The Global CCS Institute held a ceremony on the 29th of March in Xi-an, home of the Terracotta Army, in celebration of a series of ‘historic firsts’ for China and Yanchang Petroleum, one of China’s largest oil and gas companies.
China reaffirmed its emergence as a rapid climate change mitigator when it was announced that the country’s first large-scale carbon capture storage and utilisation (CCUS) facility would enter construction.
Located near Xi’an (Shaanxi Province), Yanchang CCUS will capture more than 400,000 tonnes of CO2 per annum from two coal to gasification (syngas) plants. It will reinject captured CO2 into previously developed oil fields to release oil from existing formations in a process known as Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR).
... to continue reading you must be subscribed
