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Can’t-miss Houston energy event: CCS/Decarbonization Project Development, Finance & Investment Summit

A two-day summit focused on decarbonization project development is in Houston this week. Photo via Getty Images

Calling all investors, emitters and developers in the decarbonization space.

When: Monday, July 24, from 8 am to 6:30 pm, and Tuesday, July 25, from 8 am to 3 pm

Where: Hilton Houston Post Oak by the Galleria (2001 Post Oak Blvd)

Price: $1,995 for full summit access

Who: Professionals within project development, emitters, providers of tax equity, development capital, and cash equity in the energy industry

Learn more and register.

Infocast’s CCS/Decarbonization Project Development, Finance & Investment Summit will bring together project developers, emitters, providers of tax equity, development capital and cash equity to explain the latest developments, showcase critical market information, and provide an “inside view” from the perspectives of all the players in these deals.

What to expect from the summit:

  • Learn how your project can take maximum advantage of ALL available federal and state programs and incentives – including those in the IRA And IIJA
  • Get detailed business case information on the latest Direct Air Capture and emissions capture decarbonization projects
  • Hear from emitters on their needs and what they are looking for in CCS/decarbonization projects
  • Understand the critical elements in structuring these projects to attract tax equity, development capital and cash equity financing
  • Receive a detailed briefing from tax equity, cash equity and development capital providers on how they will assess potential investments in this brand-new asset class

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A View From HETI

Anwar Sadek of Corrolytics joins the Houston Innovators Podcast to discuss his company's growth and move to Houston. Photo courtesy

Houston-based Corrolytics approach is to help revolutionize and digitize microbial corrosion detection — both to improves efficiency and operational cost for industrial companies, but also to move the needle on a cleaner future for the energy industry.

"We are having an energy transition — that is a given. As we are bringing new energy, there will be growth of infrastructure to them. Every single path for the energy transition, corrosion will play a primary role as well," Anwar Sadek, co-founder and CEO of Corrolytics, says on the Houston Innovators Podcast.

The technology Sadek and his team have created is a tool to detect microbial corrosion — a major problem for industrial businesses, especially within the energy sector. Sadek describes the product as being similar to a testing hit a patient would use at home or in a clinic setting to decipher their current ailments.



Users of the Corrolytics test kit can input their pipeline sample in the field and receive results via Corrolytics software platform.

"This technology, most importantly, is noninvasive. It does not have to be installed into any pipelines or assets that the company currently has," Sadek explains. "To actually use it, you don't have to introduce new techniques or new processes in the current operations. It's a stand-alone, portable device."

Corrolytics hopes to work with new energies from the beginning to used the data they've collected to prevent corrosion in new facilities. However, the company's technology is already making an impact.

"Every year, there is about 1.2 gigaton of carbon footprint a year that is released into the environment that is associated with replacing corroded steel in general industries," Sadek says. "With Corrolytics, (industrial companies) have the ability to extend the life of their current infrastructure."

Despite having success in taking his technology from lab to commercialization, Sadek made the strategic decision to move his company, Corrolytics, from where it was founded in Ohio to Houston.

"Houston is the energy capital of the world. For the technology we are developing, it is the most strategic move for us to be in this ecosystem and in this city where all the energy companies are, where all the investors in the energy space are — and things are moving really fast in Houston in terms of energy transition and developing the current infrastructure," Sadek says.

And as big as a move as it was, it was worth it, Sadek says.

"It's been only a year that we've been here, but we've made the most developments, the most outreach to clients in this one last year."

Sadek says his move to Houston has already paid off, and he cites one of the company's big wins was at the 2024 Houston Innovation Awards, where Corrolytics won two awards.

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This article originally ran on InnovationMap.

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