Kurt House

Kurt is an entrepreneur who works at the interface of technology and natural resources as well as an Adjunct Professor in Stanford University’s Energy Resources Engineering Department. In 2008, he founded his first company, C12 Energy, to develop enhanced oil recovery projects using CO2 from industrial sources – C12 Energy acquired multiple properties containing over 60 million barrels of tertiary reserves.

In 2015, Kurt established Phase Change Resources (PCR) as a direct investment platform to acquire North American natural gas assets. At PCR, Kurt helped develop a proprietary, physics-based tool that more accurately forecast natural gas production from hydraulically fractured wells. Leveraging its big data tools, PCR partnered with two large private equity funds to underwrite 12 investment opportunities worth over $1.5 billion combined.

Previously, Kurt was a KAUST Research Fellow at MIT where he studied the optimization of miscible flooding projects. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in earth & planetary science and his B.A. in physics from the Claremont Colleges. Kurt has also worked in private equity and corporate advising for Bain & Company.