Dear Friends,
A growing desire for lower emissions and a sustainable energy future has unleashed record levels of private sector investment and government funding creating an unprecedented concentration of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) projects across the United States.
Leveraging the technical geologic knowledge and data related to CCUS that has been cultivated over the past two decades, combined with more recent policy instruments, such as the expanded 45Q tax credits, CarbonSAFE initiative, and carbon credit mechanisms, have presented opportunities to offset the costs of CCUS development making it more attainable for many companies.
As the industry continues to grow, so does the need for highly skilled professionals to guide the pathway for safe and economical management of carbon developments, challenges, and opportunities. At a time of rapid change, the importance of integrating innovative geoscientists and engineers to lend their expertise and skills plays a critical role in defining the future of carbon.
As hosts of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) 2025, 3–5 March in Houston, Texas, the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), have joined forces to gather leading technical experts to demonstrate the ongoing need for petroleum geoscientists and engineers in our CCUS arena.
Much like our industry, the CCUS event has sparked exponential growth doubling in size year over year since its inception in 2021. CCUS 2025 builds upon this success and looks to bring together more than 1,700 global attendees and participants. Keynote speakers, panelists, and presenters from ExxonMobil, OXY, Shell, SLB, U.S. Department of Energy, and many other organizations will facilitate discussion on current CCUS work and tackle related challenges across these themes:
- Theme 1: Subsurface Storage and Site Selection
- Theme 2: Subsurface Modeling
- Theme 3: Subsurface Risk Assessment
- Theme 4: Infrastructure and Well Design
- Theme 5: EOR, Injection, Utilization
- Theme 6: Subsurface Monitoring
- Theme 7: Financial, Economics, and Regulatory Framework
- Theme 8: ESGs and Stakeholder Engagement
- Theme 9: ML and Data Analytics Applications
- Theme 10: Case Studies
Alongside a dynamic technical program of talks, panels, and posters, CCUS 2025 will have pre- and post-event short courses on well logging and petrophysics for geologic carbon sequestration, CCUS fit-for-purpose casing and tubing analysis, CO₂ with impurities, reservoir engineering aspects of carbon capture and storage, application of machine learning to support ccs deployment, DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management’s tools to support carbon transport and storage deployment, from source to sink: confronting uncertainty and risk in your ccs project, and subsurface CO₂ storage simulation. A pre-event field trip is scheduled to explore Galveston’s coastal processes. Informative topical luncheons, engaging networking opportunities, and interactive student activities will provide an added level of experience for attendees that are sure to not be missed.
Conversations on emerging technologies and the latest innovations in sustainable development will extend to the exhibition hall with participation from a variety of companies including SLB, Viridien, S&P Global, Microseismic and the US Department of Energy.
CCUS 2025 is an influential platform where professionals engage in all aspects of the carbon capture lifecycle to innovate, integrate, and advance understanding to create value. This meeting continues to be the leading event for CCUS management and development and is best chance you’ll have to gain insights into the technical and business aspects surrounding CCUS.
We invite you to participate in CCUS 2025 and hope to see you all in Houston!
Sincerely,
David Riestenberg
CCUS 2025 Technical Program Co-Chair
Scott Singleton
CCUS 2025 Technical Program Co-Chair
Caroline Wachtman
CCUS 2025 Technical Program Co-Chair