UKCCSRC - Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) What geological CO2 storage can bring to mitigating climate change - UK research perspective

Summary of outcomes from the meeting now available here.

In order to achieve the 2 degrees scenario (2DS) described in the IEA Energy Technology Perspectives Report, a range of urgent actions are required as set out in the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) is highlighted as an important option for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, in fact 85% of scenarios in AR5 require negative emissions via bioenergy with CCS in order to achieve the 2DS. Geological storage has been demonstrated at a number of sites across the world, including the Sleipner and Snohvit sites in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Potential options for storing carbon dioxide (CO₂) deep underground in the UK offshore have been assessed over the last 20 years. Most recently, through the ‘CCS competition’ coordinated by the UK Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC), Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) studies for two projects with storage in the UK sector of the North Sea have been supported. As North Sea demonstration projects move forward, new challenges that require additional research in order to refine various aspects of geological storage technology emerge. UK research partnerships have a key role to play in responding to these challenges.

This event, which will be co-hosted by CO₂GeoNet-BGS and UKCCSRC, will be a focused networking workshop. The proposed and active North Sea demonstration projects will be used to highlight the remaining research needs that can be tackled by UK research partnerships. The focus of the meeting will be to connect researchers, SMEs and industrial players working to get CO₂ storage off the ground in the UK. The event will support the creation of new partnerships between industrial site operators, academic/research institutes and SMEs.

The outline of the event is as follows: Demonstration project operators will describe their identified research gaps and technology needs followed by short presentations from the researchers and SMEs on their (technology) research. The outcomes of the event will be identified technology needs and new research connections.

The aim of the event is to increase dialogue between key stakeholders and develop new research partnerships by drawing together active participants in the UK CCS arena. The event has been recognised as an accredited side event for the pre-COP scientific conference ‘Our common future under climate change’. Following the event, a summary of the main outcomes will be published as a public report on the conference side event webpage.

Please contact Ceri Vincent, BGS at cvi@bgs.ac.uk if you have any questions about this meeting.

REGISTRATIONS FOR THIS MEETING ARE NOW CLOSED.

PROVISIONAL AGENDA:

Time	Name	Institution			Presentation
09:30 – 10:00	Registration and coffee

Morning session: Setting the scene, the CCS landscape in the UK, North Sea and beyond and identifying further research opportunities This session highlights CCS as a key mitigation technology and sets the scene for CCS in the UK. Demonstration site operators and developers will comment on the advanced readiness of CCS and the remaining research improvements to refine aspects of CO₂ storage highlighted by the demonstration projects as we move forward to large scale deployment. Chair: Ceri Vincent, British Geological Survey
10:00 – 10:10	Ceri J Vincent	British Geological Survey			Welcome, outline and event objectives
10:10 – 10:30	Will Lochhead	Department of Environment and Climate Change			Keynote: Supporting CCS Deployment – The UK Government Policy Framework
10:30 – 10:50	Keith Whiriskey	Bellona			What geological storage of CO₂ can contribute to mitigating climate change
10:50 – 11:10	Andrew Green	Energy Technologies Institute			The business case for CCS in the UK
11:10 – 11:30	Marcella Dean	Shell			Moving from demonstration to large scale geological storage in the UK North Sea – an operator’s perspective on research needs
11:30 – 11:50	Andrew Cavanagh	Statoil			CO₂ geological storage in the North Sea – a storage operator’s perspective after injection of 20 million tonnes
11:50 – 12:10	Mervyn Wright	National Grid			CO₂ storage – research needs for storage hubs and clusters in the UK
12:10 – 12:30	Graham Brown	Sonardyne			Research needs to support geological storage and the international market for monitoring technologies
	Robert Hines	Fugro GEOS

12:30 – 13:30	Networking lunch

Afternoon sessions: Research developments These sessions allow for brief presentations by researchers and SMEs on current and new technologies and techniques applicable to offshore storage with a focus on filling the gaps identified by the morning session. Chair: Tom Mallows, The Crown Estate
13:30 – 13:40	Tom Mallows	The Crown Estate			Introduction to afternoon sessions

< p>Session 1: Deep and downhole m onitoring techniques and technologies

13:40 – 13:50	Marcella Dean	Shell			Technology development for Peterhead CCS and Quest CCS
13:50 – 14:00	Andy Chadwick	British Geological Survey			Verification of large-scale CO₂ storage: The role of time-lapse seismics
14:00 – 14:10	Doug Angus	University of Leeds			Advanced seismic techniques
14:10 – 14:20	Laurence Cowton	University of Cambridge			Quantifying thin CO₂ plumes using time-lapse seismic reflections’
14:20 – 14:30	Tom Parker	Silixa			Distributed acoustic and temperature optic fibre technologies
14:30 – 14:40	Discussion

*Session 2:* *Shallow monitoring technologies and techniques*

14:40 – 14:50	Ian Wright		National Oceanographic Centre	AUV and sensor development for CCS MMV
14:50 – 15:00	Jerry Blackford		Plymouth Marine Laboratory	Quantifying baselines of chemistry and biology and modelling of leakage scenarios to for efficient monitoring
15:00 – 15:10	Damien Weidmann		STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory	Laser system for wide surface area mapping of CO₂ emissions
15:10 – 15:20	Discussion

15:20 – 15:40	Coffee

*Session 3: Other research developments* Chair: Ceri Vincent, British Geological Survey

15:40 – 15:50	Tom Mallows		The Crown Estate	The Crown Estate – CO₂ storage research overview
15:50 – 16:00	Sam Krevor		Imperial College London	Characterising CO₂ flow and trapping in storage reservoirs
16:10 – 16:20	Florian Doster		Heriot-Watt University	Fit-for-purpose modelling for CO₂ storage
16:20 – 16:30	Discussion

Closing Session: What’s next for CCS in the UK? Chair: Ceri Vincent, British Geological Survey

16:30 – 17:15	Panel session: What’s next for CCS in the UK?
	Andrew Purvis		Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute
	Theo Mitchell		Carbon Capture and Storage Association
	Tim Dixon		IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme
17:15 – 17:30	Jonathan Pearce		CO₂GeoNet-BGS	Thanks and close of meeting

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