Tyler Durham, a GCV Rising Star winner in 2020 and 2021, has left oil services group Schlumberger to join Navigator CO2 Ventures, a carbon capture subsidiary of oil midstream company Navigator Energy Services, as chief development officer.
Durham most recently served as a director at Schlumberger New Energy’s carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) business, where he led investment decisions, partnerships agreements and integration, before which he worked as venture principal for Schlumberger from 2017 to 2021.
“Tyler will be an invaluable asset to accelerating our vision for becoming a preeminent carbon handling platform, having technical expertise across multiple aspects of CCUS and success in growth initiatives and corporate investment strategy,” said Navigator’s chief executive, Matt Vining, in a statement.
“His focus will be on accelerating the continued growth of our complementary service offerings while leading the evaluation of strategic transactions and the many corporate investments currently in front of us.”
He had previously held a number of roles at Schlumberger across North America and the Middle East since 2006, including field engineer, fracturing service manager, quality operations support manager, planning manager and transformation manager.
He also held non-executive positions at emissions monitoring company SeekOps, solar and energy storage developer RayGen and lithium exploration company Pure Energy Minerals.
Image of Tyler Durham courtesy of LinkedIn.