Carbon Capture and Storage Infrastructure Development and Interface Management Intensive Course

Course Introduction

Carbon capture and storage infrastructure is becoming an important component of industrial decarbonization strategies, particularly for sectors where reducing emissions through electrification, energy efficiency, or alternative production methods remains technically challenging. The Carbon Capture and Storage Infrastructure Development and Interface Management Intensive Course provides professionals with a comprehensive understanding of how carbon capture facilities, compression systems, transportation networks, injection infrastructure, and geological storage sites are developed and integrated into reliable operating systems. Participants will examine the technical, commercial, regulatory, environmental, and project management considerations that influence the successful delivery of carbon capture and storage investments.

Developing a carbon capture and storage project requires coordination across multiple engineering disciplines, industrial facilities, transportation systems, geological formations, utility networks, regulators, technology providers, infrastructure owners, and commercial counterparties. Decisions made during early project development can affect the entire value chain, including capture efficiency, carbon dioxide purity, compression requirements, pipeline capacity, transport conditions, injection performance, storage integrity, and long-term monitoring obligations. This course explores how project teams can establish clear technical boundaries, define interface responsibilities, align design assumptions, and coordinate decisions across the capture, transportation, and storage components of an integrated carbon management project.

Carbon dioxide has physical properties and operating requirements that create specific engineering and safety considerations for transportation and storage infrastructure. Its phase behavior, pressure and temperature conditions, impurity composition, water content, corrosion potential, and potential for rapid depressurization must be considered when designing pipelines, compressors, pumps, valves, measurement systems, and storage facilities. Participants will examine the relationship between capture technology, conditioning, dehydration, compression, transport mode, injection pressure, reservoir characteristics, and overall system performance. The course emphasizes the importance of compatible design specifications and verified operating envelopes so that individual facilities can function safely and efficiently as part of a connected carbon dioxide network.

Interface management is especially important because carbon capture and storage projects frequently involve multiple owners, contractors, engineering firms, technology licensors, transport operators, storage developers, and industrial customers. Inconsistent design bases, incomplete data, changing specifications, unclear battery limits, delayed decisions, and incompatible commissioning requirements can create significant cost and schedule exposure. Participants will learn how to develop interface registers, responsibility matrices, technical interface agreements, design data exchange protocols, interface control documents, and structured review procedures. They will also examine how interface risks should be integrated into project schedules, procurement strategies, configuration control, change management, construction planning, system integration testing, and operational handover.

The course also considers the wider development environment shaping carbon capture and storage infrastructure, including carbon pricing, emissions accounting, permitting, environmental assessment, public engagement, cross-border transportation, storage licensing, liability allocation, and emerging carbon management business models. Participants will explore the role of shared transportation and storage networks, industrial clusters, hubs, common-user infrastructure, public-private partnerships, and long-term service agreements. Digital engineering, geospatial analysis, digital twins, remote monitoring, data analytics, and artificial intelligence-assisted project controls are also examined as tools for improving coordination, asset integrity, operational visibility, and evidence-based decision-making, subject to appropriate verification and governance.

By completing the Carbon Capture and Storage Infrastructure Development and Interface Management Intensive Course, participants will be better equipped to coordinate the development and delivery of integrated carbon capture, transportation, and geological storage infrastructure. They will gain practical capabilities in project definition, engineering integration, interface planning, technical risk management, infrastructure readiness, regulatory coordination, commissioning, and operational transition. The programme supports professionals seeking to improve project execution, reduce interface-related rework, strengthen infrastructure integrity, manage delivery uncertainty, and support the safe, accountable, and commercially viable deployment of carbon capture and storage systems.

Duration

10 days

Who Should Attend

• Project directors and project managers responsible for developing carbon capture, carbon transportation, geological storage, and integrated carbon management infrastructure.

• Process engineers involved in capture technology selection, carbon dioxide conditioning, dehydration, compression, liquefaction, and process integration.

