CO2 sequestration News

GE Oil & Gas awarded US$400m contract for Gorgon, one of the world’s largest natural gas projects

GE Oil & Gas today announced it has been awarded a competitive bid, worth over $400 Million, to deploy advanced liquefied natural gas (LNG) technology for the development of Gorgon, one of the world’s largest untapped natural gas fields, which also features the world’s largest ever carbon-dioxide (CO2) sequestration technology project. Claudi Santiago, President and CEO of GE Oil & Gas said: “I ...

Oct. 22, 2009

By General Electric

Research Collaboration to Hold Decarbonisation Tests in Support of Clean Growth Initiative

A Swansea University research collaboration is to carry out field trials of its very large scale decarbonization technology in support of Government's recently announced clean growth initiatives.The tests come after an announcement in May by UK Energy and Clean Growth Minister Claire Perrywho outlined the UK's goal to lead an international challenge with Saudi Arabia and Mexico to remove carbon ...

Jun. 8, 2018

By Smart Grid Observer

DOE project starts CO2 sequestration in New Mexico coalbed

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and its Southwest Regional Partnership (SWP) recently began injecting carbon dioxide (CO2) in a large coalbed while simultaneously recovering valuable natural gas. The SWP plans to inject up to 35,000 tons of CO2 in a 6-month demonstration at the San Juan Basin near Navajo City, N.M. Unlike other enhanced coalbed methane recovery projects, this demonstration ...

Aug. 6, 2008

By National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)

SwRI Researchers Develop Novel Compression Devices for CO2 Sequestration

SAN ANTONIO - Engineers at Southwest Research Institute have completed testing of a high-pressure turbo pump and an enhanced compressor design for sequestration of carbon dioxide emissions from pulverized coal, integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) and oxy-fuel power plants. Because of growing concern over greenhouse gas emissions, the U.S. government and utilities are developing ...

Sep. 29, 2010

By Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)

EPA takes action on reducing barriers to the use of carbon capture and sequestration technologies / action supports national framework for the safe use of clean energy technology

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing a rule to advance the use of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies, while protecting Americans’ health and the environment. CCS technologies allow carbon dioxide (CO2) to be captured at stationary sources - like coal-fired power plants and large industrial operations - and injected underground for long-term ...

Aug. 4, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

More hydrogen cars on EU roads

The European Commission welcomes this week's support of the European Parliament for its proposal to simplify the approval of hydrogen powered vehicles. This will mark a step forward in the development and marketing of clean and safe hydrogen vehicles. As a result, they will be seen more often on Europe's streets and the European automotive industry could become more competitive by taking the lead ...

Sep. 3, 2008

By European Commission, Enterprise and Industry DG

Carbon sequestration: boon or burden

Plans to sequester carbon are gaining support as a way to avoid global warming. The European Union plans to invest billions of Euros within the next ten years to develop carbon capture and storage whereby CO2 will be extracted at power plants and other combustion sites and stored underground. But how effective is this procedure and what are the long-term consequences of leakage for the oceans ...

Jul. 5, 2010

By GLOBE SERIES

55 Percent Growth In Coal-fired Power Generation By 2020

Despite concerns about global warming, there will be a steady increase in world coal-fired generation resulting in installed capacity of 2.1 million MW (2l00 GW) by 2020. This new forecast in the McIlvaine report, Coal-fired Boilers: World Analysis and Forecast, represents a substantial reduction from the forecast made in April when the 2020 anticipated capacity was predicted at 2.7 million MW. ...

Nov. 2, 2007

By The McIlvaine Company

China Will Help Drive The NOx Control Market To $5 Billion/year

By 2011 the worldwide sales of NOx Control systems and catalyst will exceed $5 billion/yr. The sales of selective catalytic reduction systems will rise and fall year to year and country to country, whereas the catalyst sales will steadily increase. These are the latest forecasts in the McIlvaine report, NOx Control: World Markets. The largest single market for NOx control is coal-fired ...

Oct. 24, 2007

By The McIlvaine Company

Should coal plants cool it?

With its high CO2 emissions and central place in the US (and global) energy infrastructure, ‘fixing’ coal is arguably at the center of a successful resolution to the climate challenge in the United States and the world. At present, coal is responsible not only for significant CO2 emissions, but also for environmental damages ranging from mountain top removal to mercury emissions. However, it ...

