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Project No. |
EWG 15 2013A
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Project Title |
APEC Expert Workshop on Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage-Enhanced Oil Recovery (CCUS-EOR)
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Project Status |
Completed Project
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Publication (if any) |
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Fund Account |
APEC Support Fund
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Sub-fund |
ASF: Energy Efficiency
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Project Year |
2013
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Project Session |
Session 2
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APEC Funding |
110,000
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Co-funding Amount |
100,000
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Total Project Value |
210,000
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Sponsoring Forum |
Energy Working Group (EWG)
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Topics |
Energy
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Committee |
SOM Steering Committee on Economic and Technical Cooperation (SCE)
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Other Fora Involved |
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Other Non-APEC Stakeholders Involved |
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Proposing Economy(ies) |
United States
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Co-Sponsoring Economies |
Australia; Canada; Mexico
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Expected Start Date |
01/08/2013
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Expected Completion Date |
31/07/2014
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Project Proponent Name 1 |
Scott M Smouse
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Job Title 1 |
Project Overseer and Chair, Expert Group on Clean Fossil Energy
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Organization 1 |
US Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory
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Postal Address 1 |
PO Box 10940, Pittsburgh, PA 15236-0940, USA
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Telephone 1 |
1-412 3865725
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Fax 1 |
1-412 3864822
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Email 1 |
scott.smouse@netl.doe.gov
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Project Proponent Name 2 |
Not Applicable
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Job Title 2 |
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Organization 2 |
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Postal Address 2 |
Not Applicable
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Telephone 2 |
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Declaration |
Scott M Smouse
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Project Summary |
Capturing CO2 for use in enhanced oil recovery is a win-win approach to carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), applicable to both APEC developed and developing economies. A multi-year program is being established between Canada and China to promote CCUS and assist the power and oil industries in advancing this technology.
This project will hold a workshop/field study in Canada where experts can share their up-to-date information and experiences on CCUS technology, using the SaskPower Boundary Dam CCUS project in Canada to demonstrate the concepts. A workshop in China will follow later in 2014. The project will identify near-term CCUS opportunities in APEC regions, analyze project economics, discuss policy/regulatory requirements, and identify opportunities for further capacity building.
This project is responsive to the 2010 APEC Energy Ministers Fukui Declaration and to directives of the 2011 Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) Ministerial Meeting, which includes many APEC economies. |
Relevance |
Rapid economic growth and concomitant rising energy demand in a number of developing APEC economies necessitate major expansions in energy infrastructure, including for power generation. Given the concerns about global climate change, the growth of CO2 emissions from the APEC region’s rapidly expanding coal-fired power generation sector raises the question of when in the future it may become necessary to implement carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies for these plants. This promising technology is, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), forecast to contribute one-fifth of the required global emission reductions by 2050. Given this potential, developing APEC economies need to start gaining experience and developing capacity in dealing with the technical, economic, financial, legal, regulatory, and social aspects of CCS.
At present, in the absence of a price on carbon, the economics of CCS do not favor deployment unless a project receives some form of financial support. There are, however, situations where captured CO2 can be sold and utilized, rendering the project economics more attractive. The most practicable example of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) is for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), where CO2 is used to stimulate the production of oil from reservoirs (CCUS-EOR) with declining production
Based on available data, China – the world’s largest emitter of CO2 – offers the greatest opportunity in the APEC region for CCUS-EOR. Committed to reduce its emission levels, China is exploring various CCS options and CCUS-EOR can become a key stepping stone towards the deployment of large-scale CCS in APEC. In view of this potential, Canadian power producer SaskPower and a number of Chinese partners are developing a multi-year program to promote CCUS-EOR. SaskPower has been a prime mover in efforts to bring this technology to the demonstration stage. This APEC project is designed to benefit from information gained by recent SaskPower workshops and bring CCUS-EOR greater prominence internationally, with particular emphasis on near-term opportunities in China and other APEC economies.
