
Mark Shuster
Interim Director,
Bureau of Economic Geology
Mark Shuster is Deputy Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin overseeing the Bureau’s Energy Research Division. Mark also leads the GeoH2 consortium at the University of Texas at Austin. The GeoH2 consortium conducts research on geological and in situ generation of hydrogen, geological storage of hydrogen, and techno-economic and value chain analysis. In addition to leading GeoH2, Mark was a co-author of the U.S. National Petroleum Council’s study on the deployment of low carbon intensity hydrogen. Mark joined the Bureau in 2016 after retiring from Shell. In Mark’s 30 year career at Shell, he worked in upstream research and exploration as a Geologist, Manager, Vice President, and Executive Vice President in the US, the Netherlands, Australia, Oman, and the U.A.E. on projects around the globe. Mark is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, and the Geological Society of America. He is past president of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, former Vice-Chair of the American Geosciences Institute Foundation, and Trustee of the AAPG Foundation. Mark has a PhD in Geology from the University of Wyoming.
Sessions
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25-Jun-2025Infrastructure and IntegrationPanel Discussion: Overcoming the Challenges of Hydrogen Storage in Salt Caverns