In order to reach the most ambitious CO2-target 2030 in the sector, HeidelbergCement is progressing fast on a portfolio of CCU/S projects. This addresses all aspects from technology to partnerships and most importantly financial backing. During its Capital Market Day 2022, HeidelbergCement has announced to invest 1.5 b€ into 7 CCU/S projects until 2030. During this presentation the various aspects of this journey will be addressed including concrete project information beyond the press releases done.

In this session will discuss global facility developments and trends, the global CCS pipeline and CCS Networks developments. Next we’ll have a look at international CCS PLR trends including status and recent developments of the London protocol. Finally we’ll run through a number of noteworthy region-specific updates.

Carbon capture is a key technology for decarbonizing hard-to-abate industries, but also gas power assets. With new commercial units under development worldwide, carbon capture has a bright future for existing and new low-carbon gas turbines. The key is stronger and tighter integration of the two units, the power asset and the carbon capture facility, an area in which GE specializes. Integration is thus the critical element to provide the necessary flexibility of the gas plant in transient phases and to reduce the efficiency penalty due to the energy consumption of the carbon capture unit. Integration is also essential to increase the concentration of carbon dioxide in the exhaust gas and significantly improve the CO2 capture rate through the Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) technique.

This presentation will illustrate the latest interlinking technologies associated with H2 and CCUS to showcase how they are both contributing to a net zero future. Tenaris has developed an advanced product portfolio to accompany the energy transition and its challenges.

Reaching net-zero will be impossible without CCUS. Shell Catalysts & Technologies and Technip Energies are working together to provide easy and cost-effective CCUS solutions for all industries. By combining both, state-of-the-art carbon capture technology and project execution excellence, we drive cost down to reach our customers decarbonization goals.

During this presentation you will get an insight to the plans and strategies of a company that has an ambition of a 25% share of the European CO2 transport and storage market in 2035. Equinor is an international energy company committed to long-term value creation in a low-carbon future. Our purpose is to turn natural resources into energy for people and progress for society. Equinor’s portfolio of projects encompasses oil and gas, renewables and low-carbon solutions, with an ambition of becoming a net-zero energy company by 2050. Combining more than 50 years of oil and gas activities and an extensive experience with CCS on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, Equinor is positioning to become be a major player in the CCS industry. Leveraging its strengths, Equinor can deliver large scale CCS solutions to ensure efficient decarbonization of industry.

Markets for CCU/S solutions are still under development and regulatory schemes are missing in most European countries – still, it is time to act for a lot of industrial companies if they want to reach their carbon goals, both compliance or voluntary targets by 2040. As CCS markets by definition only work with all parts of the value chain - capture, transport, handling, shipping and storage - being developed in parallel, challenges exist along the complete value chain, especially for clients in mainland Europe. Professional risk management and partnering structures on the different value chain stages will be key to become a reliant and reputable specialized full scale service provider in the CCU/S market.

Even though CCUS technology has been around since the 1980’s, costs are still high and further maturing of certain technologies is necessary for large-scale deployment. Janne will discuss the need for new partnerships and innovations to get CCUS projects off the ground and to reach net zero.

Safe and reliable transportation and storage of CO2 from its capture site are two fundamental steps in the CCS process. While CO2 transport and storage occurs daily in many parts of the world, it requires significant structural investments. In Europe, CO2 transport infrastructure and storage sites are still underdeveloped, mainly due to economic, regulatory and permitting constraints. This session will bring together operational actors and decision makers on current issues related to CO2 transport and storage in Europe. Together, they will present the complexities and explore future solutions to this challenge that is driving the deployment of CCS in Europe.

With 90% of world GDP now committed to net zero pledges in the past two years a key question for 2022 will be the extent to which the high-level political ambitions of governments will start to be translated into project investment reality. Financing decisions that can start to deliver significant progress towards making Net Zero ambitions a reality. Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) is considered as one of the key pathways to achieving a net zero future. This session will provide a CCUS overview, touch on markets, policy and determine how CCUS will be an effective enabler for decarbonization across this energy transition. CCUS’s role in delivering net zero in EU and globally will be discussed as well as the key challenges and way forward.

