{"id":824,"date":"2025-12-08T12:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccusevent.org\/2026\/?page_id=824"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:26:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:26:21","slug":"topical-luncheons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ccusevent.org\/2026\/topical-luncheons\/","title":{"rendered":"Topical Luncheons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Join leading experts for in-depth discussions at The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel & Convention Center. <\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

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\n <\/i>\n Monday, 30 March <\/div>\n
\n <\/i>\n 12:10 pm\u20131:20 pm <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

\n Active and Passive Seismic Monitoring at the Farnsworth CO\u2082-EOR Field in Texas <\/h3>\n \n
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<\/i> The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel & Convention Center, Montgomery Ballroom A<\/div>\n
<\/i> $75<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n <\/i>\n Speaker <\/div>\n \n \n
\n \n \"Lianjie\n \n
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Lianjie Huang<\/p>\n

Senior Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory<\/p>\n\n

View Bio<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n \n

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This presentation highlights two complementary studies that use advanced seismic techniques to improve understanding of how injected carbon dioxide (CO\u2082) moves and behaves in the subsurface at the Farnsworth CO\u2082-Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Field in Texas. We used time-lapse three-dimensional (3D) vertical seismic profiling (VSP) to monitor how CO\u2082 distribution evolved within the reservoir over several years, revealing its gradual migration from injection wells toward production wells. We also deployed a borehole geophone array to record microseismic events triggered by CO\u2082 injection and migration, showing that the process created small fractures and altered the local stress field as reservoir pressure increased. Together, these studies demonstrate that integrating seismic imaging with microseismic monitoring provides a robust and reliable approach to tracking CO\u2082 migration in deep geological formations, improving the safety and effectiveness of both geologic carbon storage and oil recovery.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n <\/i>\n Tuesday, 31 March <\/div>\n
\n <\/i>\n 12:10 pm\u20131:20 pm <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

\n Women\u2019s Network Luncheon: The CCUS Equation of Risk and Return – From Wells to Wallets <\/h3>\n \n
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<\/i> The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel & Convention Center, Montgomery Ballroom B<\/div>\n
<\/i> $75<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
\n <\/i>\n Moderator & Panelists <\/div>\n \n \n
\n \n \"Michael\n \n
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Michael Edwards<\/p>\n

Founder, Edwards Energy Innovation (EEI) Consulting, LLC<\/p>\n\n \n Moderator <\/span>\n

View Bio<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n \n \"Catherine\n \n

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Catherine R. Stevens<\/p>\n

CCS Regulatory Director, Harvestone Low Carbon Partners<\/p>\n\n

View Bio<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n \n \"Anna\n \n

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Anna Littlefield<\/p>\n

Program Manager, Geothermal and CCUS, Payne Institute for Public Policy, Colorado School of Mines<\/p>\n\n

View Bio<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n \n \"Lily\n \n

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Lily Barkau<\/p>\n

Groundwater Section Manager, Water Quality Division, Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality<\/p>\n\n

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This panel\u00a0will give attendees a comprehensive understanding of the technical, financial, and policy considerations that are crucial for successful carbon storage initiatives. It\u00a0explores the multifaceted landscape of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) risk management. This expert panel brings together diverse perspectives from academia, industry, and regulatory domains to dissect the critical challenges and strategies for mitigating risks across the CCUS project lifecycle. From subsurface geological complexities to financial assurance mechanisms and regulatory frameworks, our speakers will provide insights into how the industry can effectively de-risk CCUS projects, enhance public confidence, and drive sustainable carbon management solutions.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n <\/i>\n Tuesday, 31 March <\/div>\n
\n <\/i>\n 12:10 pm\u20131:20 pm <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

\n Progress in Gas (CO\u2082) Injection Processes for Energy & Sustainability: Current and Future Challenges <\/h3>\n \n
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<\/i> The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel & Convention Center, Montgomery Ballroom A<\/div>\n
<\/i> $75<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n \n \"Birol\n \n
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Birol Dindoruk<\/p>\n

