Alt Carbon has made history as the first India-headquartered company to receive a prepurchase agreement from the prestigious Frontier, the advance market commitment for carbon removal. The purchase will help support the startup’s Darjeeling Revival Project, a breakthrough initiative that combines innovative carbon removal technologies with the revival of India’s historic tea estates.
The Washington State Department of Commerce announced 46 grants funded by the Washington Climate Commitment Act with additional state funding to boost clean energy technology innovation and support clean energy planning, design and construction projects throughout the state.
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.
Q&A with Brooks Wallace, VP, Communications & Marketing at Deep Sky Questions by Danielle Piekarski & Photos by Deep Sky
Transitioning to net-zero emissions presents formidable challenges, particularly in the context of existing energy infrastructure.
Carbon Clean has achieved a fabrication milestone on Ørsted’s FlagshipONE project, Europe’s largest commercial-scale eMethanol facility under construction. The first equipment has been mounted on the structural steel of the first module, marking the start of the module assembly process. Once operational, Carbon Clean’s technology will be capable of capturing 70,000 tonnes of biogenic CO2 per year for Ørsted’s facility in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden.
Deep Sky and Avnos have joined forces to deploy Hybrid Direct Air Capture (HDAC) technology in Canada. As part of its partnership with Deep Sky, Avnos will build and install a Hybrid DAC Air Handling Unit (AHU) at Deep Sky Labs in Canada, with the capacity to remove 450 tons of CO2 per year.
enfinium announced a significant step in its mission to decarbonize the UK’s unrecyclable waste by signing an agreement with global green technology company Hitachi Zosen Inova to install the UK’s first carbon capture pilot plant at an energy from waste facility.
Saipem has signed a Letter of Intent stating that the company has been selected for the award of the Northern Endurance Partnership and Net Zero Teesside Power projects. The two projects are related to the development of CO2 offshore transportation and storage facilities to the East Coast Cluster in the United Kingdom.
Spirit Energy has reached a major milestone for its Morecambe Net Zero (MNZ) project with the successful securing of a seismic survey vessel to undertake a scope of work in the East Irish Sea as the company continues its journey to net zero.
Alto Ingredients, Inc. announced that it has entered into an exclusive nonbinding letter of intent and is nearing the execution of definitive agreements to develop a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project with Vault 44.01 at Alto’s Pekin campus in Pekin, IL.
Ethanol Producer Magazine announced this week the preliminary agenda for the 2024 International Fuel Ethanol Workshop & Expo (FEW) taking place June 10-12, 2024 at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Over the next 18 months, a multidisciplinary team of researchers and technology-scaling experts from the UCLA institute and Equatic will set out to build the world’s largest ocean-based CO2-removal plant in Tuas, in western Singapore.
EnLink Midstream, LLC announced that ExxonMobil and EnLink are exploring opportunities for EnLink to support ExxonMobil's carbon capture and sequestration efforts beyond the southeast Louisiana Mississippi River Corridor into several additional Gulf Coast areas.
Net Zero Teesside Power, which aims to be one of the world’s first commercial scale gas-fired power stations with carbon capture, has received development consent from UK Government. Development consent includes onshore CO2 gathering and transport infrastructure operated by the Northern Endurance Partnership.
Seatrium Limited announced that it has successfully secured the world’s first full-scale, turnkey Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) retrofit from Solvang ASA, Norway, a long-term Favoured Customer Contract (FCC) partner.
Heidelberg Materials North America announced a milestone in its two-stage competitive procurement process as it works to select a capture contractor for providing the CO2 separation solution for its Edmonton, Alberta, CCUS Project.
Aker Solutions has been awarded a contract by Equinor to carry out a feasibility study for its Mongstad Industrial Transformation project in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway.
Aker Solutions has been awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract by Hafslund Oslo Celsio (Celsio) to develop the CO2 terminal for intermediate storage and export to ship at the port of Oslo, Norway.
Fluor Corporation announced that Chevron New Energies has signed a license agreement with Fluor to use its proprietary Econamine FG PlusSM carbon capture technology to reduce carbon dioxide emissions at Chevron’s Eastridge Cogeneration facility in Kern County, California.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI)'s technology is being deployed by leading global cement manufacturer Heidelberg Materials UK, for Front End Engineering Design (FEED), to further study the specifications of a CO2 capture plant at Padeswood Cement Works in Flintshire, UK.
Svante announced that its strategic investor and customer, Delek US, has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations to negotiate a cost-sharing agreement in support of a large-scale Svante carbon capture pilot project at Delek’s Big Spring refinery in Texas.
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. and JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corporation announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop a Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage (CCS) value chain between Japan and Australia, including marine transport of carbon dioxide (CO2).
PTTEP and Mahidol University have jointly signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) under the “PTTEP Subsurface University Energy Connect” project. The collaboration is aimed to carry out research study on geoscience and petroleum engineering, develop professionals in petroleum exploration and production and explore for carbon storage sites.
PPL Corporation announced the company and its research partners have been selected for a $72 million award negotiation by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) to help fund a ground-breaking CO2 capture research and development project expected to cost in excess of $100 million.
Drax Group has announced a new partnership with Molpus Woodlands Group (Molpus). The agreement will provide Drax with an option to purchase sustainably sourced woody biomass to fuel its bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) operations in the US Southeast.
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