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2023 FECM / NETL CARBON MANAGEMENT RESEARCH PROJECT REVIEW MEETING - CARBON Transport & Storage - PROCEEDINGS

Monday, August 28, 2023

Session One

Regional Initiatives
Moderator: Dawn Deel

SECARB-USA: An Overview (FE0031830)
Ben Wernette, Southern States Energy Board

Midwest Regional Carbon Initiative (MRCI) (FE0031836)
Neeraj Gupta, Battelle Memorial Institute and Christopher Korose, University of Illinois

Carbon Utilization and Storage Partnership of the Western United States (FE0031837)
Robert Balch, New Mexico Tech

Plains CO2 Reduction Partnership Initiative to Accelerate Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Deployment (FE0031838)
Kevin Connors, University of North Dakota Energy and Environmental Research Center

Carbon Transport & Storage Infrastructure (BIL)
Moderator: Matthew Kaminski

DOE Carbon Transport and Storage Infrastructure Projects and Opportunities via Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
Willam Aljoe, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Lone Star Storage Hub Project (FE0032332)
Marco Guirola, BP Corporation North America, Inc.

Bluebonnet Sequestration Project (FE00032338)
Angie Contreras, Bluebonnet Sequestration Hub, LLC

Magnolia Sequestration Project (FE0032339)
Kelly Watson, Magnolia Sequestration Hub, LLC

Gulf Coast Decarb (FE0032345)
Elena Subia Melchert, Energia Consulting LLC for Howard Midstream Energy Partners

CarbonSAFE Eos: Developing Commercial Sequestration for Southern Colorado (FE0032342)
Manika Prasad, Jessica Smith, Colorado School of Mines, and Ashleigh Ross, Carbon America

CarbonSAFE Phase III: Sweetwater Carbon Storage Hub, Southwest Wyoming (FE0032343)
Alicia Summers, Frontier Carbon Solutions, and Zunsheng (John) Jiao, University of Wyoming

Time’s Ticking: Embarking on the Wyoming Trails Carbon Hub (Project WyoTCH) (FE0032347)
Mikey Hannon, Carbon Solutions, LLC

Carbon Transport & Storage Infrastructure (BIL)
Moderator: Andrea McNemar

Longleaf CCS Hub (FE0032341)
Ben Wernette, Southern States Energy Board and Dave Riestenberg, Advanced Resources International

Coal Creek Carbon Capture: Site Characterization and Permitting (FE0032331)
Amanda Livers-Douglas, University of North Dakota

SimCCS: An Open source Toolset for Regional CCS Infrastructure Decision Support (FWP-LANL-FE-1207-20-FY21)
Bailain Chen, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Session Two

Cloud Enhanced EDX DisCO2ver
Moderator: Damara Strong

EDX++, migrating EDX to the Cloud, Unlocking Next Generation Data Infrastructure and Advanced Computing for the CS Community (Overview)
Vic Baker and Timothy Jones, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Licensing and Virtualizing CS Models & Tools via EDX DisCO2ver
Dakota Zaengle, National Energy Technology Laboratory

EDX Cloud Optimization for CCS
Kelly Rose and Vic Baker, National Energy Technology Laboratory

EDX Utilization of Cloud Open Data Programs to Enhance Reuse of Large CS Datasets
Chad Rowan and Kelly Rose, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Carbon Storage Data, EDX
Moderator: Kelly Rose

Carbon Storage Technical Viability Approach
Mackenzie Mark-Moser and C. Gabe Creason, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Developing a National Structural Complexity Database
Devin Justman, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Environmental Justice and Social Justice Dynamic: Datasets for CS Systems and the Energy Transition Atlas Web Tool
Maneesh Sharma, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Deploying a National Well Database to Support CS Reuse and Risk
Lucy Romeo, National Energy Technology Laboratory

CS Program Data Curation, Transformation, and Reuse
Paige Morkner, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Wellbore Integrity
Moderator: Johnathan Moore

Casing Annulus Monitoring of CO2 Injection Using Wireless Autonomous Distributed Sensor Networks (FE0031856)
David Chapman and Mohsen Ahmadian, University of Texas at Austin

Data Driven Approaches to Understand Well Integrity (FWP-1022403)
Greg Lackey, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Fiber Optic Vector Sensors and Underground Gas Storage (UGS)
Björn N.P. Paulsson, Michael T.V. Wylie, and Ruiqing He, Paulsson, Inc.

