Abu Dhabi: A project to remove 800,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually from Abu Dhabi’s atmosphere is in progress, a senior executive said.
The largest project of its scale in the region — the carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) project — will start capturing carbon and injecting into oil fields for oil exploration from 2016, Arafat Al Yafei, manager CO2 and Nitrogen Development Department at Adnoc, said.
He was talking at a panel discussion on Energy Solutions and CO2 Management at the ‘Powering Progress Together’ conference, jointly hosted by Shell and Masdar in the capital on Thursday.
Located in Abu Dhabi, the joint venture’s first CCUS project consists of three core components.
First, carbon dioxide will be captured onsite at Emirates Steel, the UAE’s largest steelmaker’s facility.
Second, the carbon dioxide will be compressed and transported along a 50km pipeline to oil fields operated by Adnoc.
Third, Adnoc will inject the carbon dioxide into oil fields to enhance oil recovery, while storing the carbon dioxide underground.
It is scheduled for completion in 2016.
Adnoc and Masdar signed a joint venture agreement for the project in 2013 and jointly awarded a Dh450 million engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to Dodsal Group to build a CO2 compression facility and a 50 km pipeline. The joint venture is 51 per cent owned by Adnoc and 49 per cent by Masdar.
