Venue: Radisson Blu Hotel Lietuva, Vilnius

Conference Chair: Mayur Pal, KTU, Lithuania 

Secretary:  Viltė Karaliūtė, KTU, Lithuania 

Advisory group :  NGCCUS

Steering group : BASRECCS Board

Summary

The aim of the BCF-2024 project is to prepare, arrange and report the BASRECCS regional conference “BCF Baltic Carbon Forum 2024” which will be held in October. The BCF is part of BASRECCS’ long-term strategy to foster full-scale development of the climate change mitigation technologies carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) in the Baltic Sea Region. The aim is to enable interested and engaged stakeholders to meet, discuss, share knowledge and experiences, and develop projects. The BCF will invite network members and other relevant experts, stakeholders and interested persons to be a speakers of BCF 2024.

Day 1: October 3rd (Draft  Agenda)

8:00am-9:00am: Conference Registration

9:00am-9:30am: Guests/Keynote address:

  • Keynote Speaker 1: Inga Žilienė (Vice-Minister of Energy of Lithuania)

9:30am-11:00am: Session 1: Status of CCUS in Nordic and Baltic Regions

– Moderator: Mayur Pal

  • Agnieszka Baran (ORLEN, Poland)
  • Victoria Fondenær and Asle Solheim (Lime Petroleum AS, Norway)
  • Roberts Misurovs (SCHWENK Latvija SIA)

11:00am-11:30am: Coffee break

11:30am-12:30pm: Session 2: Carbon Capture Storage in Industrial Sector

– Moderator: Alla Shogenov

  • Eglė Jankauskienė (AB Akmenės Cementas, Lithuania)
  • Ignas Vaičeliūnas (UAB Minijos Nafta, Lithuania)
  • Mette Lind Fürstnow (INEOS Energy, Denmark)

12:30pm-1:30pm: Lunch Break

1:30pm-3:00pm: Session 3: Regulatory Framework and Public Perception

– Moderator: Roman Berenblyum

  • Lena Østgaard (Legal Adviser, Norway)
  • Fabian Liss (Bellona, Germany)
  • Ehsan Marzban (Researcher, Finland)
  • Lena Yotis (Swedish Geological Survey, Sweden)

3:00pm-4:00pm: Coffee Break and Poster session

4:00pm-5:30pm: Session 4: Panel Discussion

– Moderator: Janis Volberts

– Panelists:

  • Andrius Šostakas (Amber Grid, Lithuania)
  • Pijus Andrejauskas (Achema Group, Lithuania)
  • Nerijus Virbickas (Green Genius, Lithuania)
  • Kazbulat Shogenov (SHOG Energy, Estonia)
  • Roman Berenblyum (NORCE, Norway)
  • Ole Rom Andersen (Greenport Scandinavia (GPS) CC(U)S team)

 

7:30 – 9:30pm: Conference Dinner

Day 2: October 4th (Draft Agenda)

9:00am – 09:30am: Guests/Keynote address:

  • Keynote Speaker 1: Žilvinas Danys (Adviser to Ministry of Energy of Lithuania) – National energy policies and CCUS

9:30am – 11:00am: Session 5: Recent Advances in CCS and Parallel Poster Sessions

– Moderator:  Monika Konieczyńska

  • Andreas Busch (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
  • Auli Niemi (Uppsala University, Sweden)
  • Adam Wójcicki (PGI-NRI, Poland)
  • Brijesh K. Yadav (IIT Roorkee, India)

11:00am -11:30am: Coffee Break

11:30am – 1:00Pm: Session 6: Commercialization Models for CCS

– Moderator: Janis Volberts

  • Carlo Maccherini (Global CCS Institute, Belgium)
  • Harri Laurikka (Bioenergy Association of Finland, Finland)
  • Adam Bott (SLB, Romania)
  • Justinas Jazbutis (KN Lithuania)

1:00pm- 2:00pm: Closing ceremony and Lunch Break