CO2 Conference 2023 | CO2 Conference | 4 December 2023 | TBA, Midland Texas, USA

We have had our 28 years of history dedicated to taking on the many practical challenges of CO2 flooding and now with the coming and similar challenges of carbon capture and storage. We like to think of ourselves as a boutique conference providing the best forum for highlighting the best practices our industry utilizes in all CO2 applications – from the surface facilities to the wellbores to the subsurface and reservoir issues. We don’t host exhibitors; we emphasize plenary technical and business sessions. The agenda gets more technical content as the week continues.
Many industries recognize the Permian Basin as the world leader in those field-based technologies and the tools and practices used. Our annual CO2 field trip is also an option for the attendees that have never visited a CO2 injection site. Another value is in-person attendance the conference offers as a unique networking opportunity with a group of folks versed in all matters of CO2. To reach that networking goal, we will again be a personal attendance conference this year. Midland Texas’ George and Barbara Bush Convention Center downtown will be providing that physical networking option. We also appreciate that our loyal international audience will likely be present virtually. The growing U.S. and worldwide interest in carbon capture and storage will attract a large audience to our themes we are planning this year.

This year we will be addressing the subject of CO2 storage in a larger way. We are an event that realizes our hydrocarbon industries are essential but the need to continue to better minimize its environmental footprint. Many challenges remain, but the area we have chosen to emphasize is reducing CO2 emissions. We can help do that by illustrating the value of CO2 EOR by permanently storing CO2 while producing low-carbon oil or, with the help of low cost anthropogenic CO2, even carbon-negative oil. If the Conference can help industrial plants capture vented CO2, compress it and pipeline it to the world’s oil fields and suitable deep saline formations, we have a unique role in the making of significant environmental changes. We are the experts in relation to the risk profiles of waste CO2 injection, where little is known about the formations. This has become more important today as the pressures to reduce CO2 emissions have done nothing but grow since we started our annual EOR Carbon Management Workshop in 2003. Finally, we will be choosing to pick out one-to-three promising field deployed tools and methods that we can highlight this year to help with the continuing CO2 challenges ahead.

We are getting very close to final with the agenda planning for the Conference week including the interrelated subjects of CO2 EOR, CCUS/Carbon Management, CO2 reservoir cyclic injection, and residual oil zone (ROZ) exploitation. The hard line between CCUS and EOR is blurring and will be a strong feature again this year as we build the agenda in our first two days of the Conference.