Teesside Collective has been developing a financial support mechanism to kickstart an Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) network in the UK. This project would transform the Teesside economy, which could act as a pilot area in the UK as part of the Government’s Industrial Strategy.
The final report– produced by Pöyry Management Consulting in partnership with Teesside Collective – outlines how near-term investment in CCS can be a cost-effective, attractive proposition for both Government and energy-intensive industry.
The report was published on Teesside Collective’s website on 7 February. You will be able to view copies of the report in advance of the webinar.
We were delighted to welcome Sarah Tennison from Tees Valley Combined Authority back onto the webinar programme. Sarah was joined by Phil Hare and Stuart Murray from Pöyry Management Consulting, to take us through the detail of the model and business case for Industrial CCS.
This webinar offered a rare opportunity to speak directly with these project developers and understand more about their proposed financial support mechanism.
Giles Hundleby's presenation on Wave and Tidal Cost reduction delivered at ICOE 2016, Edinburgh, February 2016. He outlines that the industry needs to take a radical new approach to be successful.
Giles Hundleby's presenation on Wave and Tidal Cost reduction delivered at ICOE 2016, Edinburgh, February 2016. He outlines that the industry needs to take a radical new approach to be successful.
Powering ahead marc grynberg strategic updateUmicore
Marc will present a strategic update on Horizon 2020 and highlight the intensifying megatrends driving Umicore’s key businesses, especially the accelerating shift to clean mobility.
Outcomes of the study from the Hydrogen MOBILITÉ France.
73% of hydrogen used is to be generated by the cleanest possible method: electrolysis by 2030. Electrolysis uses only water and renewable power and the hydrogen can be generated where it is required, therefore eliminating fossil fuels 100% in its production and delivery.
http://www.afhypac.org/images/documents/h2_mobilit_france_fr_final.pdf
Presentation from Professor Trevor Drage on behalf of the UKCCSRC at the National CCS Week conference in Sydney, Australia on 1 September 2014. http://www.nationalccsweek.com.au/
Next generation of sustainable Mg primary productionMartin Tauber
Although, Magnesium still has a strong position in the “lightweight material-mix”, it has certainly lost ground to Aluminium, Carbon Fibre and Reinforced Steel. While being rated as immature for applications like automotive sheet, alternatives are mostly chosen above Magnesium because of supply related issues. New Magnesium primary producers and projects in the pipeline are forming a more sustainable supply base on a global level, and will provide different industries with a beneficial metal, building on strong environmental arguments. Toyota recently announced its intention to completely eliminate all CO2 emissions, including materials, parts and manufacturing, from a vehicle’s lifecycle. The paper will provide an overview of possible CO2 footprint benefits in the Mg primary project pipeline, and show its advantage over other lightweight material. It will also discuss existing and conceptional tools on how the Magnesium industry benefits could influence future public and private procurement. The paper also aims to support the next generation of global magnesium primary supply and is intended to provide the magnesium industry with beneficial arguments mainly around the sustainability context for high volume growth.
Please click 'download' to download the PDF.
The world can save an estimated US$550 billion on the cost of deploying clean energy technologies over the next decade, putting them on a path to cost competitiveness, if countries work together to accelerate innovation by unlocking global collaboration. This is one of the key findings in a new report, United Innovations: cost-competitive clean energy through global collaboration, published today by the Carbon Trust, with funding from the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Prosperity Fund.
Luxury, safety, design, value and performance are all hot buttons in any discussion about marketing automobiles. But they pale in comparison to the influence of technology. And influence is the new currency.
This study explores what is shaping influential conversations at the intersection of new vehicle purchasing and technology and identifies the major players in each category.
Webinar series: Public engagement, education and outreach for carbon capture ...Global CCS Institute
The public engagement, education and outreach for CCS Webinar Series kicked off this September with a stellar opportunity to join three international public engagement experts, as they reflected on the key research findings and lessons learned from over 10 years of social research and project engagement experience.
World-renowned social researcher and IEAGHG Social Research Network Chair Peta Ashworth started the discussion by setting out her key lessons learned, and what future challenges and opportunities she perceives for public engagement with CCS.
An expert panel made up of Sarah Wade, Environmental Regulation and Policy Consultant and Coordinator of the Outreach Working Group for the US Department of Energy Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Initiative, and Norm Sacuta, Communication Manager at the Petroleum Technology Research Centre and Director of Communications for the IEAGHG Weyburn-Midale CO2 Monitoring and Storage Project, then discussed these conclusions and their own experiences of engaging the public, before opening the Webinar up to questions from the audience.
This entire Webinar Series has been designed to hear directly from the experts and project practitioners researching and delivering public engagement, education and outreach best practice for CCS.
This first Webinar combined elements of social research with real world application and discussion, showcasing important learnings, and concluding with links to further publications and resources for those wishing to learn more.
Powering ahead marc grynberg strategic updateUmicore
Marc will present a strategic update on Horizon 2020 and highlight the intensifying megatrends driving Umicore’s key businesses, especially the accelerating shift to clean mobility.
Outcomes of the study from the Hydrogen MOBILITÉ France.
