Gulf Coast Carbon Center

  Registration is now open for the 2025 IEAGHG International CCS Summer School. As someone who has been honored to participate for many years in IEAGHG Summer Schools as a mentor and lecturer, I highly recommend this life-changing opportunity if you are interested in a career in #CCS and #CCUS.   Advance your career and elevate your expertise in Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS) by participating in the IEAGHG’s prestigious International CCS Summer School 2025 – the forefront of CCS education with a truly global perspective.   Taking place from the 13th-19th July 2025, the next Summer School is returning to the International CCS Knowledge Centre, Regina, Canada. This ever-popular location is chosen once again due to the Centre’s excellent facilities, a vast pool of local CCS experts, and its close proximity to SaskPower’s Boundary Dam Power Station, the world’s first power station to install a full-scale CCS facility on a coal power station – a tour of which will be included in the exciting programme. Find more information here https://lnkd.in/eRQqeqW6

Huge congrats to German Chaves for completing an outstanding MS thesis in a mere 3 semesters! For those wondering what “outstanding” looks like, German’s work addresses a common and difficult problem in Gulf Coast geological carbon storage projects. We have about 60 projects advancing on the Gulf Coast and all of them are targeting the synclines between producing hydrocarbon fields and trying to keep CO2 within their lease boundaries and away from legacy wells. It’s a doable goal, but we worry about faults and channels that are below seismic resolution and might steer CO2 and/or pressure in unexpected directions. German characterized those features, then added them to increasingly sophisticated reservoir models, experimenting with orientations, lengths, transmissibilities and permeability contrasts to see what impact they might have. The result is crystal clear: faults and channels can indeed have a big impact on CO2 and pressure migration, but not at the scale of sub-seismic features. To have an impact, they need to be big and therefore the sort of seismically visible features that we routinely map and include in our models. Storage operators on the Gulf Coast can breathe a little easier, knowing that sub-seismic features are not a significant risk. Thank you, German! 😁 #CCS #GeologicalCarbonStorage Gulf Coast Carbon Center Bureau of Economic Geology

At the Gulf Coast Carbon Center, we are celebrating the holidays a little early! Congratulations to Sawsan Almalki and German Chaves for giving great final M.S. talks today! Congratulations, Graduates! Special thanks to supervisors: Seyyed Abolfazl Hosseini, Alex Bump, and Carlos A Uroza, PhD. Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology! Hook'em Horns!

Join us tomorrow 11 am CST as 2 GCCC M.S. students present their final projects! Congratulations to Sawsan Almalki and German Chaves.

Headed to American Geophysical Union (AGU) next week? Gulf Coast Carbon Center representatives Ruichang Guo, Hailun Ni, Ramon Trevino, & Wang Hongsheng will be there presenting in Washington, D.C. December 9 🌎 13:40–17:30 - Deep Learning-based Parameterization of Complex CO2 Saturation Data in Large-scale Geological Carbon Storage [Poster] - Hongsheng Wang & Seyyed Hosseini (Hall D) 🌎 13:40–17:30 - Pore-scale investigation on cyclic injection-withdrawal process in porous media in hydrogen-brine-rock systems - Ruichang Guo, Reza Ershadnia & Seyyed Hosseini (Halls B-C) December 11 🌚 16:00–17:30 - Hailun Ni, main convener, oral session entitled, Removing Technical Obstacles to Large-Scale Deployment of Geological Storage Systems (Salon B) 🌚16:00–16:10 - A Proposed 4-Phase Workflow for Defining Permit-Ready Locations for Large-Volume CO2 Injection and Storage [Oral Presentation] - Ramon Trevino, Sue Hovorka, Dallas Dunlap, Richard Larson, Tucker Hentz, Seyyed Abolfazl Hosseini, Shuvajit Bhattacharya, PhD, & Mike DeAngelo (Salon B) 🌚17:00–17:10 - Simulation Study of Fault Boundary Conditions on Cross-Fault Flow in Carbon Geological Storage [Oral Presentation] by Zhicheng Wang, Ph.D. & Seyyed Abolfazl Hosseini (alternate presenter Hongsheng Wang, Salon B) December 12 🌞 08:30–12:20 - Hailun Ni is the main convener for a poster session entitled, Removing Technical Obstacles to Large-Scale Deployment of Geological Storage Systems (Halls B-C) 🌞 08:30–12:20 - A laboratory and simulation study on the impact of small-scale heterogeneity on field-scale CO2 plume migration & trapping [Poster Presentation] by Hailun Ni, Jose Eduardo Ubillus, Sahar Bakhshian, Ph.D. , DiCarlo David, Tip Meckel (Halls B-C) 🌞 13:40–17:30 - Leakage assessment of hydrogen through abandoned wells in depleted gas reservoir for underground hydrogen storage by Ruichang Guo, Wang Hongsheng, JIANQIAO LENG & Seyyed Abolfazl Hosseini (Hall B-C) December 13 🪐 13:40–17:30 - Hailun Ni, co-chairing oral session entitled, Multiphase Flow & Reactive Transport in Porous Media (145A) 🪐 10:30–10:40 - Exploring the Development of Multiple Injection Projects in the Same Basin: A Case Study of the US Gulf Coast by Seyyed Abolfazl Hosseini & Zhicheng Wang, Ph.D. (alternate presenter Ruichang Guo, Salon B) 🪐 11:30–11:40 - Using sand-tank laboratory experiments to better understand and de-risk a CO2 controlled release field experiment (Invited) [Oral Presentation] by Hailun Ni, Andrew Feitz, Eric Tenthorey, Hadi Nourollah, Katherine Romanak, Sue Hovorka (Salon B) 🪐 13:40–17:30 - Hailun Ni, co-chairing poster session entitled, Multiphase Flow and Reactive Transport in Porous Media (Halls B-C) 🪐 13:40–17:30 - Composite confining system for CO2 geologic storage: Comparing experimental & simulation results [Poster] by Hailun Ni & Sahar Bakhshian, Ph.D. (Halls B-C) #AGU24 #energytransition #gulfcoastccs

