Stephen Brooks

About Stephen Brooks

I currently serve as Commercial Vice President for Lone Cypress Energy Services, LLC…

Experience

1. Commercial Vice President

   Lone Cypress Energy Services, Llc

   Jun 2023 — Present

   As the Commercial Vice President at Lone Cypress, my duties and responsibilities include the following: • Currently developing a large-scale, 65 ton per day blue hydrogen facility near Bakersfield, CA under a partnership between Lone Cypress, California Resource Corporation, and Brookfield. • Responsible for sourcing and managing all offtake customers and partners for the facility. Customers span a myriad of industries including heavy and light duty mobility, maritime shipping, materials handling, power generation, stationary back-up power, and international commodity markets. • Responsible for development of project financial model. • Responsible for integration of engineering and procurement decisions into overall project financial outlook. • Aided in development of offtake contract structuring and commercial risk management. • Responsible for calculation of carbon intensity for the hydrogen generated in the project. • Responsible for sourcing renewable natural gas (RNG) attributes, renewable electricity certificates (RECs), the qualification and monetization of these attributes under the applicable private and public frameworks. • Lead engagement efforts with the Depart of Energy’s Loan Program Office to unlock green financing for the project. • Policy expertise: involved understanding of federal and state decarbonization frameworks, programs, and subsidies. These include the Inflation Reduction Act, Low Carbon Fuel Standards (LCFS), Canadian Clean Fuel Standards (CFS), Voluntary Carbon Markets, and Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill. • Member of the HALO Hydrogen Hub Consortium which developed and submitted a comprehensive strategy for the development of a hydrogen hub in the tri-state AMI of Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas. • Focused on the development of low-carbon hydrogen, ammonia, renewable natural gas, and carbon capture facilities throughout North America.

Skills

• Production Engineering
• Project Management
• Tibco Spotfire Data Analytics Software
• Leadership
• Public Speaking
• Reserves
• Phdwin Integrated Economics and Decline Curve Analysis Software
• Microsoft Word
• Aries Petroleum Economics Software
• Powerpoint
• Engineering Design
• Microsoft Excel
• Reservoir Engineering
• Procurement
• Microsoft Office
• Autocad