CCS under the North Sea
CCS under the North Sea
A major step forward is expected to be taken this week in a contest aimed at paving the way for the creation of thousands of jobs in the north-east storing carbon under the sea.
The UK Government is expected to formally designate a project involving the removal of CO from emissions generated by burning coal at Longannet power station in Fife as one of two likely to secure tens of millions of pounds of state support.
The project, under development by Scottish Power in partnership with Shell and National Grid, will involve the commercial-scale extraction of carbon from flue gases.
It would be pumped through pipelines to be permanently stored in aquifers – underground layers of permeable rock – or in exhausted oil or gas fields under the North Sea.If successful, it would breathe new life into coal mining and the use of coal for power generation and create a whole new carbon sequestration industry providing employment on and offshore, just as the oil and gas sectors wind down.
The sole other competitor in the contest is likely to be Eon, which is proposing to build a new coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent.
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A major step forward is expected to be taken this week in a contest aimed at paving the way for the creation of thousands of jobs in the north-east storing carbon under the sea.
The UK Government is expected to formally designate a project involving the removal of CO from emissions generated by burning coal at Longannet power station in Fife as one of two likely to secure tens of millions of pounds of state support.
The project, under development by Scottish Power in partnership with Shell and National Grid, will involve the commercial-scale extraction of carbon from flue gases.
It would be pumped through pipelines to be permanently stored in aquifers – underground layers of permeable rock – or in exhausted oil or gas fields under the North Sea.If successful, it would breathe new life into coal mining and the use of coal for power generation and create a whole new carbon sequestration industry providing employment on and offshore, just as the oil and gas sectors wind down.
The sole other competitor in the contest is likely to be Eon, which is proposing to build a new coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent.
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Read more: http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1636367/?UserKey=#ixzz0hvxCewKg
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The UK Government is expected to formally designate a project involving the removal of CO from emissions generated by burning coal at Longannet power station in Fife as one of two likely to secure tens of millions of pounds of state support. Dhttp://bit.ly/a0eZtd
The world urgently needs technology that will reduce our climate emissions and Scotland is very well placed to take a global lead in this important field.
Without CCS there is no solution to climate change. As well as getting things in place in the UK and Europe we need that consensus at the global talks in Copenhagen.
It would provide a major boost to the development of international carbon capture and storage (CCS) networks that could see carbon emissions from across Northern Europe captured and stored under the North Sea.
The company intends to pump liquefied carbon emissions from Longannet coal-fired station into disused oil and gas wells in the North Sea. It is down to the last two in the UK government's competition to develop and operate the technology.
The Scottish Government have shown great ambition to make this a reality and the UK government had the foresight to recognize the need for a commercial CCS solution in the first place to conquer the challenges posed by climate change and for seeing the opportunities and advantages that could be realized from being the first mover in this embryonic industry.
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