Carbon Capture and Storage Infrastructure Project Management Course

Course Introduction

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) infrastructure is becoming an important component of industrial decarbonization strategies, particularly for sectors where reducing emissions through electrification and conventional energy efficiency measures remains challenging. CCS projects involve capturing carbon dioxide from industrial processes or energy facilities, conditioning and transporting the captured gas, and injecting it into suitable geological formations for long-term storage. Delivering this infrastructure requires coordination across process engineering, pipeline development, compression systems, geological assessment, environmental management, regulatory compliance, and commercial planning. This course equips participants with comprehensive project management knowledge for planning, coordinating, executing, and monitoring CCS infrastructure projects while maintaining control over cost, schedule, quality, safety, and environmental performance.

The development of a CCS project begins with establishing the emissions source, estimating capture requirements, assessing technical feasibility, and identifying suitable transportation and storage pathways. Project teams must evaluate industrial site conditions, capture technology options, energy requirements, carbon dioxide composition, pipeline routes, storage capacity, geological suitability, and access to supporting infrastructure. These assessments influence project scope, investment requirements, design decisions, regulatory approvals, and implementation schedules. This course examines feasibility studies, site selection, pre-engineering assessments, infrastructure planning, and business case development. Participants will learn how to translate decarbonization objectives into measurable project deliverables, evaluate technical alternatives, establish project boundaries, and develop realistic implementation strategies for complex carbon management infrastructure.

CCS infrastructure projects frequently combine several interconnected systems, including capture plants, dehydration units, compressors, pipelines, pumping facilities where applicable, intermediate storage, export terminals, injection wells, and monitoring equipment. These systems must operate as an integrated chain, making interface management and technical coordination essential to project success. Delays or design changes affecting one component can influence the performance, commissioning, or commercial readiness of the entire network. This course explores engineering coordination, work breakdown structures, critical path scheduling, procurement planning, contractor management, construction sequencing, and interface control. Participants will examine how to manage long-lead equipment, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, control design changes, and establish clear responsibilities across capture, transport, and storage work packages.

Financial performance, risk management, and regulatory compliance are central considerations throughout CCS project delivery. Capital-intensive infrastructure investments may be exposed to uncertainty involving capture efficiency, energy consumption, pipeline construction, geological storage performance, financing arrangements, carbon pricing, and long-term operating costs. Project teams must also address environmental assessments, land access, pipeline permits, pressure system requirements, storage licensing, monitoring obligations, and community engagement. This course examines project budgeting, lifecycle cost analysis, procurement governance, risk registers, contractual performance requirements, and stakeholder communication. Participants will learn how to assess commercial assumptions, coordinate approval processes, establish risk mitigation measures, and maintain effective oversight of contractors, suppliers, regulators, and storage partners throughout implementation.

Environmental integrity and long-term storage assurance are fundamental to successful CCS infrastructure projects. Captured carbon dioxide must be handled, transported, and stored under appropriate technical and regulatory controls, with monitoring systems designed to identify potential leakage, pressure changes, and other unexpected behavior. Project planning must also account for lifecycle emissions, energy demand, water consumption, land use, biodiversity impacts, and the possibility that capture operations may not achieve expected net emissions reductions. This course examines environmental and social impact assessment, carbon accounting, geological storage monitoring, measurement, reporting and verification, emergency response planning, and operational performance measurement. Participants will explore how to establish credible acceptance criteria and documentation systems that support safe operation, transparent reporting, and long-term environmental accountability.

The carbon management sector is evolving through the development of shared carbon dioxide transport networks, industrial clusters, offshore storage hubs, cross-border infrastructure, and integrated carbon capture utilization and storage projects. Emerging developments include digital monitoring platforms, advanced compression technologies, automated pipeline surveillance, predictive maintenance, and improved methods for characterizing and monitoring geological storage formations. These developments create new project opportunities but also introduce additional technical interfaces, commercial dependencies, and governance requirements. This course prepares participants to manage CCS infrastructure projects across the full lifecycle, from concept development and feasibility assessment through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operational handover. By applying structured project controls and evidence-based decision-making, participants will be better equipped to deliver reliable, safe, cost-effective infrastructure that supports industrial decarbonization and responsible carbon management.

Duration

5 days

Who Should Attend

• Project managers responsible for planning and delivering carbon capture and storage infrastructure projects across industrial facilities, transportation networks, compression stations, and geological storage developments.

• Process engineers involved in evaluating carbon capture technologies, process integration, dehydration requirements, compression systems, equipment specifications, and operational performance.

• Petroleum, reservoir, and geological engineers responsible for assessing storage formations, injection well requirements, subsurface behavior, reservoir capacity, and long-term storage integrity.

• Pipeline engineers and infrastructure specialists involved in route selection, pipeline design, pressure management, materials selection, construction planning, and carbon dioxide transportation systems.

