Carbon Capture

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June 13, 2023
The Phase 2 DOE/SBIR grant will fund a test project that will include installation of a system under the brand name CO2SeQure, which consists of a permanent BuriedArray of microseismic sensors, autonomous data collection and telemetry, and automated event detection and location, all connected to the CCS facility operations center.
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June 12, 2023
Halliburton Company has been awarded a contract to provide completions, liners, and monitoring products and services for the carbon capture and storage (CCS) system within the HyNet North West project in the Liverpool Bay (U.K.).
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June 07, 2023
European leaders looking to tackle climate change should look to U.S. policy and “let the market work” to avoid driving companies away with prescriptive regulations, ExxonMobil Corp. Chief Executive Officer Darren Woods said.
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June 01, 2023
The technique increases underground pressure in the reservoirs, which makes it easier to bring more oil to the surface and extends the life of the fields. Removing the CO2 also allows Petrobras to safely pipe the remaining natural gas to shore.
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June 01, 2023
The project can store over 1.5 million tons of carbon dioxide, equivalent to planting nearly 14 million trees.
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May 2023
The practical impossibility of large-scale carbon capture and storage
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May 22, 2023
Wintershall Dea plans to offer CCS primarily as a service for those industries which will not be able to completely avoid CO2 emissions in the future, even after electrification.
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May 19, 2023
David Whitehouse said the decision to offer 13 areas off the UK’s coast as sites for permanently storing millions of tonnes of CO2 meant the UK could pioneer a technology that would be essential in the fight against climate change.
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May 18, 2023
The North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) launched the UK’s first-ever carbon storage licensing round in June 2022, with applications closing in September. The 20 licenses in total are around 12,000 square kilometers in size, a little bigger than Yorkshire, the UK’s largest county.
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May 17, 2023
The Gorgon CCS project, one of the largest of its kind in the world, needs investment to boost performance and will be stuck at around one-third of its intended capacity until that’s completed, according to David Fallon, Chevron Australia’s General Manager of Energy Transition.
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May 16, 2023
Two of the most critical pieces of equipment, worth about $20.02 million, for Santos’ Moomba carbon capture and storage (CCS) project are making their way to site after arriving in South Australia last week.
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May 2023
After 60 years of E&P activity, the Cooper basin remains Australia’s largest onshore O&G province, supplying domestic gas markets in southeastern Australia and export markets via the Gladstone LNG plant. This strategic basin has potential for further discoveries, as well as opportunities to play a key role in Australia’s energy transition through CCS projects in depleted fields.
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May 11, 2023
PGS has entered into a seismic acquisition contract for carbon storage offshore Norway by an independent energy company. The project is scheduled to start in September and has a duration of approximately one month.
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May 09, 2023
Michael Tholen, Director of Policy and Sustainability for Offshore Energies UK, said, “Deep beneath our waters lies a treasure trove of carbon capture business opportunities. An accurate map of the UK’s potential for this innovative sector will help to nurture a new wave of businesses and jobs."
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May 05, 2023
The four non-binding MOUs for CO2 supply to Bayu-Undan CCS have been executed with potential upstream gas and LNG projects offshore the Northern Territory and in Darwin, and an energy and industrial conglomerate in Korea.
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April 28, 2023
Under this agreement, Wood will combine its surface, fluids transport and pipeline engineering expertise with CMG’s world leading subsurface software and services to provide an integrated and connected approach to CCS project development.
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April 26, 2023
In a media roundtable, Wintershall Dea CEO Mario Mehren said, “In Q1, we made solid progress against our two strategic priorities: Diversification, through moderate growth for our E&P business, and decarbonization, by building up our carbon management and hydrogen business.”
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April 11, 2023
Viking CCS has the potential to meet one third of the UK Government’s target to capture and store up to 30 million tonnes of CO2 a year by 2030.
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April 05, 2023
On Tuesday, ExxonMobil hosted its Low Carbon Solutions Spotlight, to explain how the company is “growing its Low Carbon Solutions business, to help accelerate progress toward reaching society’s net-zero goals.”
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April 05, 2023
Under the terms of the agreement, ExxonMobil will transport and permanently store up to 2.2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year from Linde’s hydrogen production facility, equivalent to the emissions from nearly half a million cars per year.
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April 05, 2023
As a result, INPEX amended the revised POD to include plans to neutralize all carbon dioxide emitted from natural gas production at the Abadi Gas Field through the introduction of CCS.
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