• Pipeline and transportation engineers responsible for carbon dioxide pipeline design, pumping or compression facilities, flow assurance, routing, and network capacity.

• Petroleum, reservoir, and geological engineers involved in storage site characterization, injection planning, reservoir behavior, well design, and storage performance assessment.

• Engineering managers and technical leads coordinating multidisciplinary design teams, engineering contractors, technology licensors, and infrastructure owners.

• Project controls professionals responsible for integrated schedules, cost forecasting, risk analysis, change management, progress reporting, and interface-related performance monitoring.

• Interface managers and systems integration specialists responsible for managing technical boundaries, design dependencies, interface registers, and cross-package coordination.

• Construction, commissioning, and completions managers coordinating construction readiness, system handovers, pre-commissioning, performance testing, and operational acceptance.

• Health, safety, environmental, and process safety professionals responsible for hazard identification, carbon dioxide release scenarios, environmental assessment, emergency planning, and operational safeguards.

• Regulatory, permitting, and compliance specialists involved in environmental approvals, pipeline authorizations, storage licensing, emissions accounting, and regulatory reporting.

• Procurement and contract management professionals coordinating engineering, procurement, construction, equipment supply, transportation services, and storage agreements.

• Commercial and investment professionals evaluating capital requirements, infrastructure tariffs, capacity commitments, carbon management contracts, financing structures, and project bankability.

• Industrial decarbonization specialists from cement, steel, chemicals, refining, power, hydrogen, and other emissions-intensive industries considering carbon capture and storage solutions.

• Asset integrity, operations, and maintenance professionals responsible for pipeline integrity, corrosion management, well integrity, monitoring systems, reliability, and long-term storage stewardship.

• Consultants and technical advisers supporting carbon capture and storage feasibility studies, project development, engineering assurance, interface audits, commissioning, and infrastructure integration.

Course Objectives

• Develop a comprehensive understanding of carbon capture and storage infrastructure, including capture facilities, carbon dioxide conditioning, transportation systems, injection wells, geological storage, and long-term monitoring.

• Explain the technical dependencies between capture processes, carbon dioxide composition, dehydration, compression, transport specifications, injection requirements, and storage reservoir conditions.

• Develop integrated project development plans that coordinate feasibility studies, engineering design, permitting, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operational readiness across the full value chain.

• Establish effective interface management systems using interface registers, responsibility matrices, interface control documents, design data requirements, and formal resolution procedures.

• Identify and manage technical, commercial, regulatory, environmental, safety, schedule, and operational risks arising from interdependent carbon capture and storage infrastructure packages.

• Evaluate transportation and storage infrastructure options by considering carbon dioxide volumes, operating envelopes, distance, terrain, capacity, reliability, scalability, and lifecycle costs.

• Apply structured engineering coordination techniques to manage battery limits, tie-in points, utility requirements, control system integration, metering, communication protocols, and shared infrastructure.

• Strengthen project controls by integrating interface milestones, technical deliverables, design reviews, procurement dependencies, change requests, and commissioning requirements into the master schedule.

• Understand the principal safety and integrity considerations associated with carbon dioxide handling, pipeline operation, compression, injection wells, geological containment, and abnormal operating conditions.

• Improve coordination of environmental assessment, permitting, stakeholder engagement, regulatory compliance, emissions measurement, monitoring, reporting, and long-term liability requirements.

• Develop commissioning and systems integration strategies that verify technical compatibility, operational performance, control interactions, measurement accuracy, and readiness across connected infrastructure packages.

• Prepare an integrated carbon capture and storage delivery framework incorporating governance, interface accountability, risk controls, performance indicators, operational handover, and continuous improvement.

Comprehensive Course Outline

Module 1: Foundations of Carbon Capture and Storage Infrastructure

• Examine the carbon capture and storage value chain, including industrial capture, carbon dioxide conditioning, transportation, injection, geological containment, monitoring, and long-term stewardship.

