Whole Value Chain CCUS Conference Week 2025

This event is a collaborative effort between Petroleum Research School of Norway (NFiP), The Colorado-Norway Clean Energy Research and Educational Collaboration (ColNor), NorTex Petroleum Cluster, Rice University and is Co-Hosted by Colorado School of Mines.

This five-day conference will bring together ca. 50 graduate students and 30 scientists, engineers and CCUS experts from Norway, other countries in Europe, Asia, South America and USA. Travel and accommodation for approved student participants, after applications have been evaluated, are paid for by NFiP. Student spaces are limited and will be allocated after each of the application deadlines, so please apply at your earliest convenience.  Geographic considerations will be included in the evaluation to ensure representative international student participation. Speakers are provided by the partner institutions and industry.

Faculty and industry representatives interested in participating while covering their own expenses also need to fill in the application form to ensure sufficient logistic capacity at the event venue.

The Whole Value Chain approach covers all aspects of CCUS, including capture, transport, utilization and storage of CO2. Successful global CO2 storage in the amounts needed to mitigate global warming requires industry participation. To realize industrial CO2 storage, sustainable economy, with opportunity to generate revenues, is crucial. CO2 EOR provides such an economic opportunity and will simultaneously store the huge amounts of CO2 required. This will provide synergy between the need for increased energy production and the need for reduction in emission of anthropogenic CO2, by storage in sedimentary rocks.

You can read about the previous conference in 2022 here.

Links to the previous two conference programs:

2018: https://nfip.no/2018/06/14/coming-soon-whole-value-chain-carbon-capture-utilization-and-storage/

2022: https://nfip.no/2022/08/19/whole-value-chain-carbon-capture-utilization-and-storage/

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Overview of conference program in Excel:

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Presentations:

Day 1: Monday Sept. 22nd Climate Perspectives and CO2 Capture
09:00 Opening Address – Anders Tornquist, Norwegian Honorary Consul in Colorado

Welcome and Symposium Objectives
Welcome #1/ Welcome #2 – Arne Graue, Prof. of Physics, University of Bergen, Norway, Chair of the Boards: Petroleum Research School of Norway, ColNor and NorTex Petroleum Cluster

Mines Welcomes Whole Value Chain Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) – Walt Copan, Vice President for Research and Technology Transfer, Colorado School of Mines

Climate Perspectives
09:30 CCUS Assessment: CCUS in the US – CCS in Europe – Global Importance of CCUS – Arne Graue, Prof. of Physics, University of Bergen, Norway, Chair of the Boards: Petroleum Research School of Norway, ColNor and NorTex Petroleum Cluster

10:00 Carbon Management in an Overshoot World – Klaus Lackner, Arizona State University

11:00 ENERGY for the FUTURE – Energy Transition – Arne Graue, Univ. of Bergen

11:30 Reflections from Industry on the Energy Transition and the Future of CCUS – Zainub Noor, Sr. Director, Low Carbon Solutions, Haliburton

13:00 CSS Modeling and Policy Design for the US Power Sector – Max Brown and Ian Lange, Colorado School of Mines

13:30 Inflation Reduction Act, BBB & Future CCUS in USA – Anna Littlefield, Colorado School of Mines

14:00 Policies and Economics of CCUS – Ken Medlock, Baker Institute

14:30 The Business Case for Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage – Anna Littlefield, Colorado School of Mines

15:30 Early Adoption of CCUS projects Using Class II Wells: Case Study Western USA – Robert Balch, Petroleum Recovery Research Center at New Mexico Tech

16:00 A carbon Storage Obligation (CSO) – Simplifies Carbon Accounting – Stéphanie Arcusa, Arizona State University

16:30 Energy Balance and its Discontents: Fundamentals of Climate and Issues with Solar GeoEngineering – James Wilson, University of Denver

Day 2: Tuesday Sept. 23rd CO2 Capture and CO2 Transport
CO2 Capture
09:00 CO2 Capture Technologies – An Overview – Robert Braun, CSM

09:30 Post Combustion Capture – Ryan Richards and Mike McGuirk, Colorado School of Mines

10:00 CO2 Capture from Air – Klaus Lackner, Arizona State University

11:00 Precombustion and Oxyfuel Capture Technologies – Greg Jackson, Colorado School of Mines

11:30 Carbon Management and CO2 Conversion – Joshua Schaidle, US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

CO2 Transport
13:00 Optimization for Carbon Transport & Storage – Bailian Chen, Los Alamos National Lab

13:30 Large Scale, Long term CO2 Storage by Ocean Iron Fertilization – George Hirasaki, Rice University

14:00 Challenges for Energy Transitions, and the Path to Net Zero – Robert Balch, Petroleum Recovery Research Center at New Mexico Tech

14:30 CCUS in the USA and Industry Opportunities – Sherilyn Williams-Stroud, Director of the Berg-Hughes Center, Prof. of Geosciences, Texas A&M Univ.

