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Role of Enhanced Oil Recovery in Accelerating the Deployment of Carbon Capture and Storage
An MIT Energy Initiative and Bureau of Economic Geology at UT Austin Symposium
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The MITEI Associate Member Program Symposia Series is designed to bring together groups of energy experts for a formal discussion of critical and timely energy issues. After each symposium, a report is prepared and published, detailing the proceedings and providing a range of findings and recommendations.
The Symposium on the Role of Enhanced Oil Recovery in Accelerating the Deployment of Carbon Capture and Storage, which took place on July 23, 2010 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was sponsored by MITEI member Denbury Resources Inc. and hosted by MITEI and the Bureau of Economic Geology, UT Austin. The symposium was organized into three panels that addressed the following key topics: (1) Geosciences, (2) Implementation, and (3) Policy and Regulation. The commissioned white papers, supplemented by papers and reports submitted by attendees, focused these discussions and form the core of the report.
It is important to note that this is a report on the proceedings and papers that informed those proceedings; it is not a study. The report represents a range of views from those at the symposium and, where possible, includes consensus or general recommendations from the presenters and participants; it is in no way intended to represent the views of all the participants, the individual participants, or of the rapporteurs.
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- Full Report
- Agenda
- Framing the Issue: Accelerating CCS through EOR?
- Symposium on the Role of EOR in Accelerating the Deployment of CCS C. Michael Ming, Research Partnership for Secure Energy for America and Stephen Melzer, Melzer Consulting white paper || presentation
- CO2-driven Enhanced Oil Recovery as a Stepping Stone to What? James Dooley, Joint Global Change Research Institute, PNNL white paper || presentation
- Discussant presentation: CCS Land Aggregation including Unitization Tracy Evans, President & COO Denbury Resources Inc.
- Geoscience
- EOR as Sequestration - Geoscience Perspective Susan Hovorka, Bureau of Economic Geology, UT Austin white paper || presentation
- Implementation
- Challenges of Implementing Large-scale CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery with CO2 Capture and Storage Vello Kuuskraa, Advanced Resources International white paper || presentation
- Discussant presentation: Proposed US Demonstrations (with government support) Howard Herzog, MIT
- Policy and Regulation
- Carbon Sequestration in Oil and Gas Fields (in Conjunction with EOR and Otherwise) Policy and Regulatory Issues Scott Anderson, Environmental Defense Fund white paper || presentation
- Discussant presentation: Developing Regulatory Principles for an Expanded CO2 Pipeline Network Philip M. Marston, Esq., Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas, Austin
- Additional papers submitted by participants
- Carbon Capture and Storage Imperative (via Clean Air Task Force)
- Developing Regulatory Principles for an Expanded CO2 Pipeline Network (via Marston Law)
- Complementary Readings
