A
collaboration
with
Southern
Company,
SECARB‐Ed
and
EnTech
Strategies























































June
5‐15,
2011


Agenda:
Updated
03/30/11

Sunday,
June
5

Travel
to
Birmingham,
AL




Check‐In
at
the
University
of
Alabama





Monday,
June
6

Welcome
and
RECS
Overview
–
Pamela
Tomski,
Founder
and
Director,
RECS
and
Managing
Partner,
EnTech
Strategies,
LLC

(Confirmed)



Participant
Introductions



Key
Note:

Confronting
the
Climate‐Energy
Challenge
–
Dr.
Daniel
Schrag,
Professor
of
Earth
and
Planetary
Sciences
and
Director,

Harvard
University
Center
for
the
Environment,
Harvard
University
(Invited)



Southeast
Partnership
on
Carbon
Sequestration
(SECARB)
–
Ken
Nemeth,
Executive
Director,
Southern
States
Energy
Board

(Confirmed)




Utility
Perspective
on
CCS
and
Southern
Company’s
CCS
Portfolio
–
Dr.
Richard
Esposito,
Principal
Research
Geologist,
Southern

Company
(Confirmed)



CCS
in
a
Policy
Context
–
Sarah
Wade,
Wade
Group
and
Director,
National
CCS
Outreach
Working
Group
(Confirmed)



Introduction
to
the
Stabilization
Wedges
Game
(Developed
by
Princeton
University’s
Carbon
Mitigation
Initiative)
–
Dr.
Roberta

Hotinski,
Information
Officer,
Carbon
Mitigation
Initiative,
Princeton
University
(Confirmed)



Wedges
Game,
Group
Presentations
and
Discussion



Poster
Session
and
Welcome
Reception



Group
Dinner
Hosted
by
Southern
Company
–
Dreamland
BBQ




University
of
Alabama,
Birmingham
 Pamela
Tomski
,
Founder
&
Director
 
 































www..recsco2.org


Engineering
Building:
Room
XXX
 202
390
8896
or
ptomski@mac.com

 

 




Tuesday,
June
7

Introduction
to
Geologic
CO2
Storage
–
Dr.
Sally
Benson,
Director,
Global
Climate
and
Energy
Project,
Stanford
University

(Confirmed)



CO2
Storage
Site
Characterization
and
Canada’s
CCS
Activity
–
Dr.
Stefan
Bachu,
Distinguished
Scientist,
CO2
Storage,
Alberta

Innovates
–
Technology
Futures
(Confirmed)



CO2
Enhanced
Oil
Recovery
(EOR)
and
Carbon
Storage

–

Mark
Holtz,
Director,
Global
Business
Development,
EOR,
Praxair



Visit
to
Alabama
Power’s
Gorgas
Electric
Generating
Plant



Coal
Plant
Combustion
101
–
TBD,
Southern
Company



Local
and
Regional
Geology
and
Geologic
CO2
Storage
Opportunities
–
Dr.
Jack
C.
Pashin,
Director,
Energy
Investigations
Program,

Geologic
Survey
of
Alabama
(Confirmed)



Site
Characterization
Drilling
and
Seismic
Study
–
Dr.
Peter
Clark,
Petroleum
Engineer,
Department
of
Engineering
University
of

Alabama
(Confirmed)
and
Dr.
Andy
Goodliffe,
Geophysics,
Geology
Department,
University
of
Alabama
(Confirmed)



Tour
Plant
Gorgas





Wednesday,
June
8

Geochemistry
of
CO2
Storage
–
Dr.
J.
Alexandra
Hakala,
Geosciences
Division,
Office
of
Research
and
Development,
National
Energy

Technology
Laboratory,
U.S.
Department
of
Energy
(Confirmed)



Wellbore
Integrity:
Impact
of
CO2
Saturated
Brine
on
Fractures
in
Well
Cement
–
Dr.
Mileva
Radonjic,
Louisiana
State
University

(Confirmed)



U.S.
EPA’s
Underground
Injection
Control
(UIC)
Program
and
the
Proposed
Rule
on
Geologic
Sequestration
–
Sean
Porse,
Geologist,

Office
of
Ground
Water
and
Drinking
Water,
U.S.
EPA
and
RECS
2010
(Confirmed)



Geologic
Storage
Risk
Assessment,
Leak
Detection
and
Mitigation
–
Dr.
George
Guthrie,
Focus
Area
Leader,
Geological
and

Environmental
Systems,
Office
of
Research
and
Development,
National
Energy
Technology
Laboratory
(Confirmed)



Introduction
to
Numerical
Modeling
and
Simulation
of
Fluid
Flow
in
the
Subsurface
–
Dr.
Ronald
W.
Falta,
Professor,
Department
of

Environmental
Engineering
and
Earth
Sciences,
Clemson
University
(Confirmed)



Group
Exercise:
Scenario
Analysis
Using
CO2Interface

–
Led
by
Mary
Kang,
PhD
Student
at
Princeton
University
(RECS
2010)

(Confirmed)






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Group
Exercise:

Modeling
Heterogeneity
with
TOUGH2
Numerical
Simulations
–
Led
by
Catherine
Ruprecht,
MS
Hydrogeology
at

