GHG Monitor
6/19/2015
ON THE INTERNATIONAL FRONT
Plans for Royal Dutch Shell’s Peterhead carbon capture and storage project were given the approval of the Aberdeenshire Council this week. 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.
