The Senate this afternoon rejected a Greens bid to block a $50 million grant scheme that will award money to companies including Santos, Boral, Corporate Carbon, and Glencore.
Woodside, BP and an entity owned by Mitsubishi and Mitsui have formed a consortium to investigate developing a large-scale multi-user CCS hub offshore from Karratha.
The rising spot price for Australian carbon credits means that Santos could sell credits earned by its CCS plant for more than it costs to generate them.
After making adjustments to its trouble-plagued CO2 sequestration operation at the Gorgon LNG project, Chevron is now lifting injection rates to two-thirds of design levels.
A leading carbon offsets business that plans to capture CO2 directly from air has chosen an Australian solar-powered technology for a pilot project near the Santos Moomba gas plant.