Company/Alliance: BP and Rio Tinto: Hydrogen Energy
Location: Kwinana, Western Australia
Feedstock: Coal to Hydrogen
Size: 500 MW, 4 million tonnes of CO2 per year captured and stored, 80% total emissions
Capture Technology: IGCC/Pre combustion
CO2 Fate: Sequestration in saline formation 35 km offshore beneath the seabed of Perth basin at a depth of 2 km.
Timing: Stakeholder and community consultation (2007), initial engineering and feasibility studies (2007), testing of offshore saline formation (2007-2010), investment decision (2011), operation (2014)
Motivation/Economics: The cost of the project is estimated at AUD$2 billion (US$ 1.5 billion) and will provide 15% of the power demand for southwest Western Australia.
Comments: Kwinana is an ideal location because it is near industrial operations and only 45 km from the increasing power demand in Perth.
Project Link: Hydrogen Energy: Kwinana, Western Australia
Other Sources and Press Release:
Hydrogen Energy
BP and Rio Tinto plan clean coal project for Western Australia (May 2007)
Rio Tinto and BP join forces to develop clean energy worldwide (May 2007)
Rio Tinto, BP planning $2b clean coal project (May 2007)
