The prgram is available here.

The presentations will be made available here.

Meeting report: 

As a part of the US-Norway MOU initiative a side event on Storage was held after the Annual CLIMIT summit in Oslo (26-27 Feb 2019). As a meeting theme we picked the title "Storage accelerator & learnings from Northern Lights project" with the idea to share international CO2 storage experience with the emerging Norway CCS project "Northern lights" and vis versa. The meeting was introduced by Åse Slagtern (NFR, Norway) and chaired by Darin Damiani (DoE, USA) and Philip Ringrose (Equinor, Norway).  Over 70 participants attended from many countries and contributed to a lively Q&A following each of the short talks presented.  The idea of sharing experience between US and Norwegian CCUS projects worked very well, with input also from emerging projects in the UK. Research topics included flow simulation, faulting, seismicity, well integrity, and marine monitoring. Project development perspectives included mapping global offshore potential, enabling cost effective projects via EOR, and developing new technology for offshore facilities.  Most agreed that the prospects for accelerating CCUS projects globally are looking good but that the business models remain challenging.

Meeting agenda with link to talks is given below. 

Global storage developments theme:

• CLIMIT Progamme overview - Arvid Nøttvedt, CLIMIT Chairman

• Data sharing update – Grethe Tangen, SINTEF

• Global perspectives on offshore storage – Tip Meckel, University of Texas

• US storage projects update – Michael Godec, ARI

• US onshore CCUS projects – Charles Gorecki, UNEERC  

• UK developments offshore storage – Steve Murphy, Pale Blu Dot Energy

Northern lights theme:

• Update from Northern Lights project – Peter Zweigel, Equinor

• Challenges of understanding CO2 plume dynamics – Phil Ringrose, Equinor

• Understanding faults – Elin Skurtveit, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute  

• Monitoring offshore seismicity – Volker Oye, NORSAR

• Marine environmental monitoring – Ann Blomberg, NGI

• Well integrity issues – Andreas Berntsen & Malin Torsæter, SINTEF

• Offshore technology for CCS – Pål Helge Nøkleby, Aker Solutions

A workshop on collaboration between USA and Norway on CO2 capture was held at the Research Council of Norway, Drammensveien 288, Lysaker, Oslo, Norway, 3 may 2018. The workshop summary can be found here and the presentations here.

A workshop on "Novel Business Models for CCS and CCUS", took place in Washington DC on August 30, in connection with the US-Norway annual bilateral meeting August 28 and 29. This link provide access to the agenda, the presentations and summaries. 

A mini-workshop on the bilateral  agreement between USA and Norway on CCS/CCUS was held in Oslo March 8, 2017, in connection with the CLIMIT Summit

A summary of the workshop can be found here and the presentations here.

16 November 2016: The CO2 Storage Data Consortium (CSDC) launched

The CO2 Storage Data Consortium (CSDC) – was launched 16 November 2016 at the GHGT13 conference in Lausanne, Switzerland. The CSDC is a new international network aimed at promoting data sharing from pioneering CO2 storage projects in order to accelerate innovation and deployment of CCS. The aim of the meeting was to explain the objectives and to gain feedback from potential participants. The CO2 Storage Data Consortium (CSDC) Secretariat can be contacted at <csdc-secretariat@sintef.no>.

Researchers from NETL and SINTEF exchanged information on activities and views on aspects of combustion in an effort to look for possible co-operation in the Crosscutting part under the bilateral umbrella. John Rockey presented the Office of Fossil Energy’s program on Advanced Combustion Systems, Nathan Weiland gave a review of NETL’s supercritical CO2 (sCO ) techno-economic analyses, Mario Ditaranto presented some of SINTEF’s work on oxy-fuel combustion  and Petter Nekså gave an overview of work SINTEF is doing on tools and applications for CO2 power cycle development.

A webinar  between NETL laboratories and Norwegian research institutions were held April 14, 2016. on Chemical Looping Combustion (CLC). The goal of the meeting was to see if there are possibilities for cooperation. Douglas Straub, NETL, presented their activities on CLC, and from the Norwegian side summaries of activies were given by Julien Meyer, IFE and Yngve Larring, Sintef. Shahriar Amini, NTNU, could not be present by some activities were later shared with US delegates.

This workshop took place on Sunday 6th September 2015 and was organised as a side-event to the plenary meeting of the ISO technical committee for CCS (TC265) that was held near Oslo from the 7th to 11th September. The workshop was organised and hosted by the USA-Norway CCUS MVA group, which is organised under the Memorandum of Understanding between the US Department of Energy and the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum. Read more....

This seminar was held at the Research Council of Norway, Oslo. One objective was to establish contacts between the Decatur project and Norwegian researchers and, hopefully, R&D collaborations. Read more...