The new issue of GEO ENeRGY (No. 40), the regular newsletter of the ENeRG, has been published

1) The first-page article is devoted to Horizon 2020 project STRATEGY CCUS – STRATEGIC PLANNING OF REGIONS AND TERRITORIES IN EUROPE FOR LOW-CARBON ENERGY AND INDUSTRY THROUGH CCUS
2) The second page presents COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action A18219 Geothermal-DHC and introduces a new ENeRG Member
3) The third page is about the big success of the European Workshop on Underground Energy Storage in Paris, 7-8 November 2019, organized by ENeRG
4) The last page includes an article about the Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering at Heriot-Watt University and its activities (previously the Institute of Petroleum Engineering)

New ENeRG president 2020

At the Steering Committee meeting in Paris on 6 November 2019 representatives of the ENeRG members elected Mr Sergio Persoglia as a new ENeRG President for 2020.

Mr Sergio Persoglia was the ENeRG President in 2001 and 2010.

He has been a member of the OGS Board of Directors and is Secretary-General of the CO2GeoNet.

He succeeded Dr Vit Hladik from Czech Geological Survey who was the ENeRG President in 2018/19.

European CO2 storage capacity, estimated by CO2StoP project, is available online

The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (DG-JRC) made the database of European CO2 storage capacity is available online at: https://setis.ec.europa.eu/european-co2-storage-database

The database and the associated visualisation tool was produced by the European Commission-funded CO2StoP project (CO2 Storage Potential in Europe – Project No. ENER/C1/154-2011-SI2.611598) coordinated by GEUS, TNO and BGS. Many of the ENeRG members took part in this project, which is the assessment of the European CO2 storage capacity both onshore and offshore made for all EU Member States. This analysis can be the starting point for an updated and comprehensive European CO2 storage atlas, which will be instrumental for the deployment of CCS in Europe.