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Tuesday, February 09
In the last few years, in particular since the 2018 IPCC Special Report, consensus has grown that we cannot reach the Paris climate goals without CCUS. In this short but not to be missed opening session we speak with Magali Anderson, Chief Sustainability Officer of LafargeHolcim about the role of CCUS as a key enabler of a decarbonised economy.
Speaker Biographies
Magali Anderson, Chief Sustainability Officer, LafargeHolcim
Magali Anderson, French national, 1967, was appointed as a member of the Group Executive Committee of LafargeHolcim in October 2019. She joined LafargeHolcim as Group Head of Health & Safety in October 2016.
Magali started her career as a field engineer on offshore oil rigs in Nigeria. She spent 27 years in the Oil and Gas industry, mainly with Schlumberger, holding operational line management positions like CEO Angola and Region Head Europe.
During her career she also held several functional roles, including Vice President Marketing & Sales, Vice President Shared Services Organization for the Europe and Africa region and Global Head of Maintenance. Magali graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from INSA Lyon, France.
Syrie Crouch, VP, Shell
Syrie has 29 years with Shell, all within the Upstream Development or Exploration Lines of Business. She joined Shell in 1990 after obtaining a degree in Geology from Exeter and a Masters in from Imperial College London. Her career started as an Operations Geologist and Petroleum Engineer working offshore in the North Sea.
Until 2006 Syrie held various technical roles of increasing seniority in the geoscience and subsequently the integrated reservoir modeling (IRM) space culminating in being the lead modeler for Shell Deepwater services and finally the head of IRM in Shell Rijswijk. At this point Syrie expanded her roles from focusing on the subsurface to the full front end development manager positions including opportunities in CO2 EOR in the middle east and Canada. It was during this period that she managed the front-end development, up to and including the public hearing process, as the Sequestration Manager of Shell’s QUEST CCS project in Alberta, Canada, which began operations in 2015 and recently reached the 4 Million Tonnes milestone.
Currently Syrie is a VP in Shell Upstream, with responsibility to develop and mature Shell’s CCUS portfolio globally. Therefore, she currently has oversight of the Scotford CCS, Northern Lights, and projects in The Netherlands, UK and USA with responsibility to ensure that the projects is a viable addition to the Shell portfolio both technically and commercially and will be an enabler of Shells CCUS ambitions.
Syrie is married with two almost grown sons, a couple of dogs and an insatiable requirement for chocolate and earl grey tea, loves hiking, skiing and scuba diving and relieves stress through regular kick-boxing lessons or yoga.
There is a clear need to ramp up the technology required to achieve scale-up from the current capacity level of around 10 Mt/year (CO2 EOR excluded) to the Gt/year level. CO2 should be injected at 100 Million tons in a geological storage. It is to highlight that most of the actual CO2 storage in operation (Sleipner, Snohvit, Quest, Decatur, Gorgon ) are just 1 to 5 million tons of CO2 per annual. The estimations of CO2 storage resources must be carefully assessed following international rules, which is not yet the case. This could lead to over-estimated resources in some areas due to the usual confusion between available pore space and effective storage capacity: proper geological and simulation models have to be used following relevant workflows and using appropriate software able reproducing multiscale and multi-physics phenomena over the long-term and large scale. In addition, should we launch exploration programs to improve the probability of CO2 storage capacity?
Speaker Biographies
Tip Meckel, Senior Research Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology University of Texas
Dr. Tip Meckel is a senior research scientist investigating geologic carbon storage for the Bureau of Economic Geology at The University of Texas at Austin. During his 15 years with the Gulf Coast Carbon Center at the Bureau he has led research focusing on geologic characterization, structural geology, monitoring design, and pressure evolution for CO2 injections. He has been directly involved with many large-scale field demonstration projects funded through the DOE-NETL Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships. After early exposure during the FRIO tests east of Houston in 2006, he co-directed the research program for the SECARB CO2-EOR demonstration project in Cranfield Mississippi, and currently leads the research initiative to identify offshore sequestration potential in the Gulf of Mexico with focus on capacity assessment and high-resolution 3D marine seismic monitoring technologies. Dr. Meckel works closely with offshore CCS developments in Japan and the North Sea. He was a contributor to the 2019 National Petroleum Council study on CCUS, and participated in the formation of the Society of Petroleum Engineer’s Storage Resource Management System (SRMS). Since 2008 he has been PI or Co-PI on 16 CCS grants totaling over $70 million dollars. PhD - UT Austin, MS - Univ. MT.
Phil Ringrose, CO2 storage and reservoir Specialist, NTNU & Equinor
Philip Ringrose is a specialist in CO2 storage and reservoir geoscience at the Equinor Research Centre, Trondheim, Norway. He is also Adjunct Professor in CO2 Storage at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He has published widely on reservoir geoscience and flow in rock media and has recently published textbooks on ‘Reservoir Model Design’ and ‘How to Store CO2 underground.’ He is Editor in Chief for the journal Petroleum Geoscience.
