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The Open Forum was a major international event with an audience of policy-makers, public authorities, industry executives, regulators, academia, NGOs, EC representatives, engineers and scientists. Some 150 participants attended from 24 countries across Europe, Australia, Canada, Iran, Japan and the USA.

During the four, half-day sessions, stakeholders were given the opportunity to:

• learn what CO2GeoNet is  
• hear concrete examples of international developments from invited high-level speakers
• share the highlights from five years of collaborative research carried out by hundreds of scientists from the 13 CO2GeoNet member institutes
• discuss and help shape the future plans for the CO2GeoNet Association, now an established scientific association under French law

 

Introduction to the Open Forum - Sergio Persoglia (CO2GeoNet Secretary General)

 

CO2GeoNet: past, present and future - Isabelle Czernichowski-Lauriol (CO2GeoNet Network Manager)

 

• International Developments in CO2 Storage - Tim Dixon (IEA-GHG)
• CO2 storage develoments in Canada - Malcolm Wilson (Univ Regina)
• Political developments on CCS in the context of climate-friendly energy challenges - Pierre Dechamps (European Commission)
• Poland's national programme on CO2 storage - Adam Wojcicki (Polish Geological Institute)
• CO2 storage developments in USA - Robert Finley (Illinois State Geol. Survey)
•  ZEP's proposal for an EU CCS demonstration programme and the CO2 storage challenge - Niels Peter Christensen (Vattenfall)

 

1. What have we learnt about the behaviour of the storage complex?

-         Seal and reservoir rock behaviour - Keith Bateman (CO2GeoNet)

-         Monitoring reservoir and caprock - Giuliana Rossi (CO2GeoNet)

-         Well bore integrity studies - Chris Rochelle (CO2GeoNet)

-         The importance of geological heterogeneities - Peter Frykman (CO2GeoNet)

 

2. Enhanced hydrocarbon recovery: is it still an option for CO2 storage?

-         EOR & EGR - Erwan Perfetti (CO2GeoNet)

-         ECBM and Underground Coal Gasification - Sevket Durucan (CO2GeoNet)

 

3. Can we detect and quantify CO2 leakage at ground surface and sea bottom?

-          Shallow geophysical monitoring - Hubert Fabriol (CO2GeoNet)

-          Ground surface monitoring of CO2 and associated gases - David Jones (CO2GeoNet)

-          Remote sensing - Stanley Beaubien (CO2GeoNet)

-          Monitoring marine and terrestrial aquatic environments - Salvatore Lombardi (CO2GeoNet)

 

4. What if CO2 reaches the surface? 

-          Aquatic ecosystem responses to CO2 - Lars Golmen (CO2GeoNet)

-          Terrestrial ecosystem responses to CO2 - Martin Krüger (CO2GeoNet)

-          Social perception of CO2 leakage - Samuela Vercelli (CO2GeoNet)

  

1. Training

2. Scientific advice

3. Research

4. Communication

 

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 Future plans with the CO2GeoNet Association - Nick Riley (CO2GeoNet President)