73% of hydrogen used is to be generated by the cleanest possible method: electrolysis by 2030. Electrolysis uses only water and renewable power and the hydrogen can be generated where it is required, therefore eliminating fossil fuels 100% in its production and delivery.
http://www.afhypac.org/images/documents/h2_mobilit_france_fr_final.pdf
Presentation from Professor Trevor Drage on behalf of the UKCCSRC at the National CCS Week conference in Sydney, Australia on 1 September 2014. http://www.nationalccsweek.com.au/
Next generation of sustainable Mg primary productionMartin Tauber
Although, Magnesium still has a strong position in the “lightweight material-mix”, it has certainly lost ground to Aluminium, Carbon Fibre and Reinforced Steel. While being rated as immature for applications like automotive sheet, alternatives are mostly chosen above Magnesium because of supply related issues. New Magnesium primary producers and projects in the pipeline are forming a more sustainable supply base on a global level, and will provide different industries with a beneficial metal, building on strong environmental arguments. Toyota recently announced its intention to completely eliminate all CO2 emissions, including materials, parts and manufacturing, from a vehicle’s lifecycle. The paper will provide an overview of possible CO2 footprint benefits in the Mg primary project pipeline, and show its advantage over other lightweight material. It will also discuss existing and conceptional tools on how the Magnesium industry benefits could influence future public and private procurement. The paper also aims to support the next generation of global magnesium primary supply and is intended to provide the magnesium industry with beneficial arguments mainly around the sustainability context for high volume growth.
Please click 'download' to download the PDF.
The world can save an estimated US$550 billion on the cost of deploying clean energy technologies over the next decade, putting them on a path to cost competitiveness, if countries work together to accelerate innovation by unlocking global collaboration. This is one of the key findings in a new report, United Innovations: cost-competitive clean energy through global collaboration, published today by the Carbon Trust, with funding from the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Prosperity Fund.
Luxury, safety, design, value and performance are all hot buttons in any discussion about marketing automobiles. But they pale in comparison to the influence of technology. And influence is the new currency.
This study explores what is shaping influential conversations at the intersection of new vehicle purchasing and technology and identifies the major players in each category.
Webinar series: Public engagement, education and outreach for carbon capture ...Global CCS Institute
The public engagement, education and outreach for CCS Webinar Series kicked off this September with a stellar opportunity to join three international public engagement experts, as they reflected on the key research findings and lessons learned from over 10 years of social research and project engagement experience.
World-renowned social researcher and IEAGHG Social Research Network Chair Peta Ashworth started the discussion by setting out her key lessons learned, and what future challenges and opportunities she perceives for public engagement with CCS.
An expert panel made up of Sarah Wade, Environmental Regulation and Policy Consultant and Coordinator of the Outreach Working Group for the US Department of Energy Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Initiative, and Norm Sacuta, Communication Manager at the Petroleum Technology Research Centre and Director of Communications for the IEAGHG Weyburn-Midale CO2 Monitoring and Storage Project, then discussed these conclusions and their own experiences of engaging the public, before opening the Webinar up to questions from the audience.
This entire Webinar Series has been designed to hear directly from the experts and project practitioners researching and delivering public engagement, education and outreach best practice for CCS.
This first Webinar combined elements of social research with real world application and discussion, showcasing important learnings, and concluding with links to further publications and resources for those wishing to learn more.
Webinar Series: Public engagement, education and outreach for CCS. Part 5: So...Global CCS Institute
The fifth webinar in the public engagement, education and outreach for CCS Series will explore the critically important subject of social site characterisation with the very researchers who named the process.
We were delighted to be able to reunite CCS engagement experts Sarah Wade and Sallie Greenberg, Ph.D. to revisit their 2011 research and guidance: ‘Social Site Characterisation: From Concept to Application’. When published, this research and toolkit helped early CCS projects worldwide to raise the bar on their existing engagement practices. For this webinar, we tasked these early thought leaders with reminding us of the importance of this research and considering the past recommendations in today’s context. Sarah and Sallie tackled the following commonly asked questions:
What exactly is meant by social site characterisation?
Why it is important?
What would they consider best practice for getting to understand the social intricacies and impacts of a CCS project site?
This entire Webinar Series has been designed to share leading research and best practice and consider these learnings as applied to real project examples. So for this fifth Webinar, we were really pleased to be joined by Ruth Klinkhammer, Senior Manager, Communications and Engagement at CMC Research Institutes. Ruth agreed to share some of her experiences and challenges of putting social site characterisation into practice onsite at some of CMC’s larger research projects.
This Webinar combined elements of public engagement research with real world application and discussion, explore important learnings and conclude with links to further resources for those wishing to learn more. This a must for anyone working in or studying carbon capture and storage or other CO2 abatement technologies. If you have ever nodded along at a conference where the importance of understanding stakeholders is acknowledged, but then stopped to wonder – what might that look like in practice? This Webinar is for you.
Webinar Series: Public engagement, education and outreach for CCS. Part 3: Ca...Global CCS Institute
The third webinar in the public engagement, education and outreach for CCS Series digged deeper, perhaps multiple kilometres deeper, to explore successful methods for engaging the public on the often misunderstood topic of carbon (CO2) storage.
Forget bad experiences of high school geology, we kick-started our 2017 webinar program with three ‘rock stars’ of CO2 storage communication – Dr Linda Stalker, Science Director of Australia’s National Geosequestration Laboratory, Lori Gauvreau, Communication and Engagement Specialist for Schlumberger Carbon Services, and Norm Sacuta, Communication Manager at the Petroleum Technology Research Centre who all joined Kirsty Anderson, the Institute’s Senior Advisor on Public Engagement, to discuss the challenges of communicating about CO2 storage. They shared tips, tools and some creative solutions for getting people engaged with this topic.
