Kazbulat Shogenov – ENeRG, the European Network for Research in Geo-Energy

Projects

November 11, 2025 Kazbulat Shogenov No Comments

Reggio Emilia, Italy – October 23rd, 2025
On October 22th, the Second Dissemination Event of the European project HERCCULES – Heroes in Southern Europe to decarbonise industry with CCUS took place at the Tecnopolo in Reggio Emilia, Italy, organised by Clust-ER Greentech with the support of EUCORE, LEAP, and the international project consortium. The event was attended by over 70 people from 12 different countries, including researchers, technicians, and industry stakeholders. The initiative brought together representatives from industry, academia, and institutions to share results, perspectives, and technologies related to CO₂ capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS), which is at the heart of the European energy transition. Funded under Horizon Europe, HERCCULES aims to demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of CCUS solutions in the most difficult industrial sectors to decarbonise, promoting the transfer of knowledge and technologies with the EU, and in particular, between southern European countries. The project brings together companies, universities, and research centers from all over Europe, with the aim of developing integrated CO₂ capture and utilisation systems, tested on a real scale, and creating shared indicators to measure their environmental and economic impact.

Conferences Workshops

October 14, 2025 Kazbulat Shogenov No Comments

The annual Baltic Carbon Forum 2025 took place in Tallinn on 9-10 October, organised by BASRECCS and supported by the Nordic Energy Research and industrial partners.

Speakers and participants from academia, cement industry and energy sector, NGOs (Bellona, Global CCS Institute), technology providers, regulators and students took part in the BCF2025.

ENeRG partners from TalTech, SHOGenergy, PGI-NRI, AGH and GEOECOMAR were among the BCF2025 Organising Committee, session leaders and speakers.

Dr Alla Shogenova (TalTech), as a conference organiser, was a convener of two sessions, and Dr Kazbulat Shogenov (SHOGenergy) made a presentation on techno-economic modelling of the Baltic offshore cross-border scenario using direct injection from ships. This study includes recent results of the CETP CTS project supported by the Clean Energy Technology Partnership and the Ministry of Climate of Estonia. Mai Uibu from TalTech talked about CO2 mineral carbonation of mining and industrial waste in the Estonian RAGN-Sells OSA project.

Dr Alexandra Dudu (ENeRG ex-president from GEOECOMAR) made one oral and two poster presentations about CO2 storage and CCS activities in Romania and the CETP CTS project CCS Scenarios in the Black Sea.

Pawel Gladysz (AGH), as the president of the CCUS Poland Association, made a presentation about CCUS developments in Poland. Pawel mentioned the ongoing work in the HELCOM CCS environmental working group, where several BCF2025 participants (and the ENeRG members) take part to make CO₂ storage in the Baltic Sea geological structures possible.

During the BCF2025, the breaking news came from the neighbouring country, where the Parliament of Latvia approved new regulations permitting underground storage of CO2 on an industrial scale and opened the gates for the wide implementation of CCUS technologies in the Baltic Region. Latvia has the best geological conditions in the region for underground CO₂ storage.

For more information and Live Broadcast, please visit Baltic Carbon Forum 2025 – Annual Conference 2025.

New representative

October 3, 2025 Kazbulat Shogenov No Comments

New Representative of the Mineral and Energy Economy Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences (MEERI PAS)

Dr. Katarzyna Lubon is a new representative of the MEERI PAS in the ENeRG, replacing Prof. Radoslaw Tarkowski.

More details about Katarzyna you can get from her short CV.

EU Innovation Fund

July 16, 2025 Kazbulat Shogenov No Comments

At the online Steering Committee meeting on the 7th May 2025, representatives of the ENeRG members elected Dr Elma Charalampidou as a new ENeRG President for a two-year period from 2025 to 2027.

Elma Charalampidou works as an assistant Professor at the Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering (IGE), School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society (EGIS), Heriot-Watt University (HWU). Elma also serves as the Assistant Executive Dean for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) within the School of Engineering and Geosciences (EGIS) at Heriot-Watt University.

She is a member of the ON-DEM COST Action (CA22132), where she also serves as the Science Fair and Public Engagement Manager & co-Manager of the Mentoring Programme. She is a member of the International Energy Agency Geothermal – Mine Water Energy Expert group. Elma has been an ENeRG member since 2023, and she is currently acting as the President of the ENeRG network.

She succeeded Dr. Alexandra Dudu from GEOECOMAR, Romania, who has been the ENeRG President in 2023-2025.

Please read more about Elma in her attached CV

Projects

October 16, 2024 Kazbulat Shogenov No Comments

The CTS project (CO₂ Transport and Storage directly from a ship: flexible and cost-effective solutions for European offshore storage) funded by the Clean Energy Transition Partnership under the 2022 CETPartnership joint call for research proposals, co-funded by the European Commission (GA N°101069750) was officially started on 1.12.2023.

The CTS project is funded for two years, coordinated by NORCE and includes three ENeRG partners – GeoEcomar, SHOGenergy and Geothermal Ukraine. The project was started by Kick-off-meeting in Brussels in February 2024 and had the project meeting and webinar in Vilnius on the 1-2 October 2024 as a side event to BCF2024. A number of the CTS project partners also participated in the BCF 2024 (picture).

The project aims to estimate the new technology’s economic advantages through techno-economic modelling of CCUS scenarios with CO2 injection into the storage sites in the four offshore regions (North Sea, Baltic Sea, Black Sea and North Atlantic).

The project is funded by national authorities from Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Romania and Portugal.

https://www.cts-cetp.net

Conferences

October 16, 2024 Kazbulat Shogenov No Comments

EneRG President Alexandra Dudu and several members took part in the annual Baltic Carbon Forum 2024, which took place in Vilnius on 3-4 October.

Lithuanian and Baltic policymakers, industry, NGOs, and academia representatives made presentations and took an active part in the discussions on CCUS policies, technology and business models, and regulatory and social aspects during two days at the hotel Radisson Blue Lietuva in Vilnius.

Alla Shogenova (TalTech & SHOGenergy), the BASRECCS Board Member, was a convener of Sessions 1 & 2 on the 3rd of October and co-author of the presentation made by Kazbulat Shogenov (SHOGenergy&TalTech) in session 4, where Kazbulat took part as a panellist in the Panel Discussion.

Monica-Koniecizynska (PGI-NRI), BASRECCS Board Adviser, convened Session 5 on October 4th, during which Adam Wojcicki (PGI-NRI) made an oral presentation.

Alexandra Dudu, Constantin Sava and Sorin Anghel (Geoecomar) made three poster presentations, all participated as the first authors and co-authors of these posters.

The presentations and posters of the BCF 2024 are now available online on the websites https://baltic-carbon-forum.com/2024/schedule/ and https://bcforum.net/forum.php, where you can also find presentations from the previous years BCF events.

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