The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Ken Lavin was Live and Local in Tulsa for the ClearSign Technologies Corp. ribbon cutting and press conference. The reason for the event was to recognize ClearSign Technologies’ moving its headquarters from Seattle to Tulsa.
Ken Lavin spoke with their CEO Jim Deller about the big move after the ceremony and celebration. The CEO of Zeeco Inc, Darton Zink, also joined the interview to discuss synergies in energy innovation.
Lavin asked the two CEOs what their company’s respective plans are for 2022, to which Deller said 2022 was about bringing all their research and technology into commercializing and implementing it into the oil and gas industry. Zink said Zeeco will support that commercialization.
“We are gearing up to support the commercialization of ClearSign,” Zink said. “We’ve followed their technology for a long time and have been working in a collaboration agreement officially since August 2020 and we look forward to supporting their efforts to commercialize in what I in my view is a unique and interesting technology.”
The conversation transitioned into how industry needs to speed up their acceptance of new technologies. From ESG to political pressures, there’s a litany of reasons for industry to start adopting more energy innovations.
“The industry needs to get behind supporting new and developing technologies,” Zink said. “We are in an industry that by necessity has historically been conservative when it has come to adopting new technologies but with company’s ESG initiatives and ever mounting pressure on environmental compliance, I think the willingness to embrace technological changes will be critical.”
Deller agreed with Zink regarding cleaner technologies and emission management innovations.
“We need to remember that while there is a big focus on carbon monoxide and the efficiencies of hydrogen, the other emissions lost are very toxic and we do need to keep aware of that,” Deller said. “Really as an industry we have to try new things, have to get better and we’ve go to be flexible when trying new things.”
ClearSign is a provider of industrial combustion and sensing technologies designed to improve energy efficiency and reduce emissions.
Zeeco is a global leader in the design, engineering and manufacture of next-generation combustion equipment and advanced environmental systems. Our equipment plays mission-critical roles in the refining, production, power, LNG, biogas, pharmaceutical, pulp and paper, and numerous other industries around the world.
“Tulsa is the epicenter of the global high-tech combustion industry, with a highly skilled workforce, and where leaders in the industry like our partner Zeeco, Inc. are based,” Deller said for a pre-interview social media quote. “We have been steadily growing our presence in Tulsa and plan to continue to expand with new hires and increased collaboration with our partners and suppliers.”
The Oklahoma Department of Commerce awarded ClearSign an incentive through the Oklahoma 21st Century Quality Jobs Act program.
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