November 14, 2023
BY Fortera Corporation
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Worley has been working with VPI since 2022 to deliver the front-end engineering design for the carbon capture retrofit at the Immingham plant. Under this new contract Worley will support the engineering, procurement, and construction development phase. This will help to prepare for the EPC of the project, pending a final investment decision next year.
The Australian Government is supporting new ways to capture carbon dioxide and put it to use, to help reduce emissions from hard-to-abate industries and advance Australia’s net zero transformation. Through the Carbon Capture Technologies Program, the government is investing $65 million in 7 projects that will use emerging technologies to decarbonize hard-to-abate industrial processes and directly remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Synergia Energy Limited announced the commencement of a farm out process concerning its Medway Hub Camelot CCS project in the UK. Synergia and its partner, Wintershall Dea, each hold a 50% interest in the CS019 Camelot carbon storage license, with Synergia as designated operator.
ArcelorMittal and partners Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., BHP, along with Mitsubishi Development Pty Ltd have successfully started operating a pilot carbon capture unit on the blast furnace off-gas at ArcelorMittal Gent in Belgium. The pilot unit will operate for one to two years to test the feasibility of progress to full-scale deployment of the technology, which would be able to capture a sizeable portion of the Gent site emissions, if successful.
Spiritus, the climate tech company pioneering cost-effective solutions for scalable direct air capture of carbon removal, entered into a memorandum of understanding with Aramco, one of the world’s leading global energy and chemicals companies, and has additionally announced that it received an equity investment in the company in November 2023, from Aramco Ventures.