Highlights of the 2009 SEG summer research workshop on"CO2 Sequestration Geophysics"

• Published in: The Leading Edge
• Main Authors: Lumley, D., Sherlock, D., Daley, T., Huang, L., Lawton, D., Masters, R., Verliac, M., White, D.
• Other Authors: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Earth Sciences Division.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 2010
• Subjects: Canada; Greenhouse Effect; Monitoring; Ice; Industry; Site Selection; 58 Geosciences; Geophysics; Glaciers; Openings; Currents; Orders; 54 Environmental Sciences; glacier*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1190/tle29020138.1; https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1015526/

The 2009 SEG Summer Research Workshop on CO2 Sequestration Geophysics was held August 23-27, 2009 in Banff, Canada. The event was attended by over 100 scientists from around the world, which proved to be a remarkably successful turnout in the midst of the current global financial crisis and severe corporate travel restrictions. Attendees included SEG President Larry Lines (U. Calgary), and CSEG President John Downton (CGG Veritas), who joined SRW Chairman David Lumley (UWA) in giving the opening welcome remarks at the Sunday Icebreaker. The workshop was organized by an expert technical committee (see side bar) representing a good mix of industry, academic, and government research organizations. The format consisted of four days of technical sessions with over 60 talks and posters, plus an optional pre-workshop field trip to the Columbia Ice Fields to view firsthand the effects of global warming on the Athabasca glacier (Figures 1-2). Group technical discussion was encouraged by requiring each presenter to limit themselves to 15 minutes of presentation followed by a 15 minute open discussion period. Technical contributions focused on the current and future role of geophysics in CO2 sequestration, highlighting new research and field-test results with regard to site selection and characterization, monitoring and surveillance, using a wide array of geophysical techniques. While there are too many excellent contributions to mention all individually here, in this paper we summarize some of the key workshop highlights in order to propagate new developments to the SEG community at large.