
The Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) held its 7th Ministerial Meeting in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on December 3–7, 2017. The highlight of the meeting was the Ministerial Conference on December 6, which was focused on advancing the business case for carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS). Ministers and designates who attended the conference identified key actions needed to accelerate the large-scale deployment of CCUS. These included the following:
- Working together to ensure that CCUS is broadly accepted and supported as part of the suite of clean energy technologies, along with other low-emission energy solutions.
- Leveraging the success of operational CCUS projects worldwide while emphasizing the urgency of developing and executing new CCUS projects in the future.
- Encouraging the development of regional strategies that strengthen the business case for CCUS and accelerate its deployment.
- Exploring new utilization concepts beyond carbon dioxide (CO2) enhanced oil recovery (EOR) that have the potential to add commercial value.
- Supporting collaborative research and development (R&D) on innovative, next-generation CCUS technologies with broad application to both the power and industrial sectors.
- Expanding stakeholder engagement and strengthening links with other global clean energy efforts to increase public awareness of the role of CCUS and build momentum.
- Increasing global shared learnings on CCUS by disseminating best practices and lessons learned from CCUS projects and strengthening coordination on R&D efforts globally.
- Continuing to engage the public on CCUS and looking for ways to communicate effectively.
Ministers and Heads of Delegation of the CSLF member countries were greatly encouraged by the progress made in the research, development, demonstration, and global deployment of CCUS. However, it was recognized that challenges and barriers to wide-scale deployment remain, and the public and private sectors must do more to advance CCUS technologies from the laboratory, to demonstration, and ultimately to the commercial marketplace. To that end, Ministers and Heads of Delegation agreed that they must build upon current successes and continue to expand the global CCUS portfolio through ongoing leadership and commitment, and continue to work together to drive down the costs of deploying CCUS and accelerate global deployment by identifying new commercial models for deployment and develop the next generation of CCUS technology.
Other key results from the meeting included the following:
- The 2017 CSLF Technology Roadmap was launched;
- The results from a series of regional stakeholder surveys were documented and summarized for Ministers;
- One new collaborative project was recognized; and
- A new technical task force was created on hydrogen with carbon capture and storage as a means of decarbonizing industry.
Communiqués from the Ministerial Meeting
Meeting Documents and Presentations
- Pre-meeting information (schedules, agendas, background documents, etc.).
- Policy Group minutes
- Technical Group minutes
- Projects Interaction and Review Team (PIRT) summary
- View event photos
- View highlights video
PIRT Meeting (December 3)
- Report from CSLF Secretariat
Richard Lynch, CSLF Secretariat - Preview of 2017 CSLF Technology Roadmap (TRM)
Andrew Barrett, TRM Working Group Chair, Australia
Lars Ingolf Eide, TRM Editor, Norway - Update from Working Group on Evaluating Existing and New Ideas for Possible Future Technical Group Actions
Åse Slagtern and Lars Ingolf Eide, Norway - Review of Project Proposed for CSLF Recognition: CO2CRC Otway Project Stage 3
Max Watson, CO2CRC, Australia
Technical Group Meeting (December 4)
- Host Country Welcome
Fatima Al Foora Al Shamsi, Assistant Undersecretary, Ministry of Energy, United Arab Emirates - Report from the CSLF Secretariat
Richard Lynch, CSLF Secretariat - Update from the IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme
Tim Dixon, Technical Manager, IEAGHG - Update from the Global CCS Institute
Jeff Erikson, General Manager for The Americas, GCCSI - Update from CO2GeoNet
Ceri Vincent, Executive Committee Chair, CO2GeoNet - Report on Mission Innovation Experts Group Workshop
Tidjani Niass, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia - Preview of 2017 CSLF Technology Roadmap (TRM)
Andrew Barrett, Working Group Chair, Australia
Lars Ingolf Eide, TRM Editor, Norway - Report from Off-Shore CO2-EOR Task Force
Lars Ingolf Eide, Task Force Chair, Norway - Report from Bioenergy with CCS Task Force
Mark Ackiewicz, Task Force Chair, United States - Report from Improved Pore Space Utilisation Task Force
Max Watson, Task Force Co-Chair, Australia
Brian Allison, Task Force Co-Chair, United Kingdom - Report from Industrial CCS Task Force
Dominique Copin, Total, France - Update from Working Group on Evaluating Existing and New Ideas for Possible Future Technical Group Actions
Lars Ingolf Eide, Working Group Chair, Norway - Report on Global CCS Symposium
Mike Monea, International CCS Knowledge Centre, Canada - Update on International Test Center Network
Frank Morton, National Carbon Capture Center, United States - Results from CSLF-recognized Project: ROAD
Harry Schreurs, RVO, Netherlands - Review of Project Nominated for CSLF Recognition: CO2CRC Otway Project – Stage 3
Max Watson, CO2CRC, Australia - Results from CSLF-recognized Project: Plant Barry Integrated CCS Project
