Bureau director Scott Tinker (left) and DOE Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy Christopher Smith
The Bureau of Economic Geology was recently honored to host Christopher Smith, Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), for an important discussion about existing and possible future partnerships between the two organizations. Among the topics discussed were offshore carbon capture and storage, nanotechnology applications in the energy sector, energy reform in Mexico and its implications, and the Bureau’s ongoing reserves and production study of major American shale gas and shale oil basins. Representing the Bureau in the conversation were Director Scott Tinker; associate directors Jay Kipper, Eric Potter, and Michael Young; and research scientists Tip Meckel and Svetlana Ikonnikova. Assistant Secretary Smith was upbeat about the current state of the relationship between the Bureau and the DOE and hopeful that potential partnerships could be cemented in the near future.
