Ottawa and Quebec Invest in Clean Technology for Quebec’s Mining Industry
November 2, 2020
Ottawa and Quebec Invest in Clean Technology for Quebec’s Mining Industry Canad…
Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg opens the world’s largest test facility for CO2 transport – very cool
November 1, 2020
energy-pedia Oil & Gas 360 Publishers Note: This is an excellent example from Equinor and Norway on the oil & gas market working to accelerate efforts to capture CO2. On 30 October Prime Minister Erna Solberg opened the world’s largest CO2 transport test facility at Equinor in Porsgrunn. The test facility transports CO2 in pipelines, both in gas and liquid form. The
Analysis: Biden’s clean-energy ‘revolution’ faces challenge to match fossil-fuel jobs, pay
October 30, 2020
Reuters WASHINGTON/NEW YORK – Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, seeking to allay concerns that his plan to fight climate change would harm the economy, has promised a “clean energy revolution that creates millions of unionized middle-class jobs” if he’s elected. That vision, however, would require policy makers and clean-energy companies to overcome some major challenges in replacing the number and
Big Oil shares capitulate to COVID, lower carbon doubts
October 2, 2020
Reuters LONDON – Royal Dutch Shell RDSa.L and BP BP.L have lost over half of their market value so far this year, with both shares hitting 25-year lows this week, battered by weak oil prices and investor concerns over their plans to shift to low-carbon energy. Exxon Mobil, the largest U.S. oil company, which is set to report its third straight quarterly loss
How Biden’s $1.7 trillion climate plan would change America after Trump’s Big Oil presidency
October 1, 2020
CNBC Looking for policy differences between President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger former Vice President Joe Biden? The most stark may be on climate change, the issue that more than any other will shape America’s energy future. Biden has a climate plan — a big one. Trump simply doesn’t. Biden aims to push as much as $1.7 trillion over 10
Saudi Aramco sends first blue ammonia shipment to Japan
September 28, 2020
argus London, 28 September (Argus) — State-controlled Saudi Aramco has sent what it said is the world’s first shipment of blue ammonia to Japan. The product, which Aramco produced by converting hydrocarbons to hydrogen and then to ammonia, will be used in power plants to generate electricity without producing CO2 emissions. Japan will receive 40t of blue ammonia, which Aramco
Chevron invests in carbon capture technology company
February 18, 2020
Houston Chronicle Through its startup technology arm, Chevron is joining two other firms in investing in Carbon Clean Solutions, which provides portable carbon capture technology for the oil field and other industrial facilities. Chevron Technology Ventures, Tokyo industrial conglomerate Marubeni Corp. and Wave, a Boston clean energy private equity firm, are injecting $16 million into the London-based company. Carbon Clean
Carbon capture could be climate change solution, or a waste of time
November 8, 2019
UPI Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy announced $110 million in federal funding for research and development of carbon capture and storage projects. According to DOE, carbon capture and storage technologies, or CCS, are “increasingly becoming widely accepted as a viable option” for coal- or gas-fired power plants to reduce their emissions. Carbon capture
ExxonMobil Partners with Carbon Capture Company
August 26, 2019
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 ExxonMobil partners with Mosaic Materials in order to pursue carbon capture technology ExxonMobil (stock ticker: XOM), an international oil and gas supermajor, has partnered with Mosaic Materials, a chemicals and engineering company, in order to explore and advance technology that can be used to remove carbon dioxide from emissions sources. The
Chevron Starts Burying CO2 off Australia at Huge Gorgon Storage Project
August 8, 2019
From Reuters Chevron Corp (CVX.N) said on Thursday it has launched one of the world’s largest carbon capture and storage projects, injecting CO2 into a deep reservoir under an island off Western Australia at its Gorgon LNG project. The carbon storage project was delayed by more than two years after Chevron discovered problems with valves and pipeline equipment during commissioning
Enhanced Oil Recovery Can Reduce World’s Carbon Emissions: Western Governors
July 5, 2015
For every 2.5 barrels of oil produced, it is estimated that a typical commercial enhanced oil recovery (EOR) project can safely prevent one metric ton of CO2 from entering the atmosphere As of 2014, approximately 13.6 million metric tons of CO2 was captured that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere has been sequestered as a result of EOR: U.S.
