Technical programme

Dedicated sessions

To compliment the technical program, we are introducing dedicated sessions on carbon storage regulation, critical minerals and lessons learnt from the implementation of flagship projects. These dedicated sessions will welcome keynote speakers to share their insights and provide valuable perspectives within the conference theme of ‘Accelerating the path to a sustainable energy future’.

The shift from a fuel-intensive to a material-intensive energy system?

Energy transition and related technologies will create a strong demand for mineral resources. Technologies such as Electric Vehicles or Offshore wind farms, or the infrastructure for electrification will need large quantities of critical and strategic
materials such as Lithium or Copper, both in variety and in volume. This demand will come on top of the requirements for the digital transition.

The requirements are such that experts anticipate that the global offer will have difficulties meeting this demand, despite important reserves. Europe is nowadays strongly dependent on imports in order to meet its needs in critical materials.

Considering these challenges, the solutions are on two levels:
– Securing the supply chain, by diversifying and securing contracts, applying mineral intelligence to identify supply chain risk, while increasing the environmental performance of these contracts
– Finding new and local resources, respectful of sustainability values, by finding innovative way of producing minerals locally, including by recycling.

Panelists

Murray Hitzman Director
iCRAG

Guillaume Bertrand Senior Research Engineer
BRGM

Eric Buisson Critical Minerals Analyst
IEA

ModeratorS

Thomas Le Guenan Project Manager and Lead Expert on Risk Management Activity
BRGM

Emer Caslin Business Development Manager
iCRAG

Date

15 November 2023

Time

15:35 – 17:00 CET

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Recent Developments in ccs regulation

Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technologies are set to play an important role in putting the global energy system on a path to net zero. Successfully deploying CCUS relies on the establishment of legal and regulatory frameworks to ensure the effective stewardship of CCUS projects (business development & planning) + activities (execution) and the safe and secure storage of CO2.

Several countries have already developed comprehensive legal and regulatory frameworks for CCUS and others are working on draft regulations. The former provides a valuable knowledge base for the countries that still have to establish a legal foundation for CCUS. Furthermore, existing frameworks are also being tested as more commercial CCUS projects are developed, with important learnings for regulators.

Policy-driven CCUS deployment will enable projects to get started in many countries and grow the few dozen carbon capture facilities operating today into a true industry supporting country,
regional and global decarbonization targets. Climate Finance and Just Energy Transition are key themes of the COP agenda and there is a strong drive for international working groups to share key learnings and accelerate deployment of CCUS. Smaller countries seeking financing are encouraged to form closer collaborative working partnerships with countries such as Norway, the United States, UK, Canada and Australia, including joint working on policy
incentivization and regulation, innovation and carbon dioxide transport and storage solutions.

The focus of the session will be on highlighting recent developments in CCS regulation like the review of the EU Directive guidance documents, the establishment of standards in the Netherland for the seismic and geomechanical containment component of the Storage Licence Applications as well as updates to the ISO TC 265 as well as SPE SRMS. Not forgetting to focus on Operator´s requirements and new drafts regulations in progress.

Panelists

Jørg Aarnes Global Lead – Hydrogen and CCS DNV Energy Systems

Simon O Brien Global CCS Deployment Lead
Shell

Ariane Giraneza Climate Policy Manager
Belladona Europa NGO

Virginia Markouizou Head of Downstream Practice
RPS Energy

ModeratorS

José María González Bolivia Technical Services & HSE Manager
Repsol

Sylvain Thibeau Expert – CO2 Geological Storage
Total Energies

Date

16 November 2023

Time

09:45 – 10:45 CET

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Implementation of flagship CCS projects

Following an excellent range of presentations at GET ‘22 introducing aspects and plans for carbon storage, one year on we review progress towards implementation for CCS projects, from a variety of perspectives. In this flagship session, you will hear commentary from regulators and operators for industry-leading and ‘first of a kind’ projects, sharing knowledge gained and lessons learned through consultation, commitment, failure implementation, and the pathway towards ‘first injection.’

The session will cover the full CCS cycle, from regulator, to prospect and storage site identification, license application, project design and stakeholder engagement, implementation and CO2 pilot injection monitoring. Speakers will include regulators and CCS operators. The session will focus on NW Europe offshore and include aspects of geoscience and subsurface engineering. Following the speaker presentation, a round table panel discussion will allow further analysis of the topics covered and invite questions from the audience.

Panelists

Olivier Point Sr Project Manager CCS
OMV (Norge) AS

Jo Bagguley Principal Regional Geologist
North Sea Transition Authority

Andreas Szabados Asset Manager Denmark
Wintershall DEA

Martin Currie Energy Transition Manager
ENI UK Ltd

ModeratorS

Habib al Khatib CEO
SpotLight

Adrian Robinson International New Ventures Origination Manager
Chevron

Date

17 November 2023

Time

15:35 – 17:00 CET

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