GHG Monitor
6/5/2015
ON THE INTERNATIONAL FRONT
Royal Dutch Shell reported its planning application for the Peterhead carbon capture and storage project to the Buchan Area Committee of the Aberdeenshire Council this week. The application will now move on for consideration by the full council on June 18. The Peterhead project will retrofit CCS technology onto a 385 MW portion of an existing gas-fired power plant in Scotland, transporting the CO2 via the existing Goldeneye underground pipeline and storing it in a depleted gas field in the North Sea. The project is expected to capture about 90 percent of the CO2 from the power station, at 1 million tonnes of CO2 a year. Shell has anticipated that construction on the project be completed between 2019 and 2020.
The Oslo City Council this week voiced support for the addition of carbon capture technology onto the city’s Waste-to-Energy plant at Klemetsrud, according to a release from the Norwegian environmental group Bellona. The plant was noted recently in a pre-feasibility study conducted by Gassnova for the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy as one of three emitters in the country that showed promise for carbon capture. “This project, with potential to achieve carbon negative emissions, brings new momentum to European efforts on CCS. We hope that the project can be realized fast as we need to show politicians it’s possible to do a lot more. Seeing is believing,” Bellona President Frederic Hauge said in the release.
