Scyller Borglum

Dr. Scyller Borglum serves as Vice President for WSP USA’s Underground Storage Market in the Energy National Business Line. In addition to salt cavern development for temporary gas storage, Dr. Borglum is the Deputy Project Manager for the cavern development portion of ACES, Advanced Clean Energy Storage in Delta, UT, the first ever utility scale hydrogen production and storage facility in the world. She is also involved in carbon dioxide sequestration projects with injection wells and depleted reservoirs, natural gas and Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) storage, and compressed air energy storage. Dr. Borglum brings more than two decades of experience in ground-up petroleum engineering, geological engineering research, oil and gas/energy industry, and professional experience.

Dr. Borglum worked in oil fields up and down the Rocky Mountain Front, in Texas, and in the Bakken, North Dakota. Her petroleum engineering work focused mainly on upstream activities as she worked for a service company, an independent, and a major. Dr. Borglum conducted geomechanical studies on various salt and rock types while in graduate school and while working at RESPEC, a world renowned geomechanical testing laboratory. She served as an Oak Ridge Institute of Science and Education Fellow at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Morgantown, WV. Dr. Borglum is not only published in her academic fields, petroleum and geological engineering, but she also co-authored the textbook (2018), The Fossil Fuel Revolution: Shale Gas and Tight Oil. And she has a new book (2024), STEM Study Habits: Successfully Navigate Math, Science, Engineering, and Life for Your Degree for high school and college students (and their parents)!

During her time as elected Representative in the South Dakota State Legislature, Dr. Borglum worked on policies and legislation addressing cradle to grave solar and wind energy development and decommissioning requirements. Dr. Borglum lives in Rapid City, South Dakota with her husband and travels frequently to Houston, Texas for work.