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“ The energy sector has changed dramatically since the coronavirus; and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 fuelled an energy crisis and stoked concerns over future energy security. The European Commission in December 2022 released its European Green Deal which address the need to accelerate decarbonisation across the EU they have set a target by 2023 to reduce carbon emissions by an additional 55% and they aim to be the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. ”

The energy sector has changed dramatically since the coronavirus; and Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine in February 2022 fuelled an energy crisis and stoked concerns over future energy
security. The European Commission in December 2022 released its European Green Deal which
address the need to accelerate decarbonisation across the EU they have set a target by 2023
to reduce carbon emissions by an additional 55% and they aim to be the first climate-neutral
continent by 2050.

The 3rd Europe CCUS & Hydrogen Decarbonisation Summit will assess and review the
opportunities within the EU Energy Sector and review the different hydrogen road maps set
out by the European Commission and different European Countries. We will review how green
hydrogen can ensure of energy security for each, while hitting decarbonising matrixes. The
conference will also review how CCU & CCUS can decarbonise the energy intensive sectors that
are hard to decarbonise while creating a circular carbon economy.

The 3rd Europe CCUS & Hydrogen Decarbonisation Summit will focus on the implementation
of CCS & CCUS within industrial operations and how hydrogen can decarbonise industry and
transport. The summit will bring together 300+ government officials, regulators, key industry
stake holders, leading academia, and service companies

Sessions One and Two

With energy prices and security at the forefront of every country’s mind now this session will review the EU long term energy strategy, discuss the European Green Deal to the ensure their 2030 and 2050 target commitments are still on track.

Schedule:

9:25
Chairs Opening address: Matt Wilson, Principal Consultant, ERM
9:30
Joop Hazenberg, EU Director, Carbon Capture & Storage Association

"How Europe can achieve its 2040 climate target"

The Commission has proposed to reduce greenhoue gas emissions with 90% by 2040. Is this a realistic target? Not without a massive deployment of CCUS technologies. The CCUS market is developing but still immature. EU Director of the CCSA Joop Hazenberg outlines his vision on what the next Commission must do to kick off a thriving and competitive CO2 market in Europe.
9:50
Gabrielle Gauthey, CEO High Representative by the EU institutions, SVP European affairs, TotalEnergies

TotalEnergies has been active for already many years in the CCS aerea and welcomes its recognition in the Green Deal through NZIA, as an essential enabler to reach Europe’s ambitious decarbonisation targets .
However there are still significant bottlenecks to be overcome and conditions to fulfill in order to build efficient, profitable and thus sustainable value chains.
10:10
Laura Moyle, Senior Energy Transition Advisor, Offshore Energies UK

"The role of the UK’s offshore energy sector in scaling up CCS and Hydrogen"

The presentation will provide an overview of the opportunity for CCS and hydrogen in the UK including their potential in helping to deliver the government's ambition of a decarbonised power grid by 2030. It will explore the key policy enablers required to bring about this ambition and how the existing offshore energy sector supply chain is pivotal in the transition.
10:30
Andrew R Barron, Chair of Low Carbon Energy and Environment, Director Energy Safety Research Institute

"Helping Small CCUS for Mega: Creating a Sustainable Symbiotic Approach to CCUS"

Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Sequestration is considered an inherent cost to the emitter and hence the taxpayer or the consumer. Typical CCS requires Carbon Credit to offset high costs, while offshore sequestration, has very high costs, and Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) is difficult, requiring modelling rather than direct measurement. In comparison mineralisation represents a natural approach, but usually requires mining of the mineral or chemical processing (with associated carbon emissions) as the products are often discharge into the environment. In all these cases the product has no commercial value. In an ideal scenario what is needed for CCUS? It would use a waste material and convert it into a valuable products. Unfortunately, a single technology has limited economic value, but combining multiple technologies in a flexible integrated Net Zero ecosystem enables commercial viability of CCUS while generating a revenue stream as diverse as volumetrically stabilised aggregate (for road construction), CaCO3 (for PPE and publishing), protein (for animal and fish feed) and speciality chemicals (for cosmetics and food product), magnetite (for water treatment), since and iron ore (for steel industry) and green and gold hydrogen (and oxygen).
10:50
Q&A
11:00
Coffee & Networking Break

With CCS and CCUS playing an important role in reducing carbon emissions in the power sector, CCS is the only current option to substantially decarbonise emissions intensive sectors. This session will discuss how the European Green Deal has accelerated investment within CCS & CCUS and look how different technologies can play and important role to decarbonise the energy intensive sectors industry. You will hear from end users on how they plan to utilise these technologies to reduce their carbon emissions across the hard to abate sectors.