Sylvain Thibeau, Expert, geological storage of CO2, Total; Tip Meckel, Bureau of Economic Geology University of Texas
Sylvain started working on CO2 geological storage in 2000, with contributions to Sleipner CO2 storage in the fields of flow modeling, gravimetric monitoring and chemical impact assessment. He coordinates CO2 geological storage development studies for Total. As such, he also led the geosciences and reservoir aspects of the Lacq demonstration pilot where 51 000 tonnes of CO2 were captured, transported and injected onshore France between 2010 and 2013. Sylvain’s main topic of interest is CO2 geological storage resource assessment of saline aquifers.
Achieving the scale of CCS operations necessary to meet the Paris targets will require development of (large-scale) CCS hubs and clusters, and efficient and cost-effective CCS operations. This requires systemic planning of CCS roll-out, to make best use of scarce space and existing (offshore) infrastructure. Some countries have started to act on this. This session will illustrate needs, pitfalls, and activities.
Speaker Biographies
Ian Phillips, Development Director, Pale Blue Dot Energy Limited
Ian Phillips has over 35 years’ experience in the upstream oil and gas and climate change industries, including 18 years with oil operating companies (Shell, BP, Marathon and Ramco) and 6 years with a major service company (Halliburton).
In 2007 he became a founding Director of CO2DeepStore Limited, and in 2013 he and his CO2DeepStore colleagues launched Pale Blue Dot Energy – an energy transition business consultancy.
Having spent 5 years as CEO of the Oil and Gas Innovation Centre Ian re-joined Pale Blue Dot Energy – now an energy transition development company - in March 2020 as the Development Director.
He is currently involved in developing the carbon storage and low carbon hydrogen businesses of Pale Blue Dot.
He obtained an M.Eng. in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot Watt University (1983), and an MBA through the Open University (1994). He is also a Fellow of the UK Energy Institute and is a Chartered Petroleum Engineer.
He has long been active with the Society of Petroleum Engineers including 4 years as Chair and as a Regional Director on the SPE International Board. He also chairs the local Young Enterprise Board, and lecturers on the MBA programme at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen.
Berend Scheffers, EBN
Berend Scheffers, born in Eindhoven (1963), studied geophysics, specialization seismology, at the University of Utrecht (MSc. 1987). He has a PhD. In technical physics (seismics) from Delft University of Technology (1993).
Berend Scheffers (57) has been working for EBN since 2007 and joined EBN's executive board in 2011.
Before that, he worked at TNO in various roles, as a researcher, business developer, advisor, account manager and research director (1988-2006). Subsequently, he was a senior inspector at State Supervision of Mines (2006-2007) before starting as technical manager at EBN (2007).
In his current role, he is responsible for the development of EBN's strategy. He is also closely involved in the activities of EBN in the field of Exploration, CO2 storage, Geothermal energy and the exploratory activities in the field of new, sustainable gases (green gas, hydrogen).
Berend is active in many public-private partnerships. He also sees a clear role for state participation, especially where they help accelerate, strengthen and improve the energy transition.
He is married and has three daughters.
Kjetil Wilhelmsen, Northern Lights CCS (Equinor, Shell, Total)
Kjetil Wilhelmsen currently a Shell representative to the Northern Lights CCS Joint Venture. In this role he has negotiated the commercial model with the Norwegian state and established a funnel of potential 3rd party customers for Northern Lights CCS, i.e. transportation and permanent storing of liquified CO2. These potential customers represent a wide variety of industries, across North West and Central Europe. Several of these are rapid commercial maturation. Before taking up his current responsibilities, he was based in Doha/Qatar as Upstream New Business Development Manager for Qatar Shell, as well as responsible for establishing a New Energies portfolio in selected countries in the GCC region. Prior to this he was based at Shell’s corporate headquarters in The Hague/The Netherlands, doing global Up-and Midstream New Business Development. Kjetil started his working life in the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy
Wednesday, February 10
Derisking the full CCS value chain is essential for all parties in the chain (emitters, transporters, storage operators) as well as regulators, investors and the society as a whole from the viewpoint of safety and cost effectiveness. This requires CO2 shipping to be part of EU-ETS, policies and financial instruments to mitigate counterparty risk between emitters and transport & storage operators. In addition long term CO2 storage liabilities need to be managed on a portfolio level. This session will address these issues and demonstrate possible solutions for large scale CCS projects.
Fabian Levihn, Head of R&D, Stockholm Exergi
Fabian is Head of R&D and part of the management team of the business development department at Stockholm Exergi. Part time he he is also a research fellow at the department of Industrial Economics and Management at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). Stockholm Exergi is the largest energy utility in Stockholm and operates one of the most advanced urban multi energy systems in the world.
