Released November 15, 2011 | GALWAY, IRELAND
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Written by Martin Lynch, European News Editor for Industrial Info (Galway, Ireland) -- The suppliers battling it out to develop one of Europe's leading carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects have been named.
Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil ASA (NYSE:STO) (Stavanger, Norway) and Gassnova SF (Porsgrunn, Norway) have chosen five companies to compete for the supply of a full-scale carbon capture facility at the Mongstad (CCM) gas-fired power plant in Norway. The companies chosen for the technology qualification program are Alstom SA (EPA:ALO) (Levallois-Perret, France), Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited (TYO:7011) (MHI) (Tokyo), Aker Clean Carbon AS (Fornebu, Norway), Germany's Siemens AG (NYSE:SI) and a joint venture by Huaneng-CERI Powerspan.
However, the involvement of Aker Clean Carbon in the project looks doubtful following comments made by the CEO of its parent company, Aker Solutions (Oslo). Speaking to the media regarding CCS last week the CEO, Oeyvind Eriksen, said: "The market is dead. Therefore Aker Solutions is taking its investment as a loss." Shutting the company down now looks like a real possibility. Aker Clean Carbon was a key partner in one of the U.K.'s most important proposed CSS projects at the Longannet coal-fired plant before plant-owner ScottishPower pulled the plug last month. For additional information, see October 20, 2011, article - Scottish Carbon Capture Project Cancelled.
The technology qualification program will choose at least one technology that can demonstrate that its ability to be scaled up and used at the existing combined heat and power plant (CHP) at Mongstad, which is also the site of Statoil's oil refinery. The plant generates 280-megawatts (MW) of electricity and around 350 MW of thermal heat. The eventual goal will be to apply CCS technologies to other emitting areas of the refinery.
"CO2 capture, transportation and storage is unquestionably required to combat climate change," said Bjørn-Erik Haugan, CEO of Gassnova SF. "Norway has undertaken an important role, and succeeding with the Mongstad project and the technology qualification program is vital in this context."
Kurt Georgsen, Statoil's Vice President for Renewable Energy and responsible for CCM, commented: "CCM is a very large industrial and technological development project, and a plant of similar size has never been built before. For Statoil, it is very important that the system works as intended and does not represent any danger to people or the environment. For CO2 capture technology in general, it is also important that the project shows that CCS can be accomplished elsewhere."
The technology qualification program is divided into three phases:
- Feasibility study to show that the technology can be used at Mongstad. Companies must demonstrate that technologies can be scaled up; that they have the necessary operational regularity; and that high capture ratios are possible to achieve in relation to energy use and costs, for example.
- Demonstrate that the process will work and that the emissions will be within the specified criteria. This shall include vendors' test of chemical and process technology so that real emission data can be analysed and evaluated based on the limit set for release at Mongstad.
- Concept Phase for design of full scale CO2 capture at Mongstad.
- View Project Report - 300011699
View Plant Details - 1083076
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Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil ASA (NYSE:STO) (Stavanger, Norway) and Gassnova SF (Porsgrunn, Norway) have chosen five companies to compete for the supply of a full-scale carbon capture facility at the Mongstad (CCM) gas-fired power plant in Norway. The companies chosen for the technology qualification program are Alstom SA (EPA:ALO) (Levallois-Perret, France), Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited (TYO:7011) (MHI) (Tokyo), Aker Clean Carbon AS (Fornebu, Norway), Germany's Siemens AG (NYSE:SI) and a joint venture by Huaneng-CERI Powerspan.
However, the involvement of Aker Clean Carbon in the project looks doubtful following comments made by the CEO of its parent company, Aker Solutions (Oslo). Speaking to the media regarding CCS last week the CEO, Oeyvind Eriksen, said: "The market is dead. Therefore Aker Solutions is taking its investment as a loss." Shutting the company down now looks like a real possibility. Aker Clean Carbon was a key partner in one of the U.K.'s most important proposed CSS projects at the Longannet coal-fired plant before plant-owner ScottishPower pulled the plug last month. For additional information, see October 20, 2011, article - Scottish Carbon Capture Project Cancelled.
The technology qualification program will choose at least one technology that can demonstrate that its ability to be scaled up and used at the existing combined heat and power plant (CHP) at Mongstad, which is also the site of Statoil's oil refinery. The plant generates 280-megawatts (MW) of electricity and around 350 MW of thermal heat. The eventual goal will be to apply CCS technologies to other emitting areas of the refinery.
"CO2 capture, transportation and storage is unquestionably required to combat climate change," said Bjørn-Erik Haugan, CEO of Gassnova SF. "Norway has undertaken an important role, and succeeding with the Mongstad project and the technology qualification program is vital in this context."
Kurt Georgsen, Statoil's Vice President for Renewable Energy and responsible for CCM, commented: "CCM is a very large industrial and technological development project, and a plant of similar size has never been built before. For Statoil, it is very important that the system works as intended and does not represent any danger to people or the environment. For CO2 capture technology in general, it is also important that the project shows that CCS can be accomplished elsewhere."
The technology qualification program is divided into three phases:
- Feasibility study to show that the technology can be used at Mongstad. Companies must demonstrate that technologies can be scaled up; that they have the necessary operational regularity; and that high capture ratios are possible to achieve in relation to energy use and costs, for example.
- Demonstrate that the process will work and that the emissions will be within the specified criteria. This shall include vendors' test of chemical and process technology so that real emission data can be analysed and evaluated based on the limit set for release at Mongstad.
- Concept Phase for design of full scale CO2 capture at Mongstad.
- View Project Report - 300011699
View Plant Details - 1083076
Industrial Info Resources (IIR), with global headquarters in Sugar Land, Texas, and eight offices outside of North America, is the leading provider of global market intelligence specializing in the industrial process, heavy manufacturing and energy markets. Industrial Info's quality-assurance philosophy, the Living Forward Reporting Principle, provides up-to-the-minute intelligence on what's happening now, while constantly keeping track of future opportunities.
