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Houston financial services firm brings onboard energy veteran

Pickering Energy Partners entered into a collaborative partnership with Rick Mauro to support clients in carbon sequestration and methane mitigation efforts. Photo courtesy of Pickering Energy Partners

A Houston-based energy-focused financial services platform has brought onboard an industry veteran to offer a unique insight to its clients.

Pickering Energy Partners announced a collaborative partnership with energy veteran Rick Mauro to further support clients in carbon sequestration and methane mitigation efforts.

PEP ESG Consulting team’s clients will have access to comprehensive strategic and technical consulting services, which will cover a broader spectrum of environmental and sustainability needs according to the company.

Mauro brings energy transition and oil and gas expertise through his career at Halliburton and Mobil Oil. He has hands-on experience in various operational settings like onshore and offshore assets in North America, Australia, Asia Pacific, and Kuwait with his geology background. He also advises client teams at Halliburton subsidiary Landmark Services Line and consulting firm Decision Strategies.

“Rick’s extensive work with constituents across multiple organizational levels, from operations to executive management, brings a versatile and well-informed viewpoint to our projects,” Dan Romito, head of PEP ESG Consulting, says in a news release. “Our goal is to offer energy-focused clients a well-rounded and technically proficient approach to ESG benchmarking and reporting.”

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Houston American Energy Corp. will break ground on its first advanced recycling facility in Q4. Photo via Getty Images.

Houston American Energy Corp. (NYSE: HUSA) plans to break ground on its new advanced recycling facility in the Cedar Port Industrial Park in Q4, the company shared in an announcement this week.

The company acquired a 25-acre, $8.5 million site for development in July from TGS Cedar Port Partners, which handles approximately 5 billion pounds of plastic resin annually. HUSA also plans to build the Abundia Innovation Center on the site.

HUSA named Houston-based Corvus Construction Company the design and construction partner on both projects.

“The site at Cedar Port is in the largest master-planned rail and barge served industrial park in the United States with direct access to the Houston Ship Channel and the Port of Houston,” Ed Gillespie, CEO of HUSA, said in a news release. “It provides robust logistical advantages for the transportation of both feedstock and our low-carbon drop-in fuels and chemical products. Critically, the region has a deep pool of engineering and operations talent. HUSA looks forward to working with local communities and adding economic growth in the Gulf Coast region.”

The new advanced recycling facility will convert plastic waste into pyrolysis oil and will serve as a hub for a five-year development plan designed to scale production capacity.

The facility will be built around New York-based Abundia Global Impact Group LLC’s technologies and proprietary pyrolysis process, which converts plastic and certified biomass waste into high-quality renewable fuels.

HUSA acquired AGIG this summer. At the time, the combined company shared that it planned to serve a multi-billion-dollar global demand for renewable fuels, Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and recycled chemical feedstocks.

The Abundia Innovation Center is planned to serve as a state-of-the-art research and development facility for the renewable energy sector, aiding in the commercial and technical validation of new technologies. HUSA previously announced that Nexus PMG, also based in Houston, will provide strategic support and guidance in the development of the innovation hub.

According to HUSA, the recycling facility and innovation center will “create the foundation for HUSA’s long-term vision to be a leader in the low-carbon fuels sector by driving collaborative innovation.”

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