Jan Theulen, Mechanical Engineer, Heidelberg Cement
Graduated as Mechanical Engineer, Jan started his career in the Chemical and Pharma Industry.
He joined the cement industry in 1992 as project manager and moved into developing waste derived fuel programs starting in Europe, and expanding into Turkey, China, Indonesia and Morocco.
In his current position, he is driving the companies engagement in Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage. Having successfully launched proven and innovative carbon capture demonstration projects, such as LEILAC and Oxyfuel, he developed further the business cases of various CO2-Use and CO2-Sequestration opportunities.
Bridging the expectations and needs of society, politics and industry, he matures ideas into reality. By teaming up with innovative technology providers as well as long-standing-companies (like oil and gas), he is building a pragmatic path to realize carbon neutrality for HeidelbergCement.
The world is racing towards Net Zero ambitions with over 50% of the GDP contributors announcing voluntary Net Zero Ambitions or in countries that have announced Net Zero Ambitions. Net Zero is only achievable if the world embraces CCUS in significant amounts, whichever energy transition scenario we follow. The challenge is how do we make CCUS both affordable and commercial as while Government subsidies may be vital to kick start this industry to be sustainable and reach the potential, we require it will need to become both investible and commercial.
Speaker Biographies
Mark Sisouw de Zilwa, Managing Director, Energy - Head Techincal Team, ING
Mark has worked at ING Bank for 20 years and is heading the Energy technical team supporting ING’s conventional and renewable energy financing globally. Mark has worked over 34 years in the Energy industry and worked internationally for Shell and Stork/Jacobs before joining ING bank.
Mark has led ING’s Energy Transition Scenario Planning (2017-2019) which is an important risk management tool within ING and his team is currently actively supporting the project financing initiatives on new technology projects in the fields of CCUS, Hydrogen, and Electricity Storage.
Mark holds a M.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering from Delft University in The Netherlands.
Margriet Kuiper, Civil Engineer, MK Consultancy
Margriet Kuijper is a Civil Engineer (Delft University) who has worked for Shell companies in various countries and various positions (project management, HSE, Social performance, CCS). Since 2016 she is working as an independent consultant. She has co-written the updated report on CO2 Transport and Storage in NL (Gasunie, EBN), the NL CCS Roadmap (for ministry of EZK) and the NL CCUS Pathfinder report (OGCI). Margriet is currently working on the concept of a Carbon Take Back Obligation in order to reduce the emissions of the continued use of fossil fuels.
Rowan Haddad, Reservoir Engineer, EBN
Rowan is a Reservoir Engineer with 10 years of experience in the oil and gas E&P sector, from integrated green to brown gas field developments across Europe and Africa. In the last few years, whilst working on brown field developments in the Netherlands, Rowan has developed an interest in the utilization of depleted gas fields for CO2 storage. Working at EBN, Rowan is currently focusing on the development of Porthos (The Port of Rotterdam CO2 transport hub and offshore storage), connecting the subsurface storage to the transport hub through an integrated approach to minimize risk and ensure the project’s commercial success. Rowan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and a Master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering from Imperial College London.
Thursday, February 11
Carbon capture and storage technology has an important role in the energy transition however projects often face strong opposition. It is becoming increasingly clear that traditional techniques of communication with local stakeholders are no longer sufficient. In our changing society the perimeter of a project is no longer fixed and the range of stakeholders involved in the definition of a project should reflect the full diversity of concerns, locally and globally. Social engagement must be a dynamic and two-way process throughout the project lifecycle. This interactive participatory session aims to raise awareness of the importance of social governance and stakeholder engagement and to illustrate the collective nature of the challenge ahead. Current best practices will be identified and examples of social governance in action on high profile projects will be presented. Experts from the social sciences will explain the theoretical foundation of social engagement and discuss ongoing research and innovation.
Speaker Biographies
Denise Horan, Stakeholder Manager
Denise Horan has spent the last 12 years in senior stakeholder engagement and communications roles with oil and gas multinational Shell and more recently with global building materials leader CRH. Prior to this she worked as a journalist for eight years, including three as editor of a regional newspaper in her native Ireland.
Denise’s stakeholder management skills were honed in particular during her time on the controversial Corrib Gas Project in Ireland and subsequently on the Peterhead Carbon Capture and Storage Project in Scotland.
After several years in international roles in the UK, the Netherlands and Kazakhstan, Denise is now back home in Ireland, leading the stakeholder management work on a major offshore wind project off the east coast.
