Bill Senior,  Independent Consultant

Bill Senior is an independent consultant who specialises in Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS).  He has worked with the European Commission, UK Government, energy companies, universities and larger consultancies. His main expertise is in project development, geological storage and policy/regulation. His experience with CCS projects has included UK (Peterhead-Miller), Algeria (In Salah) and China (NZEC). He was a Lead Author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Carbon Capture and Storage contributing to the chapters on Geological Storage and Economics.
Previously Bill spent 32 years with BP in business and technology roles covering alternative energy, exploration and production and gas. He was BP’s first technology manager for carbon capture and storage technology and subsequently a Senior Advisor in BP Alternative Energy. His earlier career experience in petroleum geology and upstream oil business underpins expertise in geological storage.  Bill was also seconded to the UK government‘s International Climate Change team during the G8 and EU presidencies between 2004-2006.  He was influential in high-level CCS policy development and setting up the EU/China Near zero emissions coal cooperation. He has worked in Europe, USA, SE Asia, China and Russia. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society and has a degree in geology from Oxford University.