Session 6: Enhancing CO₂ Storage Performance: From Well Integrity to Advanced Injection and Mineralization
| Wednesday, September 16, 2026 |
| 1:40 PM - 3:00 PM |
Speaker
Mr Xue Song Tang
Production Technologist
Shell China, Beijing
Turning Legacy Liabilities into Managed Risks: A CCS Well Integrity Framework
1:40 PM - 2:00 PMBiography
Senior production technologist with +14yrs experience in upstream gas resource project appraisal, development, production management, and Carbon Capture and Storage. Skilled in well modeling, well integrity management, legacy well assessment, well design, integrated system modeling, Wells, Reservoir and Facility Management, etc.
Dr Lei Ding
Senior Petroleum Engineer
Aramco
Effect of Impurities on Salt Precipitation, Solubility Trapping and Plume Migration under CO2 Geological Sequestration Conditions
2:00 PM - 2:20 PMBiography
Dr. Lei Ding currently works as a Senior Petroleum Engineer at Aramco. Previously, he worked for Texas A&M University and TotalEnergies. His research interests include reservoir simulation, reactive transport modeling, CCUS, and H2 storage. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from China University of Petroleum and Rice University.
Dr Ziqiu Xue
Chief Researcher
Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE)
Adapting Microbubble CO2 Injection for Pore Space Utilization and Storage Efficiency Improvement
2:20 PM - 2:40 PMBiography
Dr. Xue is a Chief Researcher and joined in RITE in 2000 and started his professional career in carbon storage. Dr. Xue was responsible for CO2 monitoring at the first pilot storage project. He served as an Associate Editor of International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control during 2007-2012.
Dr Lei Ding
Senior Petroleum Engineer
Aramco
Mechanistic Simulation of Nanobubble Assisted CO2 Mineralization in Basalt
2:40 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
Dr. Lei Ding currently works as a Senior Petroleum Engineer at Aramco. Previously, he worked for Texas A&M University and TotalEnergies. His research interests include reservoir simulation, reactive transport modeling, CCUS, and H2 storage. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from China University of Petroleum and Rice University.
