LSU CO2 Technology Symposium

 

Lod Cook Hotel & Conference Center
Baton Rouge, LA

September 3–5, 2025

Hosted by LSU’s Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering, this Gulf Coast summit convenes a majority of active Class VI well applicants in Louisiana alongside leading CCUS stakeholders. Over 2.5 days, you’ll:

  • Share Class V well performance and lessons learned from early injection projects
  • Explore Class VI project planning, permitting strategies, and pilot-to-commercial scale-up
  • Examine CO₂ pipeline design & transport logistics, including compression and monitoring
  • Tackle regulatory and legal hurdles—from Class VI permitting to long-term stewardship requirements
  • Showcase real-world CCUS successes, confront ongoing technical challenges, and forge the partnerships essential to scaling carbon capture, utilization, and storage across the Gulf Coast

Tentative Agenda

Noon–1 p.m. Registration and Welcome Reception
1–1:30 p.m. Welcome to LSU: "Louisiana’s Leadership in CO2 Technology, CCUS/EOR Landscape in Louisiana" 
Chair: David Schechter, Louisiana State University
1:30–2 p.m. Keynote Speaker TBA
2–2:30 p.m. "Comprehensive Design: The GCS Louisiana Sequestration Hub"
David Cook, Gulf Coast Sequestration
2:30–3 p.m. Break
3–3:30 p.m. "From Class V to Class VI: What a Test Well Can Tell You"
Jalal Jalali, Blue Sky Infrastructure
3:30–4 p.m. "Overcoming Design Issues for Class VI Injection Wells in Louisiana" 
Ryan Choquette, Live Oak CCS Hub LLC
4–4:30 p.m. "PERTT Lab's CO2 Well Update"
 Karsten Thompson, Louisiana State University
4:30–5 p.m. “Modelling Performance in PERTT Lab CO2 Well" 
Yuanhang Chen, Louisiana State University
5–6 p.m. Tour of LSU's Well Facility PERTT Lab
6:30 p.m. Dinner

 

8:30–9 a.m. “Subsurface Evaluation for CO2 Sequestration in Southern Louisiana” 
Robert Bravman, 1PointFive
9–9:30 a.m. Carbonvert – Geodura CCS
9:30–10 a.m. “Pressure Transient Behavior and Estimation of CO2 Dissolution Trapping during CO2 Storage” 
Mehdi Zeidouni, Louisiana State University
10–10:30 a.m. Break
10:30–11 a.m. TBA
Kenneth Bogle, Pelican Energy Consultants
11–11:30 a.m. “Hackberry CO2 Sequestration Project” 
Nathan Robinson, Sempra International
11:30 a.m.–Noon “CO2 Pipeline Construction, Operations and Safety” 
Mark Piazza/Gifford Briggs, API/Gulf Coast Region
Noon–1 p.m. Lunch at Lod Cook Conference Center
1–1:30 p.m. "Regulatory Program for Certificates of Public Convenience"
Steven Giambrone, LA-DENR
1:30–2 p.m. "Small Scale Near Site CCS as a Catalyst for Scaling up Carbon Capture Projects"
Zach Liu, Harvestone Low Carbon Partners
2–2:30 p.m. TBA
Halliburton
2:30–3 p.m. Break
3–3:30 p.m. “The Unique Louisiana Green Fuels CCS Project in Northeast Louisiana”
Bob Meredith, Steve Walkinshaw, Strategic Biofuels
3:30–4 p.m. TBA
ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions
4–4:30 p.m. LA Wilcox Project 
Aethon Energy Operating, LLC
4:30–5 p.m. Potential for CO2 EOR/CCS in Louisiana Inland Waters 
TBA
6:30 p.m. Dinner

 

9–9:30 a.m. TBA
Brad Ives, LSU Institute for Energy Innovation 
9:30–10 a.m. Decarbonizing Louisiana’s Economy: Challenges and Opportunities
Greg Upton, LSU Center for Energy Studies
10–10:30 a.m. Louisiana DENR - Class VI Permitting Staus 
10:30–11 a.m. Panel Discussion
11:30–Noon Closing Remarks
Noon–1 p.m. Lunch at Lod Cook Conference Center
1–4 p.m. Tour of Lockhart Crossing CO2 Recycle Facility

 

 

 

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Featured Participants

  • 1PointFive
  • Aethon Energy Operating, LLC
  • Blue Sky Infrastructure
  • Carbonvert
  • Castex Energy
  • ESG Solutions
  • ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions Onshore, LLC
  • Gulf Coast Sequestration
  • Halliburton
  • Live Oak, LLC
  • Louisiana Office of Conservation
  • Louisiana Oil and Gas Association
  • Pelican Energy Consultants
  • Sempra Low Carbon Solutions
  • Strategic Biofuels
  • Storegga

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