CCUS specialist from the United States of America and Norway could finally meet in person after almost three years. The meeting took place in Bergen, Norway. It started with a beautiful boat-ride from the Northen Light Joint Venture in Energiparken Øygarden, to the Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM ).
The Northern Light JV construction site. Courtesy Sallie Greenberg
TCM. Courtesy Sallie Greenberg
There the participants were welcomed by the TCM CEO Muhammad Ismail Shah, who gave an overview of the latest test campaigns with the US companies TDA, MTR, MHI and RTI. The visit ended with a tour of the test facilities.
The delegates met the following morning for more in-depth knowledge sharing and discussions. The agenda had four blocks:
08:30 The larger picture. The agenda with presentations and session summary can be found here.
11:00 Storage . The agenda with presentations and session summary can be found here.
13:45 Capture. The agenda with presentations and session summary can be found here.
15.35 CDR.
Noah Deich; US DOE, gave an overview of the Carbon negative shot, which was announced at COP 26 in November 2021. The goal is to develop CDR technologies that remove carbon at a cost of less than $ 100/t CO2 at gigatonne scale nd store it in a way intended to be permanent. The US DOE is open to any pathway and any TRL and wants ideas from, and conversations and cooperation with the broadest range of stakeholders.
Lars Ingolf Eide; Research Council on Norway (RCN), closed by reminding that the summary report from the CDR workshop will be published by IEAGHG and that the Mission Innovation CDR mission will shortly issue a roadmap.
15.50 Summing up and next meeting.
The meeting was wrapped up by William Christensen, the Norwegian MPE, and Brad Crabtree, US DOE.
The meeting was concluded by William Christensen and Brad Crabtree. William highly appreciated that so many from US came to Norway and contributed to successful days in Bergen. William thanked Åse and Lars Ingolf for organizing the meetings and said he was looking forward to the continuation of the US-Norwegian collaboration. Brad thanked for the Norwegian hospitality and said he was impressed by the bilateral collaboration. He said that the DoE was ready to host the next bilateral meeting in 2023.
Both emphasised that the four days, and in particular this last one, had shown that significant and valuable work has come out of the bilateral and that there is room for continued collaboration in CCUS and CDR.