2nd Capacity Building in Emerging Economies Workshop

Porto Alegre, Brazil
October 18-19, 2007

The second CSLF Capacity Building in Emerging Economies Workshop was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, 18-19 October 2007. There were approximately 130 participants from 10 countries, including a significant number of undergraduate and graduate students from Brazil’s top universities. The workshop provided an in-depth tutorial of topics and included opportunities for two-way discussions between lecturers and participants. The workshop was sponsored by Petrobras and was directed at the next generation of Brazilian engineers, geologists, scientists, and future policy makers.

• Workshop Agenda (pdf 32 KB)

Thursday, October 18, 2007

• Opening Remarks (pdf 31 KB)
  Justin Swift, United States, Chair of CSLF Capacity Building Task Force
• Update of CSLF Activities (pdf 466 KB)
  John Panek, CSLF Secretariat 
• Capture and Geologic Storage of Carbon Dioxide – A Key Element of Climate Technology Portfolio
  (pdf 8.25 MB)
  Neeraj Gupta, Battelle, United States 
• Basin Electric Power Cooperative's Approach to CO2 Capture, Transport and Sequestration Technologies (pdf 1.70 MB)
  Fred Stern, Basin Electric Power Cooperative, United States; presented by John Panek, CSLF Secretariat 
  • Video Clip
• CO2 Storage in Geological Media (pdf 5.50 MB)
  Stefan Bachu, Alberta Energy and Utilities Board, Canada
• Measuring, Monitoring & Verification (pdf 5.38 MB)
  Lee Spangler, Zero Emissions Research and Technology Center, United States 
• Legal and Regulatory Aspects of CCS (pdf 1.57 MB)
  Stefan Bachu, Alberta Energy and Utilities Board, Canada
• CCS Safety and Analogues (pdf 2.36 MB)
  Larry Myer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States

Friday, October 19, 2007

• Sustainable Oil and Gas Production the StatoilHydro way (pdf 1.46 MB)
  Jorge Camargo, Statoil Hydro, Brazil 
• Storing CO2 in Coal Seams (pdf 943 KB)
  Grant Bromhal, National Energy Technology Laboratory, United States 
• CO2 Storage in Saline Reservoirs (pdf 11.5 MB)
  John Bradshaw, GeoScience Australia 
• Dynamic Mass Partitioning & Spatial Distribution of CO2 Trapping Mechanisms (pdf 3.25 MB)
  James Johnson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States 
• CO2 Well Integrity and Wellbore Monitoring (pdf 2.25 MB)
  Andrew Duguld, Schlumberger, United States 
• Understanding Risks Associated with Deployment of Carbon Capture and Storage (pdf 677 KB)
  Jim Ekmann, Leonardo Technologies, United States 
• Source-Sink Matching and Country Assessment CCS Potential (pdf 4.08 MB)
  John Bradshaw, GeoScience Australia 
• Closing Remarks (pdf 32 KB)
  Justin Swift, United States, Chair of CSLF Capacity Building Task Force