Dear Past Attendees and Friends,

The 26^th Annual CO₂ Conference, Dec. 8-10, is entering new territory. It will be first-of-a-kind for us to produce a hybrid, in-person/virtual, event. As we work through the details, we want to introduce our preliminary program plans and gauge your response.

The CO₂ Conference committee, encouraged by our loyal sponsors not to skip this year, has worked to adapt our conference to how our work lives have changed, while meeting our two steadfast conference objectives:

• Expose the field-tested case histories and best practices of the CO₂ world, and
• Facilitate interpersonal and intercompany networking designed to grow the industry.

The Conference committee believes we can accomplish the first objective in this COVID-19 era; however, our second objective is a challenge when considering the limited travel and interaction that we expect to exist in December.

Details are still being formulated, but it is clearly time to let you know what is under consideration so you can hold the date if you agree the conference still meets your informational needs.

Plans:  The Conference kicks off on Tuesday, Dec 8, from our home base at the Bush Center in Midland and with a networked-in complementary Houston facility at the University of Houston.  In addition, we are working to have another “node” in Calgary.

Each node will interconnect, alternating between speakers at different nodes and sprinkled with remote speakers video conferencing from their homes or offices.  All presentations and panels will live stream with a “to-be-selected” software platform.

Preliminary Program:  Tuesday we will explore Carbon Capture utilization and Storage (CCUS). As you are likely hearing, CCUS is a hot topic these days.  New projects are in planning, and legislation is under consideration in D.C. and various States – all intended to encourage CO₂ capture with some form of utilization. There is so much activity around this subject that presentations are planned all day Tuesday and part of Wednesday morning.

A slight variation to our virtual platform occurs on the afternoon of Wednesday (Dec 9) when we stick our necks out a bit to visit two or three field shops in the Midland/Odessa area.  We are selecting companies with advancing technology and equipment to see what they have, and to hear how their technology and equipment are being used in the field.  We will have to limit the actual bus and field facility participants, but we plan to live stream for those unable to personally attend. There will be more details on the bus tour within the next three months.

Thursday (Dec 10) is our CO₂ Flooding day.  As you recall, this is our most popular day, and with the agenda addition of EOR/CCUS project planning, we are expecting high interest again. We will address the status of the CO₂ supply market since so much has changed in that world in the past several years and, especially, this year.  Some international field projects are either underway or just about to be implemented. We hope to present those as well.  An India project talk and a China CO₂ EOR summary presentation are already scheduled.

Registration:  You can imagine that the committee’s efforts planning this year’s agenda are more intense than in past years. We are anticipate participants, not physically present at the Bush Center or Houston/Calgary nodes, wanting to pick and choose their preferred talks or panels. To accommodate, we are selling individual tickets by session; two in the a.m. and two in the p.m.  A ticket acquired in advance will be needed for conference log in.

As the agenda takes on a final look, we will activate the registration site, probably sometime in October.  But, if you want to sign up for an early-bird all-day ticket, the www.CO2Conference.net website will have the registration portal available in mid-September.

If the conditions dictating our new format change by mid October, we will default to our previous in-person conference format.  However, with early-bird tickets, you will be all set regardless of any changes that come.

Thank you, from all of us, for your past support of the Conference.  Rest assured we are working toward a Conference that will provide value to your work by keeping you current on EOR/CCUS, field applications and CO₂ flooding.  We would love to hear back from you to let us know if we are on the right track by filling out the contact form below.

Sincerly,

Steve Melzer

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