Tentative Technical Agenda

Tuesday, 20 May

Session 1 -- Outline: The Big Picture

Session Managers: Iain Wright and Hanspeter Rohner
0900 - 1230

The workshop will start with a scene setting overview of the global climate change issue, the ecological, societal and political implications for the world at large and the role CO2 emissions from human activities plays in those issues. It is now widely accepted that those CO2 emissions are contributing to undesired climate change effects. The discussions will look at the sources of CO2 emissions, the methods with which such emissions can be curbed and will focus on one of these methods: CO2 Capture and geological Storage (CCS). CCS has the potential to solve a quarter of the global Green House Gas problem and a number of initiatives are underway to encourage widespread deployment. CCS involves capturing CO2 from large single point sources such as power plants, chemical plants, steel mills and other energy intensive industries and storing it in deep geological formations such as depleted oil & gas fields and deep saline formations.

We will elaborate on the rationale for CCS, the potential it has in helping to achieve emission reduction targets and the political and regulatory challenges that have to be overcome to achieve worldwide deployment.

There is no point in capturing CO2 unless it can be securely stored for thousands of years. The oil and gas industry has the knowledge and skills required to select, develop and operate industrial-scale CO2 storage projects. At some point we expect to be called upon to use those skills because if CCS is to contribute its share of the solution to the global GHG problem, that would mean a CCS industry around the same scale as today’s oil and gas industry.

The focus of the workshop is on the geological storage and we will then look at the current state of CO2 storage, R&D and demonstration projects around the world and the outlook for commercial deployment. Session 1 will also set the stage for the following sessions through short reviews of the current state of technology, new technology options, risk issues and potential problem areas and solutions.The workshop will start with a scene setting overview of the global climate change issue, the ecological, societal and political implications for the world at large and the role CO2 emissions from human activities plays in those issues. The discussions will look at the sources of CO2 emissions, the methods with which such emissions can be curbed and will focus on one of these methods: CO2 Capture and geological Storage (CCS). We will elaborate on the rationale for CCS, the potential it has in helping to achieve emission reduction targets and the political and regulatory challenges that have to be overcome to achieve worldwide deployment. The focus of the workshop is on the geological storage and we will then look at the current state of CO2 storage, R&D and demonstration projects around the world and the outlook for commercial deployment. Session 1 will also set the stage for the following sessions through short reviews of the current state of technology, new technology options, risk issues and potential problem areas and solutions.

Discussion Leaders

Climate Change - The Big Picture • Nick Riley, BGS
The Energy Picture: What's going on in CCS? • Kamel Bennaceur, IEA
World organizations and their role in CCS Technology challenge
Integrated CCS projects • Iain Wright, BP Coffee
Current storage technologies overview • Hanspeter Rohner, Schlumberger
Characterization, trapping mechanisms, monitoring, and verification regulatory framework enabling CCS • Scott Brockett, European Commission

Session 2 -- Technical Challenges

Session Managers: Hervé Quinquis and Henk Pagnier
1330-1700

This session together with session 3 will address the many technical questions that must be answered to ensure a long term safe and cost effective storage and will review the tools and methodologies that should be used and sometimes developed to achieve this goal. How much can I store? At what rate? How do I ensure confinement? These questions are at the core of this workshop, hence the discussion will cover both session 2 and 3.

In order to structure this long session we will follow the life cycle of a storage site from the pre-feasibility phase through to the building, then operating, monitoring and finally decommissioning phases. The technical issues that will be reviewed will be very diverse calling on a truly multidisciplinary discussion spanning topics such as basin/reservoir modeling, drilling/completion, well integrity/cements, injectivity, rock/fluid interactions, geomechanics, geochemical/seismic monitoring, risk/uncertainty management, ...This session together with session 3 will address the many technical questions that must be answered to ensure a long term safe and cost effective storage and will review the tools

Discussion Leaders

CO2 stream characteristics • Bjørn Utgård, Bellona Foundation
Feasibility studies • Gilles Munier, GeoGreen
Characterisation and modelling • Yann Le Gallo, IFP
Integrity, storage, and well • Laurent Jammes, Schlumberger
Monitoring • Rob Arts, TNO
Well integrity risk assessment • Bruno Gerard, Oxand
Storage risk management • Ton Wildenborg, TNO

Senior leaders will share their experience and opinions. In the wrap-up of this session, attendees will be asked to highlight the main topics that they would like to see discussed in depth in Session 3.

Wednesday, 21 May

Session 3: -- Technical Challenges

Session Managers: Hervé Quinquis and Henk Pagnier
0900-1230

See Session 2 description

Session 4 -- Case Studies of Geological Storage of CO2

Session Managers: Torsten Clemens and Nicolas Aimard
1330-1700

A number of geological storage of CO2 projects have been considered and implemented. In this session, case studies of the different types of storage projects will be presented. The case studies will include CO2 geological storage in aquifers, coal mines, gas fields and oil fields. The session aims at identifying what has been actually achieved or planned on real field cases and what can be defined as the current state-of-the-art in geological storage technology. Storage integrity prediction models, storage performance and risk management, specific monitoring techniques, project best practices and key uncertainties will be presented and discussed. Learning from the field cases will be derived and brought into context in the technology session held before; technology needs will be illustrated and discussed.

Discussion Leaders

Geological Storage of CO2 in Oilfields • Dragutin Domitrovic, INA
Geological Storage of CO2 in Gas Fields • Marc Lescanne, Total
Geological Storage of CO2 in Coal • Niels van Wageningen, Shell
Geological Storage of CO2 in Acquifers • Allan Mathieson, BP

Thursday, 22 May

Session 5 -- Road Map to Successful CO2 Storage

Session Managers: Bruno Saftic and Arthur Lee
0900-1200

In session 1, we have set out a broad review of the need for carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS). We saw CCS as one option in a portfolio of greenhouse gas mitigation options. In sessions 2-3, we described and reviewed in detail several key technical challenges of CCS. In session 4, we illustrated by example the successes and challenges addressed in specific CCS projects around the world. In this session, we have a panel of experts, together with members of the audience, to address broader questions about issues that can help or hinder deployment. In essence, we need to discuss how a roadmap may be formulated to lead to widespread deployment of CCS.

The issues that will need discussion include:

Urgent need for a legal and regulatory framework, including environmental health and safety limits to long term responsibility considerations, in many countries at the national, supra-national and sub-national level
Understanding the need for incentives to build CO2 transportation infrastructure
Public communication strategies adequate for CCS concept

Discussion Leaders

Regulatory Framework • Ton Wildenborg, TNO
Economics • Paula Coussy, IFP
NGO View • To be confirmed

Following a short presentation from the discussion leaders , separate work groups will spend an hour discussing on "barriers and enabler" before reporting their findings in the form of questions to a panel composed of the discussions leaders, and representatives from oil Co, Service Co, Power Co and academia.