CO2 Capture Project CCS regulatory issues update
- The CO2 Capture Project has published its 4th Update on CCS regulatory issues, focusing on Europe, US, Canada and Australia. >>more

DOE initiative aims to speed up technology to market
- The Office of Fossil Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has begun research under the Carbon Capture Simulation Initiative (CCSI), partnering with other national laboratories, universities, and industry to develop computational modelling and simulation tools to accelerate commercialization of CCS technologies. >>more

Progressing Scotland's CO2 storage opportunities
- A consortium of Scottish Government, industry and researchers has shown that rocks deep beneath the Moray Firth are capable of storing decades of CO2 output from Scotland's power stations. >>more

Powerfuel preferred bidder named as 2Co Energy
- KPMG have named 2Co Energy as the preferred bidder for Powerfuel Power. >>more

Bellona - needless postponement at Mongstad
- In the response to Bellona's challenges Statoil fails to address the crucial issues. We therefore reiterate our claim that Statoil does not have adequate scientific basis for delaying the Mongstad CCS project. By Gøril Tjetland and Erlend Fjøsna, Bellona. >>more

International experts to guide CCS regulatory review in Alberta
- A panel of experts will help guide a carbon capture and storage Regulatory Framework Assessment in the Canadian province of Alberta. >>more

GCCSI Status of CCS 2010 report launched
- The global commitment to carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies remains strong, according to The Global Status of CCS: 2010 report released by the Global CCS Institute. >>more

EU low carbon Roadmap to 2050 released
- The European Commission today adopted a Roadmap for transforming the European Union into a competitive low carbon economy by 2050. >>more

UK carbon plan lays down CCS deadline
- The UK government has published its draft Carbon Plan which lays out deadlines for actions on cutting carbon. >>more

South Korean lab develops oxyfuel CCS
- A South Korean state laboratory says it has developed a commercially viable carbon capture system using industrial waste heat that can help power plants cut back on greenhouse gas emissions according to the Yonhap news agency. >>more

Statoil calls Bellona's claims 'unacceptable'
- Statoil has called Bellona's claims that it presented misleading information about its Mongstad research to the Norwegian government 'unacceptable' in a statement on its website. >>more

NER 300: Inventory of CCS applications to Member States
- (Bellona) By February 9th, candidate projects to the EU funding scheme NER300 had to submit their proposals to their respective Member States. Here is a list of the 18 candidate projects Bellona is aware of so far, among which nine are located in the UK. >>more

DNV develops CO2 reuse process
- DNV has developed a process to convert carbon dioxide into useful products. Results suggest that its electrochemical conversion process could be a commercially viable technology in the future. >>more

-  (Martin Oettinger - GCCSI blog) - The Global Status of CCS: 2010, released on March 9, highlighted some significant steps forward in regard to large scale deployment of CCS. Pre-combustion and post-combustion capture systems dominated the large scale integrated projects (LSIPs) last... >>more 

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