Sino-German Conference
& Excursions 2010

July 6 – 13, 2010 in China: Beijing, Jintan, Shanghai, Daqing

Of the known greenhouse gases, political attention to date has primarily focused on carbon dioxide (CO2). Considering the fact that China has become the world largest CO2 emission country with 6100 Mt per year and Germany is Europe’s largest CO2 emission country with 800 Mt per year, both countries together are responsible for approximately 23% of the global emission (China: 20%, Germany: 3%). From a global point of view, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology could have significant contribution to global climate protection. Together with the global energy crisis, China is willing to construct much more underground storages of crude oil and natural gas than Germany in the foreseeable future.

Chinese and Germany scientist came together in a conference in Goslar in summer 2007 to discuss issues of underground storage. They concluded that such a scientific exchange of views is a fruitful tool and should be continued.

As a result the idea of a Chinese-German cooperation group was born and a three year program of collaboration was designed. Part of this program is the Sino-German Conference & Excursions “Underground storage of CO2 and energy” held in China this year. Already the name of the event informs about the fact that it consists out of different sections.

First is the two day conference “underground storage of CO2 and energy” in Beijing on July 6th and 7th.

Second is an excursion to the salt cavern storage of natural gas in Jintan and to the EXPO 2010 in Shanghai.

And third is an excursion to the Daqing oil field combined with a workshop on Enhanced Oil Recovery & New Drilling Technology.

The organizing committee invites the interested community, scientific but also industrial and governmental to this conference and the following excursions.

The Sino-German Conference & Excursions is supported by the Federal State of Niedersachsen.

A foreword by Christian Wulff, Prime Minister of Niedersachsen, may be downloaded here.

A conference programme was designed and a wide spectrum of experts was chosen to present their work.

• Part 1: Environmental and Energy Policy & Law for Underground Storage
• Part 2: Geological Storage and Monitoring
• Part 3: Enhanced Gas and Oil Recovery Using CO2 (CO2-EGR/EOR)
• Part 4: Rock Mechanical Behavior in Consideration of Dilatancy and Damage
• Part 5: Underground Storage of Natural Gas and Oil
• Part 6: Underground Storage of Wind Energy
• Part 7: State-of-the-Art & New Developments in Gas Supply in Germany and China <p>

Further papers with focus on Enhanced Oil Recovery and New Drilling Technology will be presented in the Daqing workshop.

Conference venue will be at:
Sino German Center of Research Promotion
Shuangqing Street 8
100085 Peking, PR China
Phone: +86 10 623 200 88
Fax: +86 10 623 426 37

Further information can be downloaded regarding the schedule of conference and excursions, preliminary oral presentations and 6-day-excursions

It includes some sightseeing as a promotion for further discussions among the participants.

If you want to participate in the Conference and/or the Excursions, please register with form that can be downloaded here.

The form can be sent by Regular mail to:

Energie Forschungszentrum Niedersachsen
Sino-German Conference & Excursions
Am Stollen 19
38640 Goslar
GERMANY
e-Mail to: co2gas@tu-clausthal.de
fax to: +49 5321 3816 8009

No prior vaccination is required to enter China.

But a tourist visa is necessary to enter China for the conference and excursions. The necessary form can be downloaded here. The instruction for visa application is described under www.china-botschaft.de/det/qz/t514074.htm. Almost all travel offices in Germany offer the visa service, so that you do not need to apply the visa personally.

The organizing committee, together with the TUI TravelStar Osterode (Doergestr. 40 – Schachtruppvilla, 37520 Osterode am Harz, Tel.: +49-5522-6855, reisebuero.osterode@t-online.de, www.reisebuero.osterode.de,), organized also visa, flights and hotel accommodation. However the cost is not included in the conference & excursion fees.

The flights are arranged in two travel groups. You can download details here for group 1 and for group 2:

The following Hotel accommodations are recommended for the conference because they are close the venue:
Hotel Xijiao (about 35 - 80 €/room)
18 Wangzhuang Road, Haidian District
100083 Peking, PR China
Phone +86 10 623 222 88
Fax: +86 10 623 111 42

Hotel Jadepalace (about 85 – 150 €/room)
76 Zhichun Road, Haidan District
100086 Peking, PR China
Phone +86 10 626 28 888
Fax: +86 10 626 38 255
E-Mail: danieldong1009@sina.com
Please give the key word „co2gas“ for hotel booking.

All fees for the conference and excursions shall be transferred to:

Bank: Sparkasse Goslar/Harz
Account holder: TU Clausthal
Account number: 422
Bank code number: 268 500 01
IBAN: DE44268500010000022111
Swift/BIC Code: NOLADE21GSL

Please give the keyword: "8003 0690, First & Last Name"