Issue N° 46 December 2022
The Newsletter content
PAGE 2: 16th
Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference
Horizon Europe Project CCUS ZEN
PAGE 3: STRATEGY CCUS – final results
PAGE 4: New call for the Master on CO2 Geological Storage (deadline 16th
January 2023)
A new EU COST Action CA21127
Techno-economic analysis of carbon
mitigation technologies (TrANsMIT) has
been developed to address the need for
intensified communication and collaboration
in the topic of CO2 mitigation, resulting
from increasing global climate efforts,
changing policy focus and rapid technology
development. TrANsMIT was officially
launched on 7th October 2022.
The Action focuses on the techno-economic
analysis (TEA) of the overall,
integrated CO2 Capture, Utilisation, and
Storage (CCUS) value chain as well as
negative Emissions Technologies (NETs).
Goal of the Action
TrANsMIT aims to bring together
academia, research institutes and industry
into a cutting-edge, pan-European
knowledge network. The Action advances
the research frontier of CCUS/NETs TEA
from partially unharmonized and
disciplinary research to harmonized,
holistic pan-European, coordinated
research on the full CCUS system,
facilitating development of the most
technologically, economically and
commercially feasible CCUS technologies
and systems.
This will be achieved by harmonizing and
coordinating the methods and tools used
for CCUS/NETs TEA in Europe, leveraging
the knowledge created by our
partners in national or international
research projects. The project focuses
most on holistic assessment of the CCUS
chain, and on those areas where most
development is needed (e.g., CO2
capture from air).
The created science will be an essential
means to steer CCUS R&D and deployment
in a direction that allows reaching
climate targets on-time and in a cost-effective
manner, while harnessing the
competitiveness of European industry.
Mission
In TrANsMIT, a strong focus on knowledge
sharing and career development will be
taken, tackling existing disparities in
knowledge distribution and career opportunities.
Our action will also foster strong
collaboration between the more and the
less research intensive countries in
Europe, improving the access of the latter
to State-of-the-Art science and new
research projects. It will put into leadership
roles early-career researchers and
minorities, helping to fast-track their
career development. TrANsMIT will lead
to top-tier techno-economic analysis of
CCUS systems across European countries.
Participation
TrANsMIT establishes the network
spanning the whole CCUS chain covering
broad range of technologies, with a
special emphasis on further TEA development,
in a collaboration with academia,
research institutes and industry, that is
open for anyone to join. Within TrANsMIT
activities strong emphasis will be put on
collaboration with other network organisations
in Europe in order to exploit
synergise, maximise the impact and not
to overlap the activities. Several ENeRG
partners are Management Committee
members of TrANsMIT.
EU COST ACTION CA21127: Techno-economic analysis of
carbon mitigation technologies (TrANsMIT)
The Newsletter of the ENeRG Network
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Initials links have already
been made. To learn more
about TrANsMIT COST Action
and join scan the code or
visit EU Action Page at:
www.cost.eu/actions/CA21127/
Dr. Anna Skorek-Osikowska
Project coordinator
Silesian University of Technology
Fig. 2 The TrANsMIT Kick-off meeting group photo in Bruxelles
Fig. 1 TrANsMIT concept
Fig. 3 The CCUS-ZEN Kick-off meeting group photo in Paris includes project partners
from 11 countries and network members from all over the Europe.
Horizon Europe Project CCUS ZEN
16th
Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference
A new Horizon Europe project CCUS
ZEN (Zero Emission Network to facilitate
CCUS uptake in the industry) is a Coordination
& Support Action project coordinated
by SINTEF (Norway), which started in
September 2022. 14 project partners
from 11 countries, including eight EU
countries, Norway, Turkey and UK, will
cooperate with 60 network partners
during 2.5 years of the project.
CCUS ZEN (Zero Emission Network)
aims to contribute to reducing CO2
emissions from industrial clusters and
hubs in Europe by building networks and
sharing knowledge and experience of
CCUS. SINTEF, the Norwegian applied
research group, is coordinating both the
project and the network. SINTEF
researchers have been working on
CCS/CCUS for decades. The Norwegian
government’s Longship project, the first
cross-border, open-source CO2 transport
and storage project, has helped bring the
concept of CCS/CCUS into the
mainstream.
