Simon O'Brien

Simon O’Brien is the Global CCS Deployment Lead at Shell, leading or supporting the delivery of CCS projects around the world. He is responsible for storage exploration and appraisal, technical assurance, integration, technology maturation, helping to shape the CCS research agenda, and the development of competences and capacity within Shell. Prior to this role, he spent 6 years as the Quest Subsurface Manager, overseeing the storage aspects of the Quest CCS project at the Scotford Upgrader in Canada, focusing on getting the facility up and running and ensuring smooth commercial operations.

O’Brien is a geophysicist with BSc and PhD degrees from Memorial University of Newfoundland and an MSc from the University of British Columbia. He joined Shell in 1997 and worked in seismic processing, depth imaging, quantitative interpretation, and new technology development for almost 20 years before working with Quest. His work has included a wide variety of projects; structural and stratigraphic, conventional and unconventional, onshore and offshore, hydrocarbon, and CCS in a wide range of countries around the world.