Professor, Texas A&M University, Department of Petroleum Engineering<\/p>\n\n

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Perhaps the most important problem that we are facing is the Energy Problem, which is coupled with CO\u2082 emissions. Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), mainly CO\u2082, have reached very high levels, causing long-term climate changes that are visible in many ways, such as rising sea levels, warmer and more acidic oceans, diminished ice coverage, increased global surface temperatures, and multi-dimensional chemical changes that can alter the global equilibrium of the earth systems. CO\u2082, the key gas in these systems, should be reduced, and in parallel, a tremendous amount of CO\u2082 (~50 Gt) needs to be handled through storage or sequestration.\r\n

\r\nGas injection at large scale has been practiced in petroleum\/subsurface engineering fields for more than 50 years. Many technologies have been developed during this period. Initially, most technologies for various gas injection processes, such as hydrocarbon gases and\/or CO\u2082, were developed primarily to improve recovery and for gas storage purposes. Later, these technologies were successfully applied to CO\u2082 sequestration in different settings across various countries. When the objective of CO\u2082 injection is not limited to oil recovery processes, the application envelope for CO\u2082 injection includes a wider spectrum of options, such as deep saline aquifers and basaltic rocks, in addition to depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs and coal seams. Each option\/case will have its own complexities, from data requirements to monitoring, especially in the context of reducing the uncertainty for screening, project execution, and surveillance. In this talk, we will stress some of the key points and challenges of this global problem, and how much progress has been made for various subsurface options.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n <\/i>\n Wednesday, 1 April <\/div>\n
\n <\/i>\n 12:10 pm\u20131:20 pm <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

\n CO\u2082 Storage Modeling, Analytics, and Risk Reduction <\/h3>\n \n
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<\/i> The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel & Convention Center, Montgomery Ballroom A<\/div>\n
<\/i> $75<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n \n \"Sanjay\n \n
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Sanjay Srinivasan<\/p>\n

Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, Pennsylvania State University<\/p>\n\n

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Geologic CO\u2082 storage (GCS) offers a viable technology for reducing CO\u2082 emissions into the atmosphere and mitigating its climate change impact. The newly formed NSF Center for geologic CO\u2082 Storage Modeling, Analytics, and Risk Reduction Technologies (CO\u2082-SMART) aims to create a multidisciplinary synergistic program to accelerate safe and cost-effective deployment of the GCS technology at scale through industry-driven research and workforce development. A partnership between the University of Southern California (USC) and the Pennsylvania State University (PSU), the CO\u2082-SMART Center has been established to address industry research needs in deploying GCS technology by advancing the understanding of complex processes that are triggered during and after CO\u2082 injection into geologic formations. The focus is to develop advanced technologies to improve the safety, efficiency, and economics of GCS operations, and by providing scientific results to support the development of a pragmatic policy framework for large-scale deployment of GCS projects. In the first part of the talk, I will provide some details about the operational structure of the center and the research being performed. Point bars are channel sediments that accumulate when sinuous or meandering rivers or channels migrate laterally over a geologic period. Point bars can serve as high storage capacity reservoirs such as the Athabasca Oil Sands deposit in the Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation in Canada. The Cranfield, Mississippi reservoir which is considered by several studies as a viable candidate for CO\u2082 sequestration experiments is also characterized as a point bar reservoir. In this talk I will present a stochastic process-based approach to model the architecture of point bar systems and their associated heterogeneities. To account for uncertainties, the modeling was done by generating several realizations of point bar reservoir models. A model calibration workflow was implemented to reduce the uncertainties in the ensemble of point bar reservoir models using the injection rate data from the Cranfield CO\u2082 sequestration study. The implemented hierarchical, two-step ensemble-based data assimilation technique addresses two important considerations: (1) account for uncertainties in reservoir geometry (2) handle the non-Gaussian relationship between the primary state variables and secondary variables for reservoirs with complex heterogeneities such as point bars. Finally, the updated models (i.e., calibrated models) were further refined in a Bayesian model selection workflow. The model selection algorithm is used to create a posterior set of models that reflect time-lapse seismic information, based on observed dynamic response. The applicability of the entire integrated workflow to a real field scenario is demonstrated, using the CO\u2082 injection and timelapse seismic dataset for the Cranfield in Mississippi. The final ensemble of the refined selected models can be used to assess the uncertainty in predicting CO\u2082 storage capacity and the future displacement of CO\u2082 plume. <\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-824","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccusevent.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccusevent.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccusevent.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccusevent.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccusevent.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/ccusevent.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1882,"href":"https:\/\/ccusevent.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/824\/revisions\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccusevent.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}