• Compare major capture approaches, including post-combustion, pre-combustion, oxy-fuel combustion, and selected industrial process capture applications.

• Understand how carbon capture and storage differs from carbon utilization, direct air capture, carbon removal, and other industrial decarbonization pathways.

• Identify the principal project stakeholders, infrastructure owners, technical disciplines, regulatory bodies, commercial participants, and operating organizations involved in integrated carbon management projects.

Module 2: Project Development, Feasibility, and Investment Definition

• Develop project concepts that define emission sources, anticipated capture volumes, carbon dioxide specifications, transport routes, storage options, capacity requirements, and expected project outcomes.

• Examine feasibility study requirements covering technical options, site conditions, infrastructure availability, geological suitability, environmental constraints, commercial assumptions, and implementation complexity.

• Evaluate project readiness by reviewing data quality, technology maturity, storage characterization, permitting pathways, stakeholder commitments, utilities, and potential infrastructure bottlenecks.

• Establish project development gates and decision criteria for progressing from opportunity assessment and pre-feasibility through concept selection, front-end engineering, final investment decision, and execution.

Module 3: Capture Technology Integration and Carbon Dioxide Conditioning

• Examine how capture technology selection influences carbon dioxide flow rates, pressure, temperature, moisture content, impurity composition, energy demand, and downstream infrastructure requirements.

• Evaluate conditioning processes such as dehydration, impurity removal, compression, pumping, cooling, and liquefaction according to the intended transportation and storage configuration.

• Establish interface specifications for carbon dioxide composition, flow variability, delivery pressure, temperature, moisture limits, and acceptable contaminant concentrations.

• Assess how variations in industrial feed conditions, capture plant operation, start-up behavior, turndown, and shutdown procedures affect transportation and storage system performance.

Module 4: Carbon Dioxide Properties, Flow Assurance, and Operating Envelopes

• Examine carbon dioxide phase behavior and the effects of pressure, temperature, impurities, and water content on pipeline transport, compression, pumping, and injection operations.

• Understand the engineering implications of dense-phase transport, two-phase flow risks, transient conditions, pressure management, and potential rapid depressurization.

• Identify flow assurance concerns involving hydrates, corrosion, impurity-related phase behavior, thermal effects, and operating conditions outside the approved design envelope.

• Develop coordinated operating envelopes and design assumptions that link capture plant performance with transportation requirements, storage acceptance criteria, and emergency operating procedures.

Module 5: Carbon Dioxide Transportation Infrastructure Development

• Compare pipeline, ship, rail, road, and other transportation configurations according to project scale, distance, geography, throughput, reliability, and commercial requirements.

• Examine pipeline route selection, hydraulic design, material selection, wall thickness, valves, isolation systems, pumping or compression facilities, and supporting utilities.

• Assess transportation infrastructure requirements for land access, crossings, right-of-way, construction logistics, tie-ins, inspection facilities, and future network expansion.

• Develop transportation design and operating requirements that account for carbon dioxide specifications, capacity utilization, pressure control, monitoring, maintenance, and safe isolation.

Module 6: Geological Storage Site Characterization and Injection Infrastructure

• Examine geological storage concepts involving saline formations, depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs, and other formations subject to appropriate technical and regulatory assessment.

• Review storage site characterization methods, including seismic interpretation, geological modeling, petrophysical analysis, pressure evaluation, well data, and uncertainty assessment.

• Understand injection well design, completion systems, pressure management, injectivity testing, well integrity, reservoir surveillance, and interaction with existing subsurface infrastructure.

• Evaluate storage capacity, containment, plume behavior, pressure propagation, potential leakage pathways, monitoring requirements, and the evidence needed to demonstrate storage suitability.

Module 7: Integrated Infrastructure Design and Systems Engineering

• Develop system architecture diagrams that connect capture plants, conditioning facilities, compressors, pipelines, intermediate terminals, injection facilities, utilities, control systems, and monitoring infrastructure.