As a first step, this project will hold a 4-day workshop/field study in Canada in late 2013 to bring together experts from North America, China, and other APEC economies to share their most up-to-date information and experiences on CCUS-EOR, using a demonstration of SaskPower’s Boundary Dam project in Canada – the world’s first commercial post-combustion capture-equipped coal-fired power plant combined with EOR – to illustrate the concepts, practices, and rules. This field study will be followed by a 2-day workshop in China in the first half of 2014. Based on these two activities, the project will identify near-term CCUS-EOR opportunities in China and other APEC economies, analyze project economics, discuss the requirements for policy/regulatory frameworks, identify opportunities for further capacity building and knowledge diffusion in CCUS-EOR, and suggest areas for future work. |
Objectives |
Organize Expert Workshops and Field Study
- Organize an expert workshop in China and a workshop/field study in Saskatchewan to disseminate up-to-date information on CCUS-EOR. This information is to be based on recent CCUS workshops organized by SaskPower, a CCUS research project that SaskPower completed with international industrial partners under the Asia-Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate, and knowledge gained from CCUS-focused forums by other key international organizations such as CSLF, GCCSI and the IEA.
- Illustrate the concepts of CCUS-EOR, using as a template (i) the world’s largest, CSLF-recognized, commercial-scale, post-combustion CO2 capture (PCC) project at SaskPower Boundary Dam, (ii) integrated with the use of the anthropogenic CO2 by the nearby commercial EOR operations, and (iii) the world’s best-studied storage project – the IEAGHG Weyburn-Midale CO2 Monitoring and Storage project.
Promote and Accelerate Knowledge Transfer
– Identify near-term CCUS-EOR demonstration opportunities in China and discuss project economics pertaining to commercial, coal-fired PCC power plants integrated with commercial EOR operations, as a viable model for CCUS demonstration and advancement.
– Share the experiences of integrating large-scale, full-flue gas post-combustion capture (PCC) with an retrofitted power plant and enhance the understanding of the critical aspects of the business case, project design, engineering, technology selection and procurement, risk management, and safety and monitoring measures.
– Identify a potential framework or approach to access existing knowledge assets accumulated by industry from large-scale CCUS demonstration projects, to benefit future CCUS projects in the APEC region.
Build Connections and Enabling Frameworks
– Work/connect with government and industry to create policy and regulatory frameworks and incentives to enable industry to move forward with CCUS, including rules/tools for safety, monitoring, and best practice.
– Build connections between the electric power and hydrocarbon producing industries, government and academic institutions to promote knowledge sharing and enable personnel exchange, and to catalyze cross-sector collaboration between the Asian and North American continents.
– Provide advice and input to the APEC Expert Group on Clean Fossil Energy that will form the basis for a multi-year work plan to support CCUS-EOR in China and other developing APEC economies. |
Alignment |
This project will assist in funding capacity-building activities with special emphasis on developing APEC economies. It falls within the APEC Funding Criteria for all Projects (2011), under the heading: “Projects that directly support the Action Plan in the APEC Leaders' Growth Strategy,” within the area “Development and implementation of the APEC Green Growth Plan,” including work on “Low-carbon and energy-efficient technologies” and on “Climate change mitigation and adaptation.”
The Final Declaration of the tenth Meeting of APEC Energy Ministers (EMM10), held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in June 2012, instructed the EWG “to continue its analysis of technologies for carbon capture, use, and storage and its dissemination of best practices for applying these technologies to new and existing power plants and industrial processes using fossil fuel energy, working with the EGCFE and other multilateral fora.”
The communiqué of the fourth Ministerial Meeting of the CSLF, held in Beijing on 19-23 September 2011, stated that “CCUS is a necessary technology essential to enabling us to achieve our climate goals and which has been proven safe and effective in all current demonstration projects and applications around the world. We must urgently increase the number of large CCUS demonstrations to enable the deployment of CCUS commercially by the end of this decade.” The Ministers tasked the CSLF, which includes many APEC economies “to undertake CCUS development initiatives in sectors such as power generation, industry and enhanced oil and gas recovery.”
