Tell us a little about you.

I started out offshore in the North Sea, working on depleted oil and gas wells. One day in 2012, I had a realisation: what if we filled those wells with CO₂ instead of extracting hydrocarbons from them?
I’d seen CO₂ used to push oil and gas out of reservoirs. Could we reverse the process? Could we store CO₂ in that same infrastructure and build a business that helps the planet?

Offshore life wasn’t a natural fit. I’d always been more at home in the countryside and originally wanted to work in forestry. But living near Aberdeen made oil and gas the obvious path. I knew early on I was more of an entrepreneur than a pure engineer, but I immersed myself in the technical side. I learned everything I could, knowing it would all be useful one day.

Something people might not know about you?

I’m dyslexic and I see that as a strength. Dyslexia pushed me to learn differently, to teach myself, and to trust I’d get there in my own way. That mindset was crucial when starting a company.

It also taught me that you can’t do everything alone. That’s why I brought in my brother Ed about 18 months after founding the business. And it’s why we’ve built a team that complements what I can’t do myself.

How did The Carbon Removers come to be?

The vision’s been clear from day one: remove CO₂ permanently via geological storage. It’s the most scalable and durable solution and the one we’re fully committed to.

Today, we’re working with Greensand Future to inject CO₂ under the seabed in the Danish North Sea. It’s a major step forward. Our customers see the scale and seriousness of what we’re doing and why it matters.

Where will The Carbon Removers be in five years?

Removing carbon at scale, over a million tonnes a year. The world is catching up to carbon removal, and our infrastructure will be ready.

We’ll become the go-to service provider for others in the sector, building the backbone of carbon removal across regions. I see us as market leaders in Scandinavia and the UK, capturing CO₂ in Italy and North America.
We’ll also pioneer UK-based geological storage.

What we’ve learned in Denmark with Greensand Future will be replicated here. By 2029, I expect non-pipeline CO₂ terminals in the UK and we’ll be among the first to supply them.