Thank you for joining the 2026 Carbon Storage Dialogues!

You can find the morning and afternoon programme below and learn more about our speakers and their topics.

EBN Technical Workshop

09:00 Opening workshop & safety briefing
Jorien Schaaf, Technology Manager CO2 Transport and Offshore Storage, EB

09:10 Repurposing legacy wells –Lessons from the Porthos workover campaign

Yves Slagmulder, Well Operations Manager, EBN

10:20 Safety and CCS

• Mirjam van der Velde, Safety consultant, Haskoning
• Jarle Idsøe-Jakobsen, HSEQ Director, Northern Lights: Operational experiences
• Jan Jager, Manager HSSEQ, Porthos System Operator and Elaine Cooke, HSSE manager Aramis: Insights from design phase

11:35 Carbon Storage Knowledge updates

Jorien Schaaf & team

• Updates on technology projects by EBN
• Aquifer exploration
• Pressure limits
• Clarity – Porthos lessons learned

11:50 AOB and closing workshop

Carbon Storage Dialogues: Progress through Persistence

13.00 Opening
Maarten Bouwhuis, moderator (BNR)

13:10 Progress through Persistence
Joost Hooghiem, Director CCS, EBN

13:20 The value of CO₂
Joseph Stemmler, Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, University of Oxford

13:40 Progress through persistence in EU policy making
Jeannette Baljeu, Member of the European Parliament

13.45 Projects & Playbooks
In this session we will hear updates and lessons for the CCS industry to build on from industry representatives working on projects in or near execution.

• Friso Resink, Project Manager Porthos, Gasunie
• Anouk Haver, Procurement Process Manager Aramis
• Marijke van Oosterhout, Business Development Manager, Air Liquide
• Gemmeke Groot, Project Director, Porthos
• Bram Herfkens, Manager Asset Management & JV Representative Aramis, EBN
• Tom Eikmans, Senior Business Owner, Air Liquide

15:00 Prospects & portfolios
In this session we will discuss future capture, transport and storage projects, markets and financing mechanisms.

• Jonas Feldkamp, Innovation Manager, Uniper
• Tristan Cloarec, Strategy and Technology Development Manager, Lhoist
• Féline Clement, Economist & Commercial Advisor, ONE-Dyas
• Dyonne Rietveld, Country Chair, Uniper Benelux
• Micha Hes, Manager Business Development, AEB
• Teja Schmid-McGuinness, Director Co2 & Carbon Capture, Lhoist
• Aernout Korevaar, Technical Director, ONE–Dyas

15:50 Pioneers & potential
In this session we will hear about new technologies or ventures in carbon management.

• Wout de Groot, Director SuperCritical Cleanup, SCW Systems
• Boris Rigault, Director Decarbonised Heat and Industrial Processes, Siemens Energy

16:10: Policy: CO₂ markets and infrastructure
Michel Heijdra, Director-General Climate & Energy Policy, Ministry of Economic Affairs.

16:40 Host’s takeaways
Joost Hooghiem, Director CCS, EBN

16:50 Closing
Maarten Bouwhuis, moderator (BNR)

17:00 Networking drinks

2026 speakers

Joost Hooghiem is Director of CCS at Energie Beheer Nederland (EBN), leading large-scale CCS initiatives in transport and storage facilities in the Netherlands. On behalf of EBN, he is also Member of the Board of Porthos.

He previously held senior roles at Gasunie, including Director of Hynetwork Services and Director Projects. Joost brings extensive experience in energy infrastructure and public-private collaboration. He holds a degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from the University of Groningen. Joost is committed to advancing the Dutch energy transition through innovative solutions

Joseph Stemmler is a postdoctoral research associate in the CO2RE Hub at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford. He holds additional affiliations with Oxford Net Zero and the Institute of New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School and previously worked with the Economics of Scaling Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage group at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Joseph’s research lies at the intersection of environmental economics and economic theory, with a particular emphasis on carbon policy. His current research assesses the efficacy of environmental policies in encouraging carbon dioxide removal and reducing carbon emissions, including incentives for carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) provided by Internal Revenue Code Section 45Q of the Inflation Reduction Act. He holds a PhD in Economics, a B.S. in Mathematics, and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin.

Jeanette Baljeu is a Member of the European Parliament on behalf of the Dutch People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), part of the Renew Europe group. She focuses on the internal market, entrepreneurship, and the sustainability of transport and industry. Jeannette has extensive experience in Dutch local and regional politics, including roles in Rotterdam and the province of South Holland.

She has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 16 July 2024.

Friso Resink currently works at Gasunie as Project Manager for the Porthos project, where he serves as Team Lead System Integration. Before taking on his current position, Friso participated in Gasunie’s two-year trainee programme, working on topics including energy efficiency, hydrogen transport networks during a secondment at Marcogaz in Brussels, and CCS at Porthos. He holds a BSc in Applied Physics and an MSc in Energy and Environmental Sciences from the University of Groningen.