Schedule:

11:45
Paul Vledder, Sr. Business Opportunity Manager, Shell

"Shell CCS in North Sea decarbonizing heavy industry"

The presentation will provide an overview of Shell’s European activities in Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in the context of the company’s wider “Powering Progress” strategy. It will highlight the progress made so far and showcase Shell’s commitment to developing CCS solutions to tackle climate change, with focus on the Shell Offshore Carbon Storage (SOCSNL) project and recently awarded licenses in the UK. The presentation will also emphasize the importance of working closely with potential customers and infrastructure providers, sharing learnings from these collaborations.
12:05
Matt Wills, Market Director, Low Carbon and Onshore Projects, Kent

"Learning from existing design and build"

There are a lot of project studies, conceptual designs, and front end engineering designs of CO2 capture, transmission, and storage projects in the industry.
What can we learn from existing projects in the detailed design and build phases?
The team at Kent are working on current CO2 capture, transmission, and storage work.
The presentation is aimed at sharing experience to help other CCUS projects succeed.
12:25
Shibu John, Regional Director, Business Development, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

“Recent advancements of MHI post-combustion CO2 capture technology”

The presentation introduces Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) carbon capture technology, named the Kansai Mitsubishi Carbon Dioxide Recovery Process (KM CDR Process™). It is based on amine scrubbing form flue gases (post combustion capture technology) with a proprietary solvent known as the KS-1™.
The presentation provides an overview of a total of 18 commercial carbon capture plants using KM CDR Process™ that are currently in service around the world as of September 2024. In 2016 the world´s largest capture unit was taken into operation, which is sequestrating 4760 tpd of carbon dioxide from a coal power plant.
With the commercialisation also the research and development has been continued and so the new proprietary solvent KS-21™ has been introduced in 2021, which is reducing further the energy demand and the solvent consumption of the process for best cost optimisation and the first plant was started-up in Bangladesh in 2024 using the new solvent.
Newest developments are electrification of the carbon capture with the use of Large heat pump from MHI subsidiary company Turboden S.p.A for plants where low cost renewable energy is available or no steam generation possibilities and the introduction of new solvent KS-21™.
The presentation also discusses on the recent carbon capture projects that have started operations using MHI Carbon Capture technology and recent carbon capture project updates where MHI is working closely with customers in UK and Europe.
12:45
Werner Friedl, Senior Project Manager, Kelvion Thermal Solutions

Desublimation is a not widely known substance separation method for gas mixtures. However, at KTS, desublimation is a well-established process for which we have been delivering equipment for more than 60 years for several applications. This successful history started in the 1950’s with the separation of phthalic anhydride as a product from a gas phase reaction. During the last few decades we have been expanding the range of application, finding new substances which can be separated using desublimation. Carbon dioxide is one of these applications, for which we have not only carried out a deep theoretical work with universities and well-renowned international institutes, but also, we have delivered desublimators for a full-scale pilot plant where our desublimators achieved the stringent requirements of the customer. We will present the results of this theoretical work, as well as the outcomes of the pilot plant.
13:05
Q& A
13:15
Lunch & Networking
14:15
Chairs Opening Address: Matt Wilson, Principal Consultant at ERM
14:20
Grete Tveit, Senior Vice President, Equinor

"What it takes to decarbonize European hard to abate industry"

Equinor is an international energy company which is committed to the energy transition. Our ambition is to be net zero by 2050, including scope one, two and three emissions. To achieve this we believe in rapid and large scale deployment of CCS. Therefore, we earlier this year increased our ambitions to 30-50 mtpa of CO2 transport and storage capacity by 2035.
With almost 30 years’ experience in CCS, we have a portfolio of projects ranging from operational to under development. During the 3rd Europe CCUS summit I will present some of that portfolio and give you my insights to what is needed in order for Europe to reach its climate targets.
14:40
Maksim Ageev, VP Regional Segment Leader Europe, Schneider Electric

"Reducing Cost for Carbon Capture and Improving Process Efficiency"