Dec. 17, 2008

By World Resources Institute WRI

QLD carbon capture project to help tackle climate change

In a first for Queensland, CSIRO and Tarong Energy today announced a A$5 million joint pilot project to capture greenhouse gases. The project will see the installation of a post-combustion capture (PCC) pilot plant at Tarong Power Station, 45km south of Kingaroy. The pilot plant is designed to capture 1500 tonnes per annum of CO2 from the power station and is part of a broader research program ...

Sep. 10, 2008

By CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Department of energy formally commits $1 billion in recovery act funding to FutureGen 2.0

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced that the Department of Energy has signed final cooperative agreements with the FutureGen Industrial Alliance and Ameren Energy Resources that formally commit $1 billion in Recovery Act funding to build FutureGen 2.0. The FutureGen 2.0 project will help to position the United States as a leader in innovative technologies for reducing carbon ...

Sep. 28, 2010

By US Department of Energy

GLOBE 2008 session update: carbon capture and storage

The clear message from expert panelists speaking at the Carbon Capture and Storage session of GLOBE 2008 was that carbon capture and storage is proven, safe and Canada’s best option for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but the technology will not become commercially viable without government assistance. The largest barrier to the wide spread commercial use of carbon capture and storage ...

Mar. 12, 2008

By GLOBE SERIES

MHI Awarded Concept Study of 3,400ton/day CO2 Recovery Facility

- One of World's Largest Recovery Plants for CHP Power Station - Tokyo, Oct 17, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has been awarded by Statoil, an international energy company with headquarters in Norway, to undertake a concept study for a technology qualification program (TQP) for one of the world's largest carbon dioxide (CO2) capture facilities. The approximately ...

Oct. 17, 2012

By Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI)

CO2 Solutions Partners for U.S. Carbon Capture Pilot

CO2 Solutions Inc., an innovator in the field of enzyme-enabled carbon capture technology, today announced that it has entered into a Collaboration Agreement with Colorado-based Neumann Systems Group, Inc. (“NSG” or “Neumann Systems”), an established emissions control solutions provider. Under the terms of the agreement, CO2 Solutions and NSG will demonstrate a ...

Jun. 17, 2014

By GLOBE SERIES

New study finds major policy intervention required to boost carbon capture potential

A WRI analysis of the complex challenges that investors would face when deploying carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies shows that until government policies support large-scale demonstrations it is unlikely that CCS will be able to fulfill its potential in combating climate change. Carbon capture and storage, the process whereby carbon dioxide from a coal-fired power plant is injected ...

Jun. 4, 2008

By World Resources Institute WRI

Energy Department Project Captures and Stores One Million Metric Tons of Carbon

As part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, the Department of Energy announced today that its Illinois Basin-Decatur Project successfully captured and stored one million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) and injected it into a deep saline formation. The project is part of the development phase of the Department’s Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships ...

Jan. 8, 2015

By US Department of Energy

$2.5 Trillion Investment In New Coal-fired Plants In The Next 25 Years

World coal-fired power generation capacity will rise from 1.3 million MW in 2006, to 1.7 million MW in 2011, and to 2.7 million MW in 2030. This will require more than 1.7 million MW of new coal-fired construction to account for retirements as well as growth. The investment in these new plants will exceed $2.5 trillion. This is the prediction in the new McIlvaine online continuously updated, ...

Apr. 13, 2007

By The McIlvaine Company

Diesel fuel can be made from Algae - Montana State University

The same slippery brown algae that covers streamside rocks, making footing hazardous for anglers, contains oil that can be turned into diesel fuel, says a Montana State University microbiologist. Keith Cooksey is one of many U.S. scientists who studied the feasibility of turning algal oil into biodiesel in the 1980s. From 1978 to 1995 a study to investigate algae as a source of fuel and its ...

Jan. 21, 2008

By Environment News Service (ENS)

DOE Invests $17 Million to Advance Carbon Utilization Projects

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected 11 projects to receive approximately $17 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects for carbon utilization. The projects will develop and test technologies that can utilize carbon dioxide (CO2) from power systems or other industrial sources as the primary feedstock. The research goal of ...

Jun. 17, 2020

By Smart Grid Observer

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