Mr. Capuano is a graduate from University of Southwestern Louisiana with a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering.  He has worked in the drilling industry since 1971. In 1974, Mr. Capuano moved to Santa Rosa, CA to open the geothermal office for Aminoil USA. Mr. Capuano has worked continuously in the geothermal industry since 1974, in most of the geothermal fields throughout the world. He has experience with vapor dominated fields, liquid dominated fields, geopressure geothermal reservoirs, and EGS geothermal systems.

Mr. Capuano built ThermaSource into a successful, well-recognized, full service provider for the drilling of wells in the geothermal industry.  Mr. Capuano is a member of the Geothermal Resources Council (GRC), Geysers Geothermal Association, Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), and International Geothermal Association (IGA). Mr. Capuano has served on Industry Advisory Panels for LBL, DOE, Los Alamos National Lab, and Sandia National Lab. He is also Member of the founding Committee of the Geysers Geothermal Association and served as it’s founding President from 1983-85. He is a Board of Directors member since founding of organization and member of the Executive Committee until 1991. He has been a Member of Industry Advisory Panels for LBL, DOE, Los Alamos National Lab, Sandia National Lab, as well as a Board member of the Geothermal Energy Association headquartered in Washington D.C. He has also presented papers and performed duties as instructor and organizer at numerous geothermal workshops and seminars. He also teaches the week long class on Geothermal Drilling at the University of Nevada in Reno, NV. This session is offered yearly as the National Geothermal Academy, a U.S. DOE sponsored workshop that gives college credit for the 8-week course.

Ronald (Ron) Sweatman is Principal Advisor – Petroleum Engineering, Reservoir Development Services, Baker Hughes Inc. and provides solutions for reservoir development challenges in projects for oil & gas exploration and production, enhanced oil recovery (EOR), gas (CO₂ & CH₄) storage, and geothermal energy. Engineer graduate from BJ Hughes’ internal Well Services Engineering School majoring in Stimulation, Cementing, and Sand Control. Also majored in Chemistry at LSU and Petroleum Engineering at USL, completed over 50 continuing education courses, and has 45 years of engineering and operations experience in well construction and production technologies. He has served on more than 20 industry committees including the CSA Z741 standard for CCS projects, 2010 API/IADC Joint Industry Task Force for the Macondo well control incident, authored over 100 technical publications, received 9 industry awards, and invented 44 patented technologies including those for:

Well cementing - cement additives and methods to place cement barriers in wells

Well integrity – pressure barrier testing/repair and remote detection of leaks

Reservoir flow monitoring/control for reservoir fluid containment & EOR sweep efficiency 

Hydraulic fracturing stimulation for shale and other tight formations

Downhole thermal modelling to predict initiation of kicks after drilling & flow after cementing

On-demand-at-the-bit changes in drilling fluid properties

Wellbore strengthening, lost circulation control, & trouble zone drilling diagnostics  

 Converting oil & gas reservoirs to produce geothermal energy

Ronald's presentation, “Well integrity in CCS/CCUS projects" will focus on best practices to design and construct new wells to resist corrosion and to find and seal leaks in old and new wells before they become big issues.