capture and storage project News
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Ciuden and Endesa present their CO2 capture and storage projects in Brussels
The Spanish government sponsored Energy City Foundation (Fundación Estatal Cuidad de la Energía or CIUDEN for its initials in Spanish) and ENDESA GENERACION have presented their respective CO2 capture and storage projects to Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs’ Cabinet, aided by two of Spain’s permanent EU representatives. This is part of a joint ENDESA-CIUDEN initiative to demonstrate the ...
By Endesa, S.A.
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ADM Begins Operations for Second Carbon Capture and Storage Project
Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) recently announced that the Illinois Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage (ICCS) project, a partnership to safely and permanently store more than 1 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, has begun operations. "2017 is a watershed year for carbon capture in the United States. On the heels of the successful opening of Petra Nova in Texas, the Illinois ...
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IEA hails historic launch of carbon capture and storage project
The International Energy Agency (IEA) today welcomed the launch of the world’s first large-scale power station equipped with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, calling it a historic milestone along the road to a low-carbon energy future. The 110MW retrofit of SaskPower’s Boundary Dam coal-fired power plant in Saskatchewan, Canada will trap around 1 million tonnes of carbon ...
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7 CEMS for the experimental Spanish CO2 Capture Plant!
In order to establish the variation of operating conditions of the plant and to determine in real time emissions of pollutants at different points, 7 MIR systems will be placed, among others, at the entrance of the SCR DENOx, and at the entrance and the exit of the DESOx system, on stack, etc. ... La Fundación Ciudad de la Energía (CIUDEN), set up in May 2006, is the main Spanish ...
By ENVEA
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Clarke Energy takes the lead with Jenbacher in Decarbonisation in the Oil and Gas Industry
Clarke Energy was recently awarded a contract to work on Santos’ A$220 million carbon capture and storage project (CCS) in Moomba, South Australia. Expected to be launched in 2024, the Moomba energy transition project will capture and geologically store 1.7 million tonnes of CO2 per year. The project is a global leader on reducing the cost of full lifecycle emissions compared to other CCS ...
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KBR Wins Fabrication Award for First Canadian Oil Sands Carbon Capture and Storage Project in Alberta, Canada
KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced today that Shell Canada Energy has selected KBR to perform off-site modularization and pipe fabrication at their Edmonton Module Facility. This historic project will use Shell Quest Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies to reduce CO2 emissions at Shell’s Upgrader which upgrades oil originating from Shell’s Athabasca Oil Sands operations. This ...
By KBR, Inc
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TFI Applauds Increase in Infrastructure Investment
WASHINGTON – The Fertilizer Institute (TFI) President & CEO Chris Jahn today praised U.S. Senators John Barrasso (R-WY), Tom Carper (D-DE), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and Ben Cardin (D-MD) for introducing “America’s Transportation Infrastructure Act,” to reauthorize the FAST Act which expires in October 2020. “Our country’s infrastructure is in ...
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Masdar awards design contract for Abu Dhabi carbon capture and storage project to Mustang Engineering
Masdar, an Abu Dhabi government initiative, owned by Mubadala Development Company, announced today the selection of Houston, Texas-based Mustang Engineering, a subsidiary of international energy services company John Wood Group PLC, to provide front-end engineering and design (FEED) services for Masdar’s Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project in the United Arab Emirates. The project ...
By MASDAR
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ADM Announces Successful Completion of One Million Metric Ton Carbon Capture and Storage Project
ADM and the University of Illinois announced this week the successful completion of the Illinois Basin - Decatur Project (IBDP), a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project designed to evaluate and test the technology at commercial scale. This is one of two CCS projects located adjacent to ADM's corn processing plant in Decatur, Illinois. The first-of-its-kind project was primarily funded ...
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Secretary Chu announces up to $154 million for NRG energy`s carbon capture and storage project in Texas
U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced today that a project with NRG Energy has been selected to receive up to $154 million, including funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Located in Thompsons, TX, the post-combustion capture and sequestration project will demonstrate advanced technology to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. It will also assist with ...
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International environment/industry alliance underpins Australian carbon capture program
The Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC), which is undertaking Australia’s first carbon storage project, yesterday welcomed the proposal of a National Carbon Capture and Storage Taskforce aimed at accelerating the adoption of carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects. The *CO2CRC Chief Executive, Dr Peter Cook, said he looked forward to the acceleration of ...
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Energy Department advances carbon capture and storage research on two fronts
Forty-three research projects that will advance carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies while providing graduate and undergraduate student training opportunities at universities across the country will be supported by $12.7 million in U.S. Department of Energy funding announced today. Spread over three years, the regional sequestration training projects and funding will be managed by the ...
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Scottish Carbon Capture & Storage receives £150k
The Scottish Funding Council (SFC), Scottish Government and Scottish Enterprise have each committed £50,000 to support the UK’s largest research, industry and government partnership in carbon capture, use and storage. Established with SFC funding in 2005, Scottish Carbon Capture & Storage (SCCS) is a research and knowledge exchange partnership between Heriot-Watt University, the ...
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DNV GL Approves Carbon Capture Technology
DNV GL has approved as qualified, technology for a full-scale demonstration project in Norway to remove carbon emissions at a cement plant. Gassnova, the Norwegian state's agency for implementation of carbon capture and storage projects, initiated the project which will apply carbon capture technology developed by Aker Solutions at Norcem's cement plant in Brevik, Norway. Globally, the cement ...
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Developing the first CO2 pipeline standard
“As Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) projects could become an important mitigation option related to climate change, this broad cooperation is an important step forward,” says project manager Frøydis Eldevik at DNV. Relating to CO2 pipeline transmission stakeholders today demand a robust, traceable and transparent approach that gives credibility to the proper management of the risks and ...
By DNV GL
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Increasing oil production and reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Cenovus operates the 210-square-kilometre Weyburn field in southeastern Saskatchewan. When it was discovered in 1954, the Weyburn field contained one of the largest medium-sour crude oil reservoirs in Canada, with approximately 1.4 billion barrels of oil in place. The Weyburn field has benefited from a series of innovative developments that Cenovus has applied to produce more oil from the ...
By 3BL Media
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Businesses from across the region come together to learn how they can contribute to building the world’s biggest carbon capture project at Drax
More than 328 businesses came together this week at an event run by renewable energy company Drax and its engineering, procurement and construction partner, Worley, to learn how they can win contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds to deliver Drax’s vital carbon removal technology, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS). More than 328 businesses from across ...
By Drax Group
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Hundreds of active projects in $19 billion Canadian Oil Sands Market
There are hundreds of active capital investment projects in the oil sands sector in Western Canada. Last year investment was more than $19 billion with even greater expenditures on the horizon. This is the latest forecast in Oil, Gas, Shale and Refining Markets and Projects published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com) The investment is not only for expansion of the total ...
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New super sensitive NDIR CO2 gas analyser for carbon capture and storage
The result of extensive new development work part funded by the UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB), Signal launch the new Pulsar class GFC NDIR gas analyser. The objective of this work was to develop a CO2 gas analyser for the accurate measurement of carbon capture and storage projects. The project was undertaken with cooperation between Signal Group, National Physical Laboratory and BP Group. ...
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Durban: our reflections a month after COP17
Viewpoint from Simon Retallack, Strategy Manager, Carbon Trust Durban: our reflections a month after COP17 - the Durban Platform, future of Kyoto, climate finance and where it all leaves us Immediate reaction to the outcome of the United Nations climate negotiations in Durban was decidedly mixed. Some commentators acclaimed the conference for having achieved what more than a decade of ...
By Carbon Trust
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