IEAGHG has assisted with a CCS Training Course for a delegation from the Botswana Department of Geological Survey and the Botswana Department of Environmental Affairs. The training course was part of a two week CCS Study Tour which took the delegation to see CCS activities in South Africa, the UK and Texas. The four day CCS Training Course was hosted by the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin, and was timed to follow the IEAGHG International CCS Summer School also hosted by the University of Texas, drawing upon some of the international experts lecturing at the Summer School as well as presentations by IEAGHG. The course covered all aspects of CCS, with hands-on exercises in storage site design and simulation, and visits to a pilot post-combustion capture plant and to a large-scale CO2-EOR project.



Botswana is developing its own energy independence, recently building a new coal power station and refurbishing another, to support its healthy economy based on diamond and other mining, and is wanting to build its own capacity to understand and assess the potential for CCS in Botswana. The Botswana Department of Geological Survey and the Botswana Department of Environmental Affairs will play central roles in this. The Study Tour was organised by ERM, Carbon Counts and Wellfields Geosciences and funded by the World Bank.