Shell plans carbon capture and burial in North Sea
Shell and Norwegian Statoil have today unveiled plans to create the world's largest project to capture carbon dioxide produced by electricity generation and store the sequestered carbon under the North sea in giant oilfields.
When completed, the two companies will have spend £865m on building a new gas-fired power station in Norway and then pump the carbon dioxide emitted into two oil and gas fields off the Norwegian coast. If successful, Shell is planning to utilise the technology in the UK too.
The project require government backing to get off the ground, but will when fully operational produce 860 megawatts and enable Norway to cut its carbon emissions with more than 2.5 million tonnes every year.
9th March 2006
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