• Mechanical and electrical engineers responsible for compressors, pumps, heat exchangers, instrumentation, power systems, control systems, and supporting industrial infrastructure.

• Environmental engineers and sustainability professionals assessing lifecycle emissions, environmental impacts, carbon accounting, monitoring requirements, and compliance with project sustainability objectives.

• Procurement and supply chain professionals coordinating the acquisition of compressors, pipeline materials, valves, monitoring equipment, injection systems, and specialized engineering services.

• Contract administrators and commercial managers overseeing engineering, procurement and construction contracts, transportation agreements, storage service contracts, warranties, and project performance obligations.

• Energy and industrial decarbonization managers responsible for integrating CCS infrastructure into cement, steel, chemicals, refining, power generation, and other emissions-intensive operations.

• Project planners and cost controllers responsible for work breakdown structures, critical path schedules, cost estimates, resource allocation, financial forecasting, and implementation performance reporting.

• Health, safety, and environmental officers managing carbon dioxide exposure risks, pressure systems, pipeline construction hazards, emergency response, environmental protection, and occupational safety.

• Regulatory and compliance specialists coordinating environmental approvals, pipeline permits, storage licensing, land access, operating permissions, and applicable reporting requirements.

• Quality assurance and commissioning professionals responsible for inspection plans, construction quality, pressure testing, system integration, performance verification, and operational acceptance.

• Climate finance professionals, investment analysts, and project developers evaluating capital requirements, lifecycle costs, commercial structures, carbon management markets, and project financing risks.

• Consultants, infrastructure developers, and public-sector officials seeking practical approaches to planning, governing, and implementing carbon capture and storage infrastructure projects.

Course Objectives

• Develop comprehensive CCS infrastructure project management plans that define project scope, capture and storage objectives, technical deliverables, implementation milestones, responsibilities, and measurable acceptance criteria.

• Conduct feasibility assessments covering emissions sources, capture requirements, energy availability, transportation routes, geological storage options, infrastructure readiness, and project commercial viability.

• Coordinate engineering activities across capture facilities, carbon dioxide conditioning, compression, pipelines, terminals, injection wells, monitoring systems, and supporting utilities.

• Prepare realistic project schedules, budgets, resource plans, procurement strategies, and cost forecasts that account for complex infrastructure dependencies and long-lead equipment requirements.

• Apply structured procurement and contract management techniques to evaluate suppliers, manage construction contractors, control variations, and coordinate transportation and storage service agreements.

• Identify and mitigate technical, geological, environmental, commercial, regulatory, construction, and operational risks throughout the carbon capture and storage project lifecycle.

• Integrate environmental assessment, occupational safety, pressure system management, pipeline integrity, emergency preparedness, and regulatory compliance into project planning and execution.

• Establish quality assurance, commissioning, and acceptance testing procedures that verify equipment performance, pipeline integrity, system interoperability, injection readiness, and compliance with approved requirements.

• Apply carbon accounting, lifecycle assessment, measurement, reporting and verification, and storage monitoring principles to evaluate environmental performance and long-term carbon management outcomes.

• Implement project controls, stakeholder communication, operational handover, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement practices that support reliable and responsible CCS infrastructure operations.

Comprehensive Course Outline

Module 1: Fundamentals of Carbon Capture and Storage Infrastructure

• Explain the CCS value chain, including carbon dioxide capture, conditioning, compression, transportation, injection, geological storage, and long-term monitoring.

• Compare major capture approaches, including post-combustion, pre-combustion, and oxy-fuel systems, while examining their infrastructure requirements and industrial applications.

• Examine CCS applications in cement, steel, chemicals, refining, power generation, hydrogen production, and other sectors with substantial process-related emissions.

• Define project lifecycle stages, stakeholder responsibilities, infrastructure interfaces, technical dependencies, and performance indicators for successful CCS project delivery.

Module 2: Project Initiation, Feasibility Studies, and Business Case Development

• Develop project charters, business cases, preliminary scope statements, stakeholder registers, and feasibility studies to establish the justification for CCS infrastructure investment.

• Evaluate emissions sources, carbon dioxide volumes, composition, capture requirements, energy demand, existing industrial assets, and potential integration constraints.

• Assess transportation alternatives, including pipelines, shipping, road transport where appropriate, and shared infrastructure serving multiple industrial emitters.

• Prepare preliminary cost estimates, implementation scenarios, investment assumptions, project risk assessments, and decision criteria for advancing projects into detailed engineering.

Module 3: Engineering Design and Infrastructure Interface Management

• Coordinate process design requirements for capture systems, dehydration units, compression facilities, metering equipment, buffer storage, and supporting utility infrastructure.

