Venue: RADISSON COLLECTION HOTEL WARSAW ul. Grzybowska 24, Warsaw, PL 00-132, Poland
Conference Chair: Mayur Pal, KTU, Lithuania
Secretary: Anna Horbenko, KTU, Lithuania
Advisory group : NGCCUS
Steering group : BASRECCS Board
Summary
The aim of the BCF-2026 project is to prepare, arrange and report the BASRECCS regional conference “BCF Baltic Carbon Forum 2026” 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 2026.
DAY 1
Thursday, 8 October 2026
Policy, Industrial Decarbonization and CCS Deployment
08:00–09:00 | Registration and Welcome Coffee |
09:00–09:30 | Opening Ceremony Welcome by Prof. Mayur Pal • Opening Address • Conference Photograph |
09:30–10:00 | Opening Keynote Prof. Krzysztof Galos Ministry of Climate and Environment, Poland Critical Minerals, Energy Security and Carbon Management in Poland |
10:00–10:30 | Industry Keynote Radoslaw Gnutek Holcim Polska, Poland An Industry Poland Cannot Afford to Lose |
10:30–11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00–12:00 | Session 1 • Industrial Decarbonization in Practice Chair: Alla Shogenova |
Talk 1 11:00-11:20 | Daiva Tusiene Akmenės Cementas, Lithuania Building a Sustainable Tomorrow: Decarbonization at Akmenės Cementas |
Talk 2 11:20-11 :40 | Agnieszka Baran ORLEN S.A., Poland Baltic’s Potential: Offshore CO₂ Sequestration as the Foundations for a Regional CO₂ Storage |
Talk 3 11:40-12:00 | Ole Johan Østvedt Nemo Maritime, Norway Ships with direct offshore injection -the most cost-effective and flexible solution for CO₂ transportation and storage. |
12:00–13:00 | Session 2A • Legal and Regulatory Challenges Chair: Michal Wendolowski |
Talk 1 12:00-12:20 | Henrik von Zweigbergk Lawyer, Geological Survey Sweden Legal obstacles for carbon storage in the Baltic Sea with focus on the Helsinki Convention |
Talk 2 12:20-12:40 | Maren Sundve Associate lawyer, IOM Law Legal and regulatory framework for CCS — an overview |
Talk 3 12:40-13:00 | Viktor Weber University of Copenhagen, Denmark Current Legal and Regulatory Issues in Offshore Carbon Dioxide Storage |
Talk 4 13:00-13:20 | Paweł Gładysz The CCUS Poland Association Overview of key legal and environmental considerations for CCS projects in the Baltic Sea |
13:20–14:00 | Lunch |
14:00–15:00 | Session 2B • Public Perception Challenges Chair: Monika Konieczyńska |
Talk 1 14:00-14:20 | Janis Volberts & Krzysztof Fal Bellona Europa, Latvia & WiseEuropa, Poland Public Perception of Carbon Management: The Case of Poland and Latvia |
Talk 2 14:20-14:40 | Friso Veenstra TNO-Geological Survey of the Netherlands Public perception and societal embeddedness of CCS |
14:40–16:00 | Session 3 • Industrial Deployment of CCS in Nordics and Baltics Chair: Bruno Gerrits |
Talk 1 14:40-15:00 | Carlo Maccherini Global CCS Institute, Belgium Status of CCUS in Poland |
Talk 2 15:00-15:20 | Sofie Lindström Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU) Geological Storage of CO2 in Sweden |
Talk 3 15:20-15:40 | Renata Cicha-Szot NiG-PIB, Poland Turning Mining Challenges into Low-Carbon Opportunities: Lessons from the REM and METH2GEN Project |
Talk 4 15:40-16:00 | Carl Emil Meier Bellona Europa, Belgium CCS: Public Funding Mechanisms in the Nordic EU Member States |
16:00–16:30 | Coffee Break |
16:30–19:00 | Session 4 • Engineering, Digital Innovation and CCS Technologies Chair: Parsa Alimohammadiardakani |
Talk 1 16:30-16:50 | Varun Pathak CMG, UK Balancing Scale, Physics, and Integration: High-Efficiency CO2 Reservoir Modeling for Reliable Plume Forecasting |
Talk 2 16:50-17:10 | Gianluca Di Federico Baker Hughes, Germany Integrating CCUS Technologies Across the Value Chain |
Talk 3 17:10-17:30 | Eugene Holubnyak University of Wyoming, USA Lessons from the Field: A Case-Study Roadmap for CCS Investment, Monitoring and Industry Sustainability |
Poster Session | Apoorv Verma Researcher, Urja GeoEnergy Pvt. Ltd Investigation of underground hydrogen storage using a sandbox experiment at macro scale: flow behavior and geochemical effects Yuvraj Singh Panwar & Shruti Malik Managing Director, Urja GeoEnergy Pvt. Ltd & Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Hydrogen–Brine Displacement in Microfluidic Porous Media for Underground Hydrogen Storage Arsenij Fiodorov & Eduardo Luna-Ortiz CCS Consultant & Advisor & Second life for pressure-constrained CO2 pipelines |
19:00–21:00 | Conference Networking Reception |
DAY 2
Friday, 9 October 2026
Geological Storage, Hydrogen and Future Energy Systems
09:00–09:30 | Morning Keynote Alla Shogenova Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Synergy of CCUS with Hydrogen Production and Storage Technologies |
09:30–10:10 | Session 5 • Hydrogen and Future Carbon Management Chair: Parsa Alimohammadiardakani |
Talk 1 9:30-9:50 | Aliaksei Patonia (Online) Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, UK Beyond the Hydrogen Hype: Where Hydrogen Works – and Where CCS Matters |
Talk 2 9:50-10:10 | Sakura Nishioka Deputy Chief Regional Officer for Europe Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC) Japan’s Perspective on CCS and Hydrogen Deployment |
10:10–10:40 | Coffee Break |
10:40–11:00 | Session 6 • Geological Storage Characterization and Site Development Chair: Monika Konieczyńska |
Talk 1 10:40-11:00 | Adam Wójcicki Polish Geological Institute, Poland The CO2 Storage Potential in Poland and How it could be Utilized |
Talk 2 11:00-11:20 | Mirosław Wojnicki Oil and Gas Institute, Poland COREu: The Baltic CCS Route – Connecting Polish Industry to Offshore CO₂ Storage. |
Talk 3 11:20-11:40 | Gabriela von Goerne BGR, Germany CCS developments in Germany |
12:30–13:30 | Closing Panel • Building the Baltic Carbon Management Ecosystem Moderator: Bruno Gerrits Panelists: · Carlo Maccherini · Gabriela von Goerne · Parsa Alimohammadiardakani · Krists Merten · Kartik Sharma |
13:30–13:45 | Closing Ceremony |
13:45 | Lunch and Departure |
