Senior Research Analyst - CCUS

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Wood Mackenzie’s Energy Transition Research

Wood Mackenzie’s research groups provides integrated subscription, research and advisory services to inform and support our client’s commercial and strategic decisions in the complex and rapidly changing energy industry across all sectors of the economy.

Combining our deep knowledge of solar, wind, storage, and grid technologies, combined with our global power and hydrocarbon fuels modeling and analytical capabilities, and emerging technologies like hydrogen and CCUS, Wood Mackenzie can provide data and insight spanning the entire energy value chain. We cover supply chain, technology, policy and market issues, fundamentals-based outlooks, scenario modelling, price forecasting, asset valuation, and commodity market landscapes.

Team Profile

This role will serve as a mid-level analyst within Wood Mackenzie’s CCUS global research team, which collaborates across the Americas, APAC, and EMEA, and is part of the Carbon Management division. The successful candidate will be expected to spearhead critical research efforts and for certain efforts, manage teams of analysts. This is an excellent opportunity to join a talented and growing team and make a major contribution to the energy transition at a global scale.

The Carbon Management division is a key pillar of Wood Mackenzie’s Energy Transition research, drawing upon multiple commodity areas. The group’s work helps our clients understand market trends across the several of the critical technologies enabling the energy transition. Coverage spans emissions, carbon markets, CCUS, abatement technologies, and scenario modelling.

Carbon Management and the CCUS team within it are both growing quickly as we help to drive the pace and scale of the energy transition and to serve different customer segments with integrated analysis.

In the CCUS team we build cost and asset models, interpret policies, track market activity, assess new technologies and build deployment forecasts. We have successfully launched a Lens Carbon analytics platform to help our customers make the best-informed decisions in this market.

Our clients are responsible for the success of their firms’ technology roadmaps, project development, corporate strategy relating to economic value of projects, competitive positioning, product marketing, and go-to market strategies.

Key internal collaborations within Wood Mackenzie are with our expert groups on subsurface CO2 storage, carbon markets, hydrogen and industries to which CCUS is a potential abatement technology (upstream, LNG, refining, chemicals, power, and metals).

Role Purpose

This role will be responsible for covering the CCUS market in the North America region and enhancing its depth and breadth. It is also important to bring strong global context to regional discussions, and you will work closely with the global CCUS team members to develop our global views. There will be one or more categories of broad CCUS research, especially regarding capture and other technologies where you will be expected to spearhead Wood Mackenzie’s research efforts on a global scale.  

You will develop and enhance Wood Mackenzie’s proprietary datasets on CCUS. And together with our Data and Product teams you will contribute new views, insights and analytics as the market grows.

You will be responsible for economic modelling of CCUS projects, feeding into our Lens Carbon Valuations Service, as well as contributing to team expertise on t