Environmental & Innovation Forum 2026 Feature Speaker: Phil Tomlinson

Phil Tomlinson

Senior Engineering Advisor – Emissions & Energy Infrastructure, Geologic

Phil Tomlinson, P.Eng., Ph.D., is Senior Engineering Advisor, Emissions and Energy Infrastructure at Geologic. With fifteen years of experience spanning materials engineering, asset integrity, emissions management, and data analytics, Phil helps organizations understand emissions, identify reduction opportunities, and improve operational efficiency. His current work connects well, facility, and infrastructure data to uncover where lost or underused energy could become a productive commercial resource. Phil holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of British Columbia and has contributed to research examining the drivers of emissions intensity across the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.

Session Details

Locating Wasted Energy: From Lost Gas to Productive Use

Geologic's unique well, facility and infrastructure data & analytics now makes it possible to find emissions reduction opportunities that are also commercial opportunities, and to rank them basin wide. Partnering with PTAC, Geologic applied this approach in a study spanning 170,000 wells, showing that close to $100 million of natural gas is lost each year to venting and flaring. This session shows where that wasted energy coincides with existing infrastructure and growing power demand, and how operators can evaluate the strongest opportunities on both emissions and business value.