An Emerging Field for Energy Professionals
Given the world’s reliance on fossil fuels for the next several decades, CCUS offers a path to sustainable development within the petroleum industry and a means to meet increasingly stringent emission regulations. Today’s energy industry has an urgent need for highly skilled professionals to guide the pathway for safe and economical management of carbon development, challenges, and opportunities.
For the past 5 years, SPE, AAPG and SEG have gathered leading technical experts to demonstrate the ongoing need for petroleum geoscientists and engineers in the CCUS arena. Their multidisciplinary conference, Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS), expanded to Latin America in 2024, with a highly successful inaugural event held in Rio de Janeiro in May 2024.
Originally planned for 150-200 attendees, CCUS Latin America 2024 was enormously successful, attracting 491 attendees representing 172 organizations and hailing from 19 countries across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
Building on the momentum generated on Rio, CCUS Latin America 2025 delivers a multidisciplinary program featuring technical presentations, panels, keynote talks and commercial exhibits highlighting technical, business, social and regulatory aspects of CCUS.
Organized by SPE, AAPG and SEG, the 2025 edition includes support from local hosts the Colombian Association of Energy Geologists and Geophysicists (ACGGP) and the SPE Colombian Section and five endorsing organizations: the Society for Low Carbon Technologies (SFLCT), the Battelle Center for Science, Engineering and Public Policy at The Ohio State University (OSU), the American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA), the Colombian Association of Petroleum, Energy and Related Technologies Engineers (Acipet), and CCS Brazil.
CCUS Latin America event convenes industry leaders, government representatives and technical professionals who will drive the discussions of the future of energy and explore the state of carbon management in the region and beyond. The event has strong local support from Colombia’s National Hydrocarbon Agency (ANH), national oil company Ecopetrol, and the Colombian Geological Survey, and all three entities will be sending both decisionmakers and technical experts to the event. Program presenters represent 100 organizations and 23 countries, showing the truly global scope of the event.
The program features two short courses and 160 technical presentations organized around six themes, providing professionals with the opportunity to train, learn, and share best practices with a regional audience of technical experts and energy industry leaders.
The agenda also includes strategic sessions and discussions with industry leaders responsible for implementing CCUS Projects in Australia, Brazil, Canada, the United States, Mexico, Norway, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and countries in the Middle East.