Mikey Hannon

Senior Reservoir Engineer

Michael (Mikey) Hannon, PhD has over a decade of professional experience in carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS). He previously served as the Director of Subsurface Energy at Carbon Solutions LLC and, before that, led business development for carbon storage at INTERA Incorporated, an international geosciences and engineering consulting company. Dr. Hannon holds patented methods that support rapid characterization of geologic carbon dioxide (CO2) storage sites, including caprocks that keep CO2 stored deep underground. He is an expert in multiphase, multi-component subsurface flow modeling and has managed teams with extensive experience permitting wells under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Underground Injection Control Program, including Class VI for long-term geologic storage. In addition to CCUS project activities, Mikey works to advance commercial CCUS deployment by serving on the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Technical Committee 265 on Carbon Dioxide Capture, Transportation, and Geological Storage. He is also on the faculty and alumni network of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Research Experience in Carbon Sequestration (RECS) program, which includes the nation’s leading young CCUS professionals. Dr. Hannon also served as research scientist and reservoir geologist with the Indiana Geological and Water Survey and a postdoctoral researcher at the National Energy Technology Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Engineering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham where he conducted research with support from the U.S. DOE and Southern Company on geologic CO2 storage, caprock integrity and computational modeling. Prior to that, Mikey received a master’s degree in Aeronautics & Astronautics from Purdue University and a bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics from The University of Alabama. Dr. Hannon is deeply committed to working towards a carbon-free, clean-energy future that includes geologic CO2 storage at the gigaton scale.