Physics Guided Machine Learning for Detecting Small CO2 Leakage (FWP-FE-1209-20-FY20)
Youzuo Lin, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Session One

CarbonSAFE Phase III
Moderator: Kyle Smith

North Dakota Carbonsafe Phase III: Site Characterization and Permitting (FE0031889)
Wes Peck, Energy & Environmental Research Center University of North Dakota

Establishing an Early CO2 Storage Complex in Kemper County, Mississippi (FE0031888)
Ben Roth, Advanced Resources International and Richard Esposito, Southern Company

San Juan Basin Carbonsafe Phase III (FE0031890)
William Ampomah, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and Kevin Bush, Tallgrass Energy

San Juan Basin CarbonSAFE Phase III: Ensuring Safe Subsurface Storage of CO2 in Saline Reservoirs (FWP-FE-1163-20-FY20)
Bailian Chen, Los Alamos National Laboratory

CarbonSAFE Phase III
Moderator: Josh Hull

Illinois Storage Corridor Project Update (FE0031892)
Roland Okwen, Illinois State Geological Survey, University of Illinois

Wyoming Carbonsafe: Accelerating CCUS Commercialization and Deployment at Dry Fork Power Station and the Wyoming Integrated Test Center (FE0031891)
Scott Quillinan and Fred McLaughin, University of Wyoming, School of Energy Resources

Mineralization
Moderator: Paul Zandhuis

Resource Assessment of Industrial Wastes for CO2 Mineralization (FE0032244)
Johannes van der Watt, University of North Dakota

Subsurface Mafic and Ultramafic Rock Mapping and Analysis for Carbon Mineralization in the United States (SubMAP-CO2) (FE0032249)
Estibalitz Ukar, The University of Texas at Austin

Resource Assessment of Geological Formations and Mine Waste for Carbon Dioxide Mineralization in the US Mid-Atlantic (FE0032247)
Nino Ripepi, Virginia Tech

Mineralization
Moderator: Johnathan Moore

Distributed Mafic Rock Resources for CO2 Mineralization in Arizona (FE0032252)
Lisa Thompson, University of Arizona

Carbon Dioxide Storage via Accelerated Carbonation Reaction with Recycled Concrete Aggregates (RCA) (FE0032259)
Seunghee Kim, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Subsurface Carbon Mineralization Resources in Hawaiian Basalt (FE0032245)
Don DePaolo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Regional Resource Assessment for CO2 Storage in New Mexico and Surrounding Areas: Identification, Characterization and Evaluation of In-Situ Mineralization Site/Complex (FE0032257)
Sai Wang, Petroleum Recovery Research Center-New Mexico Tech

Session Two

Plume Detection
Moderator: James Gardiner

CCSMR Task 3: Electromagnetic Measurements and Modeling for the Wyoming CarbonSAFE Site (FWP-ESD14095)
David Alumbaugh, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Task 2- 2nd Generation SOV-DAS (FWP-ESD14095)
Julia Correa, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Task 4- Optical Monitoring Technology for Deep CO2 Injection (FWP-ESD14095)
Stanislav Glubokovskikh, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Task 5- Ambient Seismic Noise Reservoir Imaging for Monitoring (FWP-ESD14095)
Nori Nakata, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Secure Storage
Moderator: Nick Means

CO2 Sequestration in Basalt (FWP-73235)
Todd Schaef, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Geochemical Alteration Impact on Trapping and Flow (FWP-1022403)
Dustin Crandall, National Energy Technology Laboratory

The Role of Chemical Alteration in Arkosic Reservoirs (FWP-FEW0271)
Megan Smith, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

High-Resolution Reservoir Seal Integrity Monitoring using Optimized Borehole Sources and Distributed Acoustic Sensing (FE0032058)
Nori Nakata, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Acoustic Emissions Sensing for Tracing Carbon Dioxide Movement in Caprock of a Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage System (CCUS) (FE0032062)
Slawomir Winecki, Battelle Memorial Institute

EDX Tools
Moderator: Gabe Creason

Development of a Carbon Storage Wellbore Materials Database
Scott Montross and Kelly Rose, National Energy Technology Laboratory

A Comprehensive Dashboard for CS Planning
Devin Justman, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Anonymizing Sensitive CS Data Tool
Paige Morkner, National Energy Technology Laboratory

3D Data Viewer and Preview Capability
Dakota Zaengle, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Session One

Offshore Partnerships
Moderator: Natalie Iannacchione

SECARB Offshore: An Overview (FE0031557)
Ben Wernette, Southern States Energy Board

Offshore Gulf of Mexico Partnership for Carbon Storage - Resources and Technology Development (GOMCarb) (FE0031558)
Susan Hovorka, University of Texas at Austin

CarbonSAFE Phase II (offshore)
Moderator: Natalie Iannacchione

Louisiana Offshore CO2 Hub Repurposing Infrastructure to Decrease Greenhouse Emissions (Project Lochridge) (FE0032270)
Ben Wernette, Southern States Energy Board

Coastal Bend Offshore CO2 Storage Feasibility Study (FE0032271)
Tip Meckel, Gulf Coast Center - Bureau of Economic Geology and Jeffrey Pollack, Port of Corpus Christi Authority

CarbonSAFE Phase II
Moderator: Kyle Smith

Tulare County Carbon Storage Project (TCCSP) (FE0032264)
Manoj Kumar Valluri and Andrew Duguid. Advanced Resources International

Optimizing Alabama’s CO2 Storage in Shelby County (Project OASIS) (FE0032267)
Ben Wernette, Southern States Energy Board and George Koperna, Advanced Resources International, Inc.