Anouk Haver is Procurement Process Manager for the Aramis project, contributing to the development of open-access CO₂ transport and storage infrastructure in the Netherlands. In this role, she supports the preparation and execution of the offshore EPC packages, including the D-Hub platform and the Offshore Trunkline.

Anouk has experience in public procurement and tendering, with a focus on ensuring that procurement processes run efficiently and in line with governance standards. Within Aramis, she is responsible for coordinating procurement activities, aligning tender packages, facilitating collaboration between stakeholders and negotiations with tenderers.

Marijke van Oosterhout is Energy Manager, Large Industries, Northern and Central Europe Cluster at Air Liquide. In her role Marijke is responsible for the management of greenhouse gas emissions and provides strategic expertise for energy transition strategies across major industrial clusters. She has a specific focus on integrated energy and carbon management, notably the Emission Trading System (ETS), CO2-heffing voor Industrie and certification schemes such as ISO50001 and ISCC (PLUS). Marijke has over six years of experience in the energy and gases industry, from operations as a Process Engineer and moving into portfolio management and the development of sustainable product offerings, including pioneering the region’s first ISCC PLUS certified bio-carbon monoxide.

Gemmeke Groot leads the Porthos project as Project Director as of February 2026, overseeing project  execution, commissioning, start-up, and transition to full operations, with a strong focus on safety, reliability, and long-term performance. Gemmeke is a senior leader with extensive international experience in capital project delivery, maintenance and turnaround leadership, engineering management, and process safety across the energy and industrial sectors. Throughout her global career in Europe, North America, and Asia, she has led large, complex organizations and projects, consistently delivering operational excellence, transformation, and long-term value creation. Gemmeke has held management positions at Shell refineries in the Netherlands, Singapore and Canada, among others. Gemmeke holds a PhD and MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology and RWTH Aachen University.

Bram Herfkens is Manager Asset Management within the CCS department at EBN and currently contributing to the Aramis project at EBN as JV representative. He has held several technical management and asset management positions within the O&G industry and in CCS. Bram joined EBN in 2017 after working at TAQA for almost 10 years. At TAQA he was involved in the ROAD CCS project including the then envisioned storage in P18a. He graduated from the Delft University of Technology with a Msc degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Tom Eikmans is Senior Business Owner large industries for the Northern and Central Europe Cluster at Air Liquide. In his role, Tom is responsible for leading the Air Liquide effort in the development and execution of complex investment in the Energy Transition context. With a specific focus on integrated CCS chains in, amongst others, Rotterdam (‘Porthos’) and Antwerp (‘Kairos@C’).

Tom has over 20 years of experience in the energy and gases industry, with leadership roles in project and business development, M&A, general and commercial management. He holds a Masters of Science in Finance from Nyenrode University.

Jonas Feldkamp is Innovation Manager at Uniper and currently General Project Manager of Uniper’s BECCS project. Within Uniper, he has led several innovation projects, like decarbonization solutions for customers with unavoidable CO₂ emissions via CCS, interim CO₂ storage in salt caverns, and CO₂ midstream. Before joining Uniper, Jonas worked as Senior Consultant Innovation at UNITY, contributing to national and international projects in the chemical, energy, and food industries. His work included the implementation of PLM systems, the establishment of sustainability departments, and the introduction of an innovation radar. Before that, he worked at Horváth & Partners as a Consultant with a focus on utilities. In this role, he supported several national and international projects with multiple energy utilities and machine tool manufacturers. He, amongst others, worked on digital strategy development, blockchain application strategies and process optimization & benchmarking. Jonas holds a BSc and MSc in Industrial Engineering with a focus on Renewable Energies and Innovation Management from RWTH Aachen University.

Tristan Cloarec graduated from ISAE-SUPAERO, with a specialization in aerospace engineering and space propulsion. From propulsion to decarbonization, he is now contributing to drive the future of low-carbon lime production, currently serving as a Strategy and Technology Development Manager at Lhoist, the world-leading lime company. In this role, he helps shape the company’s future technology roadmap, with a focus on breakthrough kiln solutions and carbon capture technologies that can accelerate industrial decarbonization.

Over the past eight years in the lime industry, he first built strong expertise in process engineering, kiln automation, energy optimization, and fuel flexibility, to significantly reduce combustion-related CO₂ emissions. He then specialized in CCUS, where he developed expertise in carbon capture technologies for the lime industries and contributed to the selection of solutions for Lhoist major CCUS projects.

Féline Clement joined ONE-Dyas approximately 1.5 years ago as an Economist & Commercial Advisor. Prior to this, she held several roles within the M&A team at PwC.

