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The Latin America & Caribbean Hydrogen & CCUS Decarbonisation Summit

Tuesday 3rd & Wednesday 4th August 2021 @ Santiago

The Latin America & Caribbean Hydrogen & CCUS Decarbonisation Summit will focus on how to determine strategies for greater decarbonisation of the energy intensive sectors and enhance collaboration and innovation between 300+ government officials, regulators, key industry stake holders, leading academia and service companies.

“ The Latin America & Caribbean countries are still some of the largest oil and gas producers globally but with the current COVID -19 pandemic we have seen the demand for oil and gas drop dramatically and fall to the lowest in the last decade. Now with the price of renewable projects competing with the price of oil and gas operations, many countries are now looking at how a greener economy can help them recover from the pandemic, whilst reducing their carbon footprint. ”

The Latin America & Caribbean Hydrogen & CCUS Decarbonisation Summit, will be looking at how green hydrogen, carbon capture storage and carbon capture utilisation storage can help decarbonise the energy intensive sectors in the Latin American region. This includes oil, gas, mining, agriculture and cement amongst other sectors.

With Latin America having the opportunities to decarbonise its oil and gas sector via carbon captures storage technologies and the with the abundance of renewable sources available to produce green hydrogen via offshore & onshore wind, solar and tidal. This session will review energy transition policies of the leading LATAC countries.

Schedule:

9:25 Chair Opening Address
9:30 Max Correa Achurra, Ministry of Energy Chile, Head of the Fuels and New Energy Division
9:50 Diego Mesa, Minister of Mines & Energy Colombia
10:10 Dario Martinez Minister for Energy Argentina
10:30 Main Sponsor
10:50 Q&A
11:00 Coffee & Networking Break

Latin America & the Caribbean incorporate a very diverse energy mix with oil and gas being one of the main energy sources for the continent and the need for countries to lower its CO2 emissions to meet the Paris Climate Change agreement. This session will look at the current energy mix across each country and look at how hydrogen and carbon capture storage can be implemented in their decarbonisation plans.

Schedule:

11:45 Case Study
12:10 Energy Mix Panel Discussion

Christiaan Gischler – Co-leader of the Mining, Geothermal Energy and Hydrocarbons Special Group, IADB

Herib Blanco, Senior Energy Consultant Hydrogen, International Renewable Association

Carolina Schmidt, Minister for the Environment, Ministry of the Environment Chile

Rebecca Gaghen, Head of Division Latin America, International Energy Agency
12:45 Lunch & Networking Break

Latin America has the biggest coastlines globally and numerous active ports and a growing interest in the renewables sector. This session will review the opportunities to produce green hydrogen via onshore & offshore wind, solar and tidal. You will hear from international global case studies that are currently active globally to understand how similar projects can be implemented in the region.

Schedule:

13:45 Chairs Opening Address
13:50 YPF Case Study
14:10 Filip Smeets, SVP Nel Electrolyser Division, Nel Hydrogen

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14:30 Green Hydrogen Project Case Study
14:50 Case Study
15:10 Maria Paz De La Cruz, CEO, H2-Chile
15:30 Coffee & Networking Break
15:45 Case Study
16:05 International Case Study
16:25 Case Study
16:45
Q&A
17:00 Evening Network reception

The application and incorporation of carbon capture, utilisation and storage is key to the successful development of a hydrogen economy and as energy transition takes place across the Latin America region carbon capture technologies can develop a path to blue hydrogen production. This session will look at different CCS projects across the region and successful international case studies with many opportunities available with all oil and gas majors now committing to hit net zero by 2050.

Schedule:

9:25 Chairs Opening Address
9:30 Speaker coming soon! EPE - Empresa de Pesquisa Energética
9:50 Case Study
10:10 PEMEX Case Study
10:30 Case Study
10:50 Q&A
11:00 Coffee & Networking Break
11:45 Gregg MilBrandt, Director, Sask Power CCS Facility
12:05 Case Study
12:25 Viviana Coelho, Corporate Emissions & Climate Change Manager Petrobras
12:45 Q&A
12:55 Lunch & Networking Break

There is an ever-changing landscape of energy demand and energy needs and in some parts of Latin America there is very limited or no accessibility to energy. This session will look at how different countries can work together to provide sustainable energy across the region and different energy storage technologies and options that are available.

Schedule:

13:55 Chairs Opening Address
14:20 Case StudyEnergy Storage Panel Discussion

Andrea Villa, Head of Market Studies on Energy Transition, Enel Group

Ramon Candia, our Chief Investment Officer, Corporacion Interamericana para el Financiamiento de Infraestructura
14:55 Case Study
15:15 Q&A
15:25 Coffee & Networking Break

With sustainable and environmentally friendly projects taking the forefront for investors within energy projects offshore wind, CCUS and Hydrogen will provide a global economic opportunity for the Energy sector and holds great potential for both continued developments. This session will consider investment potential & trends, opportunities for Latin America to create a sustainable market, funding opportunities, public & private partnerships, investing in R&D, and funding initiatives. Commercial barriers to development will also be addressed, including investment risks, considerable capital requirements, and challenging route-to-market in Latin America.

Schedule:

15:40 Luc Grillet, Chief Operating Officer for LATAC, International Finance Corporation
16:00 Case Study
16:20 Investment & Economics Panel

Luc Grillet, Chief Operating Officer for LATAC, International Finance Corporation

Michelle Hallack, Senior Specialist, IADB

Pietro Ferreira, Regional Analyst – Americas, EIC
16:55 End of Conference