Washington, Key world energy ministers are expected to meet at the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum’s Fifth Ministerial Meeting in Washington,  to discuss the future of carbon capture and storage technologies.

This 5th Ministerial Meeting, coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the founding of the CSLF, will reaffirm that carbon capture and storage is a critically important low-carbon technology with application broader than just coal power generation, and will call upon CSLF Ministers to support more coordinated near-term global actions to further develop and deploy CCS.

The Ministerial Meeting provides an opportunity for decision-makers from industry and governments to discuss the key challenges facing CCS and to agree on a strategy and action plan for closer collaboration on the commercialization of CCS technology.

The meeting will be hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy and will feature a Stakeholders Forum with an international group of corporate executives, international energy organizations, and non-government organizations.  U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz is expected to attend and will be conferring with energy ministers from the other CSLF member countries.

Secretary Ernest Moniz will moderate a discussion by a group of senior corporate executives representing major CCS projects on “Re-energizing Global Momentum for CCS:  Lessons Learned from Large-Scale Projects  Actions to Move CCS Forward.” 

Projects represented at the Ministerial Meeting will include: Southern Company’s Kemper Project in the United States, SaskPower’s Boundary Dam Project in Canada, Shell Quest Project in Canada, and Peterhead Project in the United Kingdom, Uthmaniyah CO2-EOR Project in Saudi Arabia, Statoil’s Sleipner Project in Norway, and the European Technology Platform for Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants.

Four roundtables will highlight the Stakeholders Forum: Financial  Why some projects reach final investment decisions and some do not; Communications – Communicating the value of carbon capture and storage; Regulatory  Economic and environmental regulation of capture, transport and storage; Deployment – Demonstration projects in developing countries. 

The CSLF is a Ministerial-level international initiative focused on the development and deployment of cost-effective carbon capture, transport and long-term storage technologies. Established in 2003, the CSLF currently has 22 country members and the European Commission and has hundreds of stakeholders.

Since its inception, the CSLF has helped facilitate the development and deployment of improved cost-effective technologies for the separation and capture of carbon dioxide for its transport and long-term safe storage.