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GE Gorgon – To Pump 3.3 Million Tons Of CO2 Into Ground
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Written on: 13 November 2010 [06:55]
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altenergygeek
 registered since: 13.11.2010
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I recently read about the GE Gorgon project that plans to pump millions of tons of CO2 into ground. Here are the details, from the PowerPlantCCS blog. "To help lower the global warming impact of one of the world’s largest natural gas fields, General Electric has supplied Chevron, Exxon Mobil and Shell with enough compression “trains”–the pumps and turbines that do the sequestering–to create the world’s largest carbon sequestration project. The trains will pump 3.3 million tons of CO2 released from natural gas mining back into the ground every year. That’s the equivalent of taking 630,000 cars off the road." 3.3 million T is a lot, but not "lot enough". A single 100 MW power plant alone, for instance, will emit about 1 million T of CO2 per annum, and there are about 5000 such large plants worldwide, and about 50,000 power plants if you include the smaller, captive plants. Still, what is good to see from this report is that CCS is beginning to happen, rather than being just spoken about. |
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