Dr. Larter was appointed as associate vice-president (research – innovation) (AVPR-I), effective Feb. 25, 2019 at the University of Calgary.

[2] Dr. Larter has been a co-founder of numerous technology startup companies, including Gushor Inc. (now part of Schlumberger), and is a chief scientist of the Creative Destruction Lab-Rockies.

He has also worked on transition technologies for zero-emission energy recovery, including direct hydrogen or electricity production from oil and gas fields and for capturing and sequestering carbon dioxide on a large scale.

From 1979 to 1986 he worked as Senior Geochemist Researcher at the Unocal Corporation and from 1987 to 1989 was a visiting professor of petroleum at the University of Oslo in Norway.

[5] In June 1993, Larter have studied petroleum on Ula oil field by collecting quartz, albite, and orthoclase minerals.