Carbon Capture, Utilisation & Storage (CCUS) - An Imperative for Asia | British Chamber of Commerce Singapore on Glue Up

About the Webinar

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This webinar is focused purely on CCUS, a high growth, high potential and scaleable industry which has yet to make inroads within the South East Asia region. Yet, there is an urgent need to make rapid progress given the need for economies in the region to decarbonise and make good on their individual commitments to the Paris Agreement.

With a backdrop of rapid industrial development and increasing per-capita energy usage in the region, an energy transition alone will not reduce GHG emissions to the 'net zero' levels required; countries in South East Asia need to remove CO2 from their fuel combustion and industrial processes and CCUS is the solution.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

The event will focus on three key areas required to kickstart CCUS development in South East Asia:

Technology,
Cost,
Regulatory framework

The event will showcase comparable projects and the rapid development progress around the globe, including major integrated project examples from the UK, retro-fit solutions, and an examination of the incentive structures in place in US and Europe.

Suggestions for potential projects and business opportunities in the South East Asia region will be tabled, along with a commentary on how investors and financiers can support the development of CCUS projects here. The moral imperative and policy responses required to kickstart CCUS projects in South East Asia will be actively debated.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Policy makers,
Energy and Utilities industry practitioners,
Engineering disciplines,
Manufacturing and Processing sector,
Legal and Finance sector,
Sophisticated Investors,
Environmental experts,
Industrial innovators.

*We are in the midst of finalising our speaker panel, which will be released in due course. Refresh this page for updates. Thank you for your patience.

Speakers

Ben Arnott

Managing Director, Head of Energy Finance and Advisory - South East Asia at Societe Generale

Allan Baker

Managing Director, Global Head of Power Advisory and Project Finance at Société Générale

DR Nick Cooper

Chief Executive Officer at Storegga Geotechnologies

Alexander Tait

Appraisal Engineer- Global Concept Development at BP

Jinmiao Xu

Energy Specialist, Energy Sector Group, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department at Asian Development Bank

Ben leads Societe Generale’s energy finance business in South East Asia. His remit extends to arranging financing for both renewable and non-renewable projects in the region, principally for development of large-scale gas to power, hydro-power, geothermal, wind and solar projects, as well as acquisition financing and prepayment schemes.

Ben has 20 years of professional experience in the energy sector in Asia Pacific, the majority of which has been dedicated to financing oil & gas projects in the region, including numerous reserve based finance transactions for independent E&P companies.

Prior to joining Societe Generale, Ben led Standard Chartered Bank’s Oil & Gas Finance team in Asia with a focus on structured finance for upstream, FPSO, and LNG projects in the region, including major liquefaction projects such as PNG LNG and Ichthys LNG.

Ben holds a degree in Geology from Imperial College, London and a Post-Graduate Diploma from Aston University, UK.

Allan Baker Managing Director, Global Head of Power Advisory and Project Finance has worked at Société Générale for twelve years and has been involved in the power sector for more than 30 years, initially as an engineer and then in finance. During his career he has been involved as advisor or debt arranger in a wide variety of projects around the world ranging from green-field renewable energy (most recently offshore wind) to the acquisition of large international power portfolios. In recent years he has been instrumental in bringing the financing perspective to the policy debate around CCS based on his experience of advising on several the world’s largest carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects. Allan was a member of the UK Government’s original CCS Development Forum and is now a member of the current CCUS Council as well as contributing to the UK Cost Challenge Taskforce. In terms of CCS experience, Allan is currently acting as Financial Advisor for the Net Zero Teesside project in the UK and has previously acted as Financial Advisor for the White Rose CCS project in the UK (one of two projects selected for the FEED stage support under the GBP1bn UK CCS Commercialisation scheme), the Teesside Industrial CCS project in the UK (commercial structure development), the Abu Dhabi CCS project and Powerfuel CCS (Don Valley), including a successful application for NER300 funding from the EU.

Allan has a BSc (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering, holds an MBA, is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a Chartered Engineer.

Alex is a chartered Chemical Engineer with a breadth of experience across the Oil and Gas industry, more recently broadening into Carbon Capture and Storage (an area of particular passion given he wrote his dissertation on it over a decade ago!). Starting in BP’s central engineering function, Alex then moved to work offshore in the North Sea as a Production Engineer before transitioning to a commissioning and start-up role on the Shah Deniz mega project in Azerbaijan, seeing the project through from first steel to second gas. In early 2019, Alex moved to a project management role on the Net Zero Teesside project, which aims to kick start the first CCUS cluster in the world by building a “First-of-a-Kind” Gas Power plant with Carbon Capture, integrated with a CO2 gathering pipeline across Teesside, to facilitate industrial decarbonisation.