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UK companies support decarbonisation target
16.01.2013According to the UK energy and climate secretary Ed Davey, the majority of companies in the UK want a government-set target on decarbonising the electricity...read more
OCTAVIUS FP7 project organizes a conference on CO2 capture in South Africa
16.01.2013OCTAVIUS, an EU funded CCS project dedicated to demonstration of CO2 capture technologies, will organise a conference with a focus on carbon dioxide capture technologies and...read more
US attempts to help commercialise CO2 capture technologies
07.01.2013Through a new US Department of Energy (DOE) cooperative research and development agreement an operator training system could ultimately help commercialize CO2 capture technologies...read more
South African partners sign up for CCS demonstration
04.01.2013According to a 2 January press release, the South African state-owned energy utility Eskom and consultancy firm EcoMetrix Africa have joined the EU-funded FP7 project...read more
The International Energy Agency (IEA) proclaims necessity of CCS
03.01.2013In its 1 January press release, the IEA highlights the need for governments to re-energise their deployment of CCS in 2013. “For the IEA CO2 capture and storage is not a...read more
First round of NER300 revenues fail to fund CCS demonstration
18.12.2012EU Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard announced today that 23 highly innovative renewable energy demonstration projects will be awarded € 1.2 billion from the first...read more
French authorities voice their support for ULCOS project.
10.12.2012ArcelorMittal withdrew the application of its Ultra-Low Carbon Dioxide Steelmaking (ULCOS) project from phase I of the NER300 competition on the 6th December due to technical...read more
CCS discussed at the fourth meeting of the EU-US Energy Council.
10.12.2012The importance of expertise exchange with regards to CCS demonstration projects was acknowledged at the fourth EU-U.S. Energy Council held in Brussels on the...read more
NGO report in support of CCS launched at Bellona Pavilion in Doha.
06.12.2012A report ‘Perspectives on Carbon Capture and Storage’ by the ENGO Network on CCS was launched at a press conference organized in the Bellona Foundation’s pavilion at the UN COP 18...read more
Project to inject CO2 into a saline reservoir completes its first year of operation.
06.12.2012Conducted by the Illinois State Geological Survey, the Illinois Basin–Decatur project provides an opportunity to examine how a real-world injection operation performs. Up to...read more
CCS private financing reviewed.
06.12.2012A joint report entitled ‘Carbon Capture and Storage – Mobilising private sector finance for CCS in the UK’ from 26th November by the Energy Technologies Institute and...read more
France to build world's first large-scale CCS project for heavy industries at the ArcelorMittal steel factory in Florange with EU funding.
04.12.2012The French Prime Minister Jean Marie Ayerault announced last night that the steel factory of ArcelorMittal at Florange will invest in a CCS project, as part of the European steel...read more
Bellona presents an overview of its CCS activities at a COP 18 side-event.
04.12.2012Global Update on CCS and Regional Project Perspectives - an event hosted by the Global CCS Institute at the Doha climate change negotiations on Saturday 1st December,...read more
Leading insurers group backs CCS
03.12.2012A recent report from the Carbon Capture & Storage Association (CCSA) and a global insurance industry group ClimateWise, puts forward a proposal to manage the problem arising...read more
Bellona chairing Carbon-Negative session at GHGT, the world’s largest CCS conference in Kyoto, Japan
27.11.2012The International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Technologies (GHGT), the world’s largest, biannual conference on CO2 capture and storage (CCS) was organised last week in Kyoto,...read more
UK: Winners of CCS competition announced
26.11.2012The winners of an £20m UK competition for innovative projects to reduce the cost of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) development were announced on the 21st November. The 13...read more
Australian CCS research presented in Japan
26.11.2012Geoscience Australia researchers are presenting the latest findings of research into CCS at the Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies conference being held in Japan. The conference...read more
UK Government energy agreement sends a positive signal to developers of CCS technology
26.11.2012An interim report published by the Carbon Capture and Storage Cost Reduction Task Force confirms that fossil fuel power generation with CCS has the potential to compete...read more
UK: CCS can be cost competitive with other low carbon technologies as early as the 2020s
26.11.2012“Deployment at scale will bring investment and jobs, not just to the power sector but across the whole supply chain, including our offshore oil and gas industries,” Energy...read more
World’s first bi-national standard for the geologic storage of CO2.
23.11.2012US-Canada: The world’s first bi-national standard for the geologic storage of carbon dioxide has been developed, CSA Group and the International Performance Assessment Centre for...read more