• Establish pipeline design requirements covering route selection, operating pressure, material compatibility, corrosion considerations, flow capacity, and relevant engineering standards.

• Coordinate geological storage assessments, injection well planning, reservoir characterization, pressure management, and monitoring infrastructure with qualified subsurface specialists.

• Develop interface registers, design review procedures, requirements traceability, configuration controls, and technical change management processes across interconnected project work packages.

Module 4: Project Scheduling, Budgeting, and Financial Management

• Develop work breakdown structures, integrated master schedules, critical path analyses, milestone plans, and construction sequences for capture, transport, and storage infrastructure.

• Estimate capital and operating expenditure for process equipment, pipelines, compression stations, terminals, wells, monitoring systems, utilities, and environmental compliance activities.

• Assess lifecycle costs, contingency requirements, financing assumptions, energy costs, transportation tariffs, storage fees, and other factors affecting long-term project economics.

• Apply cost forecasting, earned value management, schedule variance analysis, risk-adjusted estimates, and performance reporting to maintain project control and accountability.

Module 5: Procurement, Contracting, and Supply Chain Management

• Prepare procurement strategies, technical specifications, supplier qualification criteria, and evaluation frameworks for specialized CCS equipment and infrastructure construction services.

• Evaluate supplier capability, equipment performance guarantees, manufacturing lead times, material availability, quality certifications, maintenance support, and lifecycle costs.

• Coordinate procurement of pipeline materials, compressors, valves, metering systems, control equipment, injection components, and geological monitoring technologies.

• Administer engineering, procurement and construction contracts, transportation agreements, storage contracts, performance guarantees, change orders, claims, and supplier acceptance obligations.

Module 6: Construction Management and Infrastructure Deployment

• Plan site preparation, foundations, equipment installation, pipeline route preparation, trenching, welding, tie-ins, compression station construction, and supporting utility works.

• Coordinate construction contractors, engineering teams, land access arrangements, equipment suppliers, inspection personnel, and operations teams across multiple work locations.

• Apply construction quality plans, welding inspection, material traceability, non-destructive testing, pressure testing, environmental controls, and applicable pipeline integrity requirements.

• Manage construction progress, work permits, site safety, interface dependencies, change requests, logistics, and readiness reviews to support controlled project execution.

Module 7: Environmental Management, Safety, and Regulatory Compliance

• Develop environmental and social impact assessment plans covering land use, biodiversity, water resources, construction disturbance, emissions, and stakeholder concerns.

• Assess carbon dioxide hazards associated with high-pressure systems, potential releases, confined spaces, transportation infrastructure, and emergency response requirements.

• Coordinate relevant permits, land access approvals, pipeline authorizations, environmental permissions, storage licenses, operating approvals, and monitoring obligations.

• Establish health and safety management plans, emergency procedures, risk registers, incident reporting, regulatory compliance tracking, and contractor safety requirements.

Module 8: Carbon Transportation, Geological Storage, and Integrity Management

• Evaluate carbon dioxide conditioning, dehydration, compression, metering, transportation capacity, pipeline operations, and interface requirements between emitters and storage facilities.

• Examine geological storage options, including suitable saline formations and depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs, subject to site-specific characterization and regulatory approval.

• Coordinate injection well design, reservoir pressure management, storage capacity assessment, monitoring plans, and long-term containment assurance with relevant technical specialists.

• Establish integrity management procedures addressing corrosion, pipeline inspection, leak detection, pressure monitoring, emergency shutdown, and corrective action requirements.

Module 9: Carbon Accounting, Emerging Technologies, and Commercial Developments

• Apply lifecycle assessment and carbon accounting methods to distinguish captured carbon dioxide from verified net emissions reductions and durable carbon storage outcomes.

• Examine measurement, reporting and verification requirements, storage monitoring evidence, emissions baselines, uncertainty management, and documentation for carbon management claims.

• Evaluate emerging technologies such as advanced capture solvents, improved sorbents, digital twins, automated pipeline surveillance, predictive maintenance, and enhanced subsurface monitoring.

• Assess shared transportation networks, industrial CCS clusters, offshore storage hubs, cross-border infrastructure, carbon management markets, and evolving commercial arrangements.

Module 10: Commissioning, Operational Handover, and Project Closure

• Develop commissioning plans for capture systems, dehydration units, compressors, pipelines, metering equipment, injection facilities, control systems, and emergency shutdown functions.

• Verify system performance, equipment reliability, carbon dioxide quality, transportation capacity, pipeline integrity, injection readiness, and compliance with approved acceptance criteria.

• Prepare operating procedures, asset registers, maintenance schedules, monitoring plans, emergency response documentation, training materials, and contractual handover records.

• Complete project closure reports, final cost reconciliations, contract closeout, lessons-learned reviews, operational performance baselines, and continuous improvement recommendations.

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.