The EWG has singled out cost-effective options for CCS as a key medium-term goal in its work plan for 2010-2015. This proposed project and a parallel CCUS feasibility study (EWG 24/2011), scheduled for completion in September 2013, will pave the way for identifying CCUS-EOR opportunities in APEC economies and for establishing policy support and regulatory frameworks that will help accelerate the uptake of CCUS. |
TILF/ASF Justification |
There is a clear need for capacity building in the area of CCUS in developing APEC economies, and it is essential to provide their government and industry representatives with the latest information on this technology.
The almost-completed, commercial-scale post-combustion CO2 capture plant at SaskPower’s Boundary Dam in Canada and its integration with the nearby commercial CO2-EOR operations stand as a world’s first, cutting-edge CCUS model that could be replicated in China and several other developing APEC economies. SaskPower’s CO2-EOR is due to start operation in 2014. This APEC project aims to discuss and share with these developing economies the knowledge gained from SaskPower’s experiences and thus promote CCUS capacity building in those economies.
China understands the need for CCS and has introduced CCS development in its latest 5-year plan. It also has significant CO2-EOR potential. For these reasons, the focus of this project is on China, but other APEC economies with CCUS-EOR potential, such as Mexico, Viet Nam, Indonesia and Malaysia, will be invited as well to participate in the workshops / field study.
The project will also closely collaborate with other international agencies active in CCUS, such as the CSLF, the Global CCS Institute and the IEA. |
Beneficiaries and Outputs |
A broad spectrum of participants will be invited, including:
· Key government officials involved in making decisions on greenhouse gas mitigation policy, energy policy (including fossil fuel energy), CCS, oil and gas exploration and production, and relevant environmental and regulatory matters.
· Institutes and academia involved in technical, economic and policy analyses of CCUS.
· Industry sector representatives of the power generation and petroleum industries.
· Representatives from international policy and research organizations active in CCUS.
The intended beneficiaries are:
· Policy level officials of agencies responsible for fossil fuel power generation, oil and gas exploration and production, pipeline transportation, environmental protection, energy sector legal and regulatory issues, and other aspects of CCUS in developing APEC economies.
· Power generating sector decision-makers.
· Power engineering and technology supply sectors.
· Oil and natural gas production sector companies.
· Other international fora active in this topic area (e.g., Global CCS Institute, CSLF, and IEA/OECD).
· The general public, and potentially future generations.
EWG and EGCFE delegates will be invited to identify key contact persons in their economies, some of whom might participate in or make presentations at the expert workshop. These could include representatives of government and/or relevant industry. The project includes funding for travel and per diem for speakers and active participants from developing APEC economies.
The beneficiaries will benefit in a number of ways:
· Energy policy makers and power generation decision makers in economies anticipating rapid expansion of the use of coal for power generation will benefit from information and data on CCUS technical, economic and regulatory issues.
· The relevant government agencies in developing APEC economies will benefit from capacity building through improved knowledge and access to this information.
· Governments will be better equipped to make informed judgments on carbon capture and storage policymaking where coal-fired power generating plants are concerned.
· Fossil power generation sector companies will benefit by access to opportunities for near-term implementation of CCS with more favorable economics through reuse of the captured CO2, and potential competitive advantage in the event of more general requirements for CCS implementation in their economies.
· The power engineering and technology supply sectors will be better placed to identify opportunities in this topic in developing APEC economies.
· Oil and gas production companies will benefit from access to new potentially large sources of CO2 for enhanced recovery from existing hydrocarbon deposits.
· The public stands to benefit through slower growth in greenhouse gas emissions globally, in the event that it should become necessary in the future to capture and sequester CO2 from coal-fired power plants in developing APEC economies.