Clemson
University
and
RECS
2010
(Confirmed)



Demonstration
in
3D
Visual
and
Immersive
Environment
(UAB’s
Visual
Image
Lab)
–
Dr.
Bharat
Soni,
Chair
and
Professor,

Department
of
Mechanical
Engineering
(Confirmed)



Tour
of
UAB
Cap
Rock
Integrity
Lab
–
Dr.
Peter
Walsh,
Research
Professor,
Department
of
Mechanical
Engineering,
University
of

Alabama
(Confirmed)



Citronelle
CO2
EOR
Project
Overview
–
Dr.
Peter
Walsh,
Research
Professor,
Department
of
Mechanical
Engineering,
University
of

Alabama
(Confirmed)




Thursday,
June
9

Visit
to
the
National
Carbon
Capture
Center
(NCCC)



Overview
of
Moot
Court
Group
Exercise
on
CO2
Capture
Technologies



Introduction
to
CO2
Separation
and
Capture
–
Dr.
Gary
Rochelle,
The
Carol
and
Henry
Groppe
Professor
in
Chemical
Engineering,
The

University
of
Texas,
Austin
(Confirmed)



Transport
Integrated
Gasification
(TRIG™)
and
Integrated
Gasification
Combined
Cycle
(IGCC):

Technology
Overview
and
the

Ratcliffe
TRIG™
IGCC
Project
with
CCS
–
Kerry
Bowers,
Director,
NCCC,
Southern
Company
(Tentative)



Post‐Combustion
Carbon
Capture
Center
(PC4)
–
Nick
Irvin,
Principal
Research
Engineer,
Southern
Company
(Confirmed)



Tour
the
NCCC
Facility



Depart
for
Mobile,
AL
(Dauphin
Island
Sea
Lab)




Friday,
June
10

U.S.
Department
of
Energy’s
Carbon
Sequestration
Program
–
Traci
Rodosta,
Project
Manager,
Regional
Carbon
Sequestration

Partnership
Program,
National
Energy
Technology
Laboratory
(Confirmed)



Modeling
Approach
and
Results
for
SECARB
Phase
III
‐
Sr.
Reservoir
Engineer
and
Comet
Product
Manager,
Advanced
Resources

International
(Confirmed)



Tour
the
Southern
Company
/
SECARB
Plant
Barry
CCS
Demo
–
Dr.
Michael
Ivie
II,
Research
Engineer,
Research
and
Environmental

Affairs
and
Nick
Irvin,
Southern
Company
(Confirmed)



Tour
Citronelle
Dome
SECARB
Phase
III
Injection
Site
–
Dr.
Richard
Esposito,
Southern
Company
(Confirmed)




3
 




Hands‐on
Field
Monitoring
Techniques
and
Methods
–
Rod
Madsen,
Product
Manager,
LI‐COR
Biosciences
(Confirmed)



CO2
Pipelines
and
CO2
Transport
from
Plan
Barry
to
the
Injection
Well
–
Christina
Harvick,
Denbury
(Confirmed)



CO2
EOR
Pilot
Injection
Site
–
Denbury/Southern
(Confirmed)


Saturday,
June
11

Day
Off
in
Dolphin
Island



Return
to
Birmingham,
AL


Sunday,
June
12

Roadside
Geology
of
Birmingham,
Cahaba
Coal
Basin
and
Stratigraphic
and
Fracture
Mapping
Exercise
–
Dr.
Jack
Pashin
and
Dr.

Richard
Esposito
(Confirmed)






Monday,
June
13

CO2
Capture
with
Chilled
Ammonia:
Scale‐up
from
Pilot
to
Demonstration
and
Commercial
Scale
‐‐
TBD,
ALSTOM
(Confirmed)



Novel
Concepts
in
CO2
Capture
–
Dr.
Mark
Hartney,
Director,
Innovative
Materials
and
Processes
for
Advanced
Carbon
Capture

Technologies,
ARPA‐E
(Confirmed)



CO2
Capture
TBD

–
TBD



Methodology
for
Comparative
Analysis
of
Post‐Combustion
CO2
Capture
Technologies
‐
Dr.
Pradeep
Indrakanti,
Leonardo

Technologies,
Inc.
and
RECS
2009
(Confirmed)



Group
Exercise:
Analysis
of
CO2
Capture
Technologies
–
Led
by
Dr.
Pradeep
Indrakanti
(Confirmed)



Group
Exercise:
Moot
Court
Preparation


















4
 




Tuesday,
June
14

Moot
Court
Presentations




Business
Perspectives
on
the
Emerging
CCS
Industry
–
Michael
Moore,
Executive
Director,
North
American
Carbon
Capture
and

Storage
Association
and
Vice
President,
BlueSource
(Confirmed)




CCS
Public
Engagement:
Opportunities
and
Challenges
–
Sarah
Wade,
Wade
Group
(Confirmed)



Communications
and
Media
Relations
101
–
Valerie
Hendrickson,
Spokeswoman,
Corporate
Communications,
Southern
Company

(Confirmed)



Group
Exercise:
Communications
Training
with
Mock
Interviews




Wednesday,
June
15

Check
out
and
travel