This entire Webinar Series has been designed to hear directly from the experts and project practitioners researching and delivering public engagement, education and outreach best practice for carbon capture and storage. This third webinar was less focused on research and more on the real project problems and best practice solutions. It is a must for anyone interested in science communication/education and keen to access resources and ideas to make their own communications more engaging.
Webinar Series: Public engagement, education and outreach for CCS. Part 2: CC...Global CCS Institute
The second webinar in the public engagement, education and outreach for CCS Series took a more in-depth look at CCS education, specifically the creation and delivery of CCS education programs within developing countries.
Education has long been recognised as a critical component in understanding how science, society, and adaptation influence thinking about issues impacting our climate. As an emerging technology with an important role to play in shaping our low carbon energy future, CCS plays a role in our teaching around these topics in both developed and developing countries.
In this webinar, geochemist and renowned CCS education professional Sallie Greenberg, PhD, was joined by the Stakeholder Engagement Team from the South African Centre for Carbon Capture & Storage (SACCCS) to discuss the key learnings and experiences highlighted in, CCS education in developing countries a recent guidance paper for the Global CCS Institute.
Drawing on learning from existing CCS education initiatives and good practice from the wider education literature, Dr Greenberg highlighted areas of universal approach while facing particular challenges when working in the context of a developing country. Ms Polly Modiko, the Head of Stakeholder Engagement at SACCCS, then introduced the comprehensive program of education and outreach activities that the SACCCS team have been developing to support exploration of opportunities for an onshore Pilot CO2 Storage Project (PCSP) in South Africa.
This entire Webinar Series has been designed to hear directly from the experts and project practitioners researching and delivering public engagement, education and outreach best practice for CCS. This second Webinar combined elements of education research with real world application and discussion, showcasing important learnings, and concluding with links to further education resources for those wishing to learn more.
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Last month, a cluster of leading industries based in the North EastEngland, known as The Teesside Collective, announced its collaboration on Europe’s first carbon capture and storage (CCS) equipped industrial zone.
This Webinar provided an opportunity to dig deeper into the important findings of the Societe Generale report, produced on behalf of the Teesside Collective among its suite of reports intended as a ‘Blueprint for Industrial CCS in the UK’.
To expertly guide us through this process, we were delighted to welcome Allan Baker, Global Head of Power Advisory & Project Finance at Societe Generale and Mark Lewis, Low Carbon Manager, Tees Valley Unlimited, to join us for this Webinar. Allan presented on the key findings of the report and both Allan and Mark were available for an interactive Q&A session in the second half of the webinar.
This Webinar explored some of the report findings such as:
- the specific issues for incentivising Industrial CCS
- the multiple mechanisms that could be applied or adapted for use at the Teesside Collective project, and
- recommendations on a number of options for further development.
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Presentation by Bikash Pandey, Deputy Chief of Party – USAID and the Director Clean Energy and Environment, Winrock International providing consultancy to Worldbank at a forum organized by Avanceon titled Financing Energy Optimization Projects with guaranteed IRR
Presentation by Dr. Graeme Sweeney, Chairman of Zero Emissions Platform (ZEP) at Institute side event "Making sense of CCS in the UNFCCC" in Doha at COP 18 talks.
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Northern Lights: A European CO2 transport and storage project Global CCS Institute
The Global CCS Institute hosted the final webinar of its "Telling the Norwegian CCS Story" series which presented Northern Lights. This project is part of the Norwegian full-scale CCS project which will include the capture of CO2 at two industrial facilities (cement and waste-to-energy plants), transport and permanent storage of CO2 in a geological reservoir on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
Northern Lights aims to establish an open access CO2 transport and storage service for Europe. It is the first integrated commercial project of its kind able to receive CO2 from a variety of industrial sources. The project is led by Equinor with two partners Shell and Total. Northern Lights aims to drive the development of CCS in Europe and globally.
Webinar: Policy priorities to incentivise large scale deployment of CCSGlobal CCS Institute
The Global CCS Institute released a new report highlighting strategic policy priorities for the large-scale deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS). The Institute’s report also reviews the progress achieved until now with existing policies and the reasons behind positive investment decisions for the current 23 large-scale CCS projects in operation and construction globally.
Telling the Norwegian CCS Story | PART II: CCS: the path to a sustainable and...Global CCS Institute
The Global CCS Institute in collaboration with Gassnova hosted the second webinar of its "Telling the Norwegian CCS Story" series.
The second webinar presented Norcem's CCS project at their cement production facility in Brevik, in the South-Eastern part of Norway.
Telling the Norwegian CCS Story | PART I: CCS: the path to sustainable and em...Global CCS Institute
In 2018, the Norwegian government announced its decision to continue the planning of a demonstration project for CO2 capture, transport and storage. This webinar focuses on the Fortum Oslo Varme CCS project. This is one of the two industrial CO2 sources in the Norwegian full-scale project.
