
Energy abundance for the betterment of humanity.
Spiritus is a direct air capture company built to solve the problem that has stalled numerous DAC technologies: cost. We deliver CO2 at prices that work in the field, not just on a spreadsheet. That starts with enhanced oil recovery, the largest proven use of CO2 in the world, and the fastest path to scaling DAC beyond pilot projects. There are an estimated 70 billion barrels of U.S. oil recoverable with CO2 injection, 40 billion of them in the Permian Basin alone. Less than one percent of that prize has been unlocked to date. The constraint was never geology. It was access to affordable CO2. Spiritus closes that gap, delivering captured CO2 at a cost structure that, combined with the 45Q tax credit, makes the economics work for operators today. The only thing standing in the way of abundant, low-carbon energy in the US is CO2. Spiritus solves that problem by bringing new, affordable CO2 supply to the basins and oil patches that need it most.
Leadership
Charles Cadieu, PhD
Co-Founder / CEO
Founder, CEO - Caption Health
Acquired by GE HealthCare
AI ultrasound
TIME 100 Best Inventions
Founder - IQ Engines
Acquired by Yahoo!
AI image understanding
AI PhD, Berkeley
James Burbridge
Director of Business Development
Led the North America Advisory team at Carbon Direct advising major carbon removal buyers
Designed the XPRIZE Carbon Removal and operated the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE
MBA, Rotterdam
Roman Wolff
EVP of Engineering
Eng Leader
Merichem, Origin Materials (ORGN), and TETRA Technologies (NYSE: TTI)
Led scale-up of seven process technologies in oil & gas at Merichem
Built the technical organization at Origin Materials from 3 engineers to 160 people in 2 years across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and EH&S
Drove $150M first-of-a-kind plant build and $1B+ scale up at Origin Materials
BS, MS, Chemical Engineering, University of Houston
Kip Hensley
Head of Project Development
VP of Technical Services
Brightmark
30 projects developed, constructed, and put into operations
$400M+ of capital deployed
Led development and engineering teams spanning development, construction, and operations
BS Mechanical Engineering, UC San Diego MBA, UC Berkeley
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