Biography

Mr. Wesley D. Peck is Assistant Director for Subsurface Strategies at the EERC, where he is involved in subsurface resource development with an emphasis on the Williston and Powder River Basins. He recently served as principal investigator on the multiyear U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)-sponsored North Dakota CarbonSAFE Feasibility project. He also served as task lead and principal investigator of the regional geologic characterization component of the Plains CO2 Reduction Partnership (PCOR) Partnership Program, which focused on CO2 storage in central North America. Mr. Peck has led a full-CO2-chain techno-economic investigation in North Dakota linking lignite mining and electric generation to CO2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR).