Energy giant Shell and China’s state-owned Sinopec have teamed up with steel manufacturer Baowu and German chemical company BASF to develop a carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) project in eastern China.
Having signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the companies intend to conduct a joint study to assess the technical solutions and develop a commercial model for the project.
A CCUS project in the region could offer industrial companies in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River contractual opportunities to capture and store their CO2 emissions, according to Shell.
“The study will also explore to establish high-integrity and verified low-carbon product supply chains and propose enabling policies. If successful, it will be China’s first large-scale open-source CCUS project with a potential capacity of tens of millions of tonnes of CO2 per year,” added Shell.
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