The Deep Saline Aquifers for Geological Storage of CO2 and Energy conference will be held at IFP in Rueil-Malmaison, France (suburbs of Paris), May 27–29 2009, under the auspices of the French Academy of Sciences. Interested parties may submit abstracts until October 24, 2008.
The first Carbon Capture and Storage School was held at the University of Adelaide, South Australia from July 22-24, 2008. Participants in the three day school undertook a course called "Fundamentals of CCS", developed by CO2CRC’s Education and Training Committee. Click here for more information.
The CSLF continued its successful series of capacity building workshops with the 4th CSLF Capacity Building in Emerging Economies Workshop, which was held in Mexico City on July 9-10, 2008. A brief description of the Workshop and all presentations from the Workshop are now online at the CSLF website.
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced that it will provide $36 million for 15 projects aimed at furthering the development of new and cost-effective technologies for the capture of CO2 from the existing generation of coal-fired power plants. Click here to learn more.
Four bidders have pre-qualified in the U.K. government's carbon capture and
storage (CCS) demonstration competition. Read the full story.
E.ON's proposed Kingsnorth coal power station has been named on a
shortlist to become the UK's CCS demonstration project. Read the full story.
The Norwegian government has announced plans for two large-scale CCS projects. The Kaarstø project will be a full-scale CCS retrofit for a gas-fired power plant on the Western coast of Norway. The investment decision is planned for 2009. Click here to learn more. The Mongstad
project will be a full-scale CCS plant for a combined heat and power (CHP) plant to be developed in two stages with completion scheduled for 2014. Click here to learn more.
The booklet Geologic Storage of Carbon Dioxide - Staying Safely Underground has been published by the IEA Working Party on Fossil Fuels and the IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme. Click here to download.
The Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs has committed €10 million for each of three pilot projects designed to expand knowledge about capturing and storing CO2. The zero emission Drachten project will capture and pump CO2 from gas-fired electricity generation to enhance gas recovery. The Cryogenic CO2 capture project will apply the principle of cryogenics to freeze CO2. The third project involves testing CO2 capture through coal gasification. Click here to learn more.
The China Coalbed Methane Technology/CO2 Sequestration Project has been completed and a final report is available on the Projects page.
The CO2STORE project has been completed, and a link to its "Best Practices" manual is available on the Projects page.
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