Date: 28-29 May 2025
Location: InterContinental Cartagena de Indias in Cartagena, Colombia

The Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) Latin America 2025 conference brings together leaders in the CCUS field, spotlighting the Latin American region and its role in the Energy Transition. Technical experts from academia and industry will meet in Cartagena to engage in keynote talks, panel discussions, and technical sessions focusing on the future of carbon management. ​

Given the world’s reliance on fossil fuels for the next several decades, CCUS offers a path to sustainable development within the petroleum industry and a means to meet increasingly stringent emission regulations. Today’s energy industry has an urgent need for highly skilled professionals to guide the pathway for safe and economical management of carbon development, challenges, and opportunities.

For the past 5 years, SPE, AAPG and SEG have gathered leading technical experts to demonstrate the ongoing need for petroleum geoscientists and engineers in the CCUS arena. Their multidisciplinary conference, Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS), expanded to Latin America in 2024, with a highly successful inaugural event held in Rio de Janeiro in May 2024.

Originally planned for 150-200 attendees, CCUS Latin America 2024 was enormously successful, attracting 491 attendees representing 172 organizations and hailing from 19 countries across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

Building on the momentum generated on Rio, CCUS Latin America 2025 delivers a multidisciplinary program featuring technical presentations, panels, keynote talks and commercial exhibits highlighting technical, business, social and regulatory aspects of CCUS.

Organized by SPE, AAPG and SEG, the 2025 edition includes continued support from the Society For Low Carbon Technologies, who provided highly valued contributions as an endorsing organization for the event in Rio.

The 2025 edition features a new local host, the Colombian Association of Energy Geologists and Geophysicists (ACGGP), who will organize pre-and post-conference activities and who brings both technical expertise and valued experience working with local communities to socialize energy projects.

PetroStrat will be attending the Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) Latin America 2025 conference. Expert geoscientists will be on hand to showcase their innovative CCUS and integrated geoscience services at Booth 5.

PetroStrat Innovative CCUS Services

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is the process of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from a variety of sources, and then indefinitely storing (or sequestering) the captured CO2 within the subsurface. By capturing CO2 from industrial processes we can reduce harmful emissions entering the atmosphere today. Through Direct Air Capture (DAC) PetroStrat have the capability to remove legacy emissions and help get the Net Zero 2050 global temperature rise target back on track.

CCS site selection is based on the ability to store captured CO2 safely and indefinitely within the subsurface. Initially, CO2 will be held within the pore space of a selected subsurface store. Over time, this CO2 will become fixed within the store’s mineralogy. This means understanding the pore and mineralogical characteristics of any given store, along with other parameters such as the size and shape of sand bodies that are targeted to store carbon is critical. Effective stores must also sit below an effective seal, that can remain intact during the injection process, as well as limit vertical migration of CO2 in the early (100 – 1000’s years) life of the CCS site. Again, this requires understanding the physical components of a prospective seal, as well as its geomechanical properties.

Solutions to the CCS industry

Selecting the ‘right’ site for subsurface CO2 storage is a key element within the industrial CCS workflow, requiring detailed and accurate subsurface characterisation. This is where PetroStrat's 20+ years experience and integrated technical workflows, incorporating biostratigraphy, reservoir geology, petrophysics and geomechanics is critical. By employing these techniques, PetroStrat help clients de-risk their prospective CCS sites allowing them to more confidently move ahead with their development programmes.

PetroStrat are currently actively engaged in assisting clients with identifying and developing their CCS sites in the UK and America.

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