The Petroleum Technology Research Center and the CO2 Commonwealth Research Center (CO2CRC) on Tuesday announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) “to prepare and execute joint research, facilitate the exchange of scientists and technical personnel, and encourage dedicated CO2 storage on regional, national, and international scales,” related to the Aquistore CO2 storage project in Canada, according to a PTRC release.
Aquistore is the world’s first integrated storage project associated with an industrial scale coal-fired power plant, receiving CO2 captured from SaskPower’s Boundary Dam Unit 3 carbon capture and storage project. “Both CO2CRC and PTRC are focused on driving the costs of carbon capture and storage down to deploy CCS more quickly. Sharing information techniques will help. CO2CRC will work closely with PTRC to support this goal,” CO2CRC CEO Tania Constable said in the release.