The partners have broad expertise and
knowledge across the CCUS value
chain including partners working in CCUS
infrastructure, industry, energy, and CO2
storage. The network’s goal is to foster
effective knowledge sharing, enable
faster development of CCUS projects
and identify potential new initiatives in CO2
transport and storage. Countries and
regions further ahead in the development
and use of CCUS can contribute knowledge
to countries with less experience.
The project will focus on the Baltic region
and the Mediterranean region. The
Kick-off meeting of the CCUS ZEN took
place on 28-29 September in Paris (Fig.
3). The event was hosted by one of the
partners, Technip Energies. The two-day
event gave the opportunity to participants
to connect and align on project
milestones and main objectives. Workshops
were held to share technical,
regulatory, development planning, and
commercial insights.
ENeRG members from Estonia, Poland
and Turkey are among the CCUS ZEN
partners (TalTech, PGI-NRI and METU),
while ENeRG is one of the network
partners. ENeRG member TalTech is
coordinating the WP3 in the project
(Value Chain Scenarios).
Eirik Falck da Silva,
CCUS ZEN Coordinator, SINTEF
Alla Shogenova,
TalTechDG
The GreenHouse Gas Control Technologies
(GHGT) conferences are the focal
point for international research on carbon
capture, storage and use (CCUS). The
last conference, GHGT-16, took place
between 23-27 October 2022 in the
Palais des congrès de Lyon, France (Fig.
4). The conference was fully booked, with
1200 participants, over 350 oral presentations
and 300 posters. All papers will be
included in the proceedings volume of the
conference which will soon be available.
Abstracts can be viewed already on
SSRN platform.
It was for the 1st
time that the conference
took place in France, with a French
organising committee composed of Club
CO2, ADEME, BRGM, IFPEN and
TotalEnergies. A 6 min video entitled
"Towards CCUS deployment, where do
we stand in France?" was presented
during the opening session.
Two site visits were organised on 28
November: One by BRGM at a natural CO2
seepage area close to Clermont-Ferrand
(Fig. 5), the second one by IFPEN at its
lab in Lyon on CO2 capture test facilities
and at VICAT plant in Montalieu to see an
industrial-scale CCU demonstration
project, using the CO2 captured from a
cement plant to feed micro-algae.
Several ENeRG members have attended
the conference and had oral and poster
presentations. We can mention here the
involvement of representatives from
BRGM, GeoEcoMar, Czech Geological
Survey and Sapienza University. During
the conference, 100 copies of the newsletter
no 45 were also distributed.
Emissions Reduction Alberta announced
at the end of the conference that they will
co-host GHGT-17 with IEAGHG in
Calgary, Alberta, Canada in October 20
to 24, 2024.
More information can be found at
https://ghgt.info/.
Isabelle CZERNICHOWSKI-LAURIOL
BRGM
Fig. 4 Picture from the conference venue
Fig.5 Participants looking at natural CO2
bubbling at the water surface of the Grand
Saladis Spring during a site visit.
ENeRG – European Network for Research in Geo-Energy
STRATEGY CCUS project elaborated
plans for the deployment of CCUS in
eight European regions – Paris basin and
Rhône valley in France, Ebro basin in
Spain, Lusitanian basin in Portugal,
Northern Croatia, Galati area in Romania,
West Macedonian area in Greece and
Upper Silesia in Poland. A total of 174
industrial and power facilities were
mapped which amounts to 121.5 Mt of
CO2 emission in 2017. Storage resources
equated to 8.5 Gt of capacity with ~92%
in Deep Saline Aquifers (DSA) and ~8%
in Depleted Hydrocarbon Fields (DHF).
Although regions presented a high potential
of geological storage capacity, these
estimations are mostly immature
prospects with low confidence.
