Field narrows for $1.51bn UK CCS project

CSS project: John Hayes-led agency narrows CCS field to two

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Kathrine Schmidt

 20 March 2013 16:01 GMT

The UK said Wednesday that proposals from Shell and Alstom have advanced to the next round of a contest for a £1 billion ($1.51 billion) carbon capture and storage project (CCS).

The Shell and SSE-led Peterhead Project in Aberdeenshire, Scotland would capture 90% of carbon dioxide from a power station for storage in the depleted Goldeneye gas field in the North Sea.

The White Rose Project, which would be in Yorkshire, England, would trap 90% of CO2 from a coal power plant for storage in a North Sea saline aquifer. That proposal is put forth by French power company Alstom, as well as Drax Power, BOC and National Grid.

The projects, which were selected by the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) from…

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