented by business courses at IMD.
Our Coaches : Constance Gilbert
Conny has more than 30 years experience in Reservoir Engineering working on a variety of onshore and offshore conventional and unconventional assets in the UK, Norway and US for Shell, Hess and Oasis. Her core skills include field development appraisal and planning, reserves evaluation, water injection and optimising production, including the Permian CO2 floods.
Our Partners : White Space Solutions
20 highly skilled AI and software engineers will mature the CO2-2-H2 screening tool into a web-based App and will support us with the ongoing maintenance of the tool.
Our Partners : Professor Birol Dindoruk
Birol will support us with CO2-CH4 displacement and blending studies, such as phase behavior and flow aspects , analytical methods, numerical simulation and core flood experiments. Birol hols a PhD in Petroleum Engineering and Mathematics from Stanford University and was formerly Shell's Chief Scientist for Reservoir Physics. He is currently Professor at the University of Houston.