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Big Oil’s Favorite Climate Change Solution

Big Oil’s Favorite Climate Change Solution

This year’s United Nations climate summit will be the biggest in history–and the first held in a major petrostate. Host United Arab Emirates wants to bring the fossil fuel industry into the climate fold, but to make that happen requires wide deployment of carbon capture and storage. Proponents argue the new technology could help preserve…
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Allseas will begin the installation, burial and commissioning of a 16-inch CCS pipeline for the Porthos Carbon Capture and Storage Project.

Allseas to construct a 16-inch pipeline for the CCS project developed by Porthos

eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, Nov. 2nd 2023– Within a very foreseeable future Allseas will begin developing the work which has been agreed between them and Porthos and the first tasks will include installation, burial and commissioning of a 16-inch CCS pipeline. This pipeline will connect a compressor station located at Maasvlakte, and the P18-A platform, which is…
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Funding for Energy related projects

Funding for Energy related projects

Amsterdam, Nov 2nd 2023– The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that they will be awarding $36 million to 11 projects, spread over 8 states.  This has been done in order to drive forwards the Biden-Harris Administration’s efforts and to accelerate the development of marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The funding for these projects comes…
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Climeworks is a pioneer in carbon-capture technology. Can it grow quickly enough to make an impact in the climate fight?

A Startup Battles Big Oil for the $1 Trillion Future of Carbon Cleanup

by Brian Kahn – Bloomberg Christoph Gebald’s company, Climeworks, is a pioneer in carbon-capture technology. Can it grow quickly enough to make an impact in the climate fight? Most everyone who’s committed their career to solving the climate crisis comes to the field because they have something they want to save. It’s the mountains for…
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An Oil Giant Quietly Ditched the World’s Biggest Carbon Capture Plant

An Oil Giant Quietly Ditched the World’s Biggest Carbon Capture Plant

Occidental Petroleum is leading the global charge to vastly expand the use of technologies that suck up carbon dioxide. The failure of company’s biggest-ever bet shows the challenges ahead.  By Natasha White, Akshat Rathi, and Kevin Crowley The world wants to master the process of corralling carbon, and Occidental Petroleum Corp. is building a futuristic machine on the dusty plains of…
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Reforestation, Capture, Storage, Transportation and Carbon Credits

eyesonbrasil/stanford Amsterdam July 14, 2023—Forests across the globe but of course also across the good old U.S. of A. are major contributors to the fight against climate change, annually removing damaging excess carbon from the atmosphere equivalent to approximately 13 percent of overall U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.  According to a new report published today by Stanford…
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Making green plastic from captured CO2

eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, 26 June 2023 — To become climate neutral and circular by 2050, the chemical industry must stop using fossil fuels and raw materials and no longer emit CO2. This means electrification of processes that are currently still gas-driven, reduction of CO2 emissions, use of green electricity, but also the use of other raw…
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Producing quality green or recycled plastic from captured CO2. 

eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, 26 june 2023 – The actual production process may require very specialized equipment and technology that require technical expertise. Some steps involved. CO2 can be captured from industrial waste streams or directly from the atmosphere using various capture technologies like absorption, adsorption, and membrane separation. After that step the chemical conversion follows.  …
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