· Future generations may benefit substantially from increased sustainability due to the beneficial effects on global climate of considerably reduced accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere as a result of earlier and more widespread implementation of CCS and CCUS.
The project may also help to advance deployment of clean coal technologies by favoring selection of coal-fired power generating technologies that result in a purer and more concentrated CO2 gas stream, such as integrated gasification combined cycle and oxy-fuel combustion.
Depending on the future course of global climate mitigation decision-making, the project has a potential to lead to future inward investment in projects in the power generation sector in developing APEC economies. |
Dissemination |
The report will be posted on the APEC, EGCFE, and EWG websites for viewing and downloading. The results of the project will be shared with the CSLF, the Global CCS Institute, the IEA/OECD and other international fora active in this area. The workshop results will be integrated with those of the project EWG 24/11 and presented at an APEC-EGCFE Clean Fossil Energy Seminar and/or other relevant fossil fuel industry conferences in the region, following the project completion.
The project results are targeted mainly at the potential beneficiaries identified in Section 11 above.
There is no intention to sell outputs arising from this project. |
Gender |
The EGCFE always encourages participation of women from all APEC members in all its committees, projects, and activities. Women have served in the past as the principal investigators/lead authors of several EGCFE projects. Participation by women in the project steering committee will be encouraged, and the committee will encourage women to participate actively in the workshops.
The project steering committee will stress the need to involve women in both planning and implementation stages. The EGCFE members involved will ensure that the consulting team adheres to the priorities of the Framework for the Integration of Women in APEC (“Accelerate the progress of integrating women in the mainstream of APEC processes and activities” and “Promote and encourage the involvement of women in all APEC fora”). The APEC Framework, as well as the Gender Analysis Guide and other relevant documents, will be made available to those involved in all aspects of the project; their application will be monitored throughout the project.
The degree of women involvement, in terms of responsibility and numbers, can be evaluated objectively at the conclusion of the project. Of particular interest in this regard will be the number and qualifications of women experts in the workshops and the consequences of their input for the project results and conclusions, both as far as gender is concerned and in general. |
Work Plan |
The project will be conducted by a consultant with up-to-date knowledge and expertise in the field of CCUS-EOR, based on experience with integrating large-scaled coal-fired PCC with existing, retrofitted power plants and the use of the anthropogenic CO2 for EOR operations, as well as experience in organizing workshops jointly with international industrial partners. The consultant will be responsible for organizing the workshops and providing their proceedings and summary records. He/she will be made aware of the potential risks and work the EGCFE to avoid or minimize them. The consultant will also be informed that as APEC owns the copyrights of the project's outputs, all outputs (documents, multimedia, proceedings and reports) generated need to comply with the APEC publishing, logo and copyright guidelines before any payment is made. Basic 'Final Report' guidelines are found in the APEC Publications Guidelines. Workshop proceedings should be uploaded to the APEC Publications Database website as the primary source.
Many of the ideas embedded in this proposal, especially the focus on sharing real-world experiences related to retrofitting existing power plants with commercial-scale capture facilities and using the CO2 for EOR, came from SaskPower. They are strongly committed to these workshops, are committing self-funding of $100,000 to the project, and will be organizing a first workshop in China on their own in late August (see below). By eliminating the time needed to issue an RFP and selecting SaskPower as the consultant on a sole-source basis, this would provide for a quicker start of the project and leave more time available to organize the workshops. Therefore, a waiver is requested with regard to competitive selection of the consultant for the present project.
The timeline of actions will be the following:
· August 2013: SaskPower is independently organizing and funding a CCUS workshop in China in late August (related to but not part of this project).
· September 2013: SaskPower proposes its consulting team for consideration and approval by the APEC project steering committee composed of the project overseer and selected EGCFE experts. The consulting team upon approval commences work on organization of the APEC workshops.
