Thank you to the following sponsors and hosts for helping make WESTCARB’s 2012 Annual Meeting a success:
• The staff and students of the geology department of California State University-Bakersfield
• California Energy Commission
• Clean Energy Systems
• Hydrogen Energy California
• Occidental Petroleum
• Schlumberger Carbon Services
• U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory
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WESTCARB 2012
Annual Business Meeting |
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 |
| WESTCARB Welcome and Introductions (no slides) |
Mike Gravely, WESTCARB Principal Investigator, California Energy Commission and Elizabeth Burton, WESTCARB Technical Advisor, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) |
| Geologic Characterization for CO2 Storage in the Southwestern Sacramento Basin Based on Citizen Green Well Data |
John Beyer, LBNL |
| Update on Subsurface Characterization at the Citizen Green Deep Research Well |
J. Ajo-Franklin, M. Voltolini, and C. Doughty, LBNL – presented by John Beyer, LBNL |
| Laboratory Seismic and X-ray CT Monitoring of Supercritical CO2 Floods in Sandstone Cores |
Tim Kneafsey and Seiji Nakagawa, LBNL |
| Samples for Analyses of Mineralogy and Dissolved Gas |
Mark Conrad, LBNL – presented by Tim Kneafsey, LBNL |
| Subsurface Flow Modeling at King Island |
Curtis Oldenburg and Christine Doughty, LBNL |
| Advanced Turbine Developments for Oxy-Combustion TriGen™ Plants |
Leonard Devanna, Clean Energy Systems |
| Elk Hills Oil Field Overview (slides not available) |
Mark Coalmer, Occidental of Elk Hills |
| Tour of Occidental Petroleum’s Elk Hills Oil Field |
| Tour of Clean Energy Systems’ Kimberlina Power Plant |
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 |
| National Energy Technology Laboratory Carbon Storage Program Overview |
Bruce Brown, National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy |
U.S. DOE Fossil Energy Research Integration
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James Wood, U.S. Department of Energy |
| WESTCARB 2012 |
Elizabeth Burton, WESTCARB Technical Advisor, LBNL |
| The Role of Carbon Capture and Sequestration in California's Energy Future |
Jeffery Greenblatt, LBNL |
| A Voice for California’s CCS Industry |
Pete Montgomery, California CCS Coalition |
| Geologic Carbon Sequestration Potential in Arizona |
Jon Spencer, Arizona Geological Survey |
| A Qualitative Assessment of Storage Capacity in Depleted San Joaquin Valley Oil Reservoirs |
Jan Gillespie, California State University- Bakersfield |
| Tour of CSUB’s geological sciences scanning electron microscopy lab, CREST Center, and the California Well Sample Repository |
| CO2G™ (CO2-based Geothermal Energy): Hot, Pressurized CO2 for a Range of Clean Energy & Industrial Applications |
Mark Muir, GreenFire Energy |
Understanding and Managing the Potential for Induced Seismicity in CO2 Storage Projects
|
Larry Myer, Retired LBNL Staff Scientist |
| Hydrogen Energy California Update (also delivered at GTC 2012) |
Mark Lerdal, HECA, and Jim Loney, Fluor |
| Engineering-Economic Assessment of CCUS for California NGCC Power Plants |
Rich Myhre, BKi |
Closing Remarks (no slides)
|
Mike Gravely, California Energy Commission, and Elizabeth Burton, LBNL |