Carbon Storage Complex Feasibility for Commercial Development in Southeastern Michigan- CarbonSAFE Phase II (FE0032312)
Joel Sminchak, Battelle Memorial Institute

Mitchell CarbonSAFE (FE0032268)
Nate Grigsby, Ilinois Geological Survey

Coastal Bend Carbon Management Project: CarbonSAFE Phase II (FE0032265)
Thomas A. Blasingame, Texas A&M University and Jeffrey Pollack, Port of Corpus Christi Authority

CarbonSAFE Phase II (central/west U.S.)
Moderator: Josh Hull

HERO Basalt CarbonSAFE (FE0032279)
Fred McLaughlin, University of Wyoming and Todd Schaef, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Uinta Basin CarbonSAFE II (FE0032266)
Ting Xiao, University of Utah

Roughrider Carbon Storage Hub (FE0032282)
Wes Peck, Energy & Environmental Research Center University of North Dakota

Sutter Co. CO2 Capture and Storage Project, Northern California (FE0032239)
Jordan Ciezobka, GTI Energy

Session Two

RIC
Moderator: Brian Strazisar

Low-Risk Strategies for Geologic Carbon Storage (FWP-1022403)
Dustin Crandall and Wei Xiong, National Energy Technology Laboratory

NETL RIC Efforts Supporting CarbonSAFE Projects (FWP-1022403)
Dustin Crandall, National Energy Technology Laboratory

GEESS as a Mechanism to Facilitate the Commercialization of Geologic Carbon Sequestration (GCS) (FWP-1022435)
Jeffrey Eppink and Austin Mathews, Enegis, LLC

Experimental CO2 Interactions of Fractured Calcite-Rich Shale Samples at Elevated Pressure (FWP-1022403)
Magdalena Gill, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Offshore Topics
Moderator: Mark McKoy

Field Validation of MVA Technology for Offshore CCS: Novel Ultra-High-Resolution 3D Marine Seismic Technology (P-Cable) (FE0028193)
Tip Meckel, Gulf Coast Carbon Center - University of Texas at Austin

Offshore Reservoir Properties and CO2 Storage Resources in the Central Gulf of Mexico
Jack Pashin, Oklahoma State University

Review of Existing Oil & Gas Infrastructure for Offshore CO2 Transportation
Matt Wallace, Advanced Resources International

Environmental Monitoring and Stakeholder Engagement in the GoM Region: Progress and Next Steps (GoMCarb)
Katherine Romanak, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin

Subsurface Success in the Gulf of Mexico and Breakthrough Ideas for Industry (GoMCarb)
Alex Bump, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin

Offshore R&D
Moderator: MacKenzie Mark-Moser

Assessing Offshore Infrastructure Reuse Potential for CS, Award-Winning AI Model to Forecast Resiliency (AIIM Model)
Lucy Romeo, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Co-Saline Storage, Concept and AI-Informed Modeling Framework for Offshore CS Evaluation
Gabe Creason and Kelly Rose, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Data Science for International Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage
MacKenzie Mark-Moser and Abigail Choisser, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Recent Developments in Deployment of CCS Projects in the Offshore Gulf of Mexico (FWP-1022435)
Connie Zaremsky, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Thursday, August 31, 2023

Session One

Plenary Session Carbon Transport
Moderators: Robert Smith and Kevin Dooley

FECM Transport Program Strategic Vision & Future Outlook
Robert Smith and Kevin Dooley, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy & Carbon Management

Summary of February 2023 Workshop on Applied Research for CO2 Transport
Kevin Dooley, Carbon Transport Engineer, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy & Carbon Management

American-Made Carbon Management Collegiate Competition
Kevin Dooley, Carbon Transport Engineer, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy & Carbon Management

CO2 Pipeline Safety: May 2023 Public Meeting Summary
Vincent Holohan, Engineer, U.S. Department of Transportation, PHMSA, Office of Pipeline Safety

EPA Underground Injection Control Class VI Update
Bill Bates, P.G., Manager, Underground Injection Control Branch, EPA

