RECS 2010 Program Schedule
July 18-28, 2010 in Albuquerque, NM
Pamela Tomski, Founder and Director
Updated: July 16, 2010
RECS 2010: July 18 - 28
Welcome
On behalf of the RECS 2010 sponsors — the U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Alstom and the Global CCS
Institute — thank you for your interest in the program and we look forward to your participation. Attached is the preliminary agenda,
participant list and logistical information. Feel free to call Jennifer Wilson or me with any questions or if you need assistance. Miriam Okun
(RECS 2009) will be assisting me on site. Safe travels and we look forward to seeing you in Albuquerque.
Best regards,
Pamela
Important Information
Transportation: Please take a taxi to and from the airport to the University of New
Mexico (UNM) and submit your ground transportation costs for reimbursement. A
receipt must be included in order to receive reimbursement. (Expense form attached.)
BOARDING PASSES: Keep your boarding passes and submit them with your expense
form.
Attire / Weather: Dress is casual (shorts and t-shirts are fine). Albuquerque weather is typically sunny and dry, with daytime temperatures
averaging 90ºF and evening temperatures about 65ºF. Afternoon thunderstorms are very common. Be aware of the high elevation (50006000 feet), which may cause mild altitude sickness. (Please be sure to stay well hydrated.) A package of information on safety precautions,
procedures and treatments on the altitude, heat, sunburn, lightening, and tick and snakebites is available for review in the classroom.
FIELD ACTIVITIES: Be sure to bring closed-toe shoes or boots, long pants and a casual shirt for the field. Sunscreen and a hat or sun visor
are highly recommended.
Meals: Meals at UNM are at the La Pasada Dining Hall (#77 on the campus map) during the following hours:
Breakfast:
Lunch:
Dinner:
6:30 - 9:00 am
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
5:00 - 6:30 pm
You will be provided a meal card upon check-in. During the field trip, the RECS program will make arrangements for meals. Participants
should cover all other food or meal options.
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Miscellaneous: Bicycles and sporting equipment are available to rent at the east
entrance to Johnson Center.
Important Information
Outdoor/Bike Shop Phone: 505-277-8182
Hours: 8:00 am – 6:00 pm (M–F)
Guest passes are available for $5.00 per visit for the Johnson Center’s workout rooms and weight facilities. An attachment with the facilities’
hours is included: Johnson Center Phone: 505-277-4347
The Travelodge in Farmington, and the Holiday Inn in Durango have swimming pools if you’d like to bring a swimsuit. The pool at UNM is
closed for renovation.
The Albuquerque Isotopes (Minor League Baseball) – see home game schedule:
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/index.jsp?sid=t342
Emergency Phone Numbers:
Pamela Tomski:
Miriam Okun:
On Campus UNM Police:
Ambulance / Fire:
NM Poison Control
Police:
202-390-8896
781-248-4885
911
911
505-843-2551
505-277-2241
Emergency phones are located around campus. You will automatically be connected to the campus police when you pick up the phone. These
phones operate 24 hours a day.
