Italian energy giant Eni has signed a memorandum of understanding with German company Uniper to explore hydrogen production and decarbonisation initiatives in North Wales, UK. Eni and Uniper are already working together in the area: Uniper’s Connah’s Quay power station in Flintshire is powered by gas from Eni’s plant in Liverpool Bay. Uniper has indicated future explorations into the production of blue and green hydrogen at Connah’s Quay.
- July 7, 2021
Equinor, Norway’s state oil company has announced its plan to build the largest hydrogen production facility in the world near Hull in the UK. This facility will be equipped with carbon capture an storage technology. The facility will generate blue hydrogen to be supplied to the Keadby gas power plant in Lincolnshire, which will use it to generate electricity. This will make it the first large-scale power plant to generate electricity by exclusively using renewable sources of energy.
- July 3, 2021
A Swiss company working in carbon technology, Climeworks has devised a plant which can extract and absorb CO2 directly from the atmosphere and store it. The stored carbon dioxide can either be sold to industries which need carbon (carbonated drinks, carbon-neutral fuel) or transported for permanent storage. The facility can remove 900 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the air on an annual basis. Currently, it has secured commercial viability by partnering with a nearby agricultural firm that buys all the carbon captured in a year to make fertilizers.
- June 30, 2021
Storegga and Carbon Engineering (CE), British companies working in carbon capture have announced the beginning of a new project which can potentially remove up to a million tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year. The partners are considering locations in North-east Scotland, near another CCS project in Aberdeenshire which is expected to be operational by 2025. Storegga and Carbon Engineering’s project is expected to be operational a year later.
- June 30, 2021
DNV, an international accredited registrar and classification society headquartered in Høvik, Norway has been given the green signal to conduct an impact assessment study for a carbon capture and storage pipeline. The study will investigate the viability of reusing existing offshore pipelines to transport carbon dioxide emissions. DNV has been conducting related studies for the project as part of its plan to develop a large-scale offshore carbon capture and storage project in the Dutch North Sea.
- June 24, 2021
Santos, an Australian firm supplying natural gas and its project partner, Beach Energy have secured a grant of AUD15 million from the Carbon Capture Use and Storage Development Fund instituted by the Australian government. The partners won the grant in recognition of their AUD210 million CCS project in Moomba, South Australia.
- June 18, 2021