24 January
CIGSS, Day 1
Symposium with government agencies, industry representatives and invited speakers
Registration opens / Mont Terri Visitor Centre
Welcome address
Christophe Nussbaum (swisstopo)
Session 1 / Geological carbon storage in Switzerland: current status and next steps
Chair: Christophe Nussbaum (swisstopo)
Establishing CO2-Storage in Switzerland
Martin Jiskra (Swiss Federal Office for the Environment)
Christian Minnig (Swiss Federal Office of Energy)
Current and planned activities of the Swiss Geological Survey in the context of the geological carbon storage
David Jaeggi (swisstopo)
Herfried Madritsch (swisstopo)
Hard to abate sectors – how do we manage the challenge for the net zero target in climate policy on the way to 2025?
Robin Quartier (VBSA)
Stefan Vannoni (cemsuisse)
Coffee break
Session 2 / Geological carbon storage worldwide: Insights from research organisations
Chair: Jens Birkholzer (LBNL/ US DOE)
How geothermal energy extraction from CO2 reservoirs increase storage safety due to heat energy extraction, while providing thermal and/or electric power to the CCS operations
Martin Saar (ETHZ)
Physics of caprock faults and CO2 storage risk
Yves Guglielmi (LBNL/US DOE)
Storing Swiss CO2 in Iceland and Switzerland – Insights from DemoUpCarma and beyond
Stefan Wiemer (SED-ETHZ)
Multi-disciplinary monitoring of the Ketzin CO2 pilot site as successful concept for storage integrity assessment
Michael Kühn (GFZ)
Lunch
Session 3 / Geological carbon storage worldwide: Insights from energy companies
Chair: Elin Skurtveit (NGI)
Global status of saline aquifer CO2 storage and review of the key challenges
Philip Ringrose (Equinor)
CO2 storage site feasibility assessment and risk-based monitoring – an industry approach
Marcella Dean (Shell)
Structural geology and fault seal studies in CO2 storage evaluations
Christopher Wibberley (TotalEnergies)
Coffee break
Session 4 / Gas migration in shale and role of hydrogen
Chair: Axel Liebscher (BGE)
Current issues on gas in radwaste deep geological repositories: example of Cigeo (France)
Remi de la Vaissière (ANDRA)
Microbial hydrogen transformations in the deep subsurface
Rizlan Bernier-Latmani (EPFL)
Exploration of natural hydrogen
Eric Gaucher (Lavoisier H2 Geoconsult)
From caprock integrity to system integration. Lessons for siting of CO2 storage locations
Thomas Flüeler (ETHZ)
Concluding remarks
Christophe Nussbaum (swisstopo)
Apéritif
Transfer to dinner