· September - October 2013: Consultant submits an organizational plan for consideration by the project steering committee, consisting of proposed workshop and field study programs, proposed names of expert speakers from the public and private sector, a proposed a timetable for the workshops and other program activities.
· October - November 2013: Selection of experts who will present at the workshops/field study.
· January - May 2014: 4APEC -day APEC CCUS workshop/field study to be organized and held in Saskatchewan, Canada.
· June - September 2014: CCUS workshop to be organized and held in Beijing, China.
· November 2014: Final report summarizing the workshops, including presentations, briefing papers and other relevant information, prepared and submitted to APEC for publication. The report will contain recommendations for follow-on APEC work on CCUS, formulated with input from the workshop participants.
A broad spectrum of participants will be invited to the workshops, including:
· Key government officials involved in making decisions on greenhouse gas mitigation policy (including CCUS), energy policy (including fossil fuel energy), and relevant regulatory matters.
· Institutes and academia involved in technical, economic and policy analyses of CCUS.
· Industry sector representatives of the power generation and petroleum industries.
· Representatives from international policy and research organizations active in CCUS.
The speakers will represent a broad range of government and industry sectors, large-scale CCS/CCUS-EOR demonstration projects, those developing industry standards and regulations, and international organizations involved in CCUS. They will be engaged via the consultant.
Industry will potentially be an important leader in CCUS development. In order to achieve the objectives of CCUS knowledge transfer to developing APEC economies, it is, therefore, critical for industry to play a key role in the workshops/field study. Coordination with related activities by APEC, CSLF and the Global CCS Institute will be ensured be inviting them to participate in the workshops.
The workshop/field study will focus on sharing experiences with and enhancing the understanding of integrating large-scale, full-flue gas PCCs with retrofitted power plants and integrating CCS with the use of CO2 by the petroleum industry for their EOR operations. The workshops will further aim to identify potential demonstration project opportunities, build connections between government and industries as well as connections between power and petroleum industries, and identify potential frameworks or approaches to access and share existing knowledge assets accumulated by industry from large-scale CCUS demonstration projects |
Risks |
Risks faced by the Project may include:
· Agreement on the composition of the most appropriate consultant team and its relationship to the APEC project steering committee.
· Lack of working relationships between power and oil & gas sectors in many economies owing to historical separation of sectors.
· Ability to obtain workshop speakers who have timely information on CCUS-EOR during a period of rapidly evolving activity in the field.
· Alignment with the initial CCUS project EWG24/2011, and consistency of the output from the workshops with the conclusions of the initial project.
· Timely project completion and publication of the results.
· Appropriate follow-up on the usefulness of the project end-products.
As the project progresses, additional risks may emerge requiring mitigation and management.
The project steering committee and the consultant selected to carry out the project will be aware of the potential risks, as well as others that may be identified in the process, and will work together to avoid or minimize them. Appropriate follow-up will be discussed in the EGCFE and in its periodic Clean Fossil Energy Technical and Policy Seminars. |
Monitoring and Evaluation |
Feedback from government and private sector participants at the workshops will be an indicator of success in the short term in laying the groundwork for the next steps in CCUS-EOR in APEC. This will be sought using a survey document provided to meeting participants.
The medium-term measure of success will be use of the workshop results, in conjunction with those of the initial EWG24/2011 project, as a basis for accelerating development of the CCUS in APEC developing economies, and for additional APEC projects in this area. This can be assessed by evaluating the progress and shape of the next phase of the EWG program on CCUS in the light of the recommendations emanating from the workshops and the EWG24/2011 project final report.
The longer-term measure of success will be utilization of the results by developing APEC economies in supporting their decision-making regarding future implementation of possible CCUS projects applied to new coal-fired power generation projects in their economies. |
Linkages |
The proposal builds on the work in progress on the project EWG 24/2011 and helps in the transition to the next phase by providing timely expert feedback on the report and input to the future work. It will also benefit from work presently in progress on CCUS elsewhere, and active coordination with external activities will help to avoid duplication.
