John Hunt

Biography

John E. Hunt, Principal Geoscientist & MRV Lead at the EERC, works with a multidisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, business professionals, and EERC stakeholders to solve challenges related to incremental oil recovery, unconventional oil recovery, geothermal energy, gas storage, and CO2 capture, utilization, and geologic storage. In this position, Mr. Hunt leads and supports the development and implementation of compliance monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) and monitoring, verification, and accounting plans for financial incentive and permitting programs associated with emerging carbon capture and storage and other environmental social governance projects being developed in the United States and Canada. Mr. Hunt is a licensed Professional Geologist and holds an M.S. degree in Geology from Oklahoma State University and a B.S. degree in Geology from Brigham Young University. Previously, Mr. Hunt worked for Chesapeake Energy as a petroleum geologist, providing geotechnical assessments for exploration and operations-based projects within the U.S. Midcontinent region.

Mr. Hunt’s principal areas of interest and expertise include testing and monitoring compliance in carbon capture, utilization, and storage; soil gas sampling automation; plume stabilization; subsurface characterization of tight shaly sand and carbonate reservoirs; and conodont biostratigraphy. Mr. Hunt is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and Society of Petroleum Engineers and has coauthored several professional publications.