BCF-2024 (Baltic Carbon Forum 2024)
[3-4.10.2024]

Dr. Alla Shogenova and Dr. Kazbulat Shogenov participated at the annual Baltic Carbon Forum in Vilnius (🇱🇹Lithuania) representing TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology, TalTech Geoloogia Instituut and SHOGenergy.

At the conference, many key speakers within CO2 Capture, Transport, Use and Geological Storage technology (CCUS) in the Baltic Sea region were presented (but not only):

🇱🇹Ministry of Energy The Republic of Lithuania
🇵🇱ORLEN Poland
🇱🇻SCHWENK Latvija Cementas SIA,
🇱🇹Akmenes Cemendas
🇱🇹UAB Minjos Nafta
🇳🇴IOM Law, Norway
🇩🇪Bellona , Deutschland
🇸🇪 Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU), Sweden
🇱🇹Achema Group, Lithuania
🇸🇪Uppsala University, Sweden
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Heriot-Watt University
🇵🇱PGI-NRI, Polish National Geological Institute
🌎Global CCS Institute
🇳🇴NORCE Energy, Norway
🌎Schlumberger
🇫🇮Bioenergy Association of Finland
🇪🇪TalTech – Tallinna Tehnikaülikool, Estonia
🇪🇪SHOGenergy, Estonia

Dr. Alla Shogenova was presented as the session chair.

Dr. Kazbulat Shogenov made an oral presentation of the Baltic scenario modelled in the CTS project by the SHOGenergy team: “Direct injection of CO2 from ships in the Baltic Sea”.
After the presentation, Dr. Shogenov participated in the panel session as a panelist with other regional experts and stakeholders.
He mentioned that after his 18 years of journey to the geology of the Baltic countries and experience in CCUS, including his PhD related to deep CCS study of Latvian geological structures, he can’t understand why Latvian and Lithuanian governments still did not allow CO2 storage in their underground. All dozens of available deep geological structures with the capacity for CO2 storage for millions and millions of tons are treasures that can accumulate billions of € for the country and make a significant input to climate change mitigation.

Also, he mentioned, that humanity must learn from the previous positive and negative experiences in the CCUS:
-Soft actions of the EC and national governments after the Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement, and Helsinki Convention
-Successful and safe realization of the first CCS project Sleipner in the North Sea over 28 years
-Successful decarbonization driving mechanism implemented in Norway for more than 30 years-Carbon taxing system
-Ban of CO2 geological storage and use in Lithuania, etc.
After this, he turned to the Latvian government to avoid being listed in the negative “lessons learned” examples in the educational courses “Carbon neutral geo-technologies” developed by SHOGenergy. But try to be a positive example for all of Europe, like Denmark.

Minjos-Nafta the largest Lithuanian oil company with 8 licenses for oil production in Lithuania and our partners presented their experience in CO2-EOR in Lithuania. This is a unique experience in the Baltic region.

After the presentations of Vice-Minister (Inga Žilienė) and lawyer (Žilvinas Danys) of the Ministry of Energy of The Republic of Lithuania, Kazbulat asked to review the ban on CO2 use for CO2-EOR and CCS. After mentioning by the ministry that they are going to organize the CCUS platform to plan a new decarbonization strategy for Lithuania, Kazbulat offered to include Baltic Carbon Forum members (including the main Baltic region geological, CCUS technology and regulatory experts and stakeholders, including ShogEnergy team and TalTech).

Following the presentation of our friend and colleague Agnieszka Baran (Director of the CCS Programme Office) from the Polish ORLEN Capital Group about their CCUS initiatives in Poland and the need to educate the population in the field of CCUS, Dr Shogenov mentioned that SHOGenergy is ready to cooperate with Orlen to shear experience in CCUS education. Agnieszka expressed her readiness to collaborate.

It was a perfectly organized conference.
We congrats the main organizer of the Baltic Carbon Forum 2024 Myur Pal (professor of the Kaunas University of Technology KTU) and his team!

See you soon at our next scientific meetings!

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