Joint Network Meeting - 1st Joint Network Meeting

11th-13th June 2008

New Yorker Hotel, 481 Ejosirth Avenue

New York, USA

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Organised by IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme and US EPA

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Supported by EPRI and OXAND

Steering Committee Members:

Malcolm Wilson, UNIVERSITY OF REGINA

Bill Carey, LANL

Susan Hovorka, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS

Laurant Jammes, SCHLUMBERGER

Brendan Beck, IEA GHG

Richard Rhudy, EPRI

Gabiel Marquette, SCHLUMBERGER

Rick Chalaturnyk, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA

Tony Espie, BP

Toby Aiken, IEA GHG

John Gale, IEA GHG

Kevin Dodds, BP

Anhar Karimjee, US EPA

Isabelle Czernichowski, BRGM

John Kaldi, CO2CRC

Introduction

The IEA GHG would like to announce the IEA GHG joint network meeting to bring together three of their currently operating networks, namely the Monitoring network, the Risk Assessment network and the Well-bore Integrity network. The aim of the meeting is to increase the communication and cooperation between the networks and to help refine each networks work programme for the next 3-4 years in order to gain the most benefit from the parallel agendas and common goals of the networks. The members of each network will be invited and encouraged to attend this event. The meeting will be held over three days on the east coast of the USA with the support of the US Environmental Protection Agency.

We anticipate a group of about 120 people.

Agenda

Day 1 11th June 2008
08.30 Registration Opens
09.00 - 09.30	Welcome and Introduction: John Gale IEA GHG
Session 1: Network Status Review and Collaboration Thoughts The chair of each network will give a review of the state of the art work going on in each field, an overview of the specific issues that the network is dealing with at the moment and the main areas of concern, and some initial thoughts about what the networks have to offer each other and what they need from each other taking into account the results of the questionnaire.
09.30 - 10.20	Wellbore Integrity Network: Bill Carey, LANL and Craig Gardner, Chevron
10.20 - 10.30	Questions
10.30 to 11.00 Break
11.00 - 11.50	Risk Assessment Network: John Kaldi, CO2CRC; Claudia Vivalda, Shlumberger; Rick Chalaturnyk, University of Alberta
11.50 - 12.00	Questions
12.00 - 12.50	Monitoring Network: Kevin Dodds, BP; Rick Chalaturnyk, University of Alberta
12.50 - 13.00	Questions
13.00 to 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 14.50	Panel Discussion involving Network Chairs
14.50 - 15.00	Questions
15.00 to 15.30 Break
Breakout Session 1: Review of Network Positions This session will involve the group being separated into 3 smaller groups representing each of the individual networks. The groups will be asked to review the presentation and discussions relating to their network from the morning session and to go over the points raised, to make sure nothing was left out and to expand on them if necessary.
15.30 - 16.15	Breakout groups
16.15 - 16.45	Group Results Presentations from Breakout Session 1 Risk Assessment WellBore Integrity Monitoring
16.45 - 17.45	Discussion
17.45 Close Day 1