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Sunday, July 18
Check-in at the Coronado Hall desk located next to the Redondo Village
Apartments at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM. Check
desk will be open from 7 a.m. – 11 p.m. (505 277 4311). After hours check
in is at the Student Residence Center, which also has a 24-hour emergency
desk (505 277 9203)
6:30 p.m. Welcome BBQ in the courtyard of Redondo
• Apartment facility features four single
bedroom units with interior entrances,
kitchen, living-dining area and segmented
bathroom
• Bed linens are provided
• Bedrooms are individually air-conditioned
and keyed for privacy and security
• Bedrooms furnished with bed, desk &
chair, stackable chest of drawers and
bookcase
• Stove, fridge and microwave
• Wi-Fi is available
•A coin-operated laundry room is located in
the Redondo Village Apartment building
• Redondo is located just east of Johnson Field
• Classroom instruction will be held at the Student Union Building (SUB), Acoma A&B Rooms
• Meals are at the La Posada Dining Hall
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Monday, July 19
8:30 a.m. Climate Change: Global Catastrophe or Local Inconvenience –
Mark Boslough, Ph.D., Physicist and Principal Member of the Technical
Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
10:00 a.m. Break
10:15 a.m. Welcome and RECS Overview – Pamela Tomski, Director, RECS
and Managing Partner, EnTech Strategies, LLC
10:30 a.m. Participant Introductions
11:30 a.m. Overview of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Carbon
Sequestration Program – Mark Ackiewicz, Program Manager, Office of
Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
12:00 p.m. Introduction to the Stabilization Wedges Game (Princeton
University’s Carbon Mitigation Initiative) – Brad Kelley, Virginia Tech and
Southeast Partnership on Carbon Sequestration Education (SECARB-Ed)
12:15 p.m. Lunch / Stabilization Wedges Game
3:30 p.m. Group Presentations and Discussion
5:00 p.m. CCS Regulatory Frameworks and Accounting Issues - Jason
Deardorff, Geologist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Underground
Injection Control - Region 8 (RECS 2007)
6:15 p.m. Bus Departs Redondo for Sandia Peak Tramway
7:00 p.m. Sandia Peak Tramway and Dinner at High Finance Restaurant
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8:30 a.m. Geologic CO2 Storage: Fundamental Processes, Site Selection and
Characterization – Stefan Bachu, Ph.D., P. Eng., Distinguished Scientist, CO2
Storage, Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures
Tuesday, July 20
10:45 a.m Discussion
11:00 a.m. Break
11:15 a.m. Lab Research: Multiphase Flow of CO2 and Brine in Porous Media –
Sam Krevor, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Researcher, Benson Lab, Department of
Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University (RECS 2005)
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. Natural CO2 Analogs and CO2 Storage in Reactive Rock Formations (Basalt Case Studies) – Travis McLing, Carbon
Sequestration Technical Lead, Idaho National Laboratory
2:15 p.m. Break
2:30 p.m. Wellbore Integrity: Impact of CO2 Saturated Brine on Fractures in Well Cement – Mileva Radonjic, Ph.D., Assistant
Professor, Department of Petroleum Engineering, Louisiana State University
3:15 p.m. Introduction to Numerical Modeling and Application of Commercial Simulators for Fluid Flow in the Subsurface –
Ernst van Nierop, Ph.D., Director of Engineering, C12 Energy
4:00 p.m. Break
4:15 p.m. CO2 Injection in Multiple Wells / Geologic Formations Coupled with Brine Production – Ben Court, Ph.D. Student and
Researcher, Storage Group, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University (RECS 2007)
Analytical Approaches to Addressing Wellbore Integrity – Michael Celia, Ph.D., (Via Skype) Theodora Shelton Pitney Professor of
Environmental Studies, Professor and Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University
5:00 p.m. Group Exercise: Modeling
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Wednesday, July 21
8:30 a.m. Geologic Storage Risk Assessment, Leak Detection and Mitigation –
Grant Bromhal, Ph.D., Research Group Leader, Sequestration, Office of
Research and Development, National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S.
