| 7/1/2018 America |
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| First direct verification of geologic sequestration of CO2 opens door for carbon sequestration efforts to proceed with greater confidence... |
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| 6/26/2018 America |
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| A new study published June 25 in Nature Climate Change evaluates the potential for recently described methods that capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through an "electrogeochemical" process that also generates hydrogen gas for use as fuel and creates by-products that can help counteract ocean acidification... |
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| 6/19/2018 America |
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| The Houston oil company Occidental Petroleum is studying a carbon capture project to deliver carbon dioxide to its oil fields in West Texas, the company announced Tuesday... |
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| 6/19/2018 America |
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| The Carbon Capture Coalition has formed a new group of private sector CEOs, labour, NGO and philanthropic leaders, and former state and federal officials committed to carbon capture technology development... |
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| 6/7/2018 Canada |
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| CO2 Solutions Inc. (TSXV: CST) ("CO2 Solutions" or the "Corporation") is pleased to announce that its technology will be featured in a presentation given today at the Oil Sands Innovation Summit in Calgary, Alberta. The presentation summarizes extensive modelling work by Natural Resources Canada's CanmetENERGY research centre, in Varennes, Quebec and CO2 Solutions on the energy integration potential of CO2 capture with Once-Through Steam Generator (OTSG) plants providing steam for Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) operations... |
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| 6/2/2018 America |
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| NET Power has successfully achieved first fire of its supercritical carbon dioxide demonstration power plant and test facility located in La Porte, Texas... |
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| 5/24/2018 America |
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| DOE selected these projects as part of the Carbon Storage Program, which is advancing the development and validation of technologies that enable safe, cost-effective, and permanent geologic storage of carbon dioxide (CO2). The projects selected will help to inform the characterization and permitting of a commercial-scale complex with at least one storage site— ultimately demonstrating the potential for safe and secure storage in time for the anticipated deployment of transformative carbon capture technologies in the 2025 time frame... |
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| 5/16/2018 America |
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| Linde North America and the University of Illinois have secured grants from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to research and improve technologies for capturing carbon emissions from power plants... |
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| 5/10/2018 America |
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| A recent article in the sustainable chemistry journal ChemSusChem revealed researchers at the University of Pittsburgh are "doping" nanoparticles to enhance their ability to capture carbon dioxide and provide a raw source of carbon for industrial processes. Not to be confused with its negative use in athletics, "doping" in chemical engineering refers to adding a substance into another material to improve its performance... |
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| 5/1/2018 America |
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| UK CAER will receive over $940,000 from DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) to advance its world-renowned carbon dioxide capture research and development... |
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| 4/25/2018 China, UK, America |
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| From April 24th to 25th, the China-UK (Guangdong) CCUS center (i.e., Guangdong South Carbon Capture and Storage Industry Center) hosted the 4th international professional workshop for carbon capture, utilization and storage of guangdong province and other related activities in Guangzhou with the scheme for knowledge sharing and capacity building... |
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| 4/23/2018 America |
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| researchers at Stanford and other institutions have found new hope for cost-effective carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). Their study, published April 23 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, runs the numbers on different options for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in the U.S. and finds opportunities where it is not only commercially feasible with existing technology, but profitable... |
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| 4/12/2018 America |
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| Up to $9 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development are available for "Developing Technologies for Advancement of Associated Geologic Storage in Basinal Geo-Laboratories."... |
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| 4/11/2018 America |
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| The CCSI Toolset is a suite of computational tools and models designed to help maximize learning and reduce cost and risk during the scale-up process for carbon capture technologies... |
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| 4/8/2018 America |
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| New research by scientists at Washington University in St. Louis sheds light on what happens underground when CO2 is injected into basalt... |
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| 4/3/2018 Canada |
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| Total has joined the Valorisation Carbone Québec (“VCQ”) Project as its first industrial partner... |
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| 3/28/2018 Canada |
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| Quebec's Minister of Sustainable Development, the Environment and Climate Change, Ms. Isabelle Melançon, announced today a grant of $7.5 million to CO2 Solutions Inc. ("CSI" or "the Corporation") to enable a three-year extension of the Valorisation Carbone Québec (VCQ) Project... |
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| 3/26/2018 Canada |
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| Since operations began in October 2014, the carbon capture and storage (CCS) process at SaskPower’s Boundary Dam Power Station has prevented a total of more than two million tonnes of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere... |
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| 3/26/2018 America |
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| A small provision in the recently enacted U.S. budget legislation is predicted to trigger an explosion of new spending for carbon capture and sequestration projects... |
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| 3/16/2018 Canada |
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| FortisBC has announced the installation of the first CleanO2 carbon capture unit at LUSH Cosmetics' headquarters in Vancouver... |
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