Maersk Oil - plan to make CCS pay for itself
- Maersk Oil believes that it can significantly reduce the costs of carbon capture and storage of carbon dioxide sequestered, by burning gas directly from an oilfield in oxygen, generating electricity, using the resulting CO2 immediately for enhanced oil recovery, and possibly selling the resulting water if it is in a region of water shortage (for example, desert). >>more  

 

SMF report explores £6.5bn CCS sector
- UK-based Special Metals Forum (SMF), in partnership with National Metals Technology Centre (NAMTEC), has published its first report into Carbon Capture and Storage. >>more  

 

DOE offers CCS science program
- The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Research Experience in Carbon Sequestration (RECS) program offers graduates and early career professionals an intensive tutorial course on the subject. >>more 

Nine UK carbon capture projects bid for EU funds
- (Reuters) - The UK energy ministry received nine applications by a Wednesday deadline for EU funding to build carbon-capture projects in Britain, a ministry spokesman said, with around 4.5 billion euros ($6.16 billion) at stake. >>more

EU urged to speed up collaboration with Canada on CCS
- (EurActiv) - The EU and Canada should work together to bring controversial carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology onto the global marketplace more quickly, according to the director of Canada's flagship CAN$2 billion (€1.4bn) CCS programme, led by the province of Alberta.  >>more  

Toshiba in Talks With NTPC for Carbon Capture Project

-  (Bloomberg) - NTPC Ltd., India's biggest power producer, is in talks with Toshiba Corp. to build a pilot project in India for capturing and storing carbon emissions, a Toshiba official said. >>more 

Self-sealing CO2 could close CCS cracks
- (theEngineer) - A new process could automatically seal cracks in underground carbon dioxide stores, according to researchers in Edinburgh. >>more

EU could meet carbon targets more cheaply with gas than renewables, say gas firms
- (The Guardian) - Europe could save €900bn (£762bn) and still hit its 2050 carbon reduction targets if it built fewer wind farms and more gas plants, a coalition of gas producers including Gazprom, Centrica and Qatar Petroleum has told the European commission. >>more 

Norway's carbon capture coup
- (The National) - The Norwegian company Protia is betting that a new approach to carbon capture, based on ceramic membranes, will make a big difference to efficiency and costs. >>more 

Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute spared further funding cuts 

- (ABC) - The Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute is under pressure from both sides of politics, with the Federal Government looking to cut funds and the Opposition wanting to scrap it all together. >>more 

CCS legal and policy - Jan / Feb 2011
- Several of the component parts of the proposed reforms under the UK Government's Electricity Market Reform Consultation carry the potential to radically alter the outlook for CCS projects. >>more calumhughes@yellowwoodenergy.com

 

Pöyry - business models for CCS
- This article is the fifth 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. This article focuses on the various options for structuring contracts between the various participants in the CCS process and the implications for risk and return. By Andy Houston and Oliver Pearce, Pöyry Energy Consulting. >>more 

 

Inventys - CO2 capture for $15 per tonne
- Inventys has developed a gas separation technology that it claims enables carbon dioxide to be captured from industrial flue gas streams for US $15 per tonne of CO2. Called the VeloxoTherm™process, it has the ability to recover the heat energy evolved during adsorption and use it to help release the CO2. >>more 

 

Capturing the profitability of carbon
- Skyonic has developed a process called SkyMine® to make profitable and useful by-products out of waste CO2. By By Joe Jones, CEO and founder of Skyonic. >>more