At their waste-to-energy plant at Klemetsrud in Oslo, Fortum Oslo Varme produces electricity and district heating for the Oslo region by incinerating waste. Its waste-to-energy plant is one of the largest land-based sources of CO2 emissions in Norway, counting for about 20 % of the city of Oslo’s total emissions. The CCS project in Oslo is an important step towards a sustainable waste system and the creation of a circular economy. It will be the first energy recovery installation for waste disposal treatment with full-scale CCS.
Fortum Oslo Varme has understood the enormous potential for the development of a CCS industry in the waste-to-energy industry. The company is working to capture 90 % of its CO2 emissions, the equivalent of 400 000 tons of CO2 per year. This project will open new opportunities to reduce emissions from the waste sector in Norway and globally. Carbon capture from waste incineration can remove over 90 million tons of CO2 per year from existing plants in Europe. There is high global transfer value and high interest in the industry for the project in Oslo.
The waste treated consists of almost 60 % biological carbon. Carbon capture at waste-to-energy plants will therefore be so-called BIO-CCS (i.e. CCS from the incineration of organic waste, thereby removing the CO2 from the natural cycle).
Find out more about the project by listening to our webinar.
Decarbonizing Industry Using Carbon Capture: Norway Full Chain CCSGlobal CCS Institute
Industrial sectors such as steel, cement, iron, and chemicals production are responsible for over 20 percent of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. To be on track to meet greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets established as part of the Paris Climate Accord, all sectors must find solutions to rapidly decarbonize, and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology is the only path for energy-intensive industries.
This webinar will explore how one country, Norway, is working to realize a large-scale Full Chain CCS project, where it is planning to apply carbon capture technology to several industrial facilities. This unique project explores capturing CO2 from three different industrial facilities - an ammonia production plant, a waste-to-energy plant, and a cement production facility. Captured CO2 will be then transported by ship to a permanent off-shore storage site operated as part of a collaboration between Statoil, Total, and Shell. When operational, Norway Full Chain CCS will capture and permanently store up to 1.5 million tons of CO2 per year.
During this webinar, Michael Carpenter, Senior Adviser at Gassnova, will provide an overview of the Norway Full Chain CCS, and discuss the value that Norway aims to derive from it. The key stakeholders working on this exciting project, and how they cooperate, will be also discussed. Gassnova is a Norwegian state enterprise focusing on CCS technology, which manages the Norway Full Chain CCS project.
Cutting Cost of CO2 Capture in Process Industry (CO2stCap) Project overview &...Global CCS Institute
The CO2StCap project is a four year initiative carried out by industry and academic partners with the aim of reducing capture costs from CO2 intensive industries (more info here). The project, led by Tel-Tek, is based on the idea that cost reduction is possible by capturing only a share of the CO2emissions from a given facility, instead of striving for maximized capture rates. This can be done in multiple ways, for instance by capturing only from the largest CO2 sources at individual multi-stack sites utilising cheap waste heat or adapting the capture volumes to seasonal changes in operations.
The main focus of this research is to perform techno-economic analyses for multiple partial CO2 capture concepts in order to identify economic optimums between cost and volumes captured. In total for four different case studies are developed for cement, iron & steel, pulp & paper and ferroalloys industries.
The first part of the webinar gave an overview of the project with insights into the cost estimation method used. The second part presented the iron & steel industry case study based on the Lulea site in Sweden, for which waste-heat mapping methodology has been used to assess the potential for partial capture via MEA-absorption. Capture costs for different CO2 sources were compared and discussed, demonstrating the viability of partial capture in an integrated steelworks.
Webinar presenters included Ragnhild Skagestad, senior researcher at Tel-Tek; Maximilian Biermann, PhD student at Division of Energy Technology, Chalmers University of Technology and Maria Sundqvist, research engineer at the department of process integration at Swerea MEFOS.
The Global CCS Institute and USEA co-hosted a briefing on the importance of R&D in advancing energy technologies on June 29 2017. This is the presentation given by Ron Munson, Global Lead-Capture at the Global CCS Institute.
The Global CCS Institute and USEA co-hosted a briefing on the importance of R&D in advancing energy technologies on June 29 2017. This is the presentation given by Alfred “Buz” Brown, Founder, CEO and Chairman of ION Engineering.
The Global CCS Institute and USEA co-hosted a briefing on the importance of R&D in advancing energy technologies on June 29 2017. This is the presentation given by Tim Merkel, Director, Research and Development Group at Membrane Technology & Research (MTR)
Mission Innovation aims to reinvigorate and accelerate global clean energy innovation with the objective to make clean energy widely affordable. Through a series of Innovation Challenges, member countries have pledged to support actions aimed at accelerating research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) in technology areas where MI members believe increased international attention would make a significant impact in our shared fight against climate change. The Innovation Challenges cover the entire spectrum of RD&D; from early stage research needs assessments to technology demonstration projects.
The Carbon Capture Innovation challenge aims to explore early stage research opportunities in the areas of Carbon Capture, Carbon Utilization, and Carbon Storage. The goal of the Carbon Capture Innovation Challenge is twofold: first, to identify and prioritize breakthrough technologies; and second, to recommend research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) pathways and collaboration mechanisms.
During the webinar, Dr Tidjani Niass, Saudi Aramco, and Jordan Kislear, US Department of Energy, provided an overview of progress to date. They also highlighted detail opportunities for business and investor engagement, and discuss future plans for the Innovation Challenge.