Publication Alert: This issue of American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Bulletin may apply to your CCS Projects in old basins, check out this issue: https://lnkd.in/gVRCpVmE Or read more about this issue here: here: https://lnkd.in/gaHHrFGa

This week: Several researchers including Alex Bump, Hailun Ni, and Shuvajit Bhattacharya, PhD from the Gulf Coast Carbon Center are attending the GCSSEPM 40th Annual Perkins-Rosen Research Conference in Houston, Texas. 🤘 Today, 1:00–1:25 pm – “CO2 storage resources of the offshore Gulf of Mexico continental shelf” by Alex Bump* & Ismail Halim Faruqi. 🤘 Monday, 3:45–4:10 pm – “Calibrating performance predictions for large-scale injection” by Chinemerem Clement Okezie, Alex Bump*, Sue Hovorka 🤘 Monday, 4:35–5:00 pm – “Modeling CO2 plume migration and retention with physical analogs" by Hailun Ni* 🤘 Monday, 5:25–5:50 pm – "The impact of capillary heterogeneity trapping on field-scale CO2 geologic storage simulations" by Jose Eduardo Ubillus*, Hailun Ni, Sahar Bakhshian, Ph.D., DiCarlo David, & Tip Meckel 🤘 Tuesday, Dec. 3rd, 2:25–2:50 pm – “Geological characterization of the Chandeleur Sound 3D seismic survey area, offshore Louisiana, and the potential for anthropogenic carbon sequestration within a newly discovered Middle Miocene submarine canyon” by Marcie Purkey Phillips*, Annie Walker, Dallas Dunlap, John Snedden, Michael Sweet, Shuvajit Bhattacharya, PhD. (research for Phillips, et al., presentation was conducted as part of the GoMCarb Partnership, which the GCCC leads). 👉 Wednesday, Dec. 4th, 9:00–9:25 am - The role of salt tectonics in the energy transition: An overview and future challenges by Oliver Duffy, Michael Hudec, Frank Peel, Gillian Apps, Alex Bump, Lorena G Moscardelli*, Tim Dooley, Naiara Fernandez, Shuvajit Bhattacharya, PhD, Ken Wisian Ph.D., Major General USAF (ret), Mark Shuster Gulf Coast Section SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology #gulfcoastccs #energytransition #ccs #ccus

Part of our mission at the Gulf Coast Carbon Center is to share key information about CARBON capture and STORAGE (CCS). Our group focuses on what happens as we store carbon dioxide underground. The Gulf Coast Carbon Center along with the IEAGHG, the Carbon Capture and Storage Association, and the International CCS Knowledge Centre are your CCS information providers! For the last several years, these entities come together to share key information to help support CCS education and CCS projects during the U.N. Climate Change Conference known as the Conference of Parties (COP). For carbon storage, carbon dioxide is injected DEEP underground. Think ~0.5 to 2 miles (0.8 to 3.2 km) under Earth's surface, which is equivalent to ~7 to 28 American-sized football fields stacked end-to-end below the ground surface. Special thanks to Katherine Romanak and Dolores van der Kolk for creating the CCS booth to help educate those interested in learning more about CCS for COP29 Azerbaijan. For those of you not familiar: The Gulf Coast Carbon Center is part of the Texas Geological Survey, known as the Bureau of Economic Geology, which is located at The University of Texas at Austin. Hook'em Horns! We will list key highlights in the comments, but to see all the information that these groups have put together, check out our COP29 page: https://lnkd.in/gfPZi34J

HOT NEWS from COP29 Azerbaijan summarizing our Official Side Event, "Is there any Climate Finance for Carbon Capture and Storage, Especially in Emerging Economies?" Quotes from the International Institute for Sustainable Development: 👩💻 Read "how carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies require financing, especially in developing countries, to unlock their potential to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions." 🔔 ""Katherine Romanak, The University of Texas at Austin, presented research on the safety of CCS, explaining that carbon is sequestered more than 800 feet below the surface. Romanak pointed to testing and monitoring of carbon storage, saying that it shows the technology is "extremely safe, durable and secure"."" Thanks to Tim Dixon with IEAGHG for moderating this event. https://lnkd.in/gi3aPfd7

At COP29 Azerbaijan, on November 18th, Katherine Romanak participated in an afternoon event located at the China Pavilion entitled, "The Practice, Innovation, and Cooperation on Green and Low Carbon Technologies." For a panel discussion, Katherine discussed U.S. Policy and the need for incentivizing CCS in the U.S. and in developing countries. The last panel about “Experience Sharing on Policies Related to Green and Low-Carbon Industries” was moderated by Xi Liang (Deputy Director, CCUS Professional Committee of Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences; Professor, Sustainable Transitions in Construction and Infrastructure at University College London; Secretary General, UK-China [Guangdong] CCUS Centre). Special thanks to Xi Liang and panelists including: ➡ Jinfeng Ma, Professor, National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Carbon Capture and Storage Technology, Northwest University ➡ Xiaoliang Yang, Country Manager China, Global CCS Institute ➡  Katherine Romanak, Senior Research Professor, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin ➡ Tong Xu, Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance, University of Cambridge ➡ ZHANG Dayong, Vice Secretary General, China Association for the Promotion of Industrial Development ➡ WANG Lele, Director, Industrial Research Department of Biomass Energy Branch, China Industrial Development Promotion Association