Side events CLIMIT Summit 2025

26 February from 08:30-09:30 CO₂ Storage

Large-scale CO₂ storage on the Norwegian continental shelf – Can collaboration on monitoring lead to a reduction in risk and costs?

Over the course of 20 years, the CLIMIT programme has supported numerous projects aimed at developing various monitoring technologies for future storage sites. We see that the issues for operators and professional communities have evolved, and today we face new and different challenges compared to when Sleipner began its first injection of CO₂.

Monitoring is required according to EU Directive 2009. The allocated storage licenses on the Norwegian continental shelf are clustered closely together. How should we manage the monitoring of storage sites in the future? Can collaboration on monitoring lead to a reduction in risk and costs?

Come and listen to operators, professional communities and authorities talk about these issues. Together, we can save significant costs if we are innovative, and this is where we need your help. In what ways can the CLIMIT programme contribute to addressing new challenges within the field of monitoring? Meet us at this side event in Larvik on 26 February.

Programme

Moderator: Eva Halland

Large-scale CO₂ storage on the Norwegian continental shelf – Can collaboration on monitoring lead to a reduction in risk and costs?

08:30 CO₂ monitoring projects supported by the CLIMIT programme, Kristian Stangvik

08:40 Awarded exploration licenses for CO₂ storage Offshore Norway, Ann Helen Hansen 

Given the neighborhood of CO₂ licenses, can collaboration on monitoring lead to a reduction in risk and costs?

08:50 Catalina Acuna, Geophysicist – MMV Lead, AkerBP

09:00 Henrik Ohrt, Subsurface Manager, Northern Lights   

09:10 Volker Oye, Norsar  

09:20 Discussion

26 February from 08:30-09:45 Technology Centre Mongstad

The Technology Centre at Mongstad (TCM) will showcase its extensive experience gained from hosting a variety of technology developers and conducting comprehensive test campaigns over more than 13 years of operation. Through these efforts, TCM has accumulated deep knowledge of capture plant performance and operation.

Recognizing our unique position within the carbon capture community, TCM has consistently shared this valuable knowledge with industry stakeholders. During this event, TCM will highlight the key challenges the industry is likely to face and demonstrate how TCM can play a pivotal role in supporting the carbon capture community both now and in the future.

Programme

Role of TCM in deployment of Carbon Capture NOW and in the FUTURE

08:30    Welcome

Svein Ingar Semb, Chairman

08:40    TCM anno 2025

Ismail Shah, Managing director

08:50    TCM’s knowledge sharing/working Process for testing

Rouzbeh Jafari, Business Development Manager

09:05    Honeywell`s Lessons Learned from Testing at TCM

Vernon Avidi, Proposal Manager

09:20    Svante`s Lessons Learned from Testing at TCM   
Chris Juarez, Process Technician         

09:35    Q&A

09:45    End

26 Februar from 08:30-11:00 CCUS Standardization

Technical standardization for CCUS is important, both for industry and regulators in Norway and globally. Standards provide tools to reduce costs, bridge gaps in frameworks and contracts, and will be crucial to ensure public support. CLIMIT has supported the development of standards since the inauguration of Standard Norway’s committee SNK/544, the Norwegian Mirror Committee to Technical Committee 265 for CCS and CO₂-EOR under the International Organization for Standardization (ISO/TC 265). SNK/544 is also mirroring the Technical Committee 474 for CCUS under European Committee for Standardization (CEN/TC 474), which was established in 2023. After more than a decade of standardization activities,  a number of standards and technical reports, including methodologies and other tools have been developed and published under ISO/TC 265, making a global impact on the deployment of large-scale CCUS activities. A number of countries have adopted the standards as national standards or are actively using the standards in their policy and legal frameworks, and project developers have seen the benefit of the standards for site selection, characterization, and quantification and verification activities. ISO/TC 265 is also providing CEN/TC 474 with a solid foundation for further and more Euro-centric standards, which is aiming at adopting a number of the ISO standards as European standards. With the European Commission aiming at taking standards more actively into use for CCUS frameworks moving forward, the CLIMIT-supported efforts will have an even bigger impact in the years to come, in reducing risks, costs and uncertainties, and enabling financial incentives and cross-border value chains.

