Oil and gas firms are starting to invest in CCS
Shell to test new CCS technology
Tests will be carried on industrial flue-gas sources from Equinor’s refinery at Mongstad
Shell has entered into an agreement with Norwegian carbon capture and storage (CCS) testing centre the Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM) to test a new way of capturing carbon dioxide (CO₂). Shell’s catalyst division will test a new amine-based solvent as part of its Cansolv technology. The test will start in January 2023 and will last for five months. Cansolv has been chosen for district heating supplier Hafslund Oslo Celsio’s full-scale CCS plant in Norway, which will capture and sequester 400,000t/yr of CO₂ as part of the Norwegian Longship CCS project. 17 – Number of test campaigns carried out at TCM “We possess reliable and economically feasible carbon-capture technologies, suppo
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