CCS Training Course (Sheffield, 4-5 November 2024)

Following a successful UKCCSRC-hosted CCS training course in 2023, we will again be bringing together leading experts in CCS to provide both a high-level overview of the CCS chain and deep-dive parallel sessions into specific topics.  An outline agenda is below, with more detail to follow soon.

The course will take place at the The Edge, University of Sheffield, on Monday 4th-Tuesday 5th November 2024.  There is also the opportunity for attendees to stay and attend the UKCCSRC Knowledge Exchange Conference on Tuesday 5th-Wednesday 6th November.

The course will be targeted at the UK governments (Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), devolved governments and other government departments), regulators, industry and others new to CCS, who want to increase their knowledge and understanding of CCS.

The UKCCSRC is a member of the CPD Certification Service and this course has been CPD certified.

The course, including networking dinner, costs £525 – bookings are now closed (Tuesday 29th October).

Agenda (subject to change)

Day 1 – Monday 4th November 2024

Diarmaid Clery, University of Manchester

Dr Diarmaid Clery is a Lecturer in Engineering for Net Zero at the University of Manchester. His background is in engineering, having worked as an engineer in the energy industry and having published academic work on technical aspects of Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) and greenhouse gas removal (GGR). He now works with stakeholders and communities in the UK’s industrial clusters to assess the factors influencing the social licence to operate for industrial decarbonisation.

Chloe Evans, National Wealth Fund

Chloe is an Assistant Director in Banking & Investments team at the National Wealth Fund, where she structures and negotiates transactions to deliver NWF’s twin mission of helping tackle climate change and delivering regional and local economic growth throughout the UK. She has spent the last 18 months working in the CCUS sector, engaging with companies and assessing projects across the value chain. Prior to NWF, she spent eight years working in UK Export Finance, specialising in Project Finance transactions across the Energy sector in emerging markets.

Jon Gibbins, University of Sheffield and UKCCSRC

Jon Gibbins is Professor of CCS at the University of Sheffield and director of the UK CCS Research Community Network+.  He has worked on energy engineering, fuel conversion and CCS for 45 years, initially in industry and then as a university academic.  Since 2002 Jon has been heavily involved in CCS activities, working on post-combustion capture and its effective integration and, through the UKCCSRC, helping to start now-mainstream UK initiatives on industrial decarbonisation (2012) and CCS clusters (2016). His personal research activities now centre around practical aspects of CCS deployment, with an emphasis on policy and economic requirements plus detailed analysis of matching capture plant designs to market conditions, supported in particular by the facilities at the Translational Energy Research Centre in Sheffield.  He is active in reviewing Best Available Technology (BAT) status for CO₂ capture technologies and is also a Vice Chair of the UNECE Group of Experts on Cleaner Electricity Systems, specialising in CCS.

Stephen Glenville, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Stephen is a Senior Policy Advisor in the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero, part of the UK Government. For the last 3 years, Stephen has worked on the policy design of the Dispatchable Power Agreement, the commercial framework to support investment and deployment of the natural gas fired power stations equipped with CCS. Stephen is working on the Track 1 Power CCUS project, seeking to bring forward construction and operation of the worlds first commercial scale Power CCUS facility by the late 2020’s. Stephen has also been involved in the development of the CO2 Transport & Storage Network Code. Prior to joining the Department, Stephen was a pollution inspector for the Environment Agency for twelve years, regulating large combustion and waste incineration plant in Yorkshire, including Drax Power Station and Triton Power CCGTs, latterly working on the regulation of capture solvent emissions.

Stuart Haszeldine, UKCCSRC and University of Edinburgh

As Professor for CCS at the University of Edinburgh, Stuart has created the UK’s largest University group examining CO2 storage geology. He has over 40 years research experience in energy, innovating new approaches to oil and gas, radioactive waste, carbon capture and storage, and biochar. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2002 for research on radioactive waste disposal, awarded the Geological Society William Smith Medal in 2011 for work on the geochemistry of oil and gas field reservoir quality, appointed OBE in 2012 for service to climate change technologies, and in 2021 he was appointed Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He is also the Director of SCCS.

Mathieu Lucquiaud, University of Sheffield

Mathieu Lucquiaud is Professor of Clean Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He has a first degree in Energy and Environmental Engineering from the National Institute of Applied Science (INSA Lyon, France ) in 2004 and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London, UK in 2010. He joined the University of Sheffield in 2022, after 12 years in the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh where he was a post-doctoral Research Associate (2010), Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow (2012), Senior Lecturer (2016) and Reader (2019).

