| February 16-18, 2010 Carbon and Climate Change hosted by University of Texas Continuing Legal Education. Carey King is a member of the panel "Technology and Trigger Points, Part II: Economics and Incentives of Carbon Capture and Mitigation". Scott Tinker presents "The Texas Edge, Part I: Geology and Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)". Austin, TX |
| February 3-4, 2010 Department of Energy National Energy Technology
Laboratory (DOE NETL) planning meeting for FOA-33 Awards. Tip
Meckel and Ramon Trevino attend and discuss Texas Submerged
Lands Sequestration Project. Pittsburgh, PA |
| January 25-27, 2010 Annual Underground Injection Control (UIC) Conference of the Groundwater Protection Council. Carey King presents Lunch Keynote address, "Water and Energy: Strategic Thinking" Susan Hovorka and Rebecca Smyth report on activities of the regional DOE geosequestration partnerships. Austin, TX |
| January 25, 2010 Meeting with regulators from US EPA Region Underground Injection Control (UIC) Program National Technical Workgroup. JP Nicot hosts an informal meeting at GCCC bringing together regulators and researchers to explore the regulatory and the research points of view on CO2 geologic sequestration and future technologies. Austin, TX |
| January 21, 2010 The Gulf Coast Carbon Center (GCCC) hosted the annual meeting of its Industrial Associates. Representatives from many of the Industrial Associates - Environmental Defense Fund, Exxon Mobile, Schlumberger Carbon, Conoco Phillips, Marathon, BP, Kinder Morgan, Chevron, Aramco, Entergy, and Luminant were in attendance. Presentations were made by GCCC researchers Susan Hovorka, Ramon Trevino, David Carr, Katherine Romanak, JP Nicot, and BEG researcher Gurcan Gulen. GCCC students and research assistants presented their major achievements.The focus of the meeting was a five year retrospective of GCCC accomplishments and the development of plans for future GCCC activities over the coming five years. |
| January 20-22, 2010 10th National Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment. Carey King presents "Texas and the clean energy transition: Can the most energy and CO2 intensive state lead the way?” Washington D.C. |
| January 18-22, 2010 Tip Meckel represents GCCC at a workshop that is a collaboration between Geoscience Australia and the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology and their research partners, and is supported under the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate. The workshop focuses on capacity building in the area of geological storage in China, plus facilitating storage-related research and prospectivity assessments. Canberra, Australia. |
| January 12-15, 2010 The Global Climate and Energy Project and the U.S. Geological Survey. Jiemin Lu presents poster "Seal characterization for Cranfield CO2 injection site, Mississippi, USA." at a workshop on “Caprocks and Seals for Geologic Carbon Sequestration”. Monterey, CA |
| January 12-13, 2010 Mudrock Systems Research Laboratory Annual Meeting, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin. Jiemin Lu co-authors talk presented by Kitty Milliken "Characterization of a Tuscaloosa Mudrock seal at the Cranfield CO2 sequestration site." Austin, TX |
| January 8, 2010 Meeting with UT's Energy Institute and LBJ School of Public Policy. GCCC hosted D. Ray Orbach, Director of the Energy Institute at The University of Texas at Austin and Assistant Director Charles Cooke.
Other attendees included Dr. Eugene Gholz from the LBJ School of Public
Affairs and Ann Flemings from the Jackson School of Geoscience's
Development Program. Topics covered included the current research
projects of the Gulf Coast Carbon Center and the goals of the Energy
Institute as they relate to geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide. Austin, TX |
| December 16, 2009 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Katherine Romanak presents "Modeling shallow groundwater geochemistry for CO2 storage evaluation at an EOR site, West Texas." Berkeley, CA. |
| December 14-18, 2009 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting. Rebecca Smyth is an invited speaker presenting "Shallow Groundwater Monitoring at the SACROC Oilfield, Scurry County, TX: Good News for Geologic Storage of CO2 Despite a Complex Hydrogeologic and Geochemical Setting." Katherine Romanak presents "Soil-Gas Identification of Factors Affecting CO2 Concentrations Beneath a Playa Wetland: Implications for Environmental Monitoring at Carbon Storage Sites." Changing Yang presents "CO2 Release Experiment in the Shallow Subsurface at the Brackenridge Field Laboratory and Numerical Modeling." Romanak and Yang co-convene the session "Natural and Anthropogenic Fluxes of CO2 from Subsurface Formations: Natural Analogues of Geologic Carbon Sequestration." Jiemin Lu presents poster "Reservoir fluid and gas chemistry during CO2 injection at Cranfield
field, Mississippi, USA." San Francisco, CA |
| December 11, 2009 Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar Series. Katherine Romanak presents "Monitoring the behavior of CO2 in shallow environments: evidence from one natural and two industrial carbon-storage analogue sites." Austin, TX. |
| December 6, 2009 Katherine Romanak hosted a tour of Cranfield’s P-site, which GCCC researchers have established as a study site for determining how environmental factors affect near-surface monitoring at an engineered location. Romanak demonstrated methods used by BEG scientists to monitor the site and showed the scientists the first soil-gas data set collected.The scientists discussed preliminary interpretations of the data and numerous potential areas of collaboration were suggested. |
