Browsing: CCS

• Major companies back bid for heavy-industry transition CRC
  
• Pilbara mining company to develop net-zero pathway, under $50m CEFC deal
  
• US to fund trial of Australian CO2 capture technology

By the end of this year, Santos will complete a study on producing hydrogen from Cooper Basin natural gas, and make a final investment decision on carbon capture and storage at its Moomba gas plant.

Opposition leader Anthony Albanese specified only two non-negotiable matters, in a Press Club speech today in which he urged Prime Minister Scott Morrison to negotiate a bipartisan energy policy.

• Gold mining company applies A$72 shadow carbon price
  
• 21 large-scale CCS projects now operational
  
• SA reveals details of fluorine-free foam exemptions

Key industry associations and lobby groups are moving quickly to ensure job-creating clean economy projects feature prominently in stimulus packages.

The world must build up to 100 carbon capture facilities each year to 2050, but over the past decade the annual average has been only one, says a new analysis from the Global CCS Institute.

Shareholder climate resolutions fell just short of majority support at today's Santos AGM, and chairman Keith Spence stressed that the company's CCS investments will be unaffected by its COVID scale-back.

Woodside's proposed Browse field development is close to a good carbon storage zone, as are a number of other Australian oil and gas projects, according to Global CCS Institute chief executive Brad Page.

A revised project plan for Woodside's massive Browse gas field development is likely to include CO2 capture and storage at a cost of at least $100 per tonne.