The project will also benefit from related activities in other international fora that have active ongoing discussions on this topic (e.g., OECD/IEA). Active coordination with external activities will help to avoid duplication, and representatives of these fora may be invited to report to the workshops on relevant work in their organizations. The proposal builds on the CCUS work undertaken by the Global CCS Institute and more specifically, on the experiences gained from the SaskPower Boundary Dam CCUS-EOR demonstration project in Canada, but it will also draw from previous collaborative capacity building activities and joint CCUS studies with leading Chinese power and petroleum enterprises under the Asia-Pacific Partnership Program. Key lessons from these experiences will help identify the needs to engage governments and build capacity in regulatory policy.
The APEC region, especially developing APEC economies, has the highest projected growth for new electricity generation, and is projected to rely heavily on coal for much of this new generating capacity. Owing to this rapid growth in coal-fired generation, CCS projects are likely to be implemented in these economies in the future.
As noted in Section 4 above, there is a clear need for capacity building in this area in APEC developing economies, and to bring their government and industry representatives into the international discussion.
This is especially the case for Southeast Asian economies, which have both rapidly increasing CO2 emissions and potentially significant CO2 utilization opportunities.
APEC Energy Ministers in their Declaration of the EMM9 meeting in June 2010 instructed the EWG “to extend and reinforce its analysis of technology options for CCS and its dissemination of best practices for applying these technologies to new and existing power plants, working with the EGCFE and other multilateral fora.” The Final Declaration of the tenth Meeting of APEC Energy Ministers (EMM10), held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in June 2012, reinforced this by instructing the EWG “to continue its analysis of technologies for carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS) and its dissemination of best practices for applying these technologies to new and existing power plants and industrial processes using fossil fuel energy, working with the EGCFE and other multilateral fora.”
This was a clear message to the EWG and EGCFE to proceed with relevant CCS and CCUS projects.
Steps towards improving the economic feasibility of carbon capture and storage technologies via application to enhanced oil recovery will advance the possibility of practical implementation of these technologies as a viable response to greenhouse gas mitigation.
An ongoing EGCFE project series on CCS capacity building has developed a comprehensive set of CCS training modules. These have been used in capacity-building workshops in a number of APEC developing economies. The workshops, involving senior cadres of government, industry and academia, include a review of the basic principles of CCS, an examination of CCS projects and technologies currently being developed in APEC economies and elsewhere in the world, and a discussion by local and international CCS experts of the potential for uptake of these technologies in the workshop’s regional economy.
The results of the present proposed CCUS project will be integrated into the body of knowledge developed in the CCS capacity-building project and its workshops, and will be coordinated with the work on advanced clean coal technologies that the Energy Ministers have instructed the EWG to carry out. Taken together, these projects will provide ongoing value to developing APEC economies in their capacity-building efforts in the area of CCS and CCT.
In addition to building on the recent work done by the Global CCS Institute, the project will benefit from the results of previous and ongoing EGCFE projects on clean coal technologies, specifically those involving carbon capture and storage (“Planning and cost assessment guidelines for making new coal-fired power generation plants in developing APEC Economies CO2 capture ready” and “Permitting issues related to new coal-based power plants, including carbon capture and storage, in developing APEC economies”). It will also benefit from knowledge and experience gained in the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum and other international fora that have active ongoing discussions on this topic (e.g., OECD/IEA). CSLF participation in the workshops will ensure constructive input and avoidance of duplication. Representatives of these fora may be invited to participate in the work of the project steering committee.
For these reasons, APEC is an appropriate forum to undertake this project and this is a very appropriate use of APEC funds. |
Sustainability |
The project’s long-term intended impacts are to put developing APEC economies with rapidly growing use of coal for electricity generation in a position to apply CCS and CCUS as effectively and economically as possible, and to build professional capabilities and capacity for achieving this. Long-term sustainability, which the implementation of CCS would likely be able to accomplish, is a key objective of the EWG forum. The results of the project are likely to identify more detailed work needed on specific aspects of CCS/CCUS in developing APEC economies, which could be the object of future APEC projects. An example of such might be a ranking of point source CO2 emissions and CO2-EOR opportunities (as recommended in Global CCS Institute report) for developing APEC economies.
