underground carbon storage News

Under sea CO2 storage licensing plans published

The Government today set out how it will license the storage of carbon dioxide under the sea bed, following responses to its recent consultation on the geological storage of CO2. During the consultation, developers, industry bodies and other interested parties gave their view on potential plans for the broad structure of the proposed licensing system. This includes a proposal for having a ...

Aug. 27, 2010

By Department of Energy and Climate Change

South Africa sets its sights on carbon capture

An atlas of potential underground storage sites for carbon dioxide emissions will be compiled for South Africa as part of a plan to be using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology by 2020. The atlas is being compiled by the Council for Geoscience and the Petroleum Agency of South Africa with funding from the South African National Energy Research Institute (SANERI) and a range of energy ...

Apr. 7, 2009

By SciDev.Net

Department of Energy, Shell Canada to Collaborate on CO2 Storage Project

The Department of Energy (DOE) and Shell Canada announced today (Feb 4, 2015) they intend to collaborate in field tests to validate advanced monitoring, verification, and accounting (MVA) technologies for underground storage of carbon dioxide (CO2). The tests will take place at Shell’s Quest Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project in Alberta, Canada. The Shell Quest team and technology ...

Feb. 4, 2015

By US Department of Energy

World’s Largest Post-Combustion Carbon Capture Project Begins Construction

Today, the Department of Energy – in partnership with NRG Energy Inc. and JX Nippon – announced that construction has begun on the first commercial-scale post-combustion carbon capture retrofit project in the U.S., the largest such project in the world. The Petra Nova Project will use this cutting edge technology to help decrease the power plant’s greenhouse gas emissions. Once ...

Jul. 15, 2014

By US Department of Energy

South Africa reveals its blueprint for its energy future

The South African cabinet has approved IRP 2019 that plots the path for the nation’s generation technology mix to assuage the current energy crisis in the country. Minister of Minerals Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe has outlined the role that oil, and gas will play going forward. He was is at great pains to point out that hydrocarbons, particularly gas, will be an important part of ...

Nov. 15, 2019

By Spintelligent (Pty) Ltd - part of Clarion Events

Vattenfall inaugurates world`s first pilot for a coal-fired power plant with CO2 capture

Germany’s Secretary of the Chancellery, Thomas de Maizière, and Prime Minister of Brandenburg, Matthias Platzeck, together with Swedish Minister for Higher Education and Research Lars Leijonborg Tuesday officially launched the commencement of operations at Vattenfall’s pilot unit for a coal-fired power plant with CO2 capture, the world's first of its kind. The pilot unit, which has a thermal ...

Sep. 10, 2008

By Vattenfall AB

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

Capturing and storing CO2 deep underground

CSIRO and the CRC for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) hosted a seminar today on the latest research and technology underpinning carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS). The seminar, held at the Australian Resources Research Centre in Perth, was officially opened by the Western Australian Minister for Energy; Resources; Industry and Enterprise, The Hon. Francis Logan. Experts from ...

Jul. 30, 2008

By CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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