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Romanak, GCCC Attend Major CCS Conferences

December 8, 2016
Katherine Romanak

Katherine Romanak discusses options and actions for CCS in Africa at COP22 in Marrakesh.

Katherine Romanak and researchers from the Bureau’s Gulf Coast Carbon Center (GCCC) delivered new research insights and plans of action at key climate conferences during November.

At COP22 in Marrakesh, Morocco, Romanak joined expert panelists in exploring “Opportunities for Africa in Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS),” the only sidebar event officially sanctioned by the sponsoring organization, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Romanak addressed specific actions and resources to enable countries in Africa and similar economically depressed regions to begin CCS. Noting the huge offshore CO2 storage potential and stressing available technical assistance for climate technologies in developing countries, Romanak highlighted efforts by the GCCC, the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF), and the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN).

The following week at the 13th conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT) in Lausanne, Switzerland, Bureau researchers presented the following talks:

  • "Experimental and modelling study of capillary/buoyancy driven flow of surrogate CO2 through intermediate-scale sand tanks" (Luca Trevisan, Ana Gonzalez-Nicolas)
  • "Understanding the effects of small scale heterogeneity on buoyancy driven CO2 migration for capillary trapped storage capacity estimation" (Prasanna Ganesan Krishnamurthy, Trevisan, Tip Meckel)
  • "Optimization study of microseismic monitoring system at the CO2 injection site—lessons learnt from monitoring experiment at the Cranfield Site, M.S., U.S.A." (Susan Hovorka)

Bureau researchers also presented the following posters at the conference:

  • "Injectivity of offshore CO2 sequestration in marine sediments" and "CO2 sequestration and enhanced oil recovery at depleted oil reservoirs" (Yang)
  • "Application of invasion percolation simulations to predict plume behavior through a heterogeneous intermediate-scale sand tank" (Trevisan, Meckel)
  • "Monitoring after closure: a case of the horse already out of the barn" and "Assessment of low probability material impacts" (Hovorka)
  • "Geologic carbon storage capacity estimation using enhanced analytical simulation tool (EASiTool)" (Hosseini, Reza Ganjdanesh)
  • "Investigating the influence of geological heterogeneity on capillary trapping of buoyant CO2 using transmitted-light flow visualization experiments" (Krishnamurthy, Trevisan, Meckel)
  • "Identification of a minimum dataset for CO2-EOR and CO2 storage monitoring at Weyburn, Canada" (Jean-Philippe Nicot, Alexander Sun, Rebecca Shuang Gao; presented by colleagues in their absence)

CCS panel at COP22


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