• Define design bases, technical assumptions, equipment performance requirements, utility interfaces, operating philosophies, and system-level acceptance criteria across project packages.

• Apply systems engineering techniques to manage requirements traceability, functional dependencies, design verification, configuration control, and technical change across interconnected assets.

• Coordinate civil, structural, mechanical, process, electrical, instrumentation, control, telecommunications, and subsurface engineering deliverables to maintain design consistency.

Module 8: Interface Management Frameworks and Responsibility Allocation

• Establish an interface management plan defining governance, interface categories, deliverables, communication channels, review stages, approval authority, escalation routes, and closeout requirements.

• Develop interface registers that capture unique identifiers, originating and receiving parties, required inputs, technical dependencies, deliverable dates, status, risk ratings, and accountable owners.

• Prepare interface control documents defining battery limits, physical tie-ins, process conditions, equipment connections, control signals, utilities, data exchange, and acceptance requirements.

• Apply responsibility assignment matrices, interface workshops, design coordination meetings, and formal resolution procedures to prevent gaps, duplication, inconsistent assumptions, and unresolved technical decisions.

Module 9: Multicontractor Coordination, Procurement, and Contract Interfaces

• Coordinate engineering, procurement, construction, equipment supply, pipeline installation, well services, technology licensing, and storage operation packages within an integrated delivery strategy.

• Establish contractual interface obligations covering data exchange, design reviews, document submissions, access requirements, tie-in readiness, testing support, and defect resolution.

• Examine how split responsibilities, differing contract standards, vendor deviations, late technical information, and inconsistent specifications can generate cost and schedule exposure.

• Develop procurement and expediting strategies that align long-lead equipment, specialist materials, pipeline components, compression systems, metering equipment, and injection infrastructure with integrated milestones.

Module 10: Project Controls, Interface Scheduling, and Change Management

• Develop integrated schedules linking engineering deliverables, interface milestones, permitting, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operational readiness across the infrastructure value chain.

• Identify critical interfaces, predecessor dependencies, decision deadlines, data handover dates, construction tie-ins, and testing prerequisites that may affect the critical path.

• Apply interface-driven risk analysis, schedule impact assessment, cost forecasting, and scenario planning to evaluate the consequences of unresolved technical or commercial decisions.

• Establish configuration management and formal change control processes for assessing the effects of design modifications on connected facilities, operating envelopes, contracts, costs, safety, and project completion.

Module 11: Process Safety, Carbon Dioxide Hazards, and Emergency Preparedness

• Examine carbon dioxide hazards, including asphyxiation, dense gas dispersion, cold releases, pressure-related hazards, and potential effects on workers and nearby communities.

• Apply hazard identification and risk assessment methods such as HAZID, HAZOP, LOPA, bow-tie analysis, and quantitative risk assessment where appropriate to project complexity.

• Develop safety interface requirements covering detection, alarms, emergency shutdown, isolation, depressurization, control room coordination, access restrictions, and emergency communication.

• Coordinate emergency preparedness across capture plants, pipeline operators, transportation terminals, injection sites, local authorities, emergency services, and affected communities.

Module 12: Environmental Assessment, Permitting, and Stakeholder Engagement

• Identify environmental and social assessment requirements relevant to capture facilities, pipeline corridors, terminals, injection wells, storage sites, and associated infrastructure.

• Examine permitting and authorization pathways involving industrial emissions, pipeline construction and operation, land access, subsurface rights, injection activities, water use, and environmental protection.

• Develop stakeholder engagement plans covering communities, landowners, regulators, local authorities, industrial operators, environmental organizations, and other interested parties.

• Establish environmental monitoring, grievance management, impact mitigation, reporting, and corrective-action processes that remain consistent across project packages and operating jurisdictions.

Module 13: Measurement, Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification

• Establish measurement systems for captured, transferred, injected, stored, and potentially released carbon dioxide, including suitable metering boundaries and reconciliation procedures.