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| The visitors to the P-site are (from left to right) Stuart Gilfillan (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) Susan Pfiffner (University of Tennessee) Yousif Kharaka (U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California) Tommy Phelps (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Kim Gilbert (Ph.D. student, The University of Texas at Austin) and GCCC’s Katherine Romanak. |
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December 6-8, 2009 UK-Texas CCS Technology and Legislation Seminar and EOR Carbon Management Workshop. Susan Hovorka moderates pre-conference workshop. Tip Meckel gives presentation on developing offshore CCS reservoirs. Rebecca Smyth presents results from groundwater monitoring study. Ian Duncan moderates round table and gives talk on MVA. Scott Tinker presents keynote address. Click here for full story. Houston, TX
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| Attendees at the UK-TX CCS Technology and Legislation Pre-Workshop Event. From left to right: Catherine Santamaria (British Consulate), Erin Miller (BEG), Dr. Carey King (Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Texas), Dr. May Arkawi (British Consulate), Rebecca Smyth (BEG), Dr. John Olson (Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, University of Texas), Dr. Susan Hovorka (BEG), Dr. Tip Meckel (BEG), Dr. John Gluyas (University of Durham), Dr (Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, University of Texas), Nick Huerta (Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, University of Texas), Ian Havercroft (University College, London), Dr. Mike Stephenson (British Geological Survey), and Stuart Coleman (BEG). |
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| November 17, 2009 Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE NETL) Annual Meeting. Susan Hovorka and JP Nicot attend. Pittsburgh, PA |
| November 4, 2009 Society of Petroleum Engineers Conference on CO2 Capture, Storage, and Utilization. Rebecca Smyth presents "Sampling and interpretation of groundwater properties near the SACROC CO2 EOR oilfield in west Texas." Susan Hovorka presents "How is monitoring sequestration in an EOR site different from monitoring sequestration in a storage-only site?" Tip Meckel presents "Results from continuous downhole monitoring (PDG) at a field-scale CO2 sequestration demonstration project, Cranfield." JP Nicot attends conference. San Diego, CA |
| October 29, 2009 University of Texas LAMP (Learning Activities for Mature People) part of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Rebecca Smyth presents "The 'S' in Carbon Capture and Storage: An overview of CCS technology and politics in the U.S., with emphasis on geologic storage." Austin, TX |
| October 21, 2009 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences. Ramón Treviño presents a review of SEACARB Phases II and III and tours CO2 injection experiment. Potsdam and Ketzin, Germany. To read the full story, click here. |
| October 4, 2009 National Ground Water Association Theis Conference: Groundwater and Climate Change. Susan Hovorka presented "Managing Risk to Groundwater from Large Volume CO2 Sequestration". Boulder, CO |
| September 29-30, 2009 Southwest Regional Partnership for Carbon Sequestration Annual Meeting. Rebecca Smyth presented a talk summarizing the GCCC's work at SACROC (Scurry Area Canyon Reef Operators oilfield). Socorro, NM. |
| September 29, 2009 Center for Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security. Susan Hovorka presented "Questions from CO2 Injection Field Tests --Dense Data in Search of Analysis". Austin, TX |
| September 25, 2009 Carbon Capture and Sequestration Public Workshop at California State Bakersfield. Susan Hovorka gave overview of field projects entitled "Carbon Capture & Sequestration: Key Field Studies and Conclusions". Bakersfield, CA |
| September 23, 2009 GCCC graduate student Silvia Solano received one of four awards from the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN) under its inaugural scholarship program. The scholarship provides tuition funding for the 2009-2010 academic year. |
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September 14, 2009 GCCC hosted Veronica Brieno Rankin from GeoSeq International who presented "Geological Sequestration: What is the Current Status of the Legal and Regulatory Environment with the U.S. and Ongoing Issues that Need Reconciliation?" Austin, TX
Left: GCCC researchers JP Nicot and Ramon Trevino meet with Veronica Brieno Rankin. |
| September 11, 2009 University of Texas Institute for Geophysics. Tip Meckel presented UTIG Seminar "Monitoring of Carbon Sequestration". Austin, TX |
| September 11, 2009 Bureau of Economic Geology Fall Seminar Series. Susan Hovorka presented "Big Science and Big Funding - BEG Research Addressing CO2 Injection and Retention in the Deep Subsurface". Austin, TX |
| September 10, 2009 Innovative Technology for Energy and Environmental Sustainability for Americas Energy Coast. Ian Duncan and Charles Gibson of Denbury Resources addressed a leadership hearing on "Leveraging CO2 for Energy Production and Environmental Benefits". Gibson discussed the extent and nature and Denbury’s EOR enterprise and Duncan gave an overview of CO2 issues in the Gulf Coast and some specifics on the aims of the SECARB Cranfield injection project. Both speakers were extensively questioned by members of the group's leadership committee that included members from Shell and Chevron as well as a number of environmental groups. New Orleans, LA |
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