Christopher Romans, MHI, United States - Results from CSLF-recognized Project: Lacq Integrated CCS Project
Dominique Copin, Total, France - Results from CSLF-recognized Project: Uthmaniyah CO2-EOR Demonstration Project
Ammar AlShehri, Ministry of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources, Saudi Arabia - Regional Evaluation of the Complete CCS Value Chain
John Harju, University of North Dakota Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC), United States - Overview and Status of the Carbon Storage Data Consortium
Sallie Greenberg, University of Illinois, United States - Outcomes and Messages from 2nd International Workshop on Offshore CO2 Storage
Tim Dixon, Technical Manager, IEAGHG - Update on Activities of ISO/TC265
Sallie Greenberg, University of Illinois, United States - Preview of Technical Group Presentation at Ministerial Conference
Åse Slagtern, Technical Group Chair, Norway - Accelerating Low Carbon Industrial Growth through CCUS
Constantin Sava, GeoEcoMar, Romania - ECOBASE Enhanced Oil Recovery with Storage
Constantin Sava, GeoEcoMar, Romania - China’s CCUS Progress and Deployment
Jinfeng Ma, Northwest University, China
Policy Group Meeting (December 5)
- Host Country Welcome
H.E. Dr. Matar Al Neyadi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Energy, United Arab Emirates - Report from CSLF Stakeholders
Barry Worthington, United States Energy Association - International Energy Agency CCS Activities Update
Tristan Stanley, International Energy Agency - Global CCS Institute Update
Jeff Erikson, Global CCS Institute - Report from CSLF Technical Group
Åse Slagtern, Technical Group Chair, Norway - Report on CSLF Technology Roadmap (TRM)
Andrew Barrett, TRM Working Group Chair, Australia
Lars Ingolf Eide, TRM Editor, Norway - Report from Regulatory Task Force
Ryozo Tanaka, Japan - Report from the Communications Task Force
Hamoud AlOtaibi, Task Force Chair, Saudi Arabia - Report from the Capacity Building Governing Council
Stig Svenningsen, Governing Council Chair, Norway - Report from the Financing for CCS Projects Task Force
Didier Bonijoly, Acting Task Force Chair, France - Financing CCS
Nataliya Kulichenko, World Bank - Mission Innovation: Capture Challenge Update
Tidjani Niass, Saudi Arabia - Report from the CSLF Academic Council
Sallie Greenberg, Academic Council Co-Chair, United States - Clean Energy Ministerial Update
Jarad Daniels, Policy Group Chair, United States
Ministerial Conference (December 6)
- Scene-Setting Presentations
- Accelerating Future Deployment of CCUS
Laszlo Varro, Chief Economist, International Energy Agency - The Global Status of CCUS 2017
Brad Page, Chief Executive Officer, Global CCS Institute - CCUS in Industry
Angus Gillespie, Oil and Gas Climate Initiative Executive Committee
- Accelerating Future Deployment of CCUS
- Key CSLF Perspectives
- CSLF Stakeholders (presentation) | View full stakeholders narrative
Barry Worthington, Executive Director, United States Energy Association - CSLF Technical Group
Åse Slagtern, CSLF Technical Group Chair, Norway - CSLF Policy Group
Jarad Daniels, CSLF Policy Group Chair, United States
- CSLF Stakeholders (presentation) | View full stakeholders narrative
- Panel Session 1: National and International Policies to Build Business Cases for CCUS
- CCUS Opportunities in the United States (presentation not yet available)
Steven Winberg, Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, United States - The Future of CCUS in the United Arab Emirates
H.E. Suhail Mohamed Al Mazrouei, Minister of Energy, United Arab Emirates - CO2 Utilization as a Market Enabler (presentation not yet available)
Ahmad Al Khowaiter, Chief Technology Officer, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia - CCUS in the United Kingdom’s Clean Growth Strategy
Ashley Ibbett, Director of Clean Electricity, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, United Kingdom
- CCUS Opportunities in the United States (presentation not yet available)
- Panel Session 2: CCUS Project Showcase – Regional Highlights
- Middle East – Al Reyadah Project in the United Arab Emirates (presentation not yet available)
Arafat Al Yafei, CEO, Al Reyadah, United Arab Emirates - Asia – Tomakomai CCS Demonstration Project in Japan
Jiro Tanaka, Associate General Manager, International Relations Dept., Japan CCS Co., Ltd., Japan - Europe – Industrial CCS Projects in Norway (presentation not yet available)
Ingvil Smines Tybring-Gjedde, State Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, Norway
- Middle East – Al Reyadah Project in the United Arab Emirates (presentation not yet available)
- Panel Session 3: CCUS Infrastructure Development
- The Opportunity for Anthropogenic CO2 and Enhanced Oil Recovery
Patricio Rivera, Occidental Petroleum - Decoupling Capture from Transport and Storage
Gardiner Hill, Vice-Chair, European Zero Emission Technology and Innovation Platform (ZEP) - Enabling Hubs and Clusters
John Gale, General Manager, IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme - Leveraging Innovative Approaches to Advance Carbon Capture and Conversion Technologies
Frank Des Rosiers, Assistant Deputy Minister, Innovation and Energy Technology Sector, Natural Resources Canada, Canada
Goran Vlajnic, Executive Director, Carbon Capture and Conversion Institute, Canada
- The Opportunity for Anthropogenic CO2 and Enhanced Oil Recovery
Documents Book for 7th CSLF Ministerial Meeting
7th CSLF Ministerial Meeting Documents Book (6.4 MB pdf) |
Ministerial Conference Briefing Documents (6.0 MB pdf) |