The Platts European ‘Carbon Capture and Storage' conference has grown together with the industry and provided attendees with an overview of European CCS and its development including the latest in policy developments, deployment challenges like finance, public awareness and storage liability, and showcased the leading projects in their various stages from Europe and from around the world. The Global CCS Institute is a supporting partner of this conference, if you are an Institute Member you are entitled to 15 per cent off the registration fee.

Key Questions to be tackled in 2012 include:

• Economics, fiscal and commercial models for viability — where we are and what is needed?
• How effective are the different storage mechanisms?
• What is the best storage strategy?
• Preventing storage capacity bottlenecks.
• Legislation and regulation — looking at long-term liability.
• Risk recognition, characterisation and mitigation.
• Site characterisation — what are the right selection criteria?