Karl Hausker, PhD, Senior Fellow, Climate Program, World Resources Institute, is the leader of the analytic and writing team for the latest study by the Risky Business Project: From Risk to Return: Investing in a Clean Energy Economy. Co-Chairs Michael Bloomberg, Henry Paulson, Jr, and Thomas Steyer tasked the World Resources Institute with this independent assessment of technically and economically feasible pathways that the US could follow to achieve an 80% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2050. These pathways involve mixtures of: energy efficiency, renewable energy, nuclear power, carbon capture and storage, increased carbon sequestration in US lands, and reductions in non-CO2 emissions. These pathways rely on commercial or near-commercial technologies that American companies are adopting and developing.
Dr Hausker presented the results of the study and draw some comparisons to the US Mid Century Strategy report submitted to the UNFCCC. He has worked for 30 years in the fields of climate change, energy, and environment in a career that has spanned legislative and executive branches, research institutions, NGOs, and consulting.
This webinar offered a unique opportunity to learn more about various decarbonization scenarios and to address your questions directly to Dr Hausker.
Webinar Series: Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum Part 1. CCUS in the Uni...Global CCS Institute
The Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) is a Ministerial-level international climate change initiative that is focused on the development of improved cost-effective technologies for carbon capture and storage (CCS). As part of our commitment to raising awareness of CCS policies and technology, CSLF, with support from the Global CCS Institute, is running a series of webinars showcasing academics and researchers that are working on some of the most interesting CCS projects and developments from around the globe.
This first webinar comes to you from Abu Dhabi – the site of the Mid-Year CSLF Meeting and home of the Al Reyadah Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage (CCUS) Project. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is one of the world’s major oil exporters, with some of the highest levels of CO2 emissions per capita. These factors alone make this a very interesting region for the deployment of CCUS both as an option for reducing CO2 emissions, but also linking these operations for the purposes of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) operations.
In the UAE, CCUS has attracted leading academic institutes and technology developers to work on developing advanced technologies for reducing CO2 emissions. On Wednesday, 26th April, we had the opportunity to join the Masdar Institute’s Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Mohammad Abu Zahra to learn about the current status and potential for CCUS in the UAE.
Mohammad presented an overview of the current large scale CCUS demonstration project in the UAE, followed by a presentation and discussion of the ongoing research and development activities at the Masdar Institute.
This webinar offered a rare opportunity to put your questions directly to this experienced researcher and learn more about the fascinating advances being made at the Masdar Institute.
Energy Security and Prosperity in Australia: A roadmap for carbon capture and...Global CCS Institute
On 15 February, a Roadmap titled for Energy Security and Prosperity in Australia: A roadmap for carbon capture and storage was released. The ACCS Roadmap contains analysis and recommendations for policy makers and industry on much needed efforts to ensure CCS deployment in Australia.
This presentation focused on the critical role CCS can play in Australia’s economic prosperity and energy security. To remain within its carbon budget, Australia must accelerate the deployment of CCS. Couple with this, only CCS can ensure energy security for the power sector and high-emissions industries whilst maintain the the vital role the energy sector plays in the Australian economy.
The webinar also detailed what is required to get Australia ready for widespread commercial deployment of CCS through specific set of phases, known as horizons in strategic areas including storage characterisation, legal and regulatory frameworks and public engagement and awareness.
The Roadmap serves as an important focal point for stakeholders advocating for CCS in Australia, and will provide a platform for further work feeding into the Australian Government’s review of climate policy in 2017 and beyond.
It is authored by the University of Queensland and Gamma Energy Technology, and was overseen by a steering committee comprising the Commonwealth Government, NSW Government, CSIRO, CO2CRC Limited, ACALET - COAL21 Fund and ANLEC R&D.
This webinar was presented by Professor Chris Greig, from The University of Queensland.
Managing carbon geological storage and natural resources in sedimentary basinsGlobal CCS Institute
To highlight the research and achievements of Australian researchers, the Global CCS Institute, together with Australian National Low Emissions Coal Research and Development (ANLEC R&D), will hold a series of webinars throughout 2017. Each webinar will highlight a specific ANLEC R&D research project and the relevant report found on the Institute’s website.
This is the eighth webinar of the series and will present on basin resource management and carbon storage. With the ongoing deployment of CCS facilities globally, the pore space - the voids in the rock deep in sedimentary basins – are now a commercial resource. This is a relatively new concept with only a few industries utilising that pore space to date.
This webinar presented a framework for the management of basin resources including carbon storage. Prospective sites for geological storage of carbon dioxide target largely sedimentary basins since these provide the most suitable geological settings for safe, long-term storage of greenhouse gases. Sedimentary basins can host different natural resources that may occur in isolated pockets, across widely dispersed regions, in multiple locations, within a single layer of strata or at various depths.
In Australia, the primary basin resources are groundwater, oil and gas, unconventional gas, coal and geothermal energy. Understanding the nature of how these resources are distributed in the subsurface is fundamental to managing basin resource development and carbon dioxide storage. Natural resources can overlap laterally or with depth and have been developed successfully for decades. Geological storage of carbon dioxide is another basin resource that must be considered in developing a basin-scale resource management system to ensure that multiple uses of the subsurface can sustainably and pragmatically co-exist.
This webinar was presented by Karsten Michael, Research Team Leader, CSIRO Energy.