CCUS projects vary widely in cost and business feasibility.
Relevant costs include facility design, separation technology used in the capture process, local energy prices, emissions volumes, flue gas temperature and pressure, presence of emissions stream contaminants.
Capture costs are the most expensive component in the CCUS value chain (~70%), but economies of scale, learning by doing, modularization and standardization, and novel capture technologies could all yield significant cost improvements.
These require a complex approach across the lifecycle of an asset with integrated simulation and engineering as well as integrated data management which serves as a foundation to optimal plant performance.
15:00
Tony Rehn, Carbon2x Program Director, Fortum

`CO2 Utilization for the production of new sustainable plastics`

In this session Tony will talk about the importance of CO2 utilization for the circular economy. Through their Carbon2x program, which will capture and utilize CO2 emissions of waste incineration, the company aims to transform the circular economy and waste-to-energy sector in Europe. The presentation will walk us through the future outlook of plastics and why the utilization of CO2 is imperative as a solution for replacing existing fossil feedstock in the chemical industry. Tony will also present the developments of the revolutionary Carbon2x program as well as discuss the challenges that lie ahead.
15:20
Q&A
15:30
Carbon Capture & Utilization & Circular Economy Panel Discussion

Ahmed Sfar, Business Development Director, Schneider Electric

Lucia Verardi, Senior Policy Advisor, Eurogas

Tony Rehn, Carbon2x Program Director, Fortum

Wim Van Der Stricht, CTO, ArcelorMittal Group

David Virant, Department Head, Acies Bio
16:00
Coffee & Networking Break

Session Three

With European Commission announcing the European Hydrogen Bank and the funding issued a part of 5 billion funding for the European Green Deal, this session will also look how private equity, or public private partnerships can accelerate energy transition across the EU. We will also focus on the supply chain and skills gap that is needed given the competition globally.

Schedule:

16:20
The need for private investment in the green industrial revolution panel discussion

Bert Van Der Toorn, Senior Investment Officer, European Investment Bank

Ian Headley, Vice President Structured Finance, Santander CIB

Joanne James, Director | Infrastructure & Project Finance, Lloyds Banking Group
16:50
How to attract and up skill the future workforce & supply chain?

Erik Nijveld, Co-Founder & CEO, TechnologyCatalogue.com

Hazel Lince, Strategic Partnerships Manager, Opito

Neil Golding, Director of Market Intelligence, EIC
17:20
End of Day 1

Sessions One and Two

Hydrogen has been labelled as the fuel of the future and will become our main energy source as we transition to net zero. This session will discuss the different types of hydrogen on the hydrogen rainbow spectrum and how it can help decarbonise the industrial clusters, transport and aviation sector.

Schedule:

9:25
Charis opening address: Robert Hines, Senior Consultant - CCUS, Arup
9:30
Adrian Del Maestro, Vice President of Global Energy Advisory, AECOM

"From hype to reality: a global perspective on hydrogen"

The initial hype around hydrogen is subsiding and some niche end user applications are emerging. Committed offtake for hydrogen remains challenging making bankable projects harder to deliver. There have been to date some valuable lessons learnt and guiding principles which collectively will help accelerate selective hydrogen deployment.
9:50
Emma Woodward, European Hydrogen Market Lead, Aurora Energy Research

"A Hydrogen Market Outlook"

Of the many challenges which investors into hydrogen production projects face today, key amongst them is an uncertainty on what future hydrogen markets will look like. In the near term, hydrogen will be brought and sold through bilateral agreements between a single producer and offtaker and we will explore how these hydrogen offtake agreements are structured and the implications on hydrogen offtake prices, as well as offtaker willingness to pay in key sectors. Combined, we can then consider the level of subsidy support required for a project to be a success. However, in the longer term, as transport and storage networks build out, the potential for trading will emerge, potentially presenting an opportunity for a revenue merchant tail following the end of the initial offtake agreement. We will also consider how hydrogen price formation will take place in that world as well as the risks and uncertainties surrounding the evolution of the market.
10:10
Spencer Houck, Business Expert Renewables – Electrolyzers, Accelera by Cummins

“Lessons learnt from first MW-scale electrolyzer projects & industry challenges”

* Product design, performance and integration with EPC contractors

* Electrolyzer manufacturing and supply chain challenges

* From project concept to hydrogen production
10:30
Questions & Answers
10:40
Coffee & Networking Break
11:30
David Parkin, Director at Progressive Energy and Chair of the HyNet Alliance.

