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Air Liquide picked for carbon capture

tech at Dutch refinery

NETHERLANDS FRANCE’S TotalEnergies and Russia’s Lukoil Hydrogen produced from hydrocarbons is
have issued a contract to Air Liquide to provide classified as blue when the resulting CO2 emis-
The plant will capture carbon capture and liquefaction technology for sions are captured and stored. This hydrogen can
more than 90% of their Zeeland oil refinery in the Netherlands. then be used by industries for energy and other
emissions from the Under the contract, Air Liquide will license uses, helping them reduce their emissions.
refinery’s exisitng out its proprietary Cryocap Flue Gas technology Air Liquide’s solvent-free Cyrocap tech-
hydrogen production for a plant that will capture more than 90% of nology enables CO2 capture and liquefaction
units. emissions from the refinery’s existing hydro- contained in concentrated flue gases using
gen production units. It will capture up to 2,400 both absorption and cryogenic technologies. It
tonnes per day (tpd) of CO2, Air Liquide said in runs on electricity rather than thermal energy,
a statement. and therefore its emissions can be minimal if
The refinery in Vlissingen handles up to powered with renewable energy. A Cryocap
148,000 barrels per day (bpd), and Lukoil and unit supplied by Air Liquide at TotalEnergies’
TotalEnergies are eager to reduce its emissions Port-Jeroma refinery in France has been in oper-
amid growing customer and investor demands ation for five years.
for cleaner energy. “We are pleased to support the Zeeland Refin-
“By integrating [the Cryocap FG plant] into ery project with our innovative carbon capture
the existing refinery scheme, Zeeland Refinery technologies that will contribute to decarboni-
will strengthen its position in the low-carbon sation of the site,” David Maloney, chairman of
future that lies ahead of us,” the plant’s general Air Liquide Engineering & Construction, com-
manager, Nathalie De Muynck, commented. mented. ™

PROJECTS & COMPANIES

Siccar seeks environmental approval

ahead of Cambo FID

UK PRIVATE equity-funded Siccar Point Energy vessel that will produce hydrocarbons from two
has cleared another hurdle as it prepares to take drill centres, hosting eight production wells and
The company expects a final investment decision (FID) on the Cambo four water injection wells in total.
to take the decision in oil project west of Shetland. The Cambo appraisal well sunk in 2018 will
the second half of the The company, who counts Bluewater and also be completed for production.
year. Blackstone among its institutional investors, has The field’s oil will be exported via shuttle
submitted a new environmental statement (ES) tanker, while its gas will be shipped via an export
in order to get the project approved by authori- pipeline that terminates in the West of Shetland
ties. It filed an earlier ES in October 2019, and an Pipeline. Development activities should start
FID was expected shortly after that. But the coro- this year, Siccar states in the ES, with drilling
navirus (COVID-19) pandemic led to a delay. scheduled to commence in 2022. First oil is
The statement has now been refiled to comply anticipated in 2025, and production should run
with revised environmental impact regulations for 25 years. Its first phase is targeting 170mn
that were introduced at the end of last year. barrels of crude.
Cambo is targeting 800mn barrels of oil and In its full-year results, published in May, Sic-
additional volumes of gas. Siccar is partnered at car said it intended to “dilute” its 70% interest in
the project with Royal Dutch Shell. Cambo ahead of taking the FID in the second
The development will comprise a floating half of this year. Shell farmed into the project in
production, storage and offloading (FPSO) May 2018, taking a 30% stake. ™

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