Agenda

Conference Day One: 15 September 2009

DAY ONE | DAY TWO

8:30 Registration & morning coffee

9:00 IIR welcome and opening remarks from the Chair

9:10 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Why is CCS Important?
Nick Otter, CEO, Global Carbon Capture & Storage Institute (invited)

9:40 Essential Steps Towards Successful Long Term Storage
Speaker to be confirmed, Schlumberger Carbon Services

10:10 CASE STUDY: Capture of Fugitive Gas Emissions at Xstrata Coal’s Operations
Mick Buffier, Group Executive Corporate Affairs, Government & Industry Relations, and Sustainable Development, Xstrata Coal

11:00 Morning Tea

11:30 Post-combustion Capture R&D and Pilot Plant Operations in Australia

• The role of post-combustion capture in reducing emissions from Australia’s existing coal fired power generation fleet.
• Techno-economic barriers to large scale deployment
• CSIRO’s R&D program in post-combustion capture
• Overview of pilot plant operations at Loy Yang, Munmorah, and Tarong Power Stations

James McGregor, Energy Systems Manager, CSIRO Division of Energy Technology

12:00 Progress with ZeroGen’s Development Program
Chris Greig, Project Director, ZeroGen

12:30 C02 Geosequestration in Coal
Dr Paul Massarotto, Principal Research Fellow, CBM & Geosequestration, University of Queensland

1:00 Lunch

2:10 Developments with Coal Gasification
Doug Kelly, Chief Operating Officer, ZEEP

2:40 Underground Coal Gasification: Progress to Full-Scale Commercialisation

• Australian and International Progress on UCG
• Process Pathways and Carbon Reduction Options
• Scale and Impact of Future Commercial Operations

Peter Sallans, Manager, Unconventional Energy, Mitchell Energy Group

3:10 Q & A Forum

3:20 Afternoon tea

3:40 Integrated Drying Gasification Combined Cycle
Alf Ottrey, Manager Business Development, HRL Developments Pty Ltd

4:10 Company and Technology Overview of Exergen’s Continuous Hydrothermal De-watering of Low Rank Coal
Gregory Kukla, General Manager & Slade Wormington, Principal Process Engineer, Exergen Pty Ltd

4:40 Title: Case Study: CO2CRC Mulgrave Project
Barry Hooper, Chief Technologist, C02CRC

5.10 Closing remarks from chair. Networking drinks & end of day one

Conference Day Two: 16 September 2009

DAY ONE | DAY TWO

8:30 Morning coffee

9:00 Opening remarks from the chair

9:10 Operational Case Study: Wombat Tight Gas Field

9:10 MORNING ADDRESS:
Tania Constable, Principal Advisor Resources & Energy Policy, Department of Resources and Energy

9:40 The Victorian Coal Story
Charlie Speirs, Director, Clean Coal Victoria, Department of Primary Industries, Victoria

10:20 Geological Carbon Storage Research in Victoria: Securing the Future use of Coal

• Overview of Victoria’s activities in Geological Carbon Storage, Gippsland Basin

Dr Geoffrey W. O’Brien, Manager Energy Geoscience, GeoScience Victoria

• Technical summary on new geoscience research in GCS across Victoria
• Assessments of the Otway and Bass Basins

Peter Tingate, Senior Geologist with the Energy Geoscience Group, GeoScience Victoria

11:00 Morning tea

11:30 CASE STUDY:Environmental Clean Technologies Limited
Kos Galtos, Chief Executive, Environmental Clean Technologies Limited

12:10 CASE STUDY: Delta Electricity – NSW Carbon Capture Projects

• An update on the operation of the Munmorah pilot carbon capture plant;
• The proposed NSW CCS Demonstration Project;
• Greg Everett, General Manager/Strategy, Delta Electricity

12:50 Lunch

1:50 CASE STUDY:Update on the Latrobe Urea Project
Allan Blood, Chairman, Australian Energy Company

2:30 Developments in Carbon Capture Storage on Victorian Brown Coal
Richard Elkington, Executive General Manager, People and Positioning, Loy Yang Power

3:10 Afternoon tea

3:30 New Directions for Coal in Western Australia
Coal in Western Australia has traditionally been mined in Collie with the majority of the product being supplied to a single state owned electricity generator. All this has changed in the last few years with new private coal fired electricity plant in Collie, the first significant export shipments and value adding proposals for charring and urea production.

There are also proposals for other coal deposits in the Mid-West, the South East and the Northern part of Western Australia.

The Western Australian coal industry may only be small by national standards, but it is a developing industry targeting niche markets.

Dominique Van Gent, Manager Regional Programs, Department of Mines and Petroleum

4:00 Clean Coal Technologies – What can we Learn from Patent Filings?
Griffith Hack reviews recent clean coal patents internationally and within Australia to determine:

• Which clean coal technologies are attracting the most commercial innovation?
• Who is filing these patents?
• Which countries are strongest in the clean coal area?
• How Australia compares to the rest of the world?
• How does innovative activity in clean coal compare to other clean energy technologies, for example solar and wind?
• What do these trends imply for clean coal innovation and Australia?

Mike Lloyd, IP Management Consultant, GRIFFITH HACK

4:40 Closing remarks from Chair & end of conference