“Applying the lessons learned to help accelerate European hydrogen and CCS clusters”

HyNet is the UKs leading industrial decarbonisation project, based in the North West bringing together industry and local stakeholders to deliver a zero carbon future. Since the project was originally conceived eight years ago, there has been significant learnings for Progressive Energy and the project partners as they worked together to deliver an integrated cluster, encompassing hydrogen production, infrastructure and utilisation in addition to carbon capture, transport and storage.

As the UK and EU look to develop cross-border flows, opening up economic opportunities for both, we can use these learnings to accelerate these opportunities and increase the chances of success.
11:50
Aline Ingram, Senior Consultant - Hydrogen, Ammonia & Methanol, Poten & Partners

`Hydrogen, Ammonia & Methanol – the answer to decarbonisation?`

* Decarbonisation objectives
* Clean Fuels Overview, Production Pathways
* Demand/Trade/Supply Considerations
* Key Take-Aways
12:10
Tim Hamers, General Secretary, ERGaR

"Renewable gas certificates for hydrogen: How it works in practice"

The difference between renewable hydrogen and other hydrogen in a pipeline is in essence the certificate that comes with it. For renewable hydrogen two certificates can be issued, a Proof of Sustainability and a Guarantee of Origin. The presentation will focus on the practical aspects of these renewable gas certificates such as how they can be obtained and traded. Furthermore, there will be more details on the new Union Database that has a significant impact in practice.
12:20
Q&A
12:30
Lunch & Networking Break

Within this session we will review the recent EU hydrogen infrastructure roadmap that connects the different European energy infrastructures across Europe, we will review the different options that are available and what technologies will enable control of low and peak demands of energy.

Schedule:

13:30
Chairs opening address: Robert Hines, Senior Consultant - CCUS, Arup
13:35
Dirk Manske, Head of Regulatory and Public Affairs Division, ONTRAS

"The German Core H2 Backbone"

German gas transport companies have filed an official application with the Government for the build-up and operation of the Core H2 Backbone. This grid of transport pipelines will be implemented by 2032 to enable the market ramp-up for hydrogen. Government approval for the backbone is slated for mid-October. Immediately afterwards the network operators will start building the backbone. The presentation discusses the key features of the Core H2 Backbone. It also highlights the most salient aspects of the regulatory and financial framework that guides the development of the backbone.
13:55
Tobias Bühnen, Policy Advisor, Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE)

"Next steps towards the development of a European hydrogen infrastructure"

The presentation will focus on the challenges and solutions that lie ahead of us in developing a European hydrogen infrastructure. It will focus on the transition period, where natural gas and hydrogen infrastructure will co-exist, while already laying the foundations for a cross-border, interconnected hydrogen network in the mid- to long-term. In addition, the presentation will show current developments in the field of hydrogen storage, which will be essential to provide flexibility and long-term renewable energy solutions
14:15
Q&A

Session Three

With many ports across Europe now enabling energy transition, this session will review the opportunities for Europe to export or import ammonia, liquified hydrogen or methanol as a hydrogen carrier. The session will also review what infrastructure is needed and what challenges need to be addressed.

Schedule:

14:20
Vic Peeters, Manager, HINICIO

Project HyBex: Key learnings with regards to the future balancing the future hydrogen network.
14:40
Maxime Peeters, Business Developer New Energies, Vopak

"Vopak Belgium: New Energies Import"

Vopak, global player in tankstorage of liquids and gasses, is redeveloping a former refinery site in the Port of Antwerp into a new energies site.
Next to the current business in chemicals in Antwerp we actively contribute to the introduction of future vital products. We are focusing on new infrastructure solutions in the areas of low-carbon and renewable hydrogen (ammonia, liquid hydrogen, LOHC), CO2, sustainable feedstocks/fuels (methanol, pyrolysis oil, SAF, etc.), and long duration energy storage. VEPA is well positioned to take a leading role in these product groups with ample development space at the heart of the largest integrated petrochemical cluster in Europe.
15:00
Q&A
15:05
Exportation and importation challenges and opportunities for European ports Panel Discussion

Gilles Decan, Program Manager Hydrogen, Port of Antwerp-Bruges

Maxime Peeters, Business Developer New Energies, Vopak

Vic Peeters, Manager, HINICIO
15:40
End of conference

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