Day 2 12th June 2008
Session 2: Modelling This session will provide a review of the state of the art work going on in modelling, an overview of the modelling issues that current networks are dealing with at the moment and modelling issues that are not being addressed by the current networks, and provide some initial thoughts about how a new modelling network or cross-network subgroup could contribute.
09.00 - 09.50	Modelling Overview: Gabriel Marquette, Schlumberger and Isabelle Czernichowski; BRGM Modelling Introduction Modelling Overview
09.50 - 10.00	Breakout session 2 Introduction
This session will involve the group being separated into 3 smaller groups representing each of the individual networks. The groups will be asked to identify the areas in which modelling is currently looked at within their own network and where it could be looked at further in the future.
10.00 - 10.30	Breakout Session 2: Review of modelling within the current Networks
10.30 to 11.00 Break
11.00 to 11.30	Panel Session - Group Results Presentations from Breakout Session 2 Risk Assessment Monitoring
11.30 to 12.00	Panel Discussion - Discussion of the cross network modelling needs and the proposed Modelling Network.
Session 3: CCS Phases The goal of this session is to provoke thought about the practical application of information generated through ongoing CCS research and field projects and to identify potential gaps. An important consideration is whether the information generated through the networks is moving the state of art on CCS forward and supporting real-world deployment of CCS projects. This session will be focused on the permitting/approval process for CCS projects as a way to identify key data/research needs that will enable CCS projects to move forward.
12.00 - 12.15	Breakout Session 3 Introduction Intro 2 Each group will be asked to look at one of the four phases of a CCS project: site selection and permitting; site operation; site closure, and post-closure. A CCS scenario will be provided to ensure consistency. For example, 1Mt of CO2 storage in an onshore storage site utilizing an expired oil reservoir with 100 abandoned wells. Each group will look at what information/data is needed during each phase, i.e. characterise the site, generate a reservoir model, perform a risk assessment, set up a monitoring programme, and plan remediation measures. They will consider whether current information (in these categories) is sufficient to draw conclusions that support siting, operation, and regulatory permitting decisions, if tools/ techniques which provide an appropriate level of confidence are available, and whether additional research/data is needed. If additional research is needed, the group will consider whether and how it is attainable, whether it is general or site-specific, and possible network contributions. Throughout the discussions the groups should keep in mind the three current networks in order to identify key issues to address within the networks and possible areas of collaboration between networks.
12.15 - 13.00	Breakout Session 3
13.00 to 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.00	Breakout Session 3 Continued In the second half of the third breakout session, the groups are asked to continue their discussion and analysis of the original scenario but to also identify any differences that would occur with a change of the scenario. Changes that would be useful to look at would be larger volumes of CO2, offshore storage, saline aquifer storage, EOR, storage/transport in a heavily populated area.
15.00 to 15.30 Break
15.30 - 16.30	Group Results Presentations from Breakout Session 3 Site Selection and Permitting Operation Closure Post Closure Otway QRA Case Study
16.30 - 17.30	Discussion
17.30 - 17.45	Day 2 Wrap Up
17.45 Close Day 2

Day 3 13th June 2008
Session 4: Network Summary The goal of this session is to provide an opportunity for the networks to discuss their observations from Day 1 and 2 and identify possible priority areas for collaboration and future work.
08.30 - 08.45	Breakout session 4 introduction: Network Work Programmes. The fourth and final breakout session is to discuss near and long-term work programmes for each Network based on the discussions from the previous two days.
08.45 - 10.30	Breakout Session 4
10.30 to 11.00 Break
The following presentations provide the network chairs with the opportunity to report back from the Breakout session 4 as well as give their impressions on the previous two days. The chairs will be asked to give their thoughts about the direction that the Networks are going and on the key themes that they think need to be addressed. They will also be asked to present any now ideas about how the networks can better communicate and collaborate to get the most out of the network programme as a whole.
11.00 - 11.20	Wellbore Integrity Network: Bill Carey, LANL and Craig Gardner, Chevron
11.20 - 11.30	Discussion
11.30 - 11.50	Risk Assessment Network: John Kaldi, CO2CRC; Claudia Vivalda, Schlumberger; Rick Chalaturnyk, University of Alberta
11.50 - 12.00	Discussion
12.00 - 12.20	Monitoring Network: Kevin Dodds, BP and Rick Chalaturnyk, University of Alberta
12.20 - 12.30	Discussion
Session 5: Wrap up / Next Steps
12.30 - 13.00	Presentation on Future Network Options – combining, creating new networks or cross-network working groups, etc: John Gale, IEA GHG
13.00 to 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.30	Discussion of Day 3
15.30 - 16.00	Next Steps and Wrap up: John Gale, IEA GHG
14.00 Close Day 3