Main industrial projects
Carbon Dioxide Capture and Geologic Storage (CCS)

Various CO₂ storage operations have already been completed or are in the process of being set up (table 4).

• In Europe

  In the North Sea, the Norwegian company Statoil has been capturing one million tonnes of CO₂ per year from natural gas on the Sleipner field since 1996, and reinjecting this CO₂ into a saline aquifer 1,000 m below the seafloor.

  A European platform, the ZEP (Zero Emission Platform), has been set up, to examine how to develop and deploy fossil-fuel power plants with CO₂ capture and storage. Electric utility Vattenfall is currently building a power generation demonstrator (50 MW) in Germany with CO₂ capture via oxycombustion, and RWE has announced two coal-fired power plant demonstrators in the 1,000 MW range with pre-combustion (coal gasification)...