Research Scientist Associate, The University of Texas at Austin
ramon.gil@beg.utexas.edu |
Ramon Gil-Egui is an Energy Economist with more than 25 years of academic, research, and consulting experience designing, implementing, and assessing methodologies for pricing, tariffs, cost analysis, and capital risks in the energy sectors. His research focus since 2015 at the University of Texas’ Bureau of Economic Geology has been the sustainability of Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage operations. Developing a methodology for Net Carbon Neutral Oil (NCNO) classification for EOR projects, integrating geoengineering, electricity demand, and its environmental and social-economic performances. He has extensively assessed the critical value of CCUS as part of the portfolio of technologies needed to transition to a low-carbon economy. He has been lately investigating the Societal Considerations and Impacts risk for CO2 Storage projects location and actively promoting and developing the Gulf of Mexico CCUS Ecosystem.