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CloserStill Media Acquires Fast Growth Hydrogen and Carbon Capture Technology Global Event Series
London, United Kingdom, 19th September: CloserStill Media, the producer of market-leading business events, exhibitions and conferences, has acquired a majority stake in the rapidly growing and award-winning Hydrogen Technology Expo and Carbon Capture Technology Expo...
Endrava launches revolutionary CCUS projects feature in CaptureMap
Endrava, a leading Norwegian climate-tech firm, is set to unveil a game-changing enhancement to their decarbonization solution - CaptureMap. CaptureMap is swiftly establishing itself as the go-to interactive map-based platform in the industry. Featuring data on over...
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have discovered longer lifetimes in certain carbon capture materials
Carbon Capture technologies are agents which absorb carbon and are known as poly(ethylenimine) (PEI) sorbents. The issue with these sorbents is that over time they degrade and this limits their ability to capture CO2. Therefore, LLNL and the National Renewable Energy...
Amazon purchases carbon removal credits and invests in CarbonCapture to accelerate DAC
Amazon is