Agenda
Day 1 Day 2 Worhshop
Day Two – Thursday, September 30, 2010
8:50 Chairperson's Recap of Day One
CCS Costs, Project Economics and Business Models
9:00 Evaluating the Economics of CCS to Establish the Cost of Capture
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• Understanding the economics and cost of CCS
• What impact does choice of capture have on cost?
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− Post combustion
− Pre-combustion
− Oxygen combustion
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− Primary energy costs and the impact on the unit cost of capture
− Location and elevation of plant
− Purity of the CO² stream
− Other
• Approaches to lower the cost of capture
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− Plant modifi cations to improve capture processes
− Change in power generation process to facilitate CO² capture
Charles McConnell
Vice President for Carbon Management Business
Battelle
CCS Demonstration Project Case Study
9:45 Near-term Deployment and Results to Date of Coal CCS Demonstration Projects
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• Examining the CCS demonstration project at Barry Power Station, Bucks, Alabama
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− Technologies being utilized
− Nature of the storage reservoir
− Expected timeframe for completion of demonstration
• Experience to date relative to the original plan and expectations
Richard Esposito
Principal Research Geologist
Southern Company
10:30 Networking and Refreshment Break
CO2 Transportation
10:50Transporting CO2 – Accelerating Pipeline Infrastructure Development
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• Quantifying the increasing demand for CO² for use
in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)
• Developing the necessary pipeline infrastructure needed to transport CO²
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− What requirements would subsea pipelines require?
• Establishing guidelines to specify
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− The quantity of CO² you can put in the pipeline and its purity
− Maintaining the pipelines
− Permitting required to run a pipeline through a residential area
Lawrence J. Wolfe
Partner
Holland & Hart LLC
CO2 – EOR
11:30 Leveraging Captured CO2 to Improve the Economics of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)
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• Quantifying the market potential for using captured
CO² for enhanced oil recovery
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− What impact does it have on the economics
of CCS - will it help advance the fi rst wave
of commercial CCS projects?
• Outlining the existing regulatory framework for EOR
• What impact could new regulations could have on EOR
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− Reviewing the EPA preliminary draft regulations on EOR
− Will EOR be treated differently than saline injection?
used for EOR is permanently sequestered?
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− What accounting procedures could verify the net CO² which remains sequestered?
− What monitoring and verifi cation techniques would be required?
Michael Godac
Vice President
Advanced Resources International
12:15 Networking Lunch for Speakers and Attendees
CCS Technology Advancements
1:15 Innovative or Novel Technologies to Capture and Store Flue Gas CO2
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• Examining advances in CCS technologies
• Evaluating their application in the fi eld
• Evaluating the economics – what impact could they have on the cost of CCS?
• Can they be used pre or post combustion?
Sharon M. Sjostrom P.E.
Vice President, Technology
ADA Environmental Solutions
Hong-Cai “JOE” Zhou
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Texas A&M University
2:15 Networking and Refreshment Break
Offshore Sequestration
2:30 Determining the Feasibility, Cost, and Potential Risk of Permanently Sequestering CO2 Offshore
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• Capitalizing on Obama’s proposal for expanded offshore
drilling to gain additional information on offshore geology
and whether its appropriate for sequestration
• Identifying the legal and regulatory hurdles associated with offshore CO² sequestration
• Examining the engineering and technical hurdles – how will CCS technology translate in an offshore environment?
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− Pipelines
− Well casing
• Would the costs for transporting CO², offshore negate its viability?
Nick Tew, Ph.D., P.G.
Alabama State Geologist and Oil and Gas Supervisor
Geological Survey of Alabama
State Oil and Gas Board of Alabama
Chairman, Offshore Transportation and Storage of CO²
Interstate Oil and Gas Commission
Melissa Batum, P.G.
Geologist – Environmental Division
Minerals Management Service
US Department of the Interior
3:30 Achieving Positive Public Perception of CCS – Developing Strategies to Promote CCS Technologies as Safe and Viable
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• Engaging the public and communicating the environmental
benefits of CCS
• Leveraging the successful marketing initiatives of other energy companies that have reinvented themselves in today’s environmentally conscious society
• Aligning with key environmental groups to proactively educate the public and provide updates on industry progress
• DOE views and public education initiatives
Francisco Almendra
Associate, Climate and Energy Program
World Resources Institute
Timothy J. O'Connor
Attorney
Environmental Defense Fund
