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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