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Enbridge, Oxy to explore building

CO2 pipeline, CCS hub

TEXAS CANADA-BASED Enbridge and Oxy Low “We look forward to working with Enbridge
Carbon Ventures (OLCV), a subsidiary of Occi- as we advance our plans to develop sequestra-
dental Petroleum, will work towards jointly tion hubs that will provide a practical decar-
developing a carbon dioxide (CO2) pipeline and bonisation solution for industrial emitters,”
sequestration hub near Corpus Christi, Texas. said OLCV’s president and general manager of
Corpus Christi, which is located on the Gulf sequestration, Jeff Alvarez. “This collaboration
Coast, is a centre of heavy industry, includ- will help accelerate the path to net zero not only
ing Enbridge facilities, that results in a lot of for ourselves, but for other organisations who are
Corpus Christi is emissions. exploring end-to-end solutions to capture, trans-
a centre of heavy Enbridge would develop, construct, and port and permanently store CO2,” he added.
industry responsible for operate the pipeline facilities and OLCV would Enbridge owns and operates pipelines
considerable volumes of develop, build and operate the sequestration throughout North America, transporting crude,
carbon emissions. facilities. The two companies would jointly mar- natural gas, and natural gas liquids. It moves
ket the CO2 pipeline and sequestration services about 30% of the crude oil produced in North
to other third-party CO2 point source emitters America, and transports nearly 20% of the natu-
in the areas of Ingleside and Corpus Christi. ral gas consumed in the US.
“This is a unique opportunity for two organi- OLCV is focused on advancing low-carbon
sations to pair complementary skill sets in a way technologies and services that enhance Occiden-
that decarbonises our own facilities and provides tal’s business while reducing emissions. OLCV
a platform for our industrial neighbours who also invests in the development of low-carbon
are also seeking to reduce their emissions,” said fuels and products, as well as sequestration
Enbridge’s executive vice president and president services to support carbon capture and storage
of liquids pipelines, Colin Gruending. (CCS) projects globally.™

ExxonMobil, MHI partner on carbon capture

GLOBAL EXXONMOBIL and Mitsubishi Heavy Indus- CO2 emissions from their petrochemical,
tries (MHI) have joined forces to deploy MHI’s refining and power generation facilities. The
carbon capture technology as part of Exxon- company has also announced plans to build a
Mobil’s end-to-end carbon capture and storage blue hydrogen production plant and one of the
(CCS) services for industrial customers. world’s largest CCS projects at its integrated site
The two companies bring complementary in Baytown, Texas.
capabilities to facilitate industry decarbonisation ExxonMobil and MHI have worked together
projects, said ExxonMobil. to build world-scale petrochemical plants over
The partners will be supported by Kansai the past two decades in Baytown and Corpus
Electric Power (KEPCO) to advance carbon Christi in Texas, as well as in Singapore.
capture technologies that could reduce the cost Tokyo-based MHI is the world’s largest licen-
of carbon dioxide (CO2) capture for heavy-emit- sor of post-combustion CO2 capture technol-
ting industrial customers. The joint effort will ogy and has been developing it for more than
build on the KM CDR Process and Advanced 30 years. MHI’s record includes 14 commercial
KM CDR Process, developed jointly by MHI and CO2 capture plants already delivered worldwide.
KEPCO, which they have said is the only liquid “We’re excited to offer our large industrial
amine carbon capture technology anywhere customers the only complete carbon capture,
commercially demonstrated at greater than 1mn transportation and storage solution in the mar-
tonnes per year (tpy). ket,” said ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions’
Super-major ExxonMobil has more than 30 president, Dan Ammann. “Adding Mitsubishi
years of experience capturing and transporting Heavy Industries’ leading carbon capture tech-
CO2 and injecting it into geological formations. nology to ExxonMobil’s transportation and stor-
ExxonMobil has said it has captured more CO2 age capabilities enables this compelling offering,”
than any other company – 120mn tonnes – he added.
accounting for around 40% of all the anthropo- “Carbon capture and storage technology and
genic CO2 that has ever been captured. innovation are critical to our path to net zero,”
ExxonMobil is one of 14 companies in the said MHI Engineering’s president and CEO,
greater Houston area interested in capturing Kenji Terasawa.™

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