Hugh Daigle
Associate Professor, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
Director, Center for Subsurface Energy and the Environment

Interests:
Subsurface carbon storage
Fluid flow in porous media
Reservoir characterization

Sergio Castellanos

Benjamin Leibowicz

Arvind Ravikumar

Andrew Waxman
Assistant Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs

Interests:
Economics of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS)
Costs of CCUS in U.S. Gulf Region
Local air pollution impacts of carbon capture
Unintended consequences of federal CCUS subsidies

Activities:
“What are the Likely Air Pollution Impacts of Carbon Capture and Storage?” (2024) (with HR Huber-Rodriguez and Sheila Olmstead) Forthcoming at Journal of the Association of Environmental & Resource Economists.

“Leveraging Scale Economies and Policy Incentives: Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage in Gulf Clusters.” (2021). (with Sheila Olmstead, Benjamin Leibowicz, Sean Corcoran and Andrew Robison) Energy Policy. 156: 112452: 11 pages.

“Emissions in the Stream: Estimating the Greenhouse Gas Impacts of an Oil and Gas Boom.” (2020) (with Achmad Khomaini, Benjamin Leibowicz and Sheila Olmstead) Environmental Research Letters: 12 pages.

“Ambiguous climate policy: A tax credit will increase the use of carbon capture technology, but will it reduce CO2 emissions?” (with Sheila Olmstead, Benjamin Leibowicz, Charles Mason, HR Huber-Rodriguez, and Joseph Stemmler) Under Review

“Instrument Choice for Carbon Capture Incentives” (with Joseph Stemmler) Working Paper.