Wood-led JIP completes work on CO2 specification guidelines for CCUS projects
Wood PLC and its joint industry partnership (JIP) cohorts have completed work on industry guidelines for CO2 specifications to accelerate sustainable carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) projects. The guidelines focus on the impact of impurities in CO2 across the CCUS value chain, aiming to accelerate the pace and growth of the CCUS industry by creating a CO2 conditioning standard to meet safety, environmental, technical, and operational requirements.
Wood established the JIP to collate industry research and the experiences of operators in the CCUS space to determine the effects of impure CO2 on existing carbon capture chains. The findings from this collaboration determined the negative impact impurities from CO2 capture can cause from transportation through to storage and eventual usage.
The members of the JIP are Wood, Saudi Aramco, Equinor ASA, Fluxys SA, Gassco AS, Harbour Energy PLC, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., Net Zero Technology Centre, OMV AG, Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas), Shell PLC, and TotalEnergies SE. The JIP also brought together industry and research experts, including DNV, Heriot-Watt University, and TÜV SÜD National Engineering Laboratory (NEL), with support from multiple licensors and equipment suppliers.
An example of the approach taken in creating the guidelines is its Economics work package, which provides guidance for calculating the levelized cost of CO2 abatement (LCOA) for different capture and impurity removal technologies and identifies several factors that can influence the LCOA of a CCUS project.
The Economics package also provides order-of-magnitude cost and LCOA data for some of the main impurity removal technologies, such as dehydration, oxygen removal, cryogenic distillation, flue-gas desulphurization, selective catalytic reduction, hydrogen sulphide removal, and mercury removal. Trade-offs between the cost of impurity removal and the cost of designing the CCUS system to tolerate the impurity are also discussed.
Christopher E. Smith | Editor in Chief
Christopher brings 27 years of experience in a variety of oil and gas industry analysis and reporting roles to his work as Editor-in-Chief, specializing for the last 15 of them in midstream and transportation sectors.