Mercury and other trace metals in the gas from an oxy-combustion demonstratio...Global CCS Institute
To highlight the research and achievements of Australian researchers, the Global CCS Institute together with ANLEC R&D will hold a series of webinars throughout 2017. Each webinar will highlight a specific ANLEC R&D research project and the relevant report found on the Institute’s website. This is the seventh webinar of the series and presented the results of a test program on the retrofitted Callide A power plant in Central Queensland.
The behaviour of trace metals and the related characteristics of the formation of fine particles may have important implications for process options, gas cleaning, environmental risk and resultant cost in oxy-fuel combustion. Environmental and operational risk will be determined by a range of inter-related factors including:
The concentrations of trace metals in the gas produced from the overall process;
Capture efficiencies of the trace species in the various air pollution control devices used in the process; including gas and particulate control devices, and specialised systems for the removal of specific species such as mercury;
Gas quality required to avoid operational issues such as corrosion, and to enable sequestration in a variety of storage media without creating unacceptable environmental risks; the required quality for CO2 transport will be defined by (future and awaited) regulation but may be at the standards currently required of food or beverage grade CO2; and
Speciation of some trace elements
Macquarie University was engaged by the Australian National Low Emissions Coal Research and Development Ltd (ANLEC R&D) to investigate the behaviour of trace elements during oxy-firing and CO2 capture and processing in a test program on the retrofitted Callide A power plant, with capability for both oxy and air-firing. Gaseous and particulate sampling was undertaken in the process exhaust gas stream after fabric filtration at the stack and at various stages of the CO2 compression and purification process. These measurements have provided detailed information on trace components of oxy-fired combustion gases and comparative measurements under air fired conditions. The field trials were supported by laboratory work where combustion took place in a drop tube furnace and modelling of mercury partitioning using the iPOG model.
The results obtained suggest that oxy-firing does not pose significantly higher environmental or operational risks than conventional air-firing. The levels of trace metals in the “purified” CO2 gas stream should not pose operational issues within the CO2 Processing Unit (CPU).
This webinar was presented by Peter Nelson, Professor of Environmental Studies, and Anthony Morrison, Senior Research Fellow, from the Department of Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University.
Laboratory-scale geochemical and geomechanical testing of near wellbore CO2 i...Global CCS Institute
To highlight the research and achievements of Australian researchers, the Global CCS Institute together with ANLEC R&D will hold a series of webinars throughout 2016 and 2017. Each webinar will highlight a specific ANLEC R&D research project and the relevant report found on the Institute’s website. This is the sixth webinar of the series and presented the results of chemical and mechanical changes that carbon dioxide (CO2) may have at a prospective storage complex in the Surat Basin, Queensland, Australia.
Earth Sciences and Chemical Engineering researchers at the University of Queensland have been investigating the effects of supercritical CO2 injection on reservoir properties in the near wellbore region as a result of geochemical reactions since 2011. The near wellbore area is critical for CO2 injection into deep geological formations as most of the resistance to flow occurs in this region. Any changes to the permeability can have significant economic impact in terms of well utilisation efficiency and compression costs. In the far field, away from the well, the affected reservoir is much larger and changes to permeability through blocking or enhancement have relatively low impact.
This webinar was presented by Prof Sue Golding and Dr Grant Dawson and will provide an overview of the findings of the research to assist understanding of the beneficial effects and commercial consequences of near wellbore injectivity enhancement as a result of geochemical reactions.
Water use of thermal power plants equipped with CO2 capture systemsGlobal CCS Institute
The potential for increased water use has often been noted as a challenge to the widespread deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Early studies, that are widely referenced and cited in discussions of CCS, indicated that installation of a capture system would nearly double water consumption for thermal power generation, while more recent studies show different results. The Global CCS Institute has conducted a comprehensive review of data available in order to clarify messages around water consumption associated with installation of a capture system. Changes in water use estimates over time have been evaluated in terms of capture technology, cooling systems, and how the data are reported.
Guido Magneschi, Institute’s Senior Advisor – Carbon Capture, and co-author of the study, presented the results of the review and illustrated the main conclusions.
Global Status of CCS: 2016. Saline Aquifer Storage Performance at the Quest C...Global CCS Institute
The Global CCS Institute launched The Global Status of CCS: 2016 at a dedicated event at the 22nd conference of the parties (COP 22) in Marrakech on Tuesday, 15 November.
The Global Status of CCS: 2016 report is an essential reference for industry, government, research bodies, and the broader community, providing a comprehensive overview of global and regional CCS developments.
Following the report launch, we will run a number of webinars commencing in November 2016, through to early 2017.
A Summary of the Global Status of CCS: 2016 will be accessible on our website from 15 November, and includes updates on key CCS facilities, including two major facilities now in operation:
Shell’s Quest Project in Canada
Tomakomai CCS Demonstration Project in Japan
These projects are significant 2016 milestones and testament to the safety, reliability and cost-effectiveness of CCS as an integral technology to meeting Paris Agreement climate change targets.
Please join us for the first of the Global Status of CCS: 2016 webinar series.
Saline Aquifer Storage Performance at the Quest CCS Project
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In this webinar, Simon O’Brien, Shell Quest Subsurface Manager, discussed storage performance at Quest after one year of operations as well as early results from the measurement, monitoring, and verification (MMV) plan.
