Negative Emissions Technologies with Energy Production: Can Canada’s Oil and Gas Industry Help Reverse Climate Change?

Please join us on Tuesday March 3 at 12:00 noon in rm 261 Geology, for snacks and an informative lecture on optimizing technologies to deliver negative emissions from energy production presented by Steven Bryant, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Materials Engineering for Unconventional Oil Reservoirs and the CSPG University Outreach Committee.

Under the Paris Agreement, Canada has committed to reducing its Green House Gas (GHG) emissions by 30% below 2005 levels by 2030. With new technologies being developed regularly - in addition to greater efficiency, renewable energy sources, and other mitigation strategies - technologies that remove CO2 from the atmosphere are still desperately needed for Canada and the rest of the world to meet those targets.

Researchers at the University of Calgary are developing a concept that they hope will be the transformative change required to not only meet Canada’s targets to reduce GHGs, but surpass them: the development of negative emissions technology using direct air capture. The goal is to provide a new option for CO2 removal that is scalable, net-negative emissions, and rapidly deployable. The optimized integration of direct air capture coupled with CO2 enhanced oil recovery provides that option for Canada, and for the world.