Some industries are considered difficult to decarbonise. Cement manufacture is one such industry, as the carbon dioxide emissions are a result not just of the combustion of fuels or the requirement to power machinery, but of the calcination reaction itself. Cement production accounts for around 7% of global CO2 emissions, with 70% of these emissions coming from the calcination of raw materials. The implementation of carbon capture is essential if the cement industry is to reach net zero. This presentation will provide some details of recent feasibility studies completed by Fluor and Hanson Cement to decarbonise Hanson UK’s Padeswood facility through the application of post-combustion carbon capture. After a general introduction to the cement manufacture process and Fluor’s proprietary Econamine FG PlusSM post-combustion carbon capture technology, the presentation will focus on the specific challenges and opportunities of integrating carbon capture into a cement manufacture facility. Carbon capture plants have a significant footprint in terms of utility requirements – notably for heating, cooling and driving rotating equipment. Opportunities to integrate these utility systems with the host plant will be reviewed. Cement kiln flue gas is characterised as having high levels of dust and other contaminants. The impact that some of these contaminants may have on a capture process and potential mitigations will be discussed. Finally, the results of applying a post-combustion carbon capture technology to cement manufacture will be illustrated, including the potential to achieve carbon-negative operation.

This technical presentation will provide an overview of pre-combustion, post-combustion and in-site carbon capture technologies and their respective path toward commercialization.

Stockholm Exergi, the owner and operator of the facility, selected hot potassium carbonate (HPC) based capture process as the post-combustion CO2 capture technology to be implemented at KVV8. HPC-based CO2 capture process has been successfully deployed for decades in various industries, such as in gas sweetening and steam methane reformers. This presentation looks at Petrofac's Front end engineering design (FEED) study for integrating CO2 capture to the CHP plant. The implemented design leverages HPC CO2 capture with a patented “compander” and heat recuperation technology to maximize the efficiency of the CO2 absorption and desorption from flue gas while using a safe, readily available and non-hazardous solvent that does not degrade or produce harmful emissions.

Reducing the carbon footprint in the energy sector is imperative in order to achieve the world's climate targets. Furthermore, additional industries are hard-to-abate due to the production process itself. Point source treatment is the type of technology that supports those industries in their pursuit to achieve regulatory compliance and meet public expectations. Capturing the carbon dioxide is only the first step, which must be followed by a solution to treat it. Mineralization can ensure an efficient utilization which enables circular economy, and ultimately an economically viable carbon reduction.

Cryocap™ H₂ is the only technique that enables the reduction of the CO₂ released during the production of hydrogen while also increasing this hydrogen production. Cryocap technology is a clean technology without chemicals, without waste, and with negligible steam consumption. This cryogenic technology is capable of rising to the challenges of the energy transition, and reaching ambitious Climate Objectives. Air Liquide, based on its experience as both operator and designer, proposes to combine the CO2 Capture & Liquefaction units in order to optimize the process, to make plant operation simpler and deliver a more competitive and more compact solution. This combination is fully in line with the main driver for this project, that means to capture CO2 at the lowest cost per ton of CO2 avoided. Cryocap™ H2 could be seen as the first step in CO2 capture investment, by capturing part of CO2 emissions, and at the same time by allowing up to 10% more hydrogen production. The Cryocap™ technology has been selected in 2 large-scale successful projects by the European Union Innovation Fund "Kairos-at-C" and "K6".

As companies in asset-intensive industries develop and evolve strategic plans for carbon mitigation through CCUS, digitalization can play a key role in rapid development, scaling and adoption of the technology. Digital solutions are crucial to accelerate innovation by driving down economics, speeding up the pace of implementation and improving confidence across design and operations of the complete CCUS solution. Companies like Fluor, Carbon Engineering & Technology Centre Mongstad have been using process simulation software to optimize performance and economics of point source and direct air capture technologies. Digital end-to-end optimization and risk analysis across the system, help to identify the best and lowest risk economic outcomes of CCUS projects. With new developments, such as high-performance computing and analytics and AI-based hybrid models, digital solutions can drive further innovation to transform CO2 into useful products, helping to drive down total costs across the carbon lifecycle.

During this session we critically examine existing industry knowledge on current status of various technologies of CO2 capture and separation. We discuss new emerging technologies and share major improvements to existing processes needed for better overall removal efficiency of CO2.

This presentation will highlight Aramco’s projects and activities in the area of CCUS, including figures and facts of environmental benefits.

