MEDIA ADVISORY: LSU College of Engineering Hosting Ceremony to Celebrate Announcement of CO2 Research Well at PERTT Lab

BATON ROUGE, La., Nov. 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — On Friday, Nov. 8, the LSU College of Engineering and its Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering will host a “spudding” ceremony for the new CO₂ Research Well at the LSU PERTT – Petroleum Engineering Research, Training, and Testing – Lab on LSU’s campus. The event will serve as a ceremonial groundbreaking for the well, which was designed in collaboration with Halliburton and ExxonMobil.

This new, one-of-its-kind well will enable students, researchers, regulators, and industry to study CO₂ in all three of its phases under realistic field conditions. It will not inject any CO₂ into the subsurface, and it will be solely used for research purposes.

For more information on the well, click here.

Media availability will be from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. and include:

• Well project lead and Petroleum Engineering Professor Karsten Thompson,
• Petroleum Engineering Professor Richard Hughes,
• Petroleum Engineering Graduate Student Ayman Said,
• Greater New Orleans Inc. Energy & Innovation Manager Cameron Poole, and
• Other industry representatives TBD.

The spudding ceremony will be held from 3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. and include remarks from:

• LSU College of Engineering Dean Vicki Colvin,
• LSU Executive Vice President & Provost Roy Haggerty,
• U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow,
• Halliburton President, Western Hemisphere, Mark Richard,
• ExxonMobil Senior Vice President of Low Carbon Solutions Dominic Genetti,
• Greater New Orleans Inc. President & CEO Michael Hecht, and
• Louisiana Economic Development Chief Business Development Officer Paige Carter.

The LSU PERTT Lab is located at 2829 Gourrier Dr., Baton Rouge, LA 70820.

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CONTACT: Joshua Duplechain
LSU College of Engineering
225-578-5706
josh@lsu.edu