Abby L. Harvey
GHG Monitor
9/11/2015
In hopes of accelerating deployment of carbon capture and storage technology, BHP Billiton and SaskPower this week signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreeing to share access to data, information and lessons learned at SaskPower’s Boundary Dam CCS project. The Boundary Dam project, which reached full operation in October 2014, is the world’s fired full chain power sector CCS project.
“The individual components of CCS (capture, transport and storage) have been successfully demonstrated for many years but Boundary Dam is the first power project to bring all these together. Much more investment and many more projects are needed to bring down the cost of technology and accelerate its deployment. By making relevant information from Boundary Dam more widely available, we hope our contribution has a multiplier effect and promotes CCS investment around the world,” BHP Billiton Chief Commercial Officer, Dean Dalla Valle, said in a BHP release.
Under the MoU, BHP will contribute to the establishment of a global knowledge center that will aid in the access of pertinent information from the Boundary Dam project. “The intention of this partnership is to allow the CCS expertise and knowledge being developed in Saskatchewan to be shared worldwide, and what better way to do that than with a major global business leader,” SaskPower President and CEO Mike Marsh said in the release.
