Energy expert Yang Tao returns from Norway to China University of Petroleum

2-MIN READ2-MIN0ListenPublished: 11:00pm, 30 Jun 2026An engineer who spent decades in Norway’s energy industry has returned as distinguished professor at the China-university-of-petroleum-beijing" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="155655" data-entity-type="organization">China University of Petroleum-Beijing, a post he says will build a bridge with Europe to help create sustainable energy solutions.In a ceremony on June 13, university president Jin Yan handed a letter of appointment to Yang Tao, a member of both the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences and the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, for a position at the Chinese institution where he had first earned his chemical engineering degrees.Yang was chief professional and senior specialist at Equinor, Norway’s state-controlled energy company, and was the founding co-chair of the World CCUS Council, which covers carbon capture, use and storage.02:58How China’s energy structure cushions the blows of global oil crisisYang confirmed the China University of Petroleum appointment on his LinkedIn account: “I see this appointment not as the culmination of a career, but as the beginning of a new mission. I hope to serve as a bridge between China and Europe, promoting deeper cooperation in low-carbon technologies, carbon management, digital energy, hydrogen, bioenergy and emerging sustainable solutions”.