Department of Energy
10:00 a.m. Break
10:15 a.m. Large-Scale Geologic Storage Experience in a Deep Saline
Formation: The Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium’s (MGSC)
Illinois Basin-Decatur Project --- Robert J. Finley, Ph.D., Director, Advanced
Energy Technology Initiative, Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability,
University of Illinois
11:45 a.m. Discussion / Lunch
12:45 p.m. Ensuring Protection of Groundwater Resources – J. Alexandra
Hakala, Ph.D., Geosciences Division, Office of Research and Development,
National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy
1:45 p.m. Break
2:00 p.m. Southwest Partnership on Carbon Sequestration Pump Canyon CO2
Enhanced Coalbed Methane Recovery / CO2 Storage Demonstration Test Site:
Activities and Lessons Learned – Karine Schepers, Sr. Reservoir Engineer,
Advanced Resources International
3:00 p.m. Field Monitoring Technologies and Methods – Rod Madsen, LI-COR
3:30 p.m. Discussion
4:30 p.m. DOE CCS Demonstration Projects – Joe Giove, Program Manager, DOE
6:15 p.m. Depart for Farmington, NM
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7:15 a.m. Depart Hotel for PNM San Juan Generating Station
Thursday, July 22
8:00 a.m. PNM San Juan Generating Station: Power Plant Operations and Tour
11: 30 a.m. Depart PNM – Lunch in Farmington
1:00 p.m. Field Safety Training -- James Howard, Health, Safety and the
Environment (HSE) Field Supervisor, San Juan Basin Unit, ConocoPhillips
2:15 p.m. Depart for Field Activities
3:15 p.m. Field Tour and Exercises: The SWP Pump Canyon CO2 Storage Test
Site – Reid Grigg, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, SWP and Director, Gas Flooding
Processes and Flow Heterogeneities Group at the Petroleum Recovery Research
Center (PRRC), New Mexico Tech
– Soil Gas Sampling, Tracer Injection / Sorbent Tube Sampling -- Rodney Diehl,
Ph.D., Physical Research Scientist, National Energy Technology Laboratory
– Well Site Monitoring: CO2 Sensors Calibration, Gas Sampling, Water
Sampling of Produced Waters - Lee Harris, Research Scientist, PRRC, New
Mexico Tech
– CO2 Flux Measurements – Rod Madsen, LI-COR
6:00 p.m. Depart Field to Farmington
7:15 p.m. Dinner
8:00 p.m. Natural Fractures and Core Samples – John Lorenz, Ph.D. and Scott Cooper, Ph.D. Fracture Studies, LLC
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7:00 a.m. Depart Hotel for Field Site - Hogback Monocline Outcrop
Friday, July 23
7:30 a.m. Fractures Mapping Exercise at the Hogback Monocline Outcrop
– John Lorenz, Ph.D. and Scott Cooper, Ph.D., Fracture Studies, LLC
10:30 a.m. Depart for McElmo Dome
1:30 p.m. McElmo Dome: Operations Overview and Plant Tour – TBD,
Kinder Morgan
5:15 p.m. Depart McElmo Dome to Durango, CO
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Saturday, July 24
10:00 a.m. Archaeology of the Southwest U.S. - Jerry Fetterman, Ph.D., Woods
Canyon Archaeology (Invited)
11:15 a.m. Depart for Mesa Verde National Park -- Geology Field Tour / Hike
3:00 p.m. Return to Albuquerque
Free Day
Sunday, July 25
12:00 p.m. Bus departs to Santa Fe (Optional)
8:00 p.m.
Bus departs to Albuquerque
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8:30 a.m. CO2 EOR and Carbon Storage -- Mark Holtz, Director, International
Business Development, EOR, Praxair, Inc.
Monday, July 26
9:45 a.m. CO2 Commodity Markets – Michael Moore, Vice President,
BlueSource and Executive Director, North American Carbon Capture and
Storage Association
10:30 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Ratemaking 101 – Kim Wissman, Director, Department of Energy
and Environment, Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, Executive Director, Ohio
Power Siting Board
11:45 a.m. Lunch
12:45 p.m. Carbon Sequestration Atlas: Evaluating CCS Opportunities
Worldwide -- Tim Carr, Ph.D., Marshall Miller Professor of Energy, Department
of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University and Director, NATCARB
1:30 p.m. Integrated Assessment Modeling for CCS Systems Deployment –
Peter Kobos, Ph.D., Economist, Earth Systems Department, Sandia National
Laboratory
2:15 p.m. Discussion
2:30 p.m. Break
2:45 p.m. CO2 Capture Technologies and Systems Integration – Fred Kozak, Program Manager, CO2 Capture, ALSTOM
3:45 p.m. Novel Concepts for CO2 Capture – Karma Sawyer, Ph.D., Fellow, Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E),
U.S. Department of Energy
4:30 p.m. Air Capture – Tim Rappold, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, The Earth Institute, Columbia
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University (RECS 2009)
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Tuesday, July 27
8:30 a.m. Prospects for Energy and Climate Change Legislation in the U.S.