CarbonNet storage site characterisation and selection processGlobal CCS Institute
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The process builds upon basin and regional assessments undertaken at the national level, and focuses upon leads and play fairs assessed using a vast amount of geological data available from 50 years of petroleum exploration and developments in the basin.
CarbonNet geoscience work has been subject to independent scientific peer reviews, and external assurance certification by Det Norske Veritas against the recommended practise for geological storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) J203.
CarbonNet now holds five greenhouse gas assessments permits providing exclusive rights to explore, appraisal and develop a portfolio of CO2 storage sites.
The project has identified a prioritised storage site capable of storing in excess of 125 Mt of CO2 for which a 'Declaration of Storage' has been prepared which demonstrates the 'fundamental determinants' and probability assessment of potential CO2 plume paths as required under Australian CCS legislation'.
This webinar will be presented by Dr Nick Hoffman, CarbonNet Geosequestration Advisor, and will provide an overview of CarbonNet geoscience evaluation programme, referencing the relevant knowledge share products available on the Global CCS Institute website.
Institute’s Americas office launches The Global Status of CCS: 2016 at the Cl...Global CCS Institute
On 15 November 2016, the Global CCS Institute’s Americas office held the Clean energy solutions symposium: What is the Future of Carbon Capture? at the National Press Club, Washington, DC.
The Institute’s General Manager for the Americas, Jeff Erikson, launched The Global Status of CCS: 2016 report by presenting to the audience the highlights from the report and discussing the significant milestones achieved in the past year in the world of CCS. Erikson’s presentation was followed by an expert panel discussion on the future of clean energy, with focus on carbon capture and storage (CCS).
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Webinar Series: Public engagement, education and outreach for CCS. Part 4: Is there a cost-effective way of making Industrial CCS a reality?
1. Webinar Series: Public engagement, education and outreach for carbon
capture and storage
Part 4: Is there a cost-effective way of making Industrial CCS a reality?
Tuesday 14th February 2017
2. Sarah Tennison
Responsible for the transition to a Low Carbon
Economy in one of the most industrialised and
energy intensive locations in the UK.
Manages Teesside Collective, a consortium of
leading industries with a shared vision: to
establish Teesside as the go-to location for
future clean industrial development by creating
the UK’s first Carbon Capture and Storage
equipped industrial zone
Technology and Innovation Manager, Tees Valley Combined Authority
3. 10 years at Pöyry consulting on CCS, advising on a range of
CCS development projects in Europe, North America and
Central Asia.
Specialist in the economics of CCS
Managed Pöyry’s work with the UK CCS Cost Reduction
Task Force in 2012/13, and more recently with The Crown
Estate examining the barriers to CCS deployment, as well
as modelling of CCS development pathways for the Energy
Technologies Institute and Committee on Climate Change.
Background in energy market economics, and power market
modelling for asset valuations – advising a range of clients
including major international utilities, Multilateral
Development Banks, government departments and the
Prime Minister’s Office in the UK.
Principal, London office, Pöyry Management Consulting
Stuart Murray
4. Questions
We will collect questions during
the presentation.
Your Webinar Host will pose
these question to the
presenters after the
presentation.
Please submit your questions
directly into the GoToWebinar
control panel.
The webinar will start shortly.
6. What is Teesside Collective?
Teesside Collective is a cluster of leading energy intensive companies working together to build one of Europe’s first CCS
equipped industrial zones, helping to retain the UK’s industrial base, attract new investment and jobs, and meet the UK’s
climate change targets.
The group is made up of five large industrial companies:
– BOC – UK’s largest hydrogen plant
– CF Fertilisers – UK’s largest ammonia plant – 35% of UK fertilisers
– Lotte Chemical UK – PET for 15bn plastic bottles
– SABIC – UK’s largest cracker – upgrading to run on US shale gas
– Sembcorp – industrial utilities – in planning for 850MW CCGT
Teesside Collective is coordinated by Tees Valley Combined Authority and backed by the North East Process Industry Cluster
“CCS on industrial plants is going to be a
critical part of the global effort to prevent
serious climate change. Teesside is in the
right place, at the right time, to get ahead of
the curve.”
Sir David King, UK’s Special Representative
for Climate Change
“The sustainability of the PET we buy is of
paramount importance to us. Suppliers who
account for their emissions in a credible way
will present a fundamentally more attractive
proposition in relation to their rivals.”
Alison Rothnie, Britvic Plc
7.
8. Background
ICCS is the only technology to remove CO2 from some industrial
processes
Strategic infrastructure that can lead to competitive advantage
Key blocker is commercial – this report presents a solution
No direct follow on from Lord Oxburgh report but agree on need for
separate state backed transport and storage
Uses cost figures published in 2015 – Teesside Collective Blueprint –
recent work shows these could be reduced even further
Focus on developing hubs of power and industry and that industry
could move first
9. Industrial CCS is very cost
competitive
Industrial CCS would cost government £58/t including an £18/t fee
for transport and storage
Potential for government to receive up to £41/t income from carbon
saving
Pilot CCS network in Teesside would cost £110million to build and
£29million year to operate including a Transport and Storage fee
Pilot would capture 11million tonnes over 15 years, the network
would then expand to over 7million tonnes CO2 per year
Pilot could be operational in 6 years
Start small and start cheap in an area that can expand to link power
and industry into a network
“CCS in industry represents some of the
cheapest available carbon abatement in the UK
economy.”
