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Mapping a continent’s potential: North American Carbon Storage Atlas released
Blog post
If a picture is worth a thousand words, as the saying goes, then perhaps the new atlas of North American Carbon Storage, might be worth a gigaton or two? In a...
CO2 Technology Centre at Mongstad (TCM) opens
Blog post
Today saw the opening of the world's largest facility for testing, developing and improving carbon capture technologies – the CO2 Technology Centre at Mongstad...
Norway opens the world’s largest centre for development of carbon capture
Media release
The Global CCS Institute today welcomed the opening of the world’s most advanced centre for testing and development of carbon capture technologies at Mongstad...
Global CCS Institute Japan Regional Members' Meeting
Event
The Global CCS Institute will host its Japan Regional Members' Meeting in Tokyo on 8 June 2012. This meeting will bring the latest information on CCS to senior...
Carbon sequestration 'very important'
News Item
Carmen Dybwad sizes up her inquisitor and wonders aloud if he might possibly be old enough to remember Bob Stanfield, described by some historians as "the best...
CCS key to sustainable use of Low Rank Coals
Blog post
The Second International Symposium on the Sustainable Use of Low Rank Coals was recently held in Melbourne (16-18 April), and there were more than a...
Institute to facilitate CCS Knowledge Sharing in Europe
Media release
The Global CCS Institute has won a competitive tender to provide secretariat and knowledge dissemination services for the European Commission’s Carbon Capture...
American Electric Power (AEP), Mountaineer Project – CO2 capture plant Interview with Bill Sigmon
Event
Bill Sigmon, AEP Senior Vice President of Engineering, Projects and Field Services sat down for an interview with the Global CCS Institute to...
IGCC - A robust power generation technology
Blog post
For the generation of reliable base-load electricity with low carbon emissions, it is vital that a fossil-fuelled power generation plant provides a robust host...
The BASREC pre-study - In praise of hubs and clusters?
Blog post
On 6 and 7 March, there was a conference on carbon transportation and storage solutions in Warsaw, Poland. This conference was organised by ...
Full portfolio of innovative technology approaches needed – EPRI
Blog post
Electricity is the lifeblood of our modern world. Indeed, it is hard to find a single aspect of life that has not been transformed by electric power. But...
With key contracts signed, Summit Power's Texas CCUS project on track for July groundbreaking
Blog post
The Texas Clean Energy Project, a 400-megawatt, coal-fired plant designed to perform carbon capture, use and storage recently cleared two key...
CCS Project Integration Workshop – summary report
Publication
As a part of the Global CCS Institute's focus on assisting CCS projects through knowledge sharing, a one-day workshop was organised in collaboration with the...
Decisions maketh the Project
Blog post
Doing projects is all about making decisions. Decisions are made at each point of the project delivery process, at each gate and many times between the major...
CCS lessons learned report American Electric Power Mountaineer CCS II project phase 1
Publication
The front end engineering and design (FEED) package developed within Phase I incorporated knowledge gained and lessons learnt (construction, operations, and...
AEP Mountaineer II Project - Front end engineering and design (FEED) report
Publication
This public design report provides select non-proprietary design information from the Phase I – Project Definition work products associated with the carbon...
Tenaska Trailblazer front end engineering design (FEED) study
Publication
Tenaska selected Fluor Econamine FG PlusSM technology and contracted with Fluor to complete a front end engineering and design (FEED) study for the carbon...
An update on oxyfuel capture technology
Blog post
Earlier this month, I wrote about new reports produced by the Electric Power Research Institute on behalf of the Global CCS Institute. I have already...
$100m for the Valley
News Item
The Latrobe Valley welcomed its "best employment news in a long time" on Friday, with the announcement of $100 million in State and Federal funding for...
Lignite potential solution to Turkey’s rising energy demand
News Item
Recent research published by the Turkish Union of Engineers and Architects’ Chambers (TMMOB) considers the possibility of exploiting Turkey’s rich lignite...
Ferguson grants extension for contentious power plant project
News Item
Resources Minister Martin Ferguson will this morning throw a lifeline to a contentious coal-fired power plant project in Victoria's Latrobe Valley that is...
Summit moves back deadlines
News Item
The groundbreaking for the Texas Clean Energy Project has been delayed and Summit Power Group officials have asked the City of Odessa to push back the...
FutureGen is behind schedule, but moving ahead
News Item
The head of an alliance overseeing a major carbon capture project in Illinois said yesterday he was "confident" the project would move forward by 2016,...
An update on pre-combustion capture technology
Blog post
Last week I wrote an update on post-combustion capture. This week I'll focus on pre-combustion in the power industry.
NIST Provides Octagonal Window of Opportunity for Carbon Capture
News Item
Filtering carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, from factory smokestacks is a necessary, but expensive part of many manufacturing processes. However, a...
