The Trinidad and Tobago Energy Conference will feature a new Carbon Capture and Sequestration workshop on developing standards for geologic storage of carbon dioxide.
By becoming CCS technology-ready, Trinidad & Tobago will be positioning itself to take advantage of opportunities that may present themselves in the international market while reducing its own carbon emissions.
However, standards and frameworks must be put in place for the country to regulate the CCS industry.
This workshop will provide an overview of the world’s first set of standards for geologic storage of carbon dioxide. The standards have been developed by a bi-lateral Canada/USA Technical Committee for use in Canada and the United States. The scope and structure of the standards themselves as well as the various sections will be presented and discussed.
The workshop’s facilitators are Majid Nasehi, Director of Research and Project Management IPAC-CO 2 Research Inc. and Peter Wyant, Chief Development Officer IPAC-CO 2 Research Inc.
Majid Nasehi is currently the Director of research and project management for IPAC-CO2 Research Inc.
For the past two years he has been involved with the development of the North America’s first set of standards for the geologic storage of CO2, which has been a collaborative effort between IPAC-CO2 and the Canadian Standards Association (CSA). He has been leading IPAC-CO2’s efforts in this regard and is also a member of the CSA Technical Committee responsible for drafting the standards.
Majid has also been involved in the oil and gas industry since 2004. He’s been responsible for planning of drilling operations as well as material supply, inspection, and controlling of materials for oil wells. As a researcher he’s been involved in enhanced oil recovery research, phase behaviour studies and modelling, and CO2 applications in EOR and heavy oil water flooding.
Majid is managing IPAC-CO2’s work for the government of Saskatchewan main part of which is the development of CCS guidelines for monitoring, inventory verification, and carbon credits in Saskatchewan. Currently he is also leading a research project to estimate the CO2 storage capacity in Saskatchewan including storage capacities in saline aquifers and coal beds, as well as CO2–EOR potentials in the province.
Majid has a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering and a Master’s degree in Petroleum Systems Engineering.
Peter Wyant is the Chief Development Officer of IPAC-CO2 Research Inc., and has been with the company since its inception in 2009. His earlier career of 34 years has been primarily in the oil and gas, and energy, industries in western Canada where he worked with private industry and with the governments of Alberta and Saskatchewan. He has served in increasingly responsible positions with the Government of Saskatchewan, most recently being at the Director level in Crown Investments Corporation (CIC), the province’s holding company for its commercial Crown corporations, where his responsibilities included the carbon capture file and the development of medium and large-scale economic development opportunities in the energy sector for the province. He is currently seconded to IPAC-CO2 from CIC.
His education includes a B.Sc. (Biology) from the University of Saskatchewan (1972) and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario (1975), majoring in finance.