The techno-economic evaluation of the
scenarios evaluated where CCUS is
more attractive than EU ETS compliance
(70€/ton). The top three regions are: (1) Upper
Silesia (4 302 M€ of lower costs with
CCUS compared to EU ETS costs),
followed by (2) Paris Basin (1 411.9 M€),
and then Northern Croatia with 1109.5
M€ of financial gap. Across the regions,
nearly 78% or 357 Mt of the CO2
captured is avoided with 343 Mt of CO2
stored and 14 Mt of CO2 used in mineralization
(Western Macedonia and Ebro
Basin). On average, OPEX costs contribute
63% of total CCUS costs and are mainly
energy consumption.
Life cycle assessment (LCA) performed
in Rhône valley (FR), Lusitanian Basin
(PT) and Ebro Basin (ES) identified the
capture process (mainly related to energy
provision) as the most critical contributor
ENeRG – European Network for Research in Geo-Energy
is an informal contact network open to all European organisations
with a primary mission and objective to conduct basic
and applied research and technological activities in the field
of sustainable use of the underground for the energy transition.
ENeRG president is Dr. Alla Shogenova from Department of
Geology, Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia),
alla.shogenova@taltech.ee
ENeRG secretariat is run by Centre for Research and Technology
Hellas, Athens, Greece.
Contact person: Dr. Eleonora Manoukian, manoukian@certh.gr
ENeRG website: https://www.energnet.eu is maintained by
SHOGenergy, Estonia.
Contact person: Dr. Kazbulat Shogenov,
kazbulat.shogenov@taltech.ee
ENeRG Newsletter - GEO ENeRGY is published by Department
of CO2 Geological Storage, GeoEcoMar, Romania.
Editor: Dr. Alexandra Dudu, alexandra.dudu@geoecomar.ro
Layout and computer typesetting: Point Media Concept SRL
Language review: Dr. Gillian E Pickup, Heriot-Watt University,
UK, G.Pickup@hw.ac.uk
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to generated GHG emissions and to
Cumulative Energy Demand (CED). The
impacts of CO2 utilization strongly
depend on the final use of CO2 and on
the transformation process settings (e.g.
renewable power consumption for energy
needs). In these three regions, Multi-Regional
Input-Output analysis (MRIO)
assessed socioeconomic benefits of
CCS deployment. CCS would create
276,200 full time equivalent (FTE) jobs
up to year 2050, both direct and indirect.
That is approximately 11,050 permanent
jobs. In three regions, the employment
retained would be 203,300 FTE jobs
(74%), or 8,130 permanent jobs.
The possible way forward for CCUS
deployment in STRATEGY CCUS regions
isdividedintothreegroups:techno-economic,
social and policies, and government
factors. Business model and cost (mainly
related to capture system and OPEX),
STRATEGY CCUS – final results
Fig. 6 Maps with the CCUS development scenarios analysed within STRATEGY
CCUS project
maturity of storage, establishing
good social awareness, policies,
incentives and working with clarifying
the regulations for CO2 storage
appear as cornerstone for
enabling CCUS value chains
across Europe.
STRATEGY CCUS launched a
regional study on the feasibility of
CCUS technology in eight territories
of seven EU countries. The
PilotSTRATEGY project, sequel to
this one, a 5‐year H2020 RIA
project is making an important
step in the feasibility of STRATEGY
CCUS scenarios. PilotSTRATEGY
will increase the maturity of
five Deep Saline Aquifers storage
resources in Paris basin, Lusitanian
basin, Ebro basin, West Macedonia
and Upper Silesia.