Post-combustion carbon capture technologies are ready to be deployed at full-scale on industrial sites. However, the number of large-scale capture sites currently operating is limited, making sharing the knowledge from these sites one of the most valuable tools to ensure the success of full-scale industrial deployments. At the same time, new technologies and new approaches continue to be developed, with the objective to further reduce capture costs, improve integration with the emitter and reduce footprint, thus facilitating the adoption of CCUS in the industry. These technologies need to be properly demonstrated at meaningful scale before they can be implemented at large scale. This presentation covers how Technology Center Mongstad has been sharing its experience with full-scale capture sites to help them avoid hurdles and derisk these projects, and some typical examples will be discussed.

Carbon dioxide reduction plays an important role in many industrial processes aiming net-zero goals. The emission of carbon dioxide can be avoided in certain processes, i.e. production routes, nonetheless there are still important products such as basic chemicals where carbon cannot be replaced or carbon dioxide emissions are unavoidable. Circular economy and carbon in circulation are ways to reduce fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide emissions. If we want to substitute the energy we get from fossil fuel oxidation, new drivers for our processes are needed. Hydrogen plays a crucial role here, as well as the use of carbon dioxide as carbon source.

The Pathway for Industry to reach Net Zero is one of the greatest challenges of our time. CCUS, H2 and energy efficiency are possible answers to the new challenges. Which solutions are really achievable on a short term? As an experienced partner in the process industry value chain Bilfinger can support you. It is important that the involved stakeholders starts now to secure resources: The demand for carbon capture solutions will significantly exceed the capacity. To create planning security: Planning and construction of a carbon capture plant will take several years. To secure Opex: Clear and stable Opex levels will reduce the risk of rising CO2 taxes. Explanation of design and build solutions including some real business cases.

Assuring a safe and cost-effective transport infrastructure is a key step to fully unlock the CCUS value chain. To connect capture plants to storage sites, CO2 transport in hubs has proven to be cost-competitive compared to single-source to single-sink scheme mainly due to economy of scale and offering better feasibility for capture retrofit for industrial facilities. In hubs, the value chain can be optimized to accommodate various emission sources and the transport is delivered via a pipeline (or ship) network. The development of hubs and infrastructure which can be used for multiple emission sources and furthermore facilitate the standardization of the options for infrastructure will reduce the projects timeline and leads to faster decarbonization of our industries. However, the trade-off is the possibility of a wider range of impurities (legacy of each emission point source) carried along with CO2 through the pipeline. This presentation captures key aspects for safe, reliable, and cost-effective design of CO2 transport infrastructure and aims to make these available to project developers, decision makers and regulators working on CO2 transport projects.

In CCUS process, carbon is captured (Upstream) from the exhaust of the industrial plants or from the generation of blue Hydrogen. The captured CO2 is then transported by pipeline (Midstream) and stored deep underground or reused in hydrocarbon synthesis processes (Downstream). Besides the natural carbon cycle CO2 is becoming a new “Gas” with its own Ecosystem which requires highly reliable Motor & Drive systems for pumps and compressors used at capture, compression, transport and storage stages. Electrical Motor & Drive solution brings high availability as starting or as continuous converters. These converters provide near sinusoidal waveforms at line side and motor side which is a great advantage for installation at industrial plants and on grids in cities.

Carbon capture costs need to be reduced to enable the necessary broad adoption and avoid climate change. The CO2 Solutions by Saipem process combined with Novozymes large scale enzyme production takes a significant step in that direction. As capture costs, in general, are also greatly influenced by the scale and CO2 concentration in the industrial off-gas, Saipem and Novozymes now focus on accelerating the process scale-up within all industries that need low-cost and efficient carbon capture, namely in Cement, Oil & Gas, Iron & Steel and Coalfired, Biomass, Waste and Gas Power.

Global investment in carbon capture and storage (CCS) reached $2.3 billion in 2021, down $0.7 billion from 2020. While last year saw a record number of announcements, investment fell behind as developers seek to get more for their money from falling capture costs. As the industry moves toward large-scale projects, we will highlight investment trends, finding the funding and alternative ways to unlock CCS investments.

This presentation will cover the fundamentals of the fully electrically powered Hot Potassium Carbonate (HPC) process, its opportunities for district heating integration, and how emitters can gain further confidence in the HPC technology through demonstration units.

