Carbon capture and storage projects
Carbon capture and storage is the name given to a combination of technologies that captures and stores carbon dioxide deep underground, preventing its release into the atmosphere.
We are helping to develop large-scale commercial projects and have research partnerships with industry and leading academic institutes. Our current activities include:
Gorgon, Australia
Shell is a partner in the Gorgon liquefied natural gas project which will include the world's largest CCS operation when complete.
The natural gas contains high concentrations of CO2 and therefore the project plans to capture 3 to 4 million tonnes of CO2 each year.
It is expected that 100 million tonnes of CO2 will be captured and stored over the life of the project.
Quest, Canada
Quest is a fully integrated CCS facility, designed to capture, transport and store more than a million tonnes of CO2 annually deep underground. By May 2019, less than four years after its start up, Quest had captured and safely stored more than 4 million tonnes of CO2.
Quest is operated by Shell on behalf of the Athabasca Oil Sands Project and was made possible through funding for CCS from the governments of Alberta and Canada, which provided C$745 million and C$120 million of funding respectively.
Shell is sharing the knowledge and lessons learned from building Quest to encourage more widespread implementation of CCS. View Quest’s knowledge sharing reports here.
The Quest CCS facility captured and stored one million tonnes of CO2 within its first year of operation
Shell Cansolv CCS technology
CCS technology developed by Shell Cansolv is now in use at the Boundary Dam power station in Saskatchewan, Canada. Boundary Dam is SaskPower’s largest coal-fired power station and a significant source of power for the region.
CCS has been installed in one unit of the plant and will be able to capture around 1 million tonnes of CO2 a year. Most of the CO2 will be used for enhanced oil recovery to improve efficiency in nearby oil fields and then permanently stored underground.
Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM), Norway
This is the largest centre of its kind to test CO2 capture technologies. It demonstrates CO2 capture at scale (up to 100,000 tonnes of CO2 a year) and contributes to reducing the costs of CO2 capture. The centre was inaugurated in May 2012 and two different capture technologies are currently being tested. Owners of the centre are Gassnova SF, A/S Norske Shell, Sasol and Statoil ASA.
Researching carbon capture in Norway
The Economist visited the world-class Technology Centre Mongstad
The Economist visited the world-class Technology Centre Mongstad
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