Carbon Capture, The First Step Towards Net Zero
The UK Government’s Energy White Paper released in December 2020 acknowledged the importance of natural gas to the UK’s energy mix while emphasising the need to decarbonise the power, oil and gas industries. This presentation briefly explores the concept of Net Zero, capture processes and demonstrates the potential for carbon capture to provide a viable solution for the reduction of industrial greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon capture is an established, commercially proven technology that can be scaled up and rapidly deployed in both existing and new gas processing facilities to lower net greenhouse gases emissions. This will be demonstrated by analysing exemplary projects executed globally. Pre-combustion carbon capture can be used in the production of blue hydrogen. Post-combustion carbon capture units can be included in new designs and retrofitted to existing gas processing facilities allowing them to continue operating for the remainder of their operational lifetime with net zero carbon emissions.