• Examine monitoring approaches such as pressure surveillance, well monitoring, geochemical sampling, geophysical surveys, surface monitoring, and risk-based leakage detection.

• Develop data management and reporting processes that support emissions accounting, regulatory submissions, storage performance assessment, operational assurance, and verification of reported carbon quantities.

• Address measurement uncertainty, data integrity, chain of custody, reconciliation between operators, monitoring coverage, and the distinction between captured carbon and verified long-term storage.

Module 14: Construction, Pre-Commissioning, and System Integration

• Plan construction sequencing, access, heavy equipment movements, pipeline installation, facility tie-ins, well construction interfaces, quality inspections, and management of simultaneous operations.

• Establish mechanical completion requirements, inspection and test plans, system boundaries, punch-list controls, document handover, and readiness criteria for each infrastructure package.

• Coordinate pre-commissioning and commissioning activities, including cleaning, drying, pressure testing, leak testing, equipment checks, control verification, communication tests, and operating procedure validation.

• Develop integrated start-up and acceptance plans that verify compatibility between capture output, conditioning equipment, transportation capacity, injection systems, monitoring platforms, and emergency shutdown arrangements.

Module 15: Commercial Models, Infrastructure Finance, and Long-Term Liability

• Examine carbon capture and storage business models, including dedicated industrial systems, shared transport and storage networks, hub-and-cluster developments, and common-user infrastructure.

• Evaluate commercial arrangements covering capture services, transport tariffs, capacity reservation, storage fees, quality specifications, volume reconciliation, availability, and service interruption.

• Assess financing structures, capital cost exposure, operating costs, carbon pricing assumptions, incentives, public-private partnerships, and contractual allocation of performance and delivery risks.

• Examine long-term responsibilities involving storage site closure, post-injection monitoring, financial assurance, liability transfer, record retention, decommissioning, and regulatory obligations.

Module 16: Emerging Technologies and Integrated CCS Delivery Capstone

• Explore developments in carbon dioxide network optimization, digital twins, remote monitoring, predictive maintenance, geospatial systems, automated reporting, and AI-assisted project controls.

• Examine shared storage hubs, cross-border carbon dioxide transport, evolving carbon management markets, industrial cluster integration, and the infrastructure implications of expanding decarbonization demand.

• Complete an integrated case study covering capture capacity, carbon dioxide specifications, pipeline interfaces, storage site readiness, regulatory constraints, project controls, and commissioning dependencies.

• Present a comprehensive carbon capture and storage infrastructure delivery plan incorporating interface governance, risk ownership, integrated scheduling, verification requirements, operational handover, and continuous improvement priorities.

Training Approach

This course will be delivered by our skilled trainers who have vast knowledge and experience as expert professionals in the fields. The course is taught in English and through a mix of theory, practical activities, group discussion and case studies. Course manuals and additional training materials will be provided to the participants upon completion of the training.

Tailor-Made Course

This course can also be tailor-made to meet organization requirement. For further inquiries, please contact us on: Email: training@upskilldevelopment.com Tel: +254 721 331 808

Training Venue 

The training will be held at our Upskill Training Centre. We also offer training for a group (at a discount of 10% to 50%) at requested location all over the world. The Onsite course fee covers the course tuition, training materials, two break refreshments, buffet lunch, airport transfers, Upskill gift package, and guided tour.

Visa application, travel expenses, dinners, accommodation, insurance, and other personal expenses are catered by the participant

Certification

Participants will be issued with Upskill certificate upon completion of this course.

Airport Pickup and Accommodation

Airport pickup and accommodation is arranged upon request. For booking contact our Training Coordinator through Email: training@upskilldevelopment.com, +254 721 331 808

Terms of Payment:

Unless otherwise agreed between the two parties’ payment of the course fee should be done 3 working days before commencement of the training so as to enable us to prepare better.