Sunday, July 19

Travel and Check-in at the University of New Mexico, Redondo Village Apartments

Monday, July 20

Welcome and RECS Overview – Ms. Pamela Tomski, Director, RECS and Managing Partner, EnTech Strategies, LLC

Opportunities and Challenges for Energy Technology Deployment -- Dr. Revis James, Director, Energy Technology Assessment, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

Fossil Fuels A Viable Option for the 21st Century -- Dr. Klaus Lackner, Director, Earth Institute’s Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy and Ewing-Worzel Professor of Geophysics, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University

Introduction to the Wedge Stabilization Game and Team Exercise developed by Princeton University’s Carbon Mitigation Initiative – Ms. Pamela Tomski, Director, RECS

Overview of Geologic CO2 Storage:  Key Issues and Research Needs -- Dr. Sally Benson, Director, Global Climate and Energy Project and Research Professor, Department of Energy Resources Engineering, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University

Geologic History and Naturally Occurring CO2 Deposits of New Mexico – Dr. Ron Broadhead, Principal Senior Petroleum Geologist, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources

Fundamental Processes in CO2 Geologic Storage, Site Selection and Characterization – Dr. Stefan Bachu, Principal Scientist, CO2 Geological Storage, Alberta Research Council

Overview of CCS Projects in Canada –  Dr. Stefan Bachu, Principal Scientist, CO2 Geological Storage, Alberta Research Council

Natural CO2 Analogs and Storage Site Characterization –Mr. Travis McLing, Research Scientist and Carbon Sequestration Technical Lead, Idaho National Laboratory

CO2 Storage in Reactive Rock Formations: Basalt Case Studies – Mr. Travis McLing, Research Scientist and Carbon Sequestration Technical Lead, Idaho National Laboratory

CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) and Carbon Storage Optimization -- Dr. Mark Holtz, Director of International Business Development for Enhanced Oil Recovery, Praxair, Inc

Analytical Approaches to Addressing Wellbore Integrity– Dr. Michael A. Celia, Theodora Shelton Pitney Professor of Environmental Studies, Professor and Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University

Wednesday, July 22

Geologic Storage Risk Assessment, Leak Detection and Mitigation -- Dr. Grant Bromhal, Research Group Leader for Sequestration, Hydrocarbons and Related Programs, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Integrated Reservoir Characterization Processes: Seismic to Simulation Utilizing the Teapot Dome Oil Field as a Fractured Reservoir Analog — Dr. Alan Lee Brown, Principal Geologic Workflow Consultant, Schlumberger Carbon Services; Co-author Valerie Smith, Reservoir Geophysicist, Schlumberger Carbon Services

Soil CO2 Flux Measurements – Mr. Rod Madsen, Sr. Product Specialist, LI-COR Biosciences

CO2 Sensors, Gas Sampling and Produced Water Samples – Mr. Lee Harris, New Mexico Tech

Thursday, July 23

Group Field Activities at the Southwest Partnership on Carbon Sequestration (SWP) Pump Canyon Site: Surface and Subsurface CO2 Monitoring -- Dr. Reid Grigg, New Mexico Tech

Friday, July 24

Tour of the PNM San Juan Generating Station

PNM is New Mexico's largest electricity provider. The San Juan Generating Station is the 7th largest coal-fired power plant in the West with four coal-fired units that generate 1,800 gross megawatts of electricity. In 2006, San Juan embarked on a 4-year, $320 million environmental upgrade with new technology that will:

* reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by 35 percent
* collect 99-plus percent of fly ash / particulates
* remove 90-plus percent of sulfur dioxide
* eliminate 85 percent of mercury emissions.

The plant tour will include discussion of environmental control technologies and issues associated with retrofitting existing plants with CO2 capture technology.

Geology Field Tour of Mesa Verde National Park and the Fruitland Formation (Late Cretaceous) -- outcrops in this area are representative of sedimentary geological formations and potential carbon storage sites in the northern San Juan Basin.

Saturday, July 25

Electric Power Systems and CO2 Capture Technology Overview – Jordan Kislear, Office of Planning and Environmental Analysis, Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy

Return to Albuquerque

Sunday, July 26

Geology tour of route between Albuquerque and Santa Fe.  

Monday, July 27

Alstom’s Chilled Ammonia CO2 Capture Process –  Mr. Louis Sonnois, CO2 Market Manager, Alstom

Method for Power Plant Optimization and CCS Systems Integration -- Ms. Xinxin Li, PhD Candidate, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University and RECS 2008 Alumnus

CO2 Pipelines and Geospatial Modeling for CCS Infrastructure Deployment – Dr. Jeff Bielicki, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Project, Harvard University and RECS Alumnus 2005

National Carbon Sequestration Database and Geographical Information System (NATCARB) - Dr. Timothy Carr, Director, NATCARB and Marshall Miller Professor of Energy, Professor of Geology, West Virginia University

Tuesday, July 28

CCS in an International Policy Context -- Ms. Pamela Tomski, RECS Founder & Director

(Federal) Regulatory Options for CCS - Injection in Shifting (Political) Sand -- Dr. Stephen Fries, AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, U.S. EPA Global Change and Drinking Water Research Program, RECS Alumnus 2008

Getting to Large-Scale Deployment: The Interplay of Regulation and Economics -- Dr. Sean McCoy, Research Engineer and Project Manager, CCSReg, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

CO2 Commodity Markets and Early Commercial CCS Opportunities – Mr. Michael Moore, Vice President, Business Development & External Affairs, Blue Source, LLC

Public Perceptions of CCS – Ms. Lauren Fleishman, Ph.D. Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, RECS 2008 Alumnus

Wednesday, July 29