North Sea CCS: innovation and impact

The Offshore Europe 2017 conference sought insight into innovative technologies and operational efficiencies, which can help reduce the oil and gas sector's environmental footprint. Our half-day event explored how North Sea Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) can:

• Reinvent the industry and redeploy the O&G skills base in new opportunities
• Contribute to maximising recovery while delivering permanent CO₂ storage (CO₂-EOR)
• Meet Scottish, UK and Paris Agreement climate targets by extending North Sea CCS

It is 20 years since the Sleipner project began storing CO₂ beneath the North Sea off Norway. Sleipner and the later Snohvit project have collectively stored over 20 million tonnes of CO₂ and shown that North Sea CCS is both technically viable and geologically secure.

Our speakers considered new North Sea markets and opportunities offered by CCS and CO₂ utilisation, the need to preserve useful O&G infrastructure at risk of being decommissioned, and the progress being made by Norway on delivering a CCS network in the North Sea region. 

Programme

• New opportunities for the North Sea supply chain – Douglas Hyslop, Scottish Enterprise
• Norway in pole position: 20 years of CCS - Bamshad Nazarian, Statoil
• Building a UK industry from small ACORNs – Alan James, Pale Blue Dot Energy, and Jia Li, Guangdong CCUS Centre
• North Sea CO2-EOR: maximising production, permanently storing CO2 – Jamie Stewart, University of Edinburgh
• Framing CCS for Success – Tom Mallows, Crown Estate Scotland
• CCS and the decommissioning countdown – Stuart Haszeldine, SCCS

Directions

Head to AECC's Main Building. Room 2 is on the first floor. Interactive map