Cambridge Carbon Capture and Petroc win Shell awards
- The company won £40,000 from the Shell Springboard programme, designed to promote the growth of green businesses in the UK. >>more  

NETL CO2 capture process wins award
- A process developed by researchers at the Office of Fossil Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) that improves the capture of CO2 emissions from power plants while reducing the cost has been selected to receive a 2011 Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer. >>more  

DOE study looks at CO2 pipeline regulation
- A private sector model with a state rather than Federal-based regulatory framework is the approach that will most likely result in a robust CO2 pipeline system in the United States, according to a new report developed with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE/NETL). >>more  

Australian Government reduces and delays CCS funding
- The Australian PM has announced spending cuts and deferrals of AUS$250 million to its Flagship CCS program and the Global CCS Institute to help pay for Queensland flood relief. >>more  

Maersk Oil acquires Zero Emission technology
- Maersk Oil has acquired licences to Clean Energy System's Oxy-Fuel technology that allows zero-emission power generation in combination with oil and gas projects. >>more

- scientists at Berkeley Lab's Computational Sciences and Engineering and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) have developed an industrial-strength simulation code to model CO2 injection into underground saline reservoirs. Blog from the Editor at HPCwire >>more 

- This article is the fourth in a series that considers features of the future power markets in which CCS will be competing with a view to understanding the potential implications for the here and now. It focuses on how the transportation requirements for CCS require careful consideration in order to avoid unnecessary future energy market complexity. Rushing in arrangements to facilitate investment today could potentially constrain energy competition into the future possibly limiting the penetration of CCS. By Angus Paxton, Pöyry Energy Consulting >>more

China's growing CCS activities in action
- Recently, Chinese energy companies have become engaged in a range of CCS-related pilot projects, some involving the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and U.S. companies and universities. Sarah Forbes, Deborah Seligsohn and Logan West, World Resources Institute >>more

Making the case for CCS in the CDM
- The developing world needs a support mechanism to also benefit from CCS's Climate Change mitigation potential. Why can this not be the CDM? By Henk Sa and Lodewijk Nell, EcoMetrix Africa >>more

UK CCS policy: on track, but only just
- Chris Littlecott, senior policy adviser at the environmental thinktank Green Alliance, looks at the early actions of the new UK government, and identifies three key challenges that their CCS strategy must address. >>more

Alberta legislates on CCS
- Alberta has introduced amendments to legislation which will guide the use of carbon capture and storage technology. By Ron Liepert, Minister of Energy, Alberta >>more

CCS perspectives in energy intensive industries
- For some CO2-intensive industries CCS could be a valuable solution as for the time being a significant amount of emissions from industry is process related and is difficult to mitigate. By Victoria Schmid and André Lacerda >>more