Managing the Hazards and Risks of Earthquakes and Faulting Associated with Large-Scale CO2 Sequestration

Monday June 23: 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm, reception 5:00 - 6:30 PT

Tuesday June 24: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm PT

Location: Frances C. Arriallaga Alumni Center,  326 Galvez St, Stanford, CA 94305

Goals: 

• To discuss and debate optimal strategies for advancing geologic storage of CO2, in the context of lessons learned from other subsurface experience

Objectives:

• Highlight key issues (characterization, monitoring plans)
• Share knowledge on key issues and how they could/should impact CCS projects
• Identify how can agencies handle these risks and issues
• Translate research into actionable recommendations for regulators
• Help to inform the crafting of CCS regulations

Actionable Outcomes:

• Assess how to incorporate what has been learned about induced seismicity into regulations associated with CO2 storage.
• Develop recommendations for research to address tangible issues associated with CO2 and induced seismicity, and develop recommendations for a flexible regulatory framework that can be updated based on research findings.

Current Planned Sessions

1. Regulator Perspective – Current state of how earthquake risk & induced seismicity is handled in the regulations
2. What have we learned from other subsurface experiences?
3. Regulatory requirements
4. Where is CCS headed?
5. Risk Management
6. What are the research needs?

Event Organizers:

• Stanford Center for Carbon Storage (SCCS)
• BEG/Center for Injection and Seismicity Research (CISR)
• Occidental Petroleum (Oxy)
• Groundwater Protection Council (GWPC)

Confirmed Speakers, Panelists, and Moderators

• Andrew Adgate, Resources Management Program Administrator (Oil & Gas), Ohio Department of Natural Resources
• Paul Anderson, Geophysical Manager, Occidental
• Scott Anderson, Senior Director of Energy Policy, Occidental
• Lily Barkau, Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality
• Sally Benson, Professor, Stanford University
• Alex Bump, Research Associate Professor, Bureau of Economic Geology
• Bill Curry, Geophysicist, ExxonMobil
• Jarad Daniels, CEO Global CCS Institute
• Tim Dixon, Director and General Manager, IEAGHG
• Paul Dubois, Assistant Director for Technical Permitting at Railroad Commission of Texas
• Peter Hennings, Research Professor, Bureau of Economic Geology
• Ryan Hoffman, Conservation Division Director, Kansas Corporation Commission
• Jeremy Lancaster, State Geologist of California, California Department of Conservation
• Peter Meier, CEO, Geo-Energie Suisse AG
• Sarah Saltzer, Managing Director of the Stanford Center for Carbon Storage, Energy Science & Engineering
• Ryan Schultz, Lecturer at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Zurich
• Todd Shipman, Senior Advisor, Alberta Energy Regulator
• Katie Smye, Research Associate Professor, Bureau of Economic Geology
• Richard Suggs, Geologist, North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources
• Stu Venables, Senior Geoscientist,  BC Energy Regulator
• Jim Walsh, Senior Vice President, Marsh
• Jonathan Winsor, CCS Seismicity Advisor at Shell
• Ivan Wong, Senior Principal Seismologist, Lettis Consultants International. Inc.
• Adam Wygant, Dept of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, Michigan
• Mark Zoback, Professor of Geophysics, Stanford University