The joint venture will enable wider adoption of market-ready and new carbon capture technologies for power and hard-to-abate industrial sectors worldwide. // PHOTO: Aker Carbon Capture
June 21, 2024
BY Aker Carbon Capture
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A methodology developed by renewable energy pioneers Drax and Stockholm Exergi has been validated by DNV, an organization which delivers world-renowned testing, certification and technical advisory services to the energy sector.
Carbon removal company Equatic, with Canadian carbon removal project developer Deep Sky, announced that engineering has commenced on North America’s first commercial-scale ocean-based carbon dioxide removal plant. This plant will remove 109,500 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and produce 3,600 tons of green hydrogen per year.
Piñon Midstream, LLC announced that it has received approval from the United States Environmental Protection Agency for its monitoring, reporting and verification plan for the permanent sequestration of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, in its two acid gas injection wells located at Piñon’s Dark Horse Treating Facility in Lea County, New Mexico.
The SSCV Sleipnir from Heerema Marine Contractors set sail in June 2024 with a very special cargo on board: the EverLoNG ship-based carbon capture (SBCC) prototype. The objective of the Sleipnir campaign is to test all aspects of the capture and onboard storage system on the liquefied natural gas-fuelled vessel.
Finnish forest industry company Metsä Group has entered into a cooperation with international technology group ANDRITZ to explore the integration of carbon capture into a bioproduct mill. ANDRITZ will conduct a process concept study to seamlessly integrate carbon capture into the bioproduct mill process in the most energy-efficient manner.