15:30 Panel Debate: USA and the World on CCUS – Energy Poverty, Climate Change & CCUS – Technology Solutions or Climate Ideology?

Day 3: Wednesday Sept. 24th CO2 Storage
09:00 Horizontal Wells, Water Disposal and CCUS – The Changing Landscapes and Lessons Learned from Primary Production to Injection Projects – Steve Melzer, Melzer Consulting

09:30 Regulatory Challenges in CO2 Storage – Michael Moore, Managing Partner EWSA and Senior VP Public Policy and Carbon Markets for PowerScape Global

10:00 Ongoing and Planned Large Scale CO2 Storage Projects Worldwide and Introduction to the Global Carbon Management Academy – Jarad Daniels and Vanshika Goel, GCCS Institute

11:00 CO2 Storage and Leaky Wellbores and Barrier Materials – Mileva Radonjic, Oklahoma State University (OSU)

11:30 How Mega-scale CCUS projects are forming up in the US per policy, regulations and incentives – Michael Moore, Managing Partner EWSA and Senior VP Public Policy and Carbon Markets for PowerScape Global

13:00 Reservoir-on-a-Chip Investigation of Post-Carbon Capture Solutions for Enhanced Oil Recovery – Myeongsub Kim, Florida Atlantic University (FAU)

13:30 The Longship Project: Whole Value Chain CCUS Demonstration Project on the Norwegian Continental Shelf – Arne Graue, University of Bergen

14:00 Experimental Insights on the Impact of Injection Strategies on CO2 Storage in Aquifers – Stella Eyitayo, Texas Tech. University

14:30 Carbon and Related Markets Growing Around Mega-Scale Project Development – Michael Moore, Managing Partner EWSA and Senior VP Public Policy and Carbon Markets for PowerScape Global

15:30 CCUS in Latin America – Pedro Nel Benjumea Hernández, National University of Colombia (UNAL)

16:00 CO2 Storage, Monitoring, Verification and Accounting – Bjørn Paulsson, Paulsson Inc.

16:30 Tribal CCUS – CJ Stewart, Energy Resources Director, Crow Nation, Montana


Day 4: Thursday Sept. 25th CO2 Utilization in Hydrates and in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)
09:00 Fundamentals of Hydrates, Climate Perspectives, and Energy Potentials – Carolyn Koh, Colorado School of Mines

09:30 CO2 Sequestration in Hydrates with Associated Carbon Neutral Methane Gas Production – Arne Graue, University of Bergen

10:00 Field Experiences from CO2 Injections in Hydrates: North Slope CO2-CH4 Exchange Project – Arne Graue, University of Bergen

11:00 Improved Machine-Learning Fault Detection at the San Juan Basin CarbonSAFE Project Site / Machine Learning for Geothermal Fault Detection and Flow Imaging – Lianjie Huang, Los Alamos National Lab

CO2 Utilization in EOR as CCUS
13:00 CO2 for EOR – History and Technological Challenges – Hossein Kazemi, Colorado School of Mines

14:00 Physical Processes and Modeling Studies of CO2 Storage in Subsurface Formations – Yu-Shu Wu, Colorado School of Mines

14:30 Strategies to Enable Global CO2 Storage by CCUS – Arne Graue, University of Bergen

Day 5: Friday Sept. 26th CO2 EOR, Policy, Economics and Whole Value Chain CCUS Future Development
09:00 How Foam Develops Apparent Viscosity in EOR – George Hirasaki, Rice University

09:30 CO2 Foam EOR for Mobility Control – Arne Graue, University of Bergen

10:00 CO2 Foam EOR Field Pilots in Texas – Arne Graue, University of Bergen

11:00 Current CO2 EOR Perspective – Hossein Kazemi, Colorado School of Mines

13:00 Panel Debate: CO2 EOR as CCUS: Status, Future Perspectives & Economics