About Meg Coleman, Senior Policy Manager, Energy Transition

Meg Coleman

Senior Policy Manager, Energy Transition

Contact

Remote Office

Work

Areas of expertise:

Orphan wells, legacy well remediation, subsurface energy resource evaluation, oil and gas regulation, geoscience

As a Senior Policy Manager and Geologist at EDF, Meg leads field-based research on detection and characterization of undocumented orphan wells and methane emissions from legacy wells. She serves as principal investigator on the Pennsylvania Abandoned Well (PAW) project, a collaborative field research initiative with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and McGill University aimed at identifying and characterizing undocumented orphan wells and developing scalable methods for legacy well remediation and methane quantification. 

In this role, she develops and supports strategies for improving environmental outcomes of regulation and policies applied to oil and gas, with particular focus on orphaned wells and secure geologic storage of carbon dioxide. She also advises on emerging areas of the energy transition that rely on subsurface development, including enhanced geothermal systems and hydrogen storage.

Background

Prior to joining EDF, Meg spent more than a decade at the U.S. Energy Information Administration, where she managed EIA's short-term and long-term projections of domestic and international oil and gas production.

Meg holds a Ph.D. in Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.Sc. in Geology from Carleton University (Ottawa), and a B.S. in Geology from Middlebury College.

Publications

Coleman, M. and Neff, S. (2015). EIA Outlook: Reversals in U.S. Oil Import Dependency. Energy Strategy Reviews, special issue on current and emerging strategies for U.S. energy independence.

Coleman, M.E. and Hodges, K. (1998). Oligocene-Miocene thermal history of the central Himalaya from 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology, Marsyandi Valley, central Nepal. Tectonics, 17(5), 726–740.

Coleman, M.E. (1996). Orogen-parallel and orogen-perpendicular extension in the central Nepalese Himalayas. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 108, 1594–1607.

Coleman, M.E. and Hodges, K. (1995). Evidence for Tibetan plateau uplift before 14 Myr ago from a new minimum age for east-west extension. Nature, 374, 49–52.