CO2 Capture Project Phase 3 – Demonstration Phase

Mark Crombie, Program Manager, CO2 Capture Team, BP Alternative Energy

The CO2 Capture Project (CCP) is an award-winning partnership of seven major energy companies working to advance the technologies that will underpin the deployment of industrial-scale CO2 capture and storage (CCS). 
Harnessing the unique expertise of its members, the CCP has worked in collaboration with government bodies and more than 60 academic institutions, industry and leading environmental groups. Initiated in 2000, the overall objective of CCP is to deliver major cost reductions for CO2 capture and demonstrate that geological storage is efficient, verifiable and secure.

 Phase 3 of The CO2 Capture Project (CCP3), which began in late 2009 and is scheduled to run until 2013, is absolutely critical in preparing the ground for widespread deployment of the next generation of CCS technologies. Thus much of CCP3’s work will be focused upon moving from theory to commercial application in refining, in-situ extraction of bitumen and natural gas power generation scenarios, with at least one full scale demonstration planned in CCP3.

A second task in the CCP3 capture program is the development of technologies in the CCP1/CCP2 portfolio to “ready for demo”, subsequently promoting their demonstration among member companies,  The presentation will cover an overview of the CCP Program and focus on one of the demonstration projects planned for 2011, oxyfiring on a FCC unit located at the Petrobras’ research complex in São Mateus, Paraná state, Brazil.