School of Energy Resources Featured Prominently at AAPG CCUS Conference in Houston

 

Members of the School of Energy Resources (SER) are presenting at the American Association of Petroleum Geologist’s (AAPG) Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) conference in Houston, Tex., April 25-27.

The annual conference is one of the largest forums for CCUS in the country. With over 1,300 professionals in attendance, the event highlights current CCUS work and addresses related challenges, including subsurface geologic storage and site selection; CO₂ enhanced hydrocarbon recovery and utilization; reservoir modeling, monitoring and risk assessment; case studies; industry applications; economics, incentives, and policy; infrastructure; environmental and social governance assessments and stakeholder engagement; machine learning and data analytics applications and more.

SER Executive Director Holly Krutka, along with researchers Tao Bai and Peng Li in the Center for Economic Geology Research (CEGR) are all participating in panel discussions to talk about the advancements SER has made in the area of carbon storage.

Krutka will be featured alongside other prominent women leaders in the industry in a conversation about women in energy leading the way into CCUS. The session will explore the inclusion, professional and personal development of women working across the spectrum of CCUS roles.

Both Bai and Li will be presenting their current work in the technical track of the program.

Bai holds a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from UW with expertise in software programming and geologic modeling. He will be presenting his work assessing the mechanical response of CO₂ storage into a stacked caprock-reservoir system.

A doctoral student in the Department of Geology and Geophysics, Li’s expertise and research interests include seismic reservoir modeling, petrophysics, and Bayesian inversion. Li will be presenting a new method for lithofacies distribution on the Wyoming CarbonSAFE project.

“This is such an important venue to highlight the exemplary work of these scientists,” says CEGR Director Fred McLaughlin. “The work that Tao and Peng have been doing on the Wyoming CarbonSAFE project will have widespread impacts on CCUS. This is such a wonderful opportunity to showcase their talents and also share our expertise with others to help advance the technology widely.”

Conference attendees are encouraged to attend the Wyoming presentations. SER is also hosting a booth and invites anyone attending the event to visit for more information on the groundbreaking research projects.