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James Craig

UK CCUS Cluster projects: two given go-ahead, and details of all clusters provided at CCSA Conference

The UK government has announcement the two projects to move forwards towards development and operation by 2025. Details on all UK clusters were presented in the CCSA's CCUS 2021 Conference last week. Here are summaries of these significant developments. Today Greg Hands, Minister State for Energy, Clean Growth and Climate Change announced that the ...
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Asian Development Bank (ADB) Workshop on De-Carbonization of Cement Sector through CCUS

A virtual workshop on the De-Carbonization of the Cement Sector through Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) was hosted by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on the 14th October 2021. The primary objective of the workshop was to present the findings of the prefeasibility study of the cement production CCUS project in India. Further, the wor...
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U.S. DOE Workshop on Modelling and Analysis of Energy Challenges to Meeting U.S. 2050 Goals

A two-day virtual workshop on modelling and analysis of energy challenges with the aim of meeting the US 2050 goals was held by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) on the 28th and 29th of September 2021. The aim of the workshop was to address and institute new and innovative ideas with regards to designing models that reflect future energy...
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Tim Dixon

IEA Workshop on CCUS for Nigeria’s Energy Transition

Nigeria is a large and significant country in Africa, with some 20% of Africa's population and an economy to match, and a significant oil and gas sector. It recently issued its updated NDC for COP26 where it pledges to reduce emissions by 20% by 2030 and by 47% by 2030 conditional on international support, which would then be consistent with a 1.5C...
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James Craig

UKCCSRC 2021 Conference: 'Delivering on COP26: CCS across the World', 7th and 8th September

The UKCCSRC 2021 conference 'Delivering on COP26: CCS across the World' presented a highly upbeat vision of CCUS progress across the world, but especially in the UK. For the UK, several prominent contributors, notably Jon Gibbons, Professor Paul Monks BEIS (Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy) Chief Scientific Advisor and Dr Bryo...
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Samantha Neades

IEAGHG-IPA Pre-Convention Short Course on CCUS for Executives

IEAGHG were invited by ITB, one of our Executive Committee Members, to run a short course on CCUS for high-level executives and government representatives from Indonesia on the 19th August 2021. This short course was held as a pre-convention event for the Indonesian Petroleum Association (IPA), prior to its 45th annual convention and exhibition whi...
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Samantha Neades

2021 ITB-IEAGHG Virtual CCUS Course

Following the success of the ITB-IEAGHG Virtual CCUS Course for the Asia-Oceanic Region held in November 2020, the hosts (the Faculty of Mining and Petroleum Engineering at ITB, the Bandung Institute of Technology) and IEAGHG were keen to replicate the invaluable knowledge sharing and international collaboration that took place in the field of carb...
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Tim Dixon

TCCS-11 goes Virtual

The Norwegian-based CCS conference TCCS-11 was forced to go fully virtual this year because of COVID, as had our own GHGT-15. However a plus was that the Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg was able to give the opening welcome address. She is a very impressive person, leading in the UN on sustainable development goals advocacy and also on educati...
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Tim Dixon

A quick look at the G7 agreements – “Build Back Better”

This G7 was a big deal for the UK Government for many reasons, and it wanted to hold a physical meeting so it chose scenic Cornwall, which came with the risk of the lovely variable Cornish weather. This G7 was also a big deal for the USA, the first major opportunity for the Biden administration to show that the USA was back fully participating in t...
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Juho Lipponen

Are we finally mainstreaming CCUS?