The results of the present proposed CCUS project will also be integrated into the body of knowledge developed in the CCS capacity-building project and its workshops described in Section 8 above, and will be included in the training modules developed for further activities in that capacity-building exercise.
The EGCFE work on CCS also dovetails with its ongoing activities on more efficient clean coal technologies. The EWG and EGCFE are initiating development of an action plan for responding to the APEC Energy Ministers Fukui meeting Declaration, in the form of a Fukui CCT Deployment Initiative. This initiative aims to clarify the current status of a variety of clean and efficient coal utilization technologies, developed or under development, and the technical, economic and political challenges facing their deployment. The results of this CCUS project and its follow-up will be integrated into the framework of this Fukui initiative, which will enable their impact to be monitored over the long term. |
Project Overseers |
The main point of contact will be Scott M. Smouse of the United States Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory, who is the EGCFE Chair.
Mr. Smouse has 30 years experience in nearly every aspect of fossil energy utilization and power generation, especially coal-based technologies. Since 1996, he has coordinated all of NETL’s international activities, including working with senior Department and other U.S. government officials on a wide variety of bilateral and multilateral initiatives and projects. He has worked with senior government officials, industry, and academia from over 30 countries on a wide range of cooperative research, development, and demonstration projects; technology and market assessments; technology transfer; and policy analyses, primarily related to fossil energy production and utilization. He has chaired the APEC’s Expert Group on Clean Fossil Energy for about 10 years and has served as the Lead Coordinator on Annex IV: Energy & Environmental Control Technologies under the Fossil Energy Cooperation Protocol between U.S. DOE and China’s Ministry of Science & Technology (MOST) since 2001. Also, he served a technical expert and U.S. representative on the Power Generation and Transmission and Cleaner Fossil Energy Task Forces of the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate. He is a member of the U.S. Executive Committee to the International Energy Agency’s Clean Coal Centre and the Executive Board of the U.S.-China Energy & Environmental Technology Center. Mr. Smouse also provides crosscutting support to Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF), especially the Capacity Building and Finance Task Forces. He was the lead author of the international sections of the 2010 report by the Carbon Capture & Storage Task Force to U.S. President Obama. He coordinates NETL’s interaction with other organizations with international objectives, including United States Energy Association, World Energy Council, Atlantic Council, Edison Electric Institute, and multilateral development banks. He holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Fairmont State College and a M.S. in Fuel Science (Combustion) from Penn State University. He previously held several positions in the U.S. private sector, with Pope, Evans & Robbins, Inc.; DUSCO Division of Dearborn Chemical Company, a W.R. Grace Subsidiary; and Babcock & Wilcox Company. |
Cost Efficiency |
This workshop project is designed to enable developing APEC economies to benefit from the amount of international effort and funding that has been devoted to date to CCUS projects in developed economies, for example by the Global CCS Institute. By distilling and adapting the available body of information to the needs of developing APEC economies, the project will, at a modest cost, identify issues particularly relevant to the implementation of CCUS technologies in future coal-fired power plant projects in these economies, including the essential elements of a permitting process for such projects. This will contribute very usefully to cost-effective capacity-building activities in this area.
Consequently the proposed project, drawing from existing knowledge and experience in other international organizations and developed economies, is expected to be a cost-efficient use of resources, yielding very substantial savings and providing high value for the funds requested. |
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Direct Labour |
Direct labor funded by APEC will consist of the consultant and consultant’s secretary. Total estimated hours are shown in the above table. The self-contribution of $100,000 by SaskPower is shown in the Self Funding column. |
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