Company/Alliance: Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar), Hydrogen energy
Location: UAE (United Arab Emeriates) Khalifa Port and Industrial Zone (KPIZ) in Taweelah.
Feedstock: Natural Gas
Size: 420MW. 1.7 Mt/Yr of CO2 captured and stored.
Capture Technology: Pre-Combustion
CO2 Fate: EOR
Timing: Design and front-end engineering (2008); Engineering, Procurement and Construction (2009); Operation (2012)
Motivation/Economics: Increase Oil Production. UAE's Oil reserves are rapidly decreasing, An EOR project will increase production. The project is proposed to cost $2-3 Billion (US)
Comments: Masdar plans to build a low CO2-emission, Car-free city in Abu Dhabi. This includes the CCS project, as well as a university. The city is designed to have initially 50'000 people living on the site, with eventually facilitating a population of 100'000.
The UAE is one of the highest CO2 emitters in the world, producing 76 Mt/Yr. This project is targetted to dramatically reduce CO2 emissions by 40%. SNC-Lavalin, a Canadian engineering firm, completed the feasibility study at the end of 2007. Texas based Engineering frim was awarded CCS design contract in November 2008.
In Febuary 2009 Masdar anounced that the CCS project was being delayed a year due to undisclosed technical issues.
Project Link: Masdar Initiative web page
Other Sources and Press Release:
Masdar CCS project delayed due to technical issues (Febuary 2009)
Masdar development overivew [PDF]
Masdar awards Mustang Engineering with design contract (November 2008)
Location Chosen as Khalifa Port and Industrial Zone (KPIZ) in Taweelah (June 2008)
UAE CCS press release (Jan 2008)
Arabian Business Press release (Jan 2008)
UAE begins groundbreaking CCS (March 2007)
Masdar Press releases
Date Modified April 28, 2009