At ONE-Dyas, Féline is working on a broad range of topics, including the evaluation of project economics for prospective developments, business development initiatives, and strategic commercial matters within the company’s diverse portfolio. In her daily work, she also contributes from a commercial perspective to the Kompas Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project.

Dyonne Rietveld Dyonne Rietveld has been Country Chair of Uniper Benelux since 2023 and has a leading role in the company’s external communications and stakeholder engagement, while providing guidance and oversight to the Uniper Benelux organization. She is also board member of Energy Netherlands, the largest sector organization for the energy industry in the Netherlands.

Dyonne started her career as a Trainee for Legal Counsel at E.ON Benelux in Rotterdam. From there she progressed to the position of Legal Counsel and Compliance Officer Uniper Benelux for both the Rotterdam and Eindhoven departments. From being the lead for legal, compliance, sustainability & permitting, Dyonne became Managing Director for Uniper Benelux in 2021 with the specific responsibility for the supporting departments like HR, Legal, Tax, Controlling, Accounting.

After that, the Uniper Headquarters in Dusseldorf asked her to become Senior Vice President Energy Law & Regulation at Uniper SE in Düsseldorf. In that position Dyonne overlooked and supported the transition from Uniper SE to a state-owned company during the energy crisis.

Dyonne holds a master’s degree in Law from the Erasmus School of Law at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Micha Hes has extensive experience in the energy transition and circular economy. Over the course of his career, he has developed and advised on a wide range of sustainability projects. He led the development of the circular strategy for the Port of Amsterdam, helping position the port as one of Europe’s leading circular ecosystems. For the past seven years, he has focused on the major challenges facing AEB Amsterdam, Europe’s largest waste-to-energy plant, including work on AEB’s CCS project. In addition to his role at AEB, Micha serves on the supervisory board of the joint fire brigade in the Port of Amsterdam. He holds a master’s degree in Political Science and Public Administration from the University of Amsterdam, as well as a degree in Business Development and Innovation from the University of Groningen.

Teja Schmid-McGuinness graduated from Imperial College London, with a specialization in aerospace engineering. He is actively involved in the field of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), currently serving as the Director of CO2 & Carbon Capture at Lhoist, a world leader in lime, dolime and minerals. Prior to his current role, he led multi-disciplinary teams at Air Liquide E&C on various sustainable processes and technologies in the industrial gases and chemicals sector, ranging from low-carbon hydrogen & ammonia to gas treatment and carbon capture.

With over 18 years of experience in engineering, Teja has a wide-ranging experience in the development and deployment of sustainable solutions. His expertise spans the development and implementation of leading-edge carbon capture technologies, project development on energy-transition or CCS solutions, and carbon management strategy.

Aernout Korevaar has ~25 years of experience in the oil & gas industry. He has held various positions in Shell, Dyas and is currently Technical Director at ONE-Dyas. Within ONE-Dyas, Aernout is responsible for exploration and development projects up to concept Select, the non-operated asset portfolio, Energy Transition projects like Carbon & Hydrogen Storage, and IT.

ONE-Dyas is a Dutch privately owned E&P company, formed as a merger in 2019 between Dyas and Oranje Nassau Energie.

Dr. Boris Rigault is the Director of the Corporate Innovation Platform Hardened Energy Systems at Siemens Energy. He leads a global team across Siemens Energy’s four Business Areas, Regional Hubs as well as four Innovation Centers to develop innovative solutions to support Siemens Energy’s customers with resilient energy system solutions. Boris joined Siemens in 2008 and has held leadership positions in Gas Turbine Engineering and Manufacturing, as well as in Industrial Steam Turbine Product Management and Strategy. Dr. Rigault obtained his PhD from Braunschweig Technical University and holds an Executive MBA from the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT).

Wout de Groot is Director SuperCritical CleanUp (SCC), the business division within SCW Systems which focusses on the hydrothermal gasification technology. The division entails the industrial demonstration facility in Alkmaar (Netherlands), SCC Research, Operations and business development. He has 25 years of experience in the energy sector, including 18 years at Gasunie where he held various positions. Wout initiated the development of Gasunie New Energy of which he was Director for 3 years and held the position of Director Corporate Strategy at Gasunie. Wout is also board member of the Dutch Platform Green Gas.

Dr. M.G. (Michel) Heijdra is Vice Minister of Climate Policy and Green Growth. At the beginning of 2022 he joined the Ministry of Economic Affairs & Climate from the Treasury. At the Treasury he held the position of deputy Treasurer General and director of foreign financial affairs. Before that position he was active in different management positions in financial sector policy at the Treasury and the Dutch Central Bank. He started his career as a consultant at McKinsey & Co. Michel Heijdra holds a Masters degree in Physics as well as in Philosophy and studied in Leiden, Berlin and Utrecht. He finished his PhD in 2009 at the VU University Amsterdam with a dissertation on Darwinian explanations of the origin of language.