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Biography
Steve Walkinshaw
Steve Walkinshaw is a consulting geoscientist and the Vice President of Geoscience for Strategic Biofuels. To date, Steve has been responsible for all of the geological and geophysical mapping and wellsite supervision related to the Louisiana Green Fuels project. Steve is based in the greater Jackson, Mississippi area, and is also the owner and manager of Vision Exploration, LLC. He graduated from Millsaps College in 1981 and has 41 years of experience in oil & gas exploration and development. As an adjunct professor, Steve has also taught Petroleum Geology at his alma mater. He is a Registered Professional Geologist in the State of Mississippi, a Licensed Professional Geoscientist in the State of Louisiana, and an AAPG/DPA Certified Petroleum Geologist.
Steve is a widely-recognized LinkedIn geoscience influencer with over 3,400 professional followers. His weekly quizzes about various geological subjects have been viewed over 1.8 million times since March of 2020 and are regularly featured in many societies’ monthly bulletins, including those of SGS, MGS and SIPES. Steve also serves as a student adviser for the University of Houston’s AAPG Imperial Barrel Award (“IBA”) Competition teams.
His geological research and illustrations focusing on the Paleozoic strata of the western Black Warrior Basin and the geology of the Jackson Dome were featured prominently in the recently-published reference book, The Geology of Mississippi (Thompson/Dockery, 2016, University Press).
Steve received the NOGS Best Paper Award in 2001 for his presentation “Magma, Salt, and the Chicxulub Impact: Intriguing Questions about the End of the Cretaceous in the Mississippi Embayment”. His recent presentation on the Jackson Gas Rock was awarded the 2018 First Place Thomas A. Philpott Excellence of Presentation Award by GCAGS.
Steve Walkinshaw served as Presenter for the Unconventional Lower Smackover Brown Dense Lime Trend at numerous shale conferences and professional society meetings from 2011 to 2015. His most recent publication, “The Lower Smackover Brown Dense Limestone: Its Potential as a Hybrid Unconventional Resource Play”, presented at the 2020 GeoGulf Convention in Lafayette, was recently awarded the 2020 Second Place Thomas A. Philpott Excellence of Presentation Award by GCAGS.
Abstract
In northeast Louisiana, the world’s most deeply carbon negative renewable fuels project is underway. From forest waste products, Strategic Biofuels’ planned Louisiana Green Fuels plant, located just north of Columbia in Caldwell Parish, will annually produce approximately 32 million gallons of fuel comprised of 83% renewable diesel and 17% renewable naphtha with a negative carbon intensity rating projected to be lower than -238.
The underground sequestration of all of the plant’s produced carbon dioxide (CCS) represents a critically important operational objective of the Louisiana Green Fuels plant. To demonstrate the viability of the proposed CCS operation, in 2021 a 6,200’ injection test well was drilled and extensively tested just southeast of the Louisiana Green Fuels plant site. Numerous cores and rotary cores – along with a comprehensive suite of open-hole logs – were utilized to analyze the rock properties of the primary CO2 sequestration zones and the upper and lower confining layers. Most of these strata have neither been cored nor studied in the northeast Louisiana area for many decades.
This presentation focuses on the subsurface geology of the Caldwell Parish area and the drilling, evaluation, and testing of the Louisiana Green Fuels injection test well.