Deployment of carbon solutions at scale is essential to address the continued use of fossil fuels to meet the growing demand for energy while also addressing climate change. Baker Hughes is active in addressing short-term challenges of energy transition as well as on filling the future technology gaps. This presentation provides an overview of Baker Hughes technologies for CCUS across capture, transportation, utilization and storage. Finally it discusses how blue hydrogen can be used as feedstock for power generation through our NovaLT family gas turbine, 100% hydrogen ready.

Sectors such as steel, cement, and waste processing contribute to current huge emissions of CO2. The great challenge is to reduce these emissions and this can be done through carbon capture. Experts are tackling this challenge, collaborating with partners on carbon capture, storage, transport, and practical use. This panel brings together technical experts, end-users and technology providers to discuss opportunities and challenges.

Carbon dioxide utilization has gained momentum as a solution to achieve the world’s climate goals. This set of technologies creates financial incentives to capture waste CO2 and can accelerate the uptake of carbon capture, storage, and utilization (CCUS). Many industries are perceiving CO2 as an important feedstock for providing climate-friendly solutions, and at present, there are a wide variety of CO2 utilization technologies being explored, each at different stages of development and commercialization. This presentation will provide an in-depth overview of CO2U technologies and market trends, discussing the technical, environmental, and economic aspects of this industry and its potential. The following questions will be addressed: How is CO2 converted into useful products? What are the key drivers and hurdles for CO2U market growth? What is the CO2U market status and outlook?

With its large, natural geological CO2 storage capacity in the North Sea and decades of experience from oil and gas activities and realised large-scale CO2 storage projects already in operation such as Equinor's Sleipner project and Snøhvit, Norway is in a leading position to demonstrate CCS at scale. Norway's latest CCS project, Longship is aimed at demonstrating the full CCS chain commercially, by establishing an open access transport and storage infrastructure and aims to address more of the market failures which have so far held up investment in CCS as a broad climate mitigation tool. It is also the first project to test CCS under the relevant EU regulation and built on lessons learnt and shared as CCS technology has developed over the years.

Amid the hydrocarbon processing industry’s strategies to decarbonize existing operations, hydrogen and Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) have increasingly moved into the focus as feasible methods in this on-going transformation. After all, both hydrogen and CO2 provide ample opportunities to be used in hydrocarbon processes either in molecular form or as feedstock. At the same time, the unique physical properties of both hydrogen and CO2 can make them a challenge for process equipment such as compressors and expanders. Discussing existing reference projects, the speaker will show how integrally-geared centrifugal compressor technology is suited to carry out hydrogen and CO2-based applications, while also examining potential opportunities and limitations for the bigger picture of decarbonization and energy transition.

To reach the net-zero emission hydrogen is a key enabler in the energy system. It provides a balance between energy supply and demand over possibly long distances and periods of time and, thus, allows introduction of a higher share of renewable energy sources in the overall energy mix. large-scale storage of hydrogen is required to balance the energy system, which can be most cost-effectively realized in the subsurface using mined salt caverns, depleted reservoirs, or aquifers. This presentation will highlight the critical role of the subsurface specialist in de-risking subsurface storage of hydrogen and in developing these technologies towards deployment. Compatibility of existing wells with hydrogen will be key, in view of their intended re-utilization for storage in depleted reservoirs. From a surface perspective, cost-effective compression and purification of hydrogen needs to be accomplished. Monitoring and verification of storage containment and conformance will be key for public and regulatory acceptance. Here, the detectability of the hydrogen with existing technologies from conventional O&G and CCS need to be verified and possibly improved technologies developed. Native hydrogen occurred naturally in unique setting many exploration concepts are underdevelopment and government and corporate start to look at, a brief summery will be presented

JFE STEEL, an integrated mill located in Japan, have investigated steel pipe material and connection performance for CO2 injection tubing and believes that it’s material and connection performance can contribute to the cost reduction of CCS/CCUS projects. For the steel pipe connection, JFE conducted low temperature connection test simulating actual CCS/CCUS operations, using JFE’s premium connection: “JFELION”. This connection test was successful, and we consider the “JFELION” as a reliable connection for CCS/CCUS applications.

This session will present and discuss the current industrial approaches, policy requirements, emerging applications, research trends and focus on the main challenges this field needs to address from the global sustainability perspective. We will also discuss trends in CO2 utilisation as a carbon source, their expected impact and frontiers to contribute to global sustainability as well as Improved methodologies developed to access technologically viability of CO2 technologies and to quantify the life-cycle climate benefits.