28/01/2022 by Mark
Oil major Shell has become the 14th company to consider going ahead with what would be the biggest carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the world.
ExxonMobil, which also produces industrial goods like the Mobil rust preventive lubricants, first proposed the project in April 2020. Since then, other oil and gas companies like Chevron and Marathon Petroleum and chemical companies like BASF and INEOS have joined ExxonMobil in considering the project. The aim is to capture carbon emissions from sites in the heavily industrialised Houston area and transport them to the Gulf of Mexico, where they will be injected into wells for permanent storage.
The companies involved attended workshops held by the University of Houston in December to discuss how they can work together to realise the project. Speaking in a press statement, the Director of the Center for Carbon Management in Energy at the University of Houston, Charles McConnell, said:
“As the energy capital of the world, Houston has the expertise and leadership—including industry, academia and policymakers—to realize a low-carbon, reliable and affordable energy future. I look forward to working alongside these 14 companies to make Houston the global leader in CCS.”
The UK also has plans to implement CCS technology. In October last year, the UK government selected two CCS projects in the north of England, namely HyNet North West in Liverpool Bay and the East Coast Cluster around the Humber and Teesside, which together aim to cut carbon emissions by millions of tonnes each year.
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