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CARBON CAPTURE & STORAGE
A New Dawn for CCS in Europe
By Graeme Sweeney, Chairman of the European Zero Emission Technology and Innovation Platform (ZEP)
As 2017 draws to a close, it over the last twelve months. Both Coalition Agreement, published on the
is worth reflecting on the Norway and the Port of Rotterdam are 10th October, includes a commitment
CCS developments that pursuing proposals to create the first to storing 20 million tonnes of CO2 per
have taken place over the European CCS clusters, able to capture year by 2030, whilst the UK’s Clean
past year. The latest COP meeting in and transport CO2 from industrial Growth Strategy sets out the ambition
Bonn closed on the 17th November facilities for permanent storage under to deploy CCUS (Carbon Capture,
– and it remains to be seen whether the seabed. Norway is particularly Utilisation and Storage) at scale during
this meeting succeeds in delivering interesting as their proposals include the 2030s.
concrete actions to achieve the CCS applications at an ammonia
objective agreed in 2015 in Paris; to facility, a cement plant and a waste- It is also extremely encouraging to
limit the global temperature increase to-energy project. This could provide note that all four cross-border CO2
to well below 2°C. Interestingly, CCS vital lessons to other countries on transport projects that were submitted
was the focus of a number of side the importance of applying CCS as European Projects of Common
events at the Bonn COP meeting – to multiple sectors such as energy Interest (PCI) have been adopted by
perhaps a reflection of the realisation intensive industries, heating, power the High-Level Decision Making Body.
that to deliver a 1.5°C goal will require and transport. This includes a Statoil project which
unprecedented amounts of renewable aims to connect emission sources
energy and CCS. Elsewhere, both the Netherlands in Teesside UK and Eemshaven in
and the UK have recently published the Netherlands to a CO2 storage
In Europe, a definite momentum decarbonisation plans which highlight site on the Norwegian Continental
for CCS has been steadily building the importance of CCS. The Dutch Shelf, The Rotterdam Nucleus project
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