Fernanda DE MESQUITA
L. VELOSO
Project coordinator
BRGM
Armenian National Academy of Sciences (IGS),
Institute of Geological Sciences (Armenia)
Khachatur Meliksetian
km@geology.am
University of Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Prof. Sanel Nuhanovic
sanel.nuhanovic@untz.ba
Sofia University (Bulgaria)
Prof. Georgi V. Georgiev
gigeor@abv.bg
University of Zagreb (Croatia)
Prof. Bruno Saftic
bruno.saftic@rgn.hr
Croatian Geological Survey (Croatia)
Dr. Staša Borovic
sborovic@hgi-cgs.hr
Czech Geological Survey (Czech Republic)
Dr. Vit Hladik
vit.hladik@geology.cz
The Institute of Geophysics of the
Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic)
Dr. Jan Mrlina
jan@ig.cas.cz
GEUS - Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
(Denmark)
Mette Olivarius
mol@geus.dk
Department of Geology, Tallinn
University of Technology (Estonia)
Dr. Alla Shogenova
alla.shogenova@taltech.ee
SHOGenergy (Estonia)
Dr. Kazbulat Shogenov
Kazbulat.Shogenov@taltech.ee
BRGM (France)
Dr. Isabelle Czernichowski-Lauriol
i.czernichowski@brgm.fr
CERTH (Greece)
Dr. Nikolaos Koukouzas
koukouzas@certh.gr
Hellenic Hydrocarbon Resources Management S.A. (Greece)
Dr. Aristofanis Stefatos
a.stefatos@greekhydrocarbons.gr
OGS - National Institute of Oceanography and
Experimental Geophysics (Italy)
Barbara Merson
bmerson@ogs.trieste.it
Ceri Research Centre - Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
Sabina Bigi
sabina.bigi@uniroma1.it
Nature Research Centre (Lithuania)
Prof. Saulius Sliaupa
sliaupa@geo.lt
Institute of Geology and Seismology (Moldova)
Dr. Igor Nicoara
nicoaraigor@gmail.com
Christensen CCS Consult (Norway)
Niels Peter Christensen
Nielspeter@hotmail.dk
Polish Geological Institute (Poland)
Dr. Monika Konieczyńska
mkon@pgi.gov.pl
MEERI PAS (Poland)
Prof. Radoslaw Tarkowski
tarkowski@min-pan.krakow.pl
AGH University of Technology and Science
(Poland)
Barbara Uliasz-Misiak
uliasz@agh.edu.pl
National Institute for Marine Geology and
Geoecology-GeoEcoMar (Romania)
Dr. Constantin S. Sava
savac@geoecomar.ro
GEOINŽENIRING d.o.o. (Slovenia)
Ada Vengust
avengust@geo-inz.si
Middle East Technical University, Petroleum
Research Center (Turkey)
Dr. Çağlar Sinayuç
caglars@metu.edu.tr
The Public Organization Ukrainian Association of
Geologists (Ukraine)
Yuliia Demchuk
yuliia.demchuk@geologists.org
Heriot-Watt University (UK)
Dr. Gillian Pickup
G.Pickup@hw.ac.uk
ENeRG members
New call for the Master on CO2 Geological Storage
(deadline 16th
January 2023)
A new call is open for a Master which
opens your horizons both in terms of
technology innovation and with regard to
creating connections and new professional
liaisons with colleagues all over
Europe.
Sapienza University of Rome together
with University of Zagreb and the participation
of Heriot-Watt University of
Edinburgh, Tallinn University of Technology
and the Geological Survey of Denmark
and Greenland (GEUS) are offering a
one-year Postgraduate specialist university
course (60 ECTS credits) on CO2
Geological Storage with the support of
CO2GeoNet, the Network of Excellence
on the Geological Storage of CO2. The
proposing institutes are also partners of
ENeRG.
The students on the Masters course will
be trained on all aspects of CO2 Geological
Storage, and they will be introduced
to the scientific and professional community
working on CO2 Geological Storage in
Europe and beyond.
The call for the Academic year 2022-2023
is now open, deadline for application on
16th
January 2023.
The course provides a comprehensive
preparation for young professionals
interested to work in the field of CCS. It is
composed of a period of lessons (February
to July), fieldwork and a period of
traineeship at one of CO2GeoNet
research institutes.
The course will present an overview of
state-of-the-art CCS operations and
research; it will focus on the technical and
scientific considerations for CO2 injection
and safety monitoring, the exploration of
critical processes in laboratory studies,
numerical modelling, and conclusively on
sound and reliable storage capacity
estimates, including the project economics,
social aspects, and planning of mitigation
measures in case regulatory requirements
are not fully met.
The students will be able to understand
the work of the different specialists
involved in CCS projects, learning from
high level specialists, and connecting
with the most advanced research
institutes in Europe.
More information is available at
https://web.uniroma1.it/masterco2/home
Sabina Bigi
Sapienza University
Fig. 9 Geological modelling