Congress – Kathryn Clay, Ph.D., Director of Research, Alliance of Automobile
Manufacturers and former Senate Energy Committee Staff
9:15 a.m. International Climate Change Negotiations: An Update on the Road to
Cancun – Dan Reifsnyder, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Global Climate
Change, U.S. Department of State
10:00 a.m. Drivers for CCS in China and Implications for Climate Change Policy – Gang He, Research Associate, Program on
Energy and Sustainable Development, Stanford University
10:30 a.m. Discussion
11:30 a.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. Non-Technical Lessons Learned (and How to Address Them) from the WESTCARB CCS Projects -- John Henry Beyer,
Ph.D., WESTCARB Program Manager, Geophysicist, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1:45 p.m. Understanding Perceptions of Technology Risk and CCS -- Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Ph.D. Candidate and Graduate
Student Instructor, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley (RECS 2008)
2:30 p.m. Break
2:45 p.m. Mesaba Energy Project & CCS Plan - Gordy Gray, Vice President, Development and Technical Services, Excelsior Energy
3:30 p.m. State CCS Regulatory and Public Engagement Developments – Darrick Eugene, General Counsel, North American
Carbon Capture and Storage Association and Texas Capital Group
4:00 p.m. Exercise: CCS Deployment Game
6:00 p.m. BBQ at Redondo Courtyard
7:00 p.m. Albuquerque Isotopes Game
Wednesday, July 28
Check out and Travel
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Mark Ackiewicz, Program Manager, Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
Christopher Babel, Engineer, Leonardo Technologies, Inc. / National Energy Technology Laboratory’s Carbon Sequestration Program Support
Patricia Berry, Geologist, Southern States Energy Board / Southeast Partnership on Carbon Sequestration
Robert Brasington, Research Engineer, MIT Energy Initiative and Masters Student, Technology and Policy Program
Terra Dalton, Masters Student in Geophysics, The Ohio State University
Joe Giove, Program Manager, Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy (Field Guest)
Julie Gouin, Kent State University
Mary Kang, Ph.D. Student in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University
Palwinder Kaur, Ph.D. (Chemist), Research Fellow, National Energy Technology Laboratory
Elizabeth Keller, Energy Analyst & Project Manager, Public Interest Energy Research Program / WESTCARB, California Energy Commission
Stephen Kelley, Geologist, Ohio Geological Survey / Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership and Masters Student in Geology, Western
Michigan University
Seong Jun Lee, Ph.D. Student in Civil Engineering / Southwest Partnership on Carbon Sequestration, University of Utah
Mark McBride, Ph.D. Student, Qatar Carbonates & Carbon Storage Research Centre, Imperial College
Erin Miller, Intern, The Bureau of Economic Geology’s Gulf Coast Carbon Center and Masters Student, The Jackson School of Geology at The
University of Texas at Austin
Jessie Peterson, Geologist, Carbon and Energy Management group of Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures
Sean Porse, Geologist, Underground Injection Control Program, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Marco Robles, Engineer, Leonardo Technologies, Inc. / National Energy Technology Laboratory’s Carbon Sequestration Program Support
Catherine Ruprecht, Masters Student in Hydrogeology, Clemson University
Karma Sawyer, Ph.D., Fellow, Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E), U.S. Department of Energy
Luo Shu, Ph.D. Student, Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University - Beijing
Christin Strandli, Masters Student in Petroleum Engineering, Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University
Hui Su, Ph.D. Student in Natural Resource Economics, West Virginia University
Deepak Tapriyal, Ph.D., Lead Research Scientist, National Energy Technology Laboratory
Emma Wendt, Clean Technologies Group, Pacific Gas & Electric
Nicholas Wolfe, University of Colorado, Denver (Recently completed Masters in the Global Energy Management Program)
Assaf Wunsch, Ph.D. Student, Colorado School of Mines
Chongwei Xiao, Ph.D., Researcher, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Lois Yoksoulian, Ph.D. Student in Geological Sciences, University of Kentucky
Natalia Zakharova, Ph.D. Student, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Researcher, Borehole Research Group at Lamont-Doherty
Earth Observatory, Columbia University
Zihan Zhu, Ph.D. Student, China University of Petroleum – Beijing
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