In Conversation

The CO2 Capture Project was a unique collaborative program that over 22 years brought together major energy companies to advance technologies for the deployment of industrial CCUS. In this conversation, we talk to Tony Espie of BP and Arthur Lee of Chevron, who led the program from 2015 to 2022, about what they have learnt about optimal collaboration around technology development and how they saw the potential of policy evolutions over the lifetime of the project. The discussion will be moderated by Iain Macdonald, who leads OGCI’s CCUS Workstream.

Norway’s Northern Lights hub will start operations in mid-2024, opening new decarbonization options for European industry. In this conversation, we talk to Børre Jacobsen, Managing Director of Northern Lights and Magnus Ankarstrand of Yara Clean Ammonia, the hub’s first commercial customer. They will discuss what it takes to get to a commercial agreement, what needs to be done before CO2 injection starts next year and how Northern Lights might fit into Europe’s emerging net zero infrastructure. The discussion will be moderated by Alexander Engh, head of CCS at Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy.

A conversation on the next phase of the UK’s East Coast Cluster between Andy Lane, who heads up the Cluster and Philip Aldridge, who represents chemical companies employing 39,000 people in the region. They will discuss the role CCUS and hydrogen can play in decarbonizing industry, and how they are tackling the challenges of turning early collaboration into commercial reality.

A conversation between two of America’s leading CCUS doers and thinkers, Jen Wilcox of the DoE and Jarad Daniels of the GCCSI, as they explore how a range of new government programmes to spend tens of billions of dollars on CCUS and carbon removal will impact deployment, scale up and the evolution of hubs.