(136f) Building Strong Industry, Academic, & National Lab Collaborations to Enable Technology Deployment: An ExxonMobil Perspective

Energy is essential for human development and improving living standards around the world. Society faces a challenge to provide reliable and affordable energy to meet the needs of growing population, while reducing environmental impacts, including the risks of climate change. Progress on society’s energy and climate objectives requires practical approaches, new technology solutions, and collaborations and partnerships that enable human development and economic progress. ExxonMobil established its Low Carbon Solutions business in early 2021 focusing on carbon capture and storage (CCS), hydrogen and biofuels, leveraging our core capabilities in technology, scale, integration, and people. This presentation will provide an overview of energy fundamentals, ExxonMobil’s strategy, and innovative approaches to technology development in the areas of CCS, Hydrogen and Biofuels.

Thousands of scientists and engineers, including more than 1,500 Ph.D.s, work at ExxonMobil. In R&D, they are exploring areas such as new catalytic and separation materials, novel low-energy process development and scale-up, advanced performance materials, and improved means of COâ‚‚ storage. Our scientists have written more than 1,000 peer-reviewed publications and received more than 10,000 patents since 2010. In addition, we collaborate with more than 80 universities around the world, four energy centers, and several national laboratories. These collaborations have increased knowledge in key areas important to the energy transition: fugitive methane emissions detection and modeling; optimization techniques to understand COâ‚‚ storage; electrification of processes; lower-emission fuels; and energy systems models.