Vanessa Núñez-López

Director, Advanced Remediation Technologies Division, U.S. Dept. of Energy
M.S., The University of Texas at Austin

Ms. Nuñez-López is the Director of Advanced Remediation Technologies Division at the U.S. Dept. of Energy. She is a petroleum engineer working in the area of carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery potential and sequestration capacity, with experience in many places across the globe, including Texas and Colombia. She has taught a number of workshops and university courses on CO2 monitoring.

Vanessa was a reservoir engineer for Chevron from 2006 to 2010. Subsequently, she worked at the Bureau of Economic Geology as an engineer within the Gulf Coast Carbon Center, where she focused on a number of areas related to carbon storage, specifically carbon life cycle analysis and near-term decarbonization.

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