Workshop 5

Workshop 5

Geochemistry’s Role On Advancing Climate Change And Energy Transition Research Sunday, June 1st |

Convenors

  • Isabelle Kowalewski (IFPEN)
  • Olivier Sissmann (IFPEN)
  • Courtney Turich (Chair EAOG) (IEA)
  • Jacobo Canal (Repsol)

 

Co-organized by the EAGE-EAG Technical Community on Geochemistry

Description

The workshop will address current and future challenges and research directions facing geochemistry to contribute to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. The workshop will provide an overview of recent geochemical developments dealing with, among others, the compensation of anthropogenic gas emissions, the surface and subsurface storage of carbon, the new energy resource assessment (H2, Li, He). Through illustrative application cases, we will delve into geochemical analytical approaches. The aim is to address and discuss in depth the future challenges we will face to move faster and better towards a decarbonized world.

Sub-Topics that will be covered in the workshop:

    1. Geochemistry for CO2 Removal: CCS, subsurface organo-mineral interactions, water geochemistry, surface mineralization, enhanced wheathering, etc.
    2. Geochemistry for New Energy Resources in the Energy Transition: Native hydrogen, helium, lithium, critical materials, etc…
    3. Geochemistry for Climate and Environment: Soil recarbonization, post-mining risks and impacts, petroleum industry emissions from exploration to decommissioning, soil pollution and remediation, climate change mitigation, natural gas emissions, air pollution.
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Participant Profile

The target audience is geoscientists from industry and academia who are interested in improving their knowledge of new advances in geochemistry within a sustainable and environmental framework and in exchanging views on emerging research issues for climate and environment.

Workshop Programme

TimeActivity
09:30Welcome Remarks
Session 1: Geochemistry for Climate and Environment - Chairs: Isabelle Kowalewski (IFPEN) & Sina Rezaei Gomari (Teesside Univ.)
09:45Rock-Eval Thermal Analyses: Insights into Climate Change - I. Kowalewski (IFPEN, France)
10:05Novel isotope tracers for atmospheric gases - Dr. Alexis Gilbert (Utrecht, Netherland)
10:25Implications of Sulfurization on Carbon Preservation and GHG Emissions Using Combined Thermal Rock-Eval and Sulfur Isotope Proxies - Alon Amrani (University of Jerusalem, Israel)
10:45Coffee Break
Session 2: Geochemistry for CO2 Removal - Chair: Jacobo Canal Vila (Repsol)
11:15CO2 mineralisation based on CCS - Jacobo Canal Vila (Repsol, Madrid)
11:35Insights into the Geochemistry of the Carbonation Process in Soils Amended with Clay-Rich Waste Materials: A Nature-Based Solution for Carbon Removal - Sina Rezaei Gomari (Teesside University, UK)
11:55Leaving the confort zone: Why geochemistry matters in subsurface gas storage projects - Jorge José Delgado Martín (University of A Coruña, Spain)
12:15Understanding the History of Subsurface Fluids and Migration Via the Analysis of Entrained Volatiles in Cuttings and Cores and the Implications for Selecting Carbon Capture Storage Sites - Christofer Smith (FI, ….)
12:35Lunch Break
13:50CO2 Mineralization in Mafic Formations: Fracture Network and Water Availability - Andrea Munoz (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
14:10Accelerating geochemical CO2 storage through water-alternating-gas injections in reactive reservoirs - Claire Nelson (CELLA, USA)
14:30CO2 mineral sequestration - Pascale Bénézeth (Université Toulouse - GET)
14:50Carbon Dioxide Removal through bio engineered solutions - Caroline Thaler (Bloomineral)
15:10Q&A Panel / round table
15:30 Coffee Break
Session 2: Geochemistry for New Energy Resources in the Energy Transition - Chairs: Courtney Turich (IEA) & Olivier Sissmann (IFPEN)
15:50Critical Minerals Recycling from Waste - C. Turich (IEA)
16:10Geochemistry of Natural H2 - O. Sissmann (IFPEN)
16:30Geologic H2 source rocks : natural emissions and stimulation - Ugo Geymond (Vema Hydrogen, France)
16:50Q&A Panel / round table
17:10End of Workshop