Statoil and Shell are pulling out of their large-scale carbon-dioxide injecton plan for the Draugen and Heidrun offshore fields offshore Norway, saying it’ll cost too much to capture and transport the globe-heating gas. 
ConocoPhillips has “passed the conceptual stage” and is in the early stages of engineering studies for a large-scale carbon-capture, “regassification” and offshore carbon-storage project for the industrial northeast of England at Immingham. 
The United Kingdom will invite six consortia to bid in a November tender aimed at drawing the U.K. companies best able to make the mass capture, transport and storage of carbon offshore a reality. 
Florida-based World Energy Solutions is about ready to file a patent for an alternator that uses electrolysis to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen which will in turn replace a quarter of the gasoline used by an ordinary car. 
BP has pulled out the Peterhead carbon storage and power project that would have used the fast-emptying Miller field as storage for carbon-dioxide separated from a coastal power-plant’s hydrogen. 
Just days after joining forces to “decarbonize energy projects”, BP and Rio Tinto have aired plans for a $2-billion coal-fired power generation project just south of Perth in Western Australia. 
A peculiar auction will be held this June in London where fuel-cell patents, exhaust-scrubbing technology and other green inventions will be offered all-comers, it was understood Thursday. 
Aker Kvaerner has joined at least three other companies bidding to provide Statoil and Shell with carbon-dioxide capture technology for process plant, although the Norwegian contractor reportedly promises “116-percent” effectiveness.
A mobile carbon-scrubbing construction will be tested in May at the Shell-Statoil carbon-dioxide project at Risavika, just outside Stavanger, it was learned Tuesday. 
For the next three years, Statoil will invest NOK 1 billion in environmental technology at the Mongstad refinery north of Bergen. |
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Origin Energy has launched a new Carbon Reduction Scheme offering Australian businesses an effective, efficient and flexible approach to reduce their carbon footprint. The company sees this scheme as a proactive way of helping companies to focus on and effectively manage the reduction and offset of greenhouse gas emissions. 
The U.S. Minerals Management Service is seeking to simplify the way oil and gas production is reported, in a complete rewrite of regulations for offshore operations, it was learned this week. 
A Norwegian environmental crusader and four Statoil carbon-dioxide managers will help direct the European Union’s drive to 20 percent less of the greenhouse gas from 1990 levels by 2020. 
London-listed Indpendent Resources has a “significant” source of coal-bed methane at its Italian Fiume Bruna prospect near Grosseto, central Italy.
Statoil and Pemex sign deal to reduce carbon emissions Mar 6, 2007
Statoil and the Mexican state oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) have signed a deal to reduce carbon emissions from the Tres Hermanos oil field in Mexico.
IOR is EOR in Ridgeway bid for extra barrels Feb 26, 2007
Houston-oil company Ridgeway Petroleum has acquired an old New Mexico oilfield the U.S Department of Energy believes is is one of many ripe for carbon-dioxide induced enhanced oil recovery, or EOR (improved oil recovery, or IOR in Europe). 
At least one Canadian oil company has come out to tell the Canadian government that without clear stance on Kyoto, it could not calculate the cost of climate-change policy on its business. 
Swedish compression equipment giant, Atlas Copco has penned a deal to buy up Swiss compressed-natural-gas innovator, Greenfield. 
The second anniversary of the Kyoto accord dawned on Friday with a new commitment from G8 ministers and developing world leaders to expand Kyoto carbon-trade from Europe to the world. Only pipeline ownership proved divisive. 
Total announces the launch of a pilot CO2 capture and sequestration project in the Lacq basin in southwestern France. The project, which leverages a technique considered among the most promising in the fight against climate change, calls for up to 150,000 metric tons of CO2 to be injected into a depleted natural gas field in Rousse (Pyrenees) over a period of two years as from end-2008. |
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