What are your thoughts on CCUS and is it a viable future?
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To be fair, they just had an announcement for more Aus blocks today, have started multiple projects in SJV, have a real project in TX offshore, and are invested in a tech company. It’s Hydrogen that hasn’t done anything.
CP is only interested in publicity……..lots of “look at me” workday and linked in posts……deliver something man!
I bet this thread was started by CP to gauge how important he is in the organization LOL
CCUS has basically saved CTC workwise - they are all over it, despite knowing nothing whatsoever.
CTC is writing boat loads of manuals on CCUS without anyone knowing nothing in real life
For the time being I’d focus on those carbon molecules we extract from the ground, they’re the ones actually making money.
CCUS right now is on capturing CO2 and injecting it underground with the hope that it stays there for long time. This might work for certain geological formation and within certain distance with the right surface facilities or transport lines. Another approach to all of this, while not practical yet, is to mimic photosynthesis on a large industrial basis using biotechnology and gene mutations. This can alter the game to something far more attractive as the product would be generating abundant food and saving the world and many hungry around the world. I am not sure when the technology becomes economic and possible on large scale, but that would be something I see CCUS to be useful and address both climate change and world hunger, ki----g 2 birds with 1 stone, maybe in the next 25 years or so.
If Gorgon has taught us anything, it is that we don’t know squat about CCUS. It has been and continues to be an unmitigated fiasco despite being the most studies and reviewed project ever.
I think the pilots they are deploying are for the next generation of capture technologies, which need to be cheaper to capture more streams of CO2 in the future. They have recently done a couple of learning sessions.
Easiest way would be to capture CO2 from high producing CO2 industries like cements, refineries, and steel production. Then It could be used for enhanced recovery.
Expensive, impractical, and inefficient. The technology has been around for decades yet its still rarely done. I laugh when I hear about a CCUS pilot. WTF! Why do we need to pilot established technology?
We need a breakthrough soon to allow it to work.
It is the silver bullet that the world would need to maintain the current western lifestyle that developing countries also want. But it will still take ccus in conjunction with other major efficiency and technology gains to achieve a sustainable environment with the projected increase in world population
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