The 12th Clean Energy Ministerial, or CEM, meeting took place the whole of last week, 31 May to 6 June, hosted by the Government of Chile and its Ministerio de Energia, under the dynamic leadership of Energy Minister Juan Carlos Jobet. CEM's innovation sister organisation, Mission Innovation, also held its annual ministerial meeting. 75% of global ...
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Samantha Neades

New IEAGHG Report: IEAGHG Monitoring Network – Webinar & Virtual Discussion: Monitoring Expertise Showcase for Post-Closure Monitoring, 2021-TR03

This new report from IEAGHG details a webinar held in January 2021 by the IEAGHG Monitoring Network; an expertise showcase for post-closure monitoring. This was an interactive and informal experience for the audience using a scenario-based exercise; various experts in the area of post-closure monitoring proposed how they would approach a post-closu...
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Samantha Neades

CEM CCUS Initiative: Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Assessments and CCUS

On the 15th April 2021, the CEM CCUS Initiative held a webinar looking at Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Assessments in relation to CCUS. ESG has gone from an aspirational activity to a mainstream, essential aspect of commercial behaviour in recent years. Climate change is now synonymous with the 'E' in the acronym, making a corporation...
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Samantha Neades

IEA-COP26 Net-Zero Summit Virtual High-Level Dialogue

On Wednesday 31st March 2021, the International Energy Agency (IEA) held a live event bringing together top international energy and climate leaders from around the globe for vital discussions on turning net zero ambitions into reality. Opening – A Grand Coalition to Achieve Net Zero The opening welcome to this grand coalition to achieve global net...
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Tim Dixon

Policy and Regulatory Summaries from GHGT-15

In GHGT-15's session on Policy International and Incentives, some significant work was shared on CCS and the Sustainable Development Goals, undertake by TNO for IEAGHG and also by Imperial College on CCS in 'Just Transitions'. This work is helping to identify and fill data gaps for CCS and stimulated much discussion. It was noted that such evaluati...
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Monica Garcia

GHGT-15: Session 1E: Hydrogen & CSS

Following the growing interest on decarbonised hydrogen, this GHGT session incorporated discussions on hydrogen production technologies, infrastructure, and collaborative initiatives. Roger Dewing, from Air Products plc, discussed the retrofitting of existing SMRs (Steam Methane Reformer) with CO2 capture. He presented the Port Arthur SMR retrofit,...
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Monica Garcia

GHGT-15: Session 3E – Capture in industry

With an increase of CCUS activities in the industrial sector, this GHGT session incorporated the views of international experts on the integration of CO2 capture in different facilities. Ruby Ray, from Wood, presented their work on CCS in fertilisers and cement production facilities. In the case of the fertiliser production, a non-urea product with...
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Jasmin Kemper

GHGT-15: Sessions 3D & 7B – Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS)

Notwithstanding the perceived 'overreliance' on BECCS that I mentioned in my previous blog, interest in BECCS pathways is still strong, as the two full sessions on the topic at GHGT-15 show. Mathilde Fajardy presented the results of a study, which explored cost-optimal deployment of BECCS over time in five regions: Brazil, China, EU, India and USA....
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Jasmin Kemper

GHGT-15: Sessions 1D & 2D – Direct air capture (DAC)

GHGT-15 has seen two sessions on direct air capture (DAC), which is pleasing to see and underlines the importance of the extension of GHG mitigation/reduction portfolios, triggered by a perceived 'overreliance' on certain options like bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) in models and scenarios. Gabriel Vézina presented on integrated D...
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James Craig

GHGT-15: Panel Discussion 4 – CCUS in the Oil and Gas Sector

The challenges faced by the oil and gas sector, and the associated development of CCUS, were illuminated in the fourth panel discussion of the GHGT-15 virtual conference.A North American perspective was presented by Ganesh Dasari from ExxonMobil, Scott Wehner of CaprockCarbon, Tim Wiwchar of Shell Quest and Nigel Jenvey from GafffneyCline. Tidjani ...
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Keith Burnard

GHGT-15: Day 4 Plenary: Update on CCS in China

With an installed capacity of around 200 GW, the China Huaneng Group (CHNG) is the largest power group in China and, in fact, in the world. Dr. Xu Shisen, who briefed attendees on some of China's extensive range of CCUS-related activities, past and present, is Chairman of CHNG's Clean Energy Research Institute. Dr. Xu began by reminding listeners o...
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