Programme

Welcome and introduction
Ingvild Ombudstvedt – IOM Law

Development of International CCS Standards by ISO/TC-265
Majid Nasehi – Petroleum Technology Research Center

CCS-standardisation in a global perspective
Javad Sunde Fahadi – Standards Norway

CO₂ transport-the need for standards
Arne Dugstad – IFE

Standards on CO₂ storage
Cathrine Ringstad – Bellona

Havtil CO₂ safety regulations
Eli Harriet Bøhnsdalen – Norwegian Ocean Industry Authority

Usage of NORSOK-standards in CCUS
Stian Sjølie – Standards Norway

Using International Standards as Building Blocks for Policy Development
George Koperna – Advanced Research International

26 February from 10:00-11:00 ECCSEL to the next level: Your fast track to EU funding for CCUS research

ECCSEL ERIC is the European research infrastructure for CCUS research. Our focus is on filling knowledge gaps within CCUS and with that we are helping with the implantation of the EU industrial carbon management strategy (ICM). ECCSEL offers open access to more than 110 research facilities located in our current member countries. Our partners contribute with their skills and experience to help increasing the knowledge of researchers visiting ECCSEL facilities.

In ECCSEL we are also focussing on meeting the industry needs for CCUS research and for new and upgraded relevant research facilities. Recently ECCSEL has extended its focus areas towards underground energy storage. Please register for attending the CLIMIT conference ECCSEL side event where you will receive information on how your future CCUS research requirements can be fulfilled through using the ECCSEL research infrastructure.

Programme

Moderated and presented by:
• Klaus Tobias Mosbacher (Executive Director, ECCSEL)
• Morten Grønli (Norway Node Leader, ECCSEL and Lab Director, NTNU)
• Volker Röhling (Director of operations and projects, ECCSEL)

10:00 Introduction
o ECCSEL ERIC, its mission, the recent scope extension and regional expansion
o Our alignment with the EU Industrial Carbon Management Strategy
o The Norwegian node of ECCSEL
o Importance of national funding, both for research and capital investments in CCUS research facilities

10:15 EU Funding Opportunities and the Power of Collaboration
o Overview of relevant upcoming EU calls
o ECCSEL ERIC benefitting Norwegian institutions in preparing strong project proposals
o Success stories of projects involving ECCSEL ERIC partners

10:30 Transnational Access and New Facilities
o Benefits of open transnational access to ECCSEL ERIC facilities
o Financed access to ECCSEL facilities available now
o New and upcoming CCUS research facilities

10:40 Q & A
o Open discussion on how to best utilise funding to get access to the best research facilities
o Feedback on future research and facility requirements
o Wrap up

11:00 Closing of the meeting

26 February from 10:00-11:00 ACT/CETP

CLIMIT has prioritised international R&D collaboration for many years. Find out more about the results that have been achieved and learn about future opportunities for funding international projects.

Programme

Moderator: Aage Stangeland, The Research Council of Norway

10:00 Welcome

10:05 ACT Impacts – Summary of impacts from four ACT Joint Calls and 39 ACT projects

Presented by Aage Stangeland

10:15 New possibilities – The upcoming CETP Joint Call 2025. What does it take to establish a good CETP application?

Presented by Aage Stangeland

10:25 Discussion: How to bring R&D results from ACT & CETP projects into industrial activities.

ACT projects have generated many interesting R&D results. Ongoing and future CETP-projects will probably also generate a lot of interesting R&D results. We will have an open discussion on how we can move from R&D to innovations and industrial implementation of CCS.

10:40 Open discussion: How can CETP best design future calls to make them attractive to researchers and industry?

10:55 Summing up the ACT & CETP side event

11:00 End