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The South West Hub Project: Developing a project in unconventional geology
16th October 2016
The WA Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP) has been investigating the Lesueur Formation on-shore South West of Western Australia. The South West Hub project has been acquiring field data between 2011 and 2015 involving...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, Engineering and project delivery, use and storage (CCUS)
Perspectives on the role of CO2 capture and utilisation (CCU) in climate change mitigation
16th September 2016
Achieving the target set during COP21 will require the deployment of a diverse portfolio of solutions, including fuel switching, improvements in energy efficiency, increasing use of nuclear and renewable power, as well as carbon capture...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS)
A Better Life with a Healthy Planet: Pathways to Net Zero Emissions
16th September 2016
In July, the Shell Scenarios team released “A Better Life with a Healthy Planet: Pathways to Net-Zero Emissions”, a supplement that builds on Shell's New Lens Scenarios published in 2013, which showed that economic growth coupled...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS)
Thirty six key lessons from the 2008 – 2015 UK carbon capture and storage programmes
16th September 2016
In June, the UK Carbon Capture and Storage Association (CCSA) published an important new report: Lessons Learned – Lessons and Evidence Derived from UK CCS Programmes, 2008 – 2015. Partnering with Patrick Dixon, former Expert Chair of...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS)
‘Enhanced Water Recovery’: Brine Extraction with CO2 Geological Storage as part of CCS
16th July 2016
Deep saline formations (DSF) provide the largest potential storage resource available worldwide to CCS projects; in the United States (US) alone, effective storage resources have been conservatively estimated as in excess of 2,000 Gigatonnes (Gt) of CO2;...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS)
Convective mixing in geological storage of CO2
16th June 2016
Convective mixing of CO2 in saline aquifers is an important physical process that can significantly increase the amount of CO2 that is securely trapped in the aquifer. This process happens on a...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS)
12 months, 5 sites, 1 billion tonnes of CO2 storage by 2030. The ETI introduces the findings of its latest study.
16th June 2016
Last week, the UK’s Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) published the results of its 12-month, £2.5million CO2 Storage Appraisal Project, Progressing development of the UK’s Strategic Carbon Dioxide Storage Resource. ...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS)
Milestone Oxyfuel Plant Going into Operation in Hubei, China
16th May 2016
Oxyfuel combustion is a promising method of carbon capture and storage (CCS) due to its higher boiler efficiency and high CO2 concentration in exhaust gases. In this Insight Global CCS Institute Senior Adviser for Carbon...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS)
A summary of CCS-related conversations at COP21
16th April 2016
The Paris climate change conference in December 2015 was the most significant development in international action on carbon emissions to date. The Global CCS Institute was active throughout the conference, advocating for carbon capture and...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, law and regulation, Policy, use and storage (CCUS)
Induced seismicity and CO2 geological storage
16th April 2016
Appropriately selected and characterised carbon dioxide (CO2) geological storage sites, an essential element of carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects, are unlikely to be adversely affected by induced seismicity. In this Insight Global CCS Institute...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, CO2 storage, Health, safety and environment, use and storage (CCUS)
Japan's legal and regulatory framework for CCS
16th April 2016
Some reflections from the APAC CCUS Legal and Regulatory Forum, Tokyo Japan's carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) permitting framework has a marine conservation focus, reflecting the fact that it was enacted to meet Japan's...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, Domestic policy, law and regulation, Policy, use and storage (CCUS)
The Global Status of CCS: 100 days after the COP21 Paris Agreement
16th March 2016
The COP 21 climate negotiations in Paris during December 2015 spoke with great promise of a renewed global commitment to tackle climate change. Front and centre in the post-COP discussion has been one significant shift in...
Topic(s): Carbon capture, CO2 capture, CO2 storage, CO2 transport, CO2 utilisation, use and storage (CCUS)