Carbon Capture & Sequestration Public Workshop
California State University Bakersfield
Free Admittance

Time

Topic

Speaker

7:30a – 8:30a

 Continental Breakfast (Provided)

8:30a

Welcome

Horace Mitchell, President, California State University, Bakersfield

8:40a

9:00a

Introductory Remarks

Climate Change: The Problem with Rising CO2 Concentrations in the Atmosphere

Ray Watson, Fourth District Supervisor, County of Kern

Jean Fuller, California State Assemblywoman, 32nd District

Rob Negrini, Professor of Geology, California State University, Bakersfield

9:30a

Carbon Capture & Sequestration: A Primer

Sally Benson, Director, Global Climate & Energy Project, Stanford University

10:15a

Break

10:30a

Carbon Capture & Sequestration: What We Know And What We Don’t Know?

Roger Aines, Program Leader, Carbon Fuel Cycle Program, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

11:15a

Carbon Capture & Sequestration Policy Needs

George Peridas, Science Fellow, Climate Programs, Natural Resources Defense Council

11:45a

Discussion

Richard Chapman, President, Kern Economic Development Corporation

12:30p

Lunch (Provided) & Luncheon Speaker

Senator Dean Florez, 16th District, California State Senate

1:15p

Geological Formations in the San Joaquin Valley and Potential for Carbon Sequestration

Janice Gillespie, Professor of Geology, California State University, Bakersfield

1:45p

Principles and Practice of Using CO2 for Enhanced Oil Recovery

Bill Roby, President & General Manager, Mid-Continent Business Unit, Occidental Petroleum Corporation

2:15p

2:45p

West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership

Break

Larry Myer, Technical Director, West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership, California Energy Commission

3:00p

Carbon Capture & Sequestration: Key Field Studies and Conclusions

Susan Hovorka, Principal Investigator, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas
 

3:45p

Discussion

Les Clark, Executive Vice President, Independent Oil Producers Agency

4:30p

Wrap-Up