Halliburton Labs Welcomes Four Innovative Startups to Accelerate Energy and Climate Technology Commercialization
Halliburton Labs has announced the addition of four promising early-stage companies—Nandina REM, Noon Energy, Proof Energy, and Tidal Metals—to its growing innovation ecosystem. The initiative reinforces the organization’s commitment to fostering groundbreaking technologies that address the evolving demands of the global energy system while advancing climate solutions.
The four startups will join a collaborative platform designed to accelerate the commercialization of transformative technologies. By leveraging Halliburton Labs’ technical capabilities, industry relationships, and global infrastructure, these companies will gain access to critical resources that help early-stage innovations transition from laboratory concepts to scalable industrial solutions. The program offers mentorship, strategic guidance, laboratory facilities, and direct connections with industry leaders, creating a pathway for emerging technologies to reach market more efficiently.
Building a Collaborative Ecosystem for Energy Innovation
The selection of these companies reflects Halliburton Labs’ broader strategy to support disruptive innovations capable of transforming energy production, storage, materials science, and sustainable resource development. The program is structured to remove barriers that often slow the progress of early-stage technologies, including limited access to industry expertise, infrastructure constraints, and challenges in scaling prototypes to commercial systems.
According to Andres Cabada, managing director of Halliburton Labs, the program’s focus extends beyond traditional incubation models by providing hands-on operational support and access to a global network of partners.
“Our goal is to work closely with these companies and apply the full capabilities of Halliburton Labs to help accelerate their development,” Cabada said. “Through mentorship, global infrastructure, and operational expertise, we help innovators overcome the obstacles that typically delay commercialization. This collaborative environment enables faster progress toward industrial-scale deployment and supports the broader transition to the future of energy.”
Each of the four participating companies brings a unique technology platform aimed at solving some of the most pressing challenges facing modern energy systems and industrial supply chains.
Nandina REM: Transforming the Carbon Fiber Supply Chain
Nandina REM focuses on revolutionizing composite materials manufacturing, particularly carbon fiber production. Carbon fiber is a critical material used across industries such as aerospace, defense, automotive, and renewable energy due to its high strength-to-weight ratio. However, traditional production methods are costly, time-consuming, and heavily reliant on complex global supply chains.
Nandina REM has developed a system that dramatically reduces production time and cost while enabling faster and more automated manufacturing processes. Its technology allows the company to produce aerospace-grade carbon fiber derived from traceable, circular sources, making the material both sustainable and secure.
One of the most significant advantages of the company’s approach is the speed at which materials can be developed and delivered. The process can produce carbon fiber thermoplastics in approximately one-quarter of the time required by conventional supply chains. This improvement significantly accelerates product development cycles and allows manufacturers to innovate much faster.
The company operates at the intersection of several disciplines, including systems engineering, advanced materials science, digital supply chain modeling, and product design. By integrating these capabilities, Nandina REM aims to help industries reduce supply chain risks while ensuring consistent access to critical materials.
Strategically, the company is also well positioned to support efforts to strengthen defense supply chains. With operations linked to Singapore’s strong defense cooperation with the United States, the technology may help reduce reliance on single-source suppliers and support initiatives aimed at reshoring the production of key materials.
Noon Energy: Advancing Multi-Day Energy Storage
Noon Energy is tackling one of the most complex challenges in renewable energy integration: long-duration energy storage. While lithium-ion batteries dominate the current energy storage market, they are typically designed for short-duration applications and can be expensive when scaled for multi-day storage needs.
Noon Energy has developed an alternative storage technology based on solid oxide electrochemical cells. Instead of storing electricity directly in batteries, the system converts energy into industrial gases that can later be used to generate power when needed.
This approach offers several advantages. The company’s technology delivers approximately three times the energy density of traditional lithium-ion systems while requiring a significantly smaller physical footprint. It also relies on abundant and flexible materials rather than critical minerals that often face supply constraints.
The result is a highly adaptable storage solution capable of providing firm, reliable, and clean power for extended periods. Such systems are particularly valuable for supporting grids with high levels of renewable generation, where energy must be stored for days rather than hours.
The technology could also benefit remote communities, industrial facilities, and rapidly expanding sectors such as data centers that require consistent power supply. As utilities move away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy sources, multi-day storage solutions like those developed by Noon Energy could become an essential component of modern power systems.
Proof Energy: Fuel Cell Technology for Low-Carbon Transportation
Proof Energy is focused on decarbonizing commercial transportation using advanced fuel cell technology. The company is commercializing a metallic solid oxide fuel cell (M-SOFC) system originally developed by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Unlike conventional hydrogen fuel cell systems that require complex and costly infrastructure, Proof Energy’s technology can operate using readily available fuels such as ethanol, methanol, ammonia, and natural gas. These fuels serve as hydrogen carriers with higher energy density than compressed hydrogen gas, making them easier and more cost-effective to store and transport.
By utilizing existing fuel distribution networks, the technology could accelerate the adoption of low-carbon energy systems in sectors such as trucking, shipping, and heavy-duty transportation. This approach offers a more practical pathway to decarbonization compared with building entirely new hydrogen production and distribution networks or installing large-scale electric vehicle fast-charging infrastructure.
In addition to its fuel cell platform, Proof Energy has also introduced a complementary technology designed to support battery-electric vehicles in cold climates. Its patented ClearTherm™ Range Defender™ system is a zero-emissions catalytic oxidation heater that helps maintain vehicle performance in winter conditions.
The system prevents the loss of driving range that commonly affects battery-electric vehicles during cold weather by providing efficient thermal management. The ClearTherm technology made its debut at the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo 2024 in Las Vegas and has since moved into commercial deployment with leading electric truck and bus manufacturers as well as fleet operators.
Tidal Metals: Extracting Magnesium from Seawater
Tidal Metals is pioneering a new approach to sustainable resource extraction by targeting the vast reserves of magnesium dissolved in the world’s oceans. Seawater contains an estimated two billion megatons of magnesium, making it the largest accessible source of the metal on Earth.
Magnesium plays an increasingly important role in modern infrastructure and manufacturing due to its lightweight and strong structural properties. It is widely used in industries such as automotive, aerospace, electronics, and renewable energy technologies.
Tidal Metals has developed an electrified process that simultaneously extracts three valuable products from seawater: freshwater, magnesium, and chlorine. The process integrates renewable electricity to convert magnesium into a carbon-neutral structural metal while also supporting desalination efforts that produce potable water.
This integrated approach offers both economic and environmental benefits. By combining desalination and mineral extraction, the technology maximizes the value obtained from seawater resources while reducing waste and energy consumption.
The company’s scalable process could contribute to the development of sustainable supply chains for critical materials while addressing growing global demand for freshwater and industrial minerals.
Accelerating the Future of Energy
The addition of Nandina REM, Noon Energy, Proof Energy, and Tidal Metals highlights the expanding role of Halliburton Labs in shaping the next generation of energy technologies. Each company addresses a distinct aspect of the energy transition—from advanced materials and long-duration storage to low-carbon transportation and sustainable resource extraction.
By bringing these innovators into a collaborative ecosystem, Halliburton Labs aims to shorten the timeline between technological breakthrough and commercial deployment. Access to mentorship, industry expertise, and global networks can help startups overcome the operational and financial challenges that often limit early-stage energy ventures.
As the global energy system evolves to meet rising demand while reducing environmental impact, partnerships between established industry leaders and emerging innovators will play a critical role. Through programs like this, Halliburton Labs is helping create a pathway for technologies that could reshape energy infrastructure, supply chains, and industrial processes in the years ahead.
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