Laurent Jammes, Director of Industrial Relations, CNRS-INSU
Laurent Jammes is Director of Industrial Relations at the Universe and Earth Sciences Institute of the CNRS (CNRS-INSU), in charge of valorization and innovation, and collaborative research projects involving industry partners, for the four domains: Solid Earth, Ocean/Atmosphere, Continental Surfaces/Interfaces, and Astronomy/Astrophysics. Laurent is also Industry Liaison officer for France, for ESO (European Southern Observatory) and SKA (Square Kilometer Array telescope), in charge of promoting technological solutions developed by the French industry for the benefit of ESO and SKA projects.
Laurent has an Engineering degree from Ecole Centrale de Paris, a PhD in nuclear physics and a Master’s degree in Psychology. He first worked for 23 years with Schlumberger, a multinational service company of the Oil & Gas sector, in various R&D positions in France and China. His last position was Marketing & Technique director for Carbon Services, the business unit in charge of developing CCS technology and business. In 2011, Laurent left Schlumberger, to develop a consulting business in the field of energy transition and sustainable development, through Actys-BEE, a company he co-founded, and as Senior Advisor for ENEA Consulting. He developed an expertise in new energy technologies for the energy transition (renewable energies, hydrogen, energy storage, geothermal energy) and still conducts research on the social aspects of the deployment conditions of these technologies.
Laurent is a member of several evaluation committees for research programs on “safe, clean and efficient energy” (France) and “CO2 Storage” (EU, Norway, Germany) and Eurostar. He has given many short training courses and lectures to utilities, Oil & Gas companies and governmental agencies. He currently teaches at the GREEN Master at the University of Caen Basse-Normandie (Energy & Society) and at the CIFE European Master on Energy.
Laurent is a member of SPE and Evolen.
Monitoring, Measurement, and Verification (MMV) plan is one of the central parts of the CCS storage operations by providing an important communication tool with authorities, public, internal and external stakeholders. It consists of ensuring that CO2 storage is carried out safely in a saline aquifer or depleted hydrocarbon field by demonstrating absence of leakage throughout the project cycle (pre-, during, and post-injection). Emphasis should be put on linking the MMV plan to project/storage risks with associated corrective measures for contingencies in place. The session aim it to provide an overview of current practices from a series of CCS projects.
Speaker Biographies
Anne-Kari Furre, Advisor in Reservoir Geophysics, Equinor
Anne-Kari Furre is an advisor in reservoir geophysics with Equinor ASA. She received a Cand Scient (Master) in Physics from the University in Trondheim (1992), focussing on extracting energy from ocean waves and went on to a Dr Ing (PhD) in drilling and engineering from Norwegian University of Technology and Science (1997), focussing on experimental studies of anisotropic rocks.
She started her professional career as a researcher with Statoil in 1997. She worked within both petroleum technology and exploration, primarily with research, but also as an operating geophysicist.
Her main areas of interests are time-lapse seismic (oil, gas and CO2 monitoring), and rock physics. She has published several articles on time-lapse seismic experiences from Statoil/Equinor (since 2011 focussing on CCS monitoring and in particular Sleipner time-lapse monitoring) and she is presently responsible for developing a monitoring plan for the Norwegian full scale CCS project Langskip/Longship in the Northern North Sea.
Erik Nickel, PTRC
Erik Nickel graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a degree in Geology in 1994 and obtained his Master of Science in geology from the University of Regina in 2008. After a 5 year tour as a wellsite geological consultant, Erik spent 15 years as a research geologist with the petroleum geology branch of the Saskatchewan Geological Survey. His research interests, while there, were primarily in the Mississippian carbonates of southeast Saskatchewan, performing some of the original injection reservoir characterization for Petroleum Technology Research Centre’s (PTRC) Weyburn CO2 EOR and CCS project starting in 2001. Erik also studied many other aspects of Saskatchewan’s petroleum and natural gas resources, most notably an extensive body of work on the geology of Bakken tight oil reservoirs. Erik joined the PTRC in 2014 and is primarily responsible for the management and delivery of their research programs. These include the Heavy Oil Research Network (HORNET), and the PTRC’s Aquistore carbon capture and storage project.
Nicholas Thompson, Equinor
Nicholas completed bachelor and masters degrees in the US, a PhD in the UK and postdoc work at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, all in the fields of geology, rock mechanics and geological engineering, before joining the Rock Mechanics group in Statoil/Equinor in 2010. Nicholas’ focus has been primarily in geomechanical and injection modeling, data collection, in situ and laboratory testing and fault reactivation, mainly in support of challenging, early phase field development projects regarding geomechanical feasibility and risk understanding. Nicholas has been supporting both existing and developing CCS projects since 2013, from both research and field development perspectives, including the Northern Lights project since its beginning. As of 1 February Nicholas has moved permanently to the Northern Lights subsurface team to support the project’s future development.
At the end of our workshop which offers participants insights along the entire CCUS value chain, from storage capacity to infrastructure, from the regulatory framework to social governance and from commercializing storage to monitoring, measuring and verification of storage, we will wrap up with a guest panelist and summarize key takeaways.