“CCS hubs: a national infrastructure priority”
Lord Oxburgh report
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Teesside
10. INDUSTRIAL CCS BUSINESS MODELS
BUSINESS MODEL CONCEPT DISCUSSION
GCCSI Webinar
14 February 2017
25. WHAT'S NEEDED
1. Focus on regions and clusters – Teesside pursued as a
pilot with agreement to fund FEED (£15million)
2. Agreement to put in place an ICCS funding mechanism
and timeline for implementation
3. Agreement to establish a transportation and storage
company with timeline for implementation
4. Focus on the two stores in the North Sea which have
received large amounts of public funding
26.
27. Please submit questions in English directly through
the GoToWebinar control panel…
• Desperate to read the report now?
• The full report and an executive
summary are both available from the
Teesside Collective website:
• http://www.teessidecollective.co.uk/teessi
de-collective-report-a-business-case-for-a-
uk-industrial-ccs-support-mechanism/
• Be sure to check out Teesside Collective’s
proposition document as well:
28. Further reading…
Reports/ Publications Links
Blueprint for Industrial CCS in the UK
(Teesside Collective, 2015)
This is a collection of reports that the new study
has built on and refined. The reports include:
• Investment mechanism report (Societe Generale)
• Business case (Pale Blue Dot)
• Engineering estimates (Amec Foster Wheeler/ RHI)
• Economic impact report (Cambridge Econometrics).
www.teessidecollective.co.uk/teesside
-collective-blueprint-for-industrial-ccs-
in-the-uk/
A Need Unsatisfied. A blueprint for enabling
investment in CO2
(The Crown Estate and Deloitte, 2016)
A collaborative study investigating the risks of offshore
CO2 storage development and identified potential
commercial models for public and private investment in
CO2 transport and offshore storage infrastructure.
www.thecrownestate.co.uk/media/50
2093/ei-a-need-unsatisfied-blueprint-
for-enabling-investment-in-co2-
deloitte.pdf
29. Further reading…
Reports/ Publications Links
Future of carbon capture and storage in the
UK inquiry - publications
(House of Commons Energy and Climate
Change Committee, 2016)
The UK Government’s Energy and Climate Change
Committee held an inquiry into the near- and long-term
future of carbon capture and storage in the UK following the
cancellation of the UK CCS Commercialisation Competition.
After hearing all the evidence the ECCC left a strong set of
recommendations for the UK Government.
All Evidence:
www.parliament.uk/business/committee
s/committees-a-z/commons-
select/energy-and-climate-change-
committee/inquiries/parliament-
2015/ccs-15-16/publications/nquiry -
publications
Final Report:
www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm2
01516/cmselect/cmenergy/542/542.pdf
A strategic approach to carbon capture and
storage
(The UK Committee on Climate Change, 2016)
The CCC’s formal response and recommendations to the
(then) UK Secretary for State for Energy and Climate on the
critical importance of CCS in the UK.
www.theccc.org.uk/wp-
content/uploads/2016/07/Letter-to-Rt-
Hon-Amber-Rudd-CCS.pdf
30. Further reading…
Reports/ Publications Links
Strategic UK CCS Storage Appraisal
(Energy Technologies Institute, 2016)
This project confirmed there are no major technical hurdles
to storing industrial scale CO2 offshore in the UK with sites
able to service mainland Europe as well as the UK.
The 12 month project was delivered by the ETI and funded
with up to £2.5m from the UK Department of Energy and
Climate Change (DECC). It progressed the appraisal of five
selected storage sites towards readiness for Final
Investment Decisions, de-risking these stores for potential
future storage developers.
The detailed reports from the project and the sub-surface
geological models are all publically available – links can be
found on the ETI page linked to here…
www.eti.co.uk/programmes/carbon
-capture-storage/strategic-uk-ccs-
storage-appraisal
The project built on data from CO2Stored - the
UK’s CO2 storage atlas - a database which was
created from the ETI’s UK Storage Appraisal
Project.
This is now publically available and being further
developed by The Crown Estate and the British
Geological Survey.
Information on CO2Stored is available at
www.co2stored.com
31. Further reading…
Reports/ Publications Links
Lessons Learned – Lessons and evidence derived
from UK CCS programmes, 2008-2015
(CCSA, 2016)
Patrick Dixon, former Expert Chair of the Office for CCS
partnered with the CCSA and interviewed the most recent
UK CCS project developers and a number of other
companies with an interest in CCS deployment, in order to
capture important insights into the delivery challenges of
large–scale CCS projects. These are presented in ‘36-lessons
learned’.
Report:
www.ccsassociation.org/press-centre/reports-
and-publications/lessons-learned/
Webinar:
www.globalccsinstitute.com/events/webinar/20
16-09-06-080000/thirty-six-key-lessons-2008-
%E2%80%93-2015-uk-carbon-capture-and-
storage-programmes
‘The Lord Oxburgh Report’ - Lowest Cost
Decarbonisation for the UK: The Critical Role of CCS.
(Report of the Parliamentary Advisory Group on CCS,
2016)
This was the Parliamentary Advisory Group report commissioned by
the UK Government to examine the role of CCS. It found that CCS is an
essential component in delivering lowest cost decarbonisation across
the whole UK economy.
www.sccs.org.uk/images/expertise/reports/oxfo
rd/oxburgh_report_the_critical_role_of_CCS.pdf