Monday, October 21, 2024

Leaders and innovators in the CCUS industry have joined forces and made standards for the budding industry!

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Did anyone happen to read the Oil & Gas Journal’s Daily Update Newsletter on October 17, 2024, their article titled, “Wood-led JIP completes work on CO2 specifications guidelines for CCUS projects”?  The article speaks on the subject of a joint industry partnership (JIP) have finalized industry procedures for carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) ventures to help the budding industry with finding a best practice to meet safety, environmental, technical, and operational necessities.  The CCUS procedures includes an emphasis on the particulates and contaminates in carbon dioxide (CO2) streams which will affect all involved in CCUS from suppliers, vendors, operations, producers, logistics, and etc.   The necessities include economic advice for tabulating a minimum price for carbon capture to break even or a levelized cost of CO2 abatement (LCOA) for the various technologies in use which either collect CO2 emissions and to eliminate the particulates and other unwanted contaminates, and to classify the different elements which may affect the cost of a CCUS venture.  In a nutshell, they address the different technologies by addressing the good and bad of a particular practice or technology, and the final result and its cost.  The JIP are a group of industry leaders, innovators, and research experts which includes but not limited to Wood PLC, Saudi Aramco, Equinor ASA, Mitsubishi Heavy Industry Ltd., Net Zero Technology Centre, Shell PLC, TotalEnergies SE, DNV, and Heriot-Watt University as well as others.  The JIP believe these guidelines will help direct the industry to help and protect people and the environment as well as make those who implement it prosperous!  If you would like to read more of the Oil and Gas Journal’s article, please click the link: Wood-led JIP completes work on CO2 specification guidelines for CCUS projects | Oil & Gas Journal.

If you would like to learn more from a member of the Joint Industry Partnership about the new guidelines, please click the link: Industry Guidelines for Setting the CO2 Specification in CCUS Chains | Wood.

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