Making CCS Investable in the Netherlands

What do we have to do, to get from where we are now, to where we have an investable carbon capture and storage industry?

Download presentations and view videos - see links below

Rotterdam World Trade Center - 23rd Floor Town Hall Room
November 12, 2014

Our Dutch CCS forum in Rotterdam World Trade Centre on November 12th, addressed the toughest challenges which sit between
where we are now and having an investor financed, growing CCS industry. - Session 1: Developing a CO2 EOR industry which can contribute to the costs of CCS

- Session 2: Maintaining public, investor and political confidence in CCS
- Session 3: Carbon tax, subsidy or something else? Getting the right government financial / regulatory structure

AGENDA

Morning chair: Barend van Engelenburg, Senior Expert Energy, Dutch Office for Climate and Environmental Assessment. 

Session 1 : Creating a CO2 EOR industry which can contribute to the costs of carbon capture

9.15 Cor Hofstee, reservoir engineer, TNO
CO2 EOR potential in the Netherlands
- Commercial and technical issues for getting CO2 EOR running in the Netherlands and contributing to the cost of carbon capture
- Possibilities for transporting CO2 to further afield oilfields for EOR using ships Watch the video - View the slides

9.45 Emrah Durusut, Element Energy
Key issues to make CO2 -EOR work
-  . tax incentives
- scenarios including CO₂-EOR,
- CO₂ requirements including fresh CO₂ and recycling Watch the video - View the slides

10.15 Stijn Santen, director CO2-NET BV 
Industrial policy in NW Europe for enhanced gas and oil production with CO2 ,Watch the video - View the slides

10.45 Martin Röden, Director of Business Development, Sargas AS 
Making EOR + CCS work commercially - what we have learned so far
(Sargas is a company specialising in pressurised combustion and pressurised CO2 capture, and is currently in negotiations to acquire the UK Don Valley CCS project) View slides    Watch the video 

11.15 What is the best way to get a CO2 EOR industry started in the Netherlands - and contributing to the costs of CCS? Panel discussion with all speakers Watch the video

11.40 Break

Session 2: Maintaining public, investor and political confidence in CCS


12.10 Vegar Stokset, Head of Communications, CO2 Technology Centre Mongstad
- TCM; Progress made and the way forward Watch the video - View the slides

12.40 Luuk Buit, Consultant, DNV GL Oil & Gas (Groningen)
 What we can do to keep CCS moving and maintain public / political / investor confidence? Watch the video - View the slides 

1.10 Lunch 

Afternoon chair: John Scowcroft, Executive Adviser EMEA, Global CCS Institute (formerly Head of Environment and Sustainable Development Policy EURELECTRIC, the association of the electricity industry in Europe) 

2.00 Hans Bolscher, Project Director for CCS directive Review for EC, formerly CCS director for The Netherlands government
Learnings from the EU-CCS evaluation for The Netherlands View slides  Watch the video

 Session 3 Carbon tax, subsidy or something else? Getting the right government financial / regulatory structure

 

14.30 Jos Cozijnsen, MMA, Consulting Attorney emissions trading, emissierechten.nl and participant of the ZEP forum
How carbon trading / cap + trade can part of CCS financially business case
 - How to optimize CCS project chain for carbon value
 - Understanding ETS: evidence that the low CO2 price is due to the EC crisis, not scheme mismanagement
 - Future of cap+trade: EU and global with a view to CCS Watch the video - View the slides

15.00 Rex Gaisford, Rex Consulting (former senior executive, Hess Oil, and initiator of the UK North Sea CRINE project to reduce costs of North Sea operations)
- Why direct subsidy for CCS / wind / solar projects, either from the government or in the form of higher prices, could be a more efficient way to raise money than carbon price / carbon tax Watch the video - View the slides

15.30 What is the best way that governments can create a framework to make CCS work for investors and industry? Panel discussion Watch the video

16.00 Close