In 2018, Mathieu launched the first Massive Open Online Course on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) to increase awareness and understanding of the key role of CCS towards climate change mitigation. The course has now been taken by over 25,000 people in over 150 countries.

Julia Race, University of Strathclyde

Prior to starting her academic career, Julia worked in industry for over 20 years, latterly in the pipeline industry for 7 years as an integrity consultant for GE Oil and Gas. In this role, she was responsible for providing fitness-for-purpose, remaining life and corrosion assessments for onshore and offshore pipelines. She has also worked as a materials engineer in the petrochemical and power generation industries involved with the operation, maintenance and design of chemical and power plant. Her primary research interest is in the use of pipeline infrastructure to deliver pathways to Net Zero – primarily in the transportation of CO2 for CCS schemes and hydrogen as a replacement for oil and gas in the energy mix. Research topics have included material and specification requirements for CO2 and H₂ pipelines, techniques for conducting Quantitative Risk Assessments, including pipeline failure frequency and consequence analysis, hydraulic network design and developing system flexibility and techno-economics and wider economy impacts.

David Reiner, UKCCSRC and University of Cambridge

David M. Reiner is Professor of Technology Policy at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge and Assistant Director of the Energy Policy Research Group at Cambridge. He serves on the CCUS Council, which is chaired by the UK Energy Minister and is on the Advisory Board of the Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge.. He currently is co-I on a number of UK and European grants related to carbon capture, hydrogen, industrial decarbonisation and greenhouse gas removal. His research is on energy and climate change policy, economics, regulation and public attitudes, with a focus on social license to operate.

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Jen Roberts, UKCCSRC and University of Strathclyde

Dr Jen Roberts is the UKCCSRC Deputy Director and Early Career Lead. Jen is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Strathclyde, and co-director of the cross-faculty Strathclyde Institute for Sustainable Communities (SISC). Jen’s research interlinks technical, social and environmental risks for sustainable transitions at different scales, and with particular focus on CO2 geological storage. To date, Jen has authored over 30 peer-reviewed publications and +1,000 citations, and she is Deputy-Editor-in-Chief for the journal Earth Science, Systems and Society.

Miriam Townshend, Environment Agency

Miriam Townshend has worked for the Environment Agency and predecessor bodies for almost 30 years with the majority of her roles being in permitting. She is currently a Senior Permitting Officer in the Combustion, Energy from Waste and Industrial Decarbonisation team in the Installations regime. She is the national Co-lead for Industrial Decarbonisation for Permitting. In this role, she supports other permitting officers with their applications and pre-applications that include carbon capture, and work with other parts of the Environment Agency to find solutions to issues raised, to develop both internal and external guidance and to support with external training on permitting issues. She is familiar with a range of industrial sectors, and has previously been the Permitting sector lead for landfill and, more recently, for medium combustion plant.

Owain Tucker, Shell

Dr Owain Tucker is the manager for CCS capability, assurance and project support, and the Principal Technical Expert in Carbon Storage in Shell. He has the technical overview of all Shell CCS projects, and leads a team of experts who are responsible for guiding storage exploration and appraisal; technical assurance; integration; technology maturation; the CCS research agenda; and the development of CCS competences and capacity within Shell. Owain worked directly on the Goldeneye CO2 store in the UK North Sea for over six years, and led the team who delivered the storage permit application and storage development plan.

Owain represents Shell in technical taskforces: he is a member of the UK Subsurface Taskforce, co-chaired the SPE group developing the Storage Resource Maturation System, and the Oil & Gas Climate Initiative Storage Working Group. He is on the executive committee of the IEA GHG R&D programme, the board of the UKCCSRC, the UK CCS ISO mirror committee, and is a member of the ZEP taskforce technology. He is also an Honorary Associate Professor at Heriot-Watt University where he lectures in CO2 storage.

Since 1995, Owain has worked in Shell as a reservoir engineer, economist and eBusiness consultant; and at McKinsey & Company as a strategy consultant. He studied Physics and Geophysics at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa; and holds a D.Phil in Experimental Solid State Physics from the University of Oxford.

James Watt, WSP

James Watt is Technical Director – Hydrogen in the UK for WSP. He is responsible for hydrogen projects, predominantly production and infrastructure, and supports other sectors. In addition, he supports industrial decarbonisation and CCUS projects, particularly CCUS pipelines and the importance of cluster developments. Prior to joining WSP he was a Process Engineering Manager for Wood plc, as well as a specialist in CCUS. He has been involved in a number of CO2 pipeline and cluster studies including the Teesside Collective, MASDAR and Net Zero Teesside’s network design. James is also a board member of the UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre.