From Innovation to FID: Making CCUS Projects Bankable

This half-day event brings together industry leaders, financiers, policymakers, and technology providers to explore how CCUS projects can move from innovation and demonstration to bankable investments and final investment decisions (FID).

Building on concrete project experiences and EU policy instruments, the event will focus on de-risking technologies, standardisation across the CCUS value chain, and financial structures that enable investment at scale. Through expert talks, panel discussions, and networking, participants will examine how operational lessons, regulatory frameworks, and innovative financing mechanisms can reduce uncertainty, attract capital, and accelerate deployment of CCUS across Europe.

This event is aimed at all stakeholders in CCUS chain, from emitters to storage operators, including companies developing, financing, regulating, and scaling CCUS projects who are seeking practical pathways from pilot projects to investable infrastructure.

Agenda:

09:30 – 10:00 Registration, welcome & mingling
10:00 – 10:10 Opening remarks | Strategic importance of keeping Europe as an industrial innovation leader Francesco Finotti (CCUS Innovation/SINTEF)

10:10 – 11:00 Session 1 | Derisking technology

10:10 – 10:20 Innovation Fund success stories EU Commission (tbc)
10:20 – 10:40 From research to field deployment – a case study Ugo Sirtori (SAIPEM)
10:40 – 10:50 CCUS Sandbox – derisking innovative CCS technologies Pere Margalef/Stefano Stendardo (SNAM)
10:50 – 11:00 Coffee & mingling

11:00 – 12:00 Session 2 | Understanding and managing risks: towards standardisation

11:00 – 11:10 Experience from CCS operations Tor Gautestad (Heidelberg Materials)
11:10 – 11:40 Panel discussion: CCS risks & standardisation Katerina Sardi (Energean), Guillaume Neel (Vallourec), Inger Helene Dirdal (Northern Lights), Tor Gautestad (Heidelberg Materials), Evangelos Giannopoulos (TITAN Group)
11:40 – 11:50 Introducing a CCS Guarantee Mechanism to manage financial exposure related to value-chain disruption risks Aymeric Amand (Carbon Management Europe)
11:50 – 12:00 Coffee & mingling

12:00 – 13:00 Session 3 | Bankability and FID

12:00 – 12:20 CCS as investable infrastructure – lessons from the UK and the Netherlands Federico Cecchetti (ENI)
12:20 – 12:40 Panel discussion: Making a bankable CCS transport chain in Southern Europe
Equity perspectives – Investment criteria for CO2 capture Jan van Wulfften Palthe (APG Asset Management)
12:40 – 12:50 Revenue streams for CCS projects Per Karlsson (Bain & Company)
12:50 – 13:00 Viable CCS business models for achieving project financing Fabienne Moimaux (BNP Paribas)
13:00 – 13:10 Concluding remarks Eadbhard Pernot (Carbon Management Europe)
13:10 – 14:00 Lunch & networking