The pipeline of carbon capture projects in North America alone contains over 150 different projects valued at over $33 billion. Carbon capture and sequestration is the leading decarbonization strategy across multiple industries, including biofuel production. This panel discussion will stake out the policies responsible for this incredible momentum, the technologies under development to make it manifest and the impact to the sectors into which it is deployed. Attendees looking for a panel to build a foundational understanding of CCS will appreciate this panel’s broad and comprehensive presentations.

• Todd Bush, Managing Director, Fuse Markets
  Carbon Capture Outlook for 2023-2030
• Elizabeth Burns-Thompson, Vice President, Government and Public Affairs, Navigator CO2
  The Heartland Greenway Project: Project Level Updates and Future Development
• David Miller, Consulting Chief Economist, Decision Innovation Solutions
  45Z and 45Q Tax Credits: Game Changers for the Ethanol Industry

This panel will highlight the permitting journey participating ethanol producers and pipeline operators will be required to undertake before one ton of carbon dioxide can be sequestered. The discussion will cover all the territory between baseline environmental testing and monitoring all the way through ongoing testing and monitoring to data management, verification and reporting. The presentations will be delivered by professionals with deep knowledge and experience in biofuels permitting and will draw upon the knowledge from the early work being done in the CCS space.

• Angie Ronayne, Senior Consultant, Merjent, Inc.
  Pipeline Environmental Permitting Considerations for CCS Projects
• Tim Eggeman, Chief Technology Officer, New Phase Energy
  Environmental Permitting Challenges for CCS Projects at US Fuel Ethanol Facilities
• Brad Pekas, Senior Engineer/Hydrogeologist, Trihydro Corporation
  Baseline Environmental Testing & Monitoring Programs for CCS Projects
• Andrea Foglesong, Vice President/Sr EHS Consultant, PROtect, LLC
  Proposed GHG Reporting Rule Changes and Associated Reporting Expectations for CCS

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In addition to coupling carbon capture technology at their facilities, industrial operators must be prepared for a parallel effort to maximize the varying incentives and tax credit programs vital to the project’s long term financial success. This panel largely focuses on the Section 45 tax credits offering a robust explanation of how the credits work, what the requirements are to be awarded the tax credits and the varying ways in which these tax credits can be monetized.

• Dawn Lima, Associate VP - Renewable Energy & Sustainable Technologies, Foss & Company
  Optimizing Carbon Capture Tax Credit Transactions
• Donna Funk, Principal, Pinion
  Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) – Tax Credit Alphabet Soup
• Robert Coon, Partner, Kutak Rock LLP
  The Alphabet Soup Of Section 45 (45Q, 45Z, Etc.)
• Ben Nelson, Director of Carbon Programs, Summit Carbon Solutions
  Financing CCS And Tax Credit Monetization

• James Fann, Vice President, Business Development & Corporate Affairs, The International CCS Knowledge Centre
  Bringing CCS Projects To Life – The Critical Role Of Collaboration And Applying Lessons From The Past
• John Hamling, Assistant Vice President: Strategic Partnerships, EERC
  Implementing the First Incentive-Driven CCS Projects
• Andrew Duguid, Vice President, Advanced Resources International
  How to Develop a Successful CO₂ Storage Project
• Aaron Eldridge, South Dakota Project Manager, Summit Carbon Solutions
  CO₂ Pipeline Design, Construction, and Operations

This panel will expand on the day’s previous discussions about the importance of sub-surface modeling for CCS projects. Panelists will make clear the vital importance of thorough analysis of potential sequestration sites as a means of mitigating project risk. The presentations will be rooted in case studies from some of the sector’s earliest investigations and will outline how a failure to fully comprehend and calculate the storage potential of a well can jeopardize a project’s long-term financial viability.

• Evan MacDonald, Senior Geologist, Enverus
  Quantifying Risk for Sequestration Success – A Look At Potential CO₂ Storage Hazards and Complications in Southern Louisiana
• Kacey Garber, Project Professional, SCS Engineers
  Applications of Solution Storage Efficiency via Multiphase Flow Modeling to Carbon Dioxide Storage Project Scoping
• Binbin Guo, Strategic Technology Manager, The Lubrizol Corporation
  Direct Thickening of CO₂ for Efficient Underground Carbon Storage

The impetus to participate in carbon capture and sequestration projects is well understood. The carbon reductions delivered offer market access, tax credits and other financial rewards to participating biofuels producers. This panel takes a deep look at the details of the local, state and federal permits and regulations producers will have to navigate in order to participate as well as the reporting requirements producers must build into their operational plant to satisfy regulators and capture all of the financial benefits of deploying the technology. Attendees will also hear about some contract considerations that are important to consider in the early stages of CCS project development.

• Vanessa Silke, Partner, Baird Holm LLP
  Carbon Capture Projects and Environmental Permitting
• Kari Buttenhoff, Partner, Christianson PLLP
  CCS: Learning to Swim in the Deep End: Navigating CARB Requirements
• David Bracht, Partner, Kutak Rock LLP
  Key contract terms in CO₂ Contracts

Modeling underground carbon dioxide storage formations is required by the EPA to obtain a class VI permit and authorization to begin sequestration. The presentations in this panel will help facilities considering CCS deployments understand the basics of what is required and what can be learned from underground models. Attention will also be paid to the importance of understanding how sub-surface modeling can protect investors from risk by identifying best and worst-case scenarios of potential sequestration volumes. Presenters will explain the critical importance of a thorough analysis of sub-surface modeling and how and when to incorporate it into CCS project development.

• Zach Freund, Reservoir Engineer, ARI
  Why CCS Projects Need Subsurface CO₂ Modeling And How It Leads To Successful Projects
• James Nutaitis, Carbon Consultant, EcoEngineers
  Using a Geological Assessment to determine the Viability of Carbon Capture and Storage for Ethanol Producers
• Joseph Mello, Vice President, Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. (NSAI)
  Subsurface Uncertainty in CCS Investment Decisions
• Stephanie Cook, Manager, Carbon Storage, Navigator CO₂
  Carbon Storage in Geological Formations: Science, Technology, and Workflow

Most observers of the coming wave of carbon capture and sequestration projects understand the basic concept of the technology but the nuts and bolts of how carbon will be captured from plants, prepared for direct injection into on-site wells or pipelines is less clear. This panel seeks to fill in that knowledge gap with four presentations on the leading designs for CCS facilities and the opportunities already being identified to reduce their overall cost of operation.

• John Oyen, Business Development Manager, ABB, Inc.
  The Design and Operational model for full CCS facilities
• Mercy Renteria, Nat'l Business Development Mger - Energy - Strategic Business, Endress+Hauser
  Optimal Technology for Carbon Capture
• Shane Hughes, Senior Sales Manager, Toshiba America Energy Systems Corp
  Mikawa Post Combustion Capture Pilot Plant – Amine Solvent
• Andrew Sexton, Senior Engineer, Trimeric Coporation
  CO₂ Surface Facilities Process Evaluation and Design