LPO Financing Opportunities for Carbon Transport
Harry Warren, U.S. Department of Energy, Loan Programs Office

Labor and Workforce Planning Considerations
Jeremy Moddrell, Special Representative Pipeline and Gas Distribution, United Association

Meaningful/Measurable Community Engagement
Sam Minifie, Policy Advisor, Midstream, American Petroleum Institute

Plume Detection
Moderator: Ashley Urosek

New Imaging and CO2 Storage Technologies for Unconventional Subsurface Reservoirs (FWP-70066)
Quin Miller, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Engineering Integrated Sensing, Power, Telemetry, and Data Processing Systems for Complex Subsurface Environments (FWP-80754)
Daniel Deng, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Demonstrating Near Real-Time Joint Inversion of ERT and Seismic Data for Actional Wellsite Intelligence (FWP-76310)
Piyoosh Jaysaval, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Update on Semi-Airborne, Controlled Source Electromagnetic Survey at a Potential Carbon Storage Site in Kemper County, Mississippi
Rick Hammack, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Subsurface Stress
Moderator: Mary Dailey

Development of Thermal Breakout Technology for Determining In Situ Stress (FE0031688)
Sam Voegeli, RESPEC Company, LLC

Seismic Elastic Double-Beam Characterization of Faults and Fractures for CO2 Storage Site Selection (FE0032063)
Yingcai Zheng, University of Houston

Advancing Characterization of Faults through Deployment of Novel Geophysical, Geochemical and Geomechanical Technologies at the San Juan Basin CarbonSAFE Site (FE0032064)
William Ampomah, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

Managing a Gigatonne CCS Future: A Framework for Basin-scale Storage Optimization Based on Geomechanical Studies (FWP-FP00015629)
Jens Birkholzer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Changes in Seal Integrity Induced by CO2 Injection and Leakage in a Hydromechanically Reactivated Fault Affecting a Caprock Analog (FWP-FP00013650)
Yves Guglielmi and Jens Birkholzer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

BEST/ROZ/Associated Storage
Moderator: Andrea McNemar

Developing and Validating Pressure Management and Plume Control Strategies in the Williston Basin Through a Brine Extraction and Storage Test (BEST) (FE0026160)
John Hamling, University of North Dakota Energy and Environmental Research Center

Developing CO2-EOR and Associated Storage within the Residual Oil Zone Fairways of the Powder River Basin, Wyoming (FE0031738)
Eric Robertson, University of Wyoming - Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute

Williston Basin Associated CO2 Storage Field Laboratory (FE0031694)
Steve Smith, Energy and Environmental Research Center, University of North Dakota

Session Two

NRAP
Moderator: Robert Dilmore

NRAP Phase III Overview: Objectives and Progress
Robert Dilmore, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Task 2: Management of Site-Scale Leakage Risk
Mohamed Mehana, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Task 3: Induced Seismicity Risk Management
Kayla Kroll, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Task 4: Adaptive, Risk-Based Monitoring of Geologic Carbon Storage
Erika Gasperikova, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Task 5: Developing a Tool to Quantify Liability of Geologic Carbon Storage
David Morgan, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Task 6: Assessing Risks of Rapid Commercial-Scale Deployment of Geologic Carbon Storage
Diana Bacon, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

SMART
Moderator: Hema Siriwardane

Overview of the SMART Initiative
Hema Siriwardane, National Energy Technology Laboratory, and Srikanta Mishra, Battelle Memorial Institute

SMART - Advanced Machine Learning and Computational Methods
Jared Schuetter, Battelle Memorial Institute, Alexandre Tartakovsky, University of Illinois, and Chung Shih, National Energy Technology Laboratory

SMART - Site Specific Data Organization and Imaging
Joe Morris, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, David Alumbaugh, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Youzuo Lin, Los Alamos National Laboratory

SMART - Site Specific Dynamic Storage Reservoir Modeling
Joshua White, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Hongkyu Yoon, Sandia National Laboratory, and Akhil Datta-Gupta, Texas A&M University

SMART - Site Specific Visualization and Decision Support
Diana Bacon, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, David Morgan, National Energy Technology Laboratory, and Maruti Mudunuru, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

EDX Outreach & Stakeholder Engagement
Moderator: Paige Morkner

Outreach and BIL Stakeholder Engagements
Gillian Wanosky and Jessica Sinclair, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Carbon Matchmaker Update
Maneesh Sharma, National Energy Technology Laboratory and Kevin Dooley, U.S. Department of Energy

Cloud Enhanced EDX DisCO2ver
Moderator: Paige Morkner

Understanding Federal Data Curation Requirements and EDX++ Tool to Serve CS Data Curation Needs
Chad Rowan and Jessica Sinclair, National Energy Technology Laboratory