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CCS Project Recent Updates

Below is a collection of the latest posting in the CCS database.

Articles are listed in chronological order.

News from 2011

News headline Project Date Project Location
Norway opens major facility to test carbon capture Mongstad 05/07/2012 Norway
Hydrogen Energy California Project Moves Forward HECA 05/03/2012 CA, USA
Illinois EPA Issues Taylorville Energy Center Final Air Permit Taylorville 04/30/2012 IL, USA
Saskatchewan committed to proceeding with carbon-capture project Boundary Dam 04/27/2012 SA, CA
TransAlta and partners bail out on carbon capture project Pioneer 04/27/2012 AL, Canada
Queensland's Callide Power Plant Now Firing With Retrofitted CCS Technology, an Industrial Info News Alert Callide-A 04/22/2012 Australia
CO2 injection plans moving along in Montana Kevin Dome 04/20/2012 MT, USA
Carbon capture project inches closer to construction Quest 04/11/2012 AL, Canada
Oxyfuel project 'fires up' in test Callide-A 04/06/2012 Australia
Mississippi allows Southern Co to keep building $2.8 billion coal plant Kemper 03/30/2012 MI, USA
Samsung buys into UK carbon capture plant Don Valley 03/28/2012 UK
Saline Carbon Capture and Storage Trial Two Successful Otway 03/19/2012 Australia
Miss. Supreme Court reverses Southern Co coal project approval Kemper 03/15/2012 MI,USA
Enel's Italian Porto Tolle coal conversion timeframe uncertain: CEO Porto Tolle 03/09/2012 Italy
Carbon capture project moving right along Boundary Dam 03/06/2012 SA, Canada
2Co, Progressive Energy Say Carbon-Capture Plants Pass EIB Test Don Valley 03/06/2012 UK
Commission adopts its first Opinion on a draft permit for the permanent storage of CO2 ROAD (Maasvlakte) 02/29/2012 Netherlands
Tenaska Trailblazer front end engineering design (FEED) study Trailblazer 02/15/2012 TX, USA
Summit’s Texas Clean Energy Project Reaches Major Milestone with Signed EPC and O&M Contracts TCEP 02/14/2012 TX, USA
Carbon-storage experiment shows no leakage Otway 01/31/2012 Australia
Foster Wheeler Wins PMC Contract for the 2Co Power (Yorkshire) Don Valley Power Project in the United Kingdom Don Valley 01/31/2012 UK
Linklaters and Nabarro selected to advise on £5bn Euro power project Don Valley 01/18/2012 UK
Masdar and ADNOC take carbon capture, usage and storage project forward at Emirates Steel's Mussafah facility Masdar 01/18/2012 UAE
Don Valley Electricity Project to Enter UK Carbon Capture and Storage Contest Don Valley 01/17/2012 UK
Utility to Purchase Electricity from Innovative DOE-Supported Clean Coal Project  TCEP 01/17/2012 TX, USA
Illinois EPA Leaves CO2 Emissions Off Air Permit Taylorville 01/13/2011 IL, USA
FutureGen completes CCS test storage well in Illinois FutureGen 12/29/2011 IL, USA
CO2 stripper rolls into Boundary Dam Boundary Dam 12/22/2011 SA, Canada
Otway project findings support geological CO2 storage Otway 12/18/2011 Australia
Jacobs contracted for CO2 capture facility for CHP plant at Mongstad Refinery site in Norway Mongstad 12/13/2011 Norway
CIUDEN Completes Initial Oxy-Combustion Testing Phase Compostilla 12/11/2011 Spain
Vattenfall drops carbon capture project in Germany Janschwalde 12/05/2011 Germany
UK's biggest carbon capture pilot project opens Ferrybridge 11/30/2011 UK
Ameren Said to Be in Talks to Hand Over Carbon-Capture Project FutureGen 11/29/2011 IL,USA
Illinois CO2 injection test commences Decatur 11/20/2011 IL, USA
Alstom to do feasibility study for CCS at Daqing oil fields Daqing 11/15/2011 China
DNV Issues First Certificate of Fitness for CO2 Storage Quest 11/11/2011 AL, Canada
Clean coal project in liquidation Zerogen 10/28/2011 Australia
Longannet carbon capture project cancelled Longannet 10/19/2011 UK
Flagship UK carbon capture project 'close to collapse' Longannet 10/06/2011 UK
Norway Says Mongstad CCS Test Center Cost Revised Up to NK5.77B Mongstad 10/06/2011 Norway
Innovative Texas Clean Coal Project Takes Major Step Forward as DOE Issues Record of Decision TCEP 09/29/2011 TX, USA
SCS Energy Closes deal to acquire HECA project in Kern County HECA 09/28/2011 CA, USA
Clean coal project in Texas wins $450mn in federal help TCEP 09/27/2011 TX, USA
Alstom & Datang Agree to Jointly Develop Carbon Capture Demonstration Projects in China Daqing 09/21/2011 China
ERG Installs Flue Gas Desulphurization Unit at Ferrybridge Power Station Ferrybridge 08/29/2011 UK
Illinois CCS demonstration begins construction Decatur 08/26/2011 IL, USA
Southern gets $15M for carbon capture project Plant Barry 08/15/2011 AL, USA
DOE project in Utah begins field operations Wasatch Plateau (SWP) 08/14/2011 UT, USA
Shell Canada files paperwork for carbon capture project Quest 08/02/2011 AL, Canada
Alberta officials contribute $285M to gasification project Swan Hills 07/27/2011 AL, Canada
Summit: Project moving forward TCEP 07/26/2011 TX, USA
Texas Clean Energy Project to Sell CO2 to Whiting Petroleum Corporation TCEP 07/22/2011 TX, USA
ETI unveils £23.5m UK carbon capture and storage pilot Announced Project 07/20/2011 UK
AEP shelves ambitious plan to limit carbon Mountaineer 07/17/2011 WV, USA
Enel aims to switch oil plant to coal in June 2012 Porto Tolle 07/07/2011 Italy
Statoil announces Mongstad technology qualification gets underway Mongstad 07/01/2011 Norway
China Energy, Seamwell to Build $1.5 Billion ‘Clean Coal’ Plant Announced YiHe 06/24/2011 China
Shell gets C$865 million for Canadian CO2 project Quest 06/24/2011 AL, Canada
DOE-sponsored IGCC Project in Texas takes important step forward TCEP 06/22/2011 TX, USA
Aker and Kvaerner complete Mongstad amine plant Mongstad 06/18/2011 Norway
Mitsubishi begins CO2 capture at plant Barry Plant Barry 06/18/2011 AL, USA
New trials begin at Australian Otway Project Otway 06/11/2011 Australia
Southern Energy's Plant Barry is successfully capturing CO2 Plant Barry 06/13/2011 AL, USA
Taylorville obtains clean coal approval from House committee Taylorville 05/30/2011 IL,USA
Air Products signs 2 agreements to move project forward Port Arthur 05/27/2011 TX, USA
SCS Energy agrees to take over HECA HECA 05/23/2011 CA, USA
SNC-Lavalin will design Boundary Dam capture project Boundary Dam 05/17/2011 SA, Canada
Porto Tolle project blocked in court Porto Tolle 05/19/2011 Italy
2CO applies for NER300 funding for Don Valley Don Valley 05/10/2011 UK
2CO acquires Hatfield from Powerfuel after Powerfuel entered into administration Hatfield/ Don Valley 05/09/2011 UK
Vattenfall officially opens Buggenum Buggenum 05/08/2011 Netherlands
Mountaineer project deemed a success Mountaineer 05/05/2011 WV, USA
Shell begins production from Scotford Oil Sands upgrader Quest 05/04/2011 AL, Canada
CO2 from trial Schwarze Pumpe injected at Ketzin Ketzin 05/03/2011 Germany
Saskatchewan Government to give green light to $1billion project Bow City 04/26/2011 SA, Canada
AEP Mountaineer financial shortfall highlights absence of carbon price Mountaineer 04/16/2011 WV, USA
Fluor joins Canadian CCS Bow City project Bow City 04/16/2011 AL, Canada
Carbon capture approval behind CCS project delay Masdar UAE 04/11/2011 Abu Dhabi, UAE
RWE Goldenbergwerk 2015 CCS deadline cannot be met Goldenbergwerk 04/01/2011 Germany
FutureGen still has legislative hurdles to face FutureGen 04/06/2011 IL,USA
Callide Oxyfuel project starts commissioning with 'firing up' Callide-A 04/06/2011 Australia
Denbury Enters into Kemper county CO2 Contract Kemper 03/20/2011 MS, USA
Enel starts CO2 capture at Brindisi Brindisi 03/07/2011 Italy
Decision to fund CCS at Mongstad delayed until 2016 Mongstad 03/01/2011 Norway
Enel to invest €1 billion ($1.38 billion) on CCS plant Brindisi 03/01/2011 Italy
FutureGen selects Morgan County storage site FutureGen 02/28/2011 IL, USA
AEP receives $4M from GCSSI for Mountaineer Mountaineer 02/16/2011 WV, USA
Nuon commences CCS plant Buggenum 02/09/2011 Netherlands
9 UK projects apply for EU NER300 CCS funding Longannet 02/12/2011 UK
Petroleum Technology Research Center release Weyburn findings Weyburn 01/19/2011 SA, Canada
Masdar delays $2.2 billion joint venture with BP Masdar UAE 01/18/2011 UAE
EERC’s PCOR partnership demonstrates ability of Apache’s Zama Project to reduce GHG emissions Zama 01/18/2011 ND, USA
Weyburn alleged leaking CO2 at surface questioned Weyburn 01/13/2011 SA, Canada
Illinois Senate fails to pass Taylorville Energy Center legislation Taylorville 01/12/2011 IL, USA
Alleged leaks from carbon storage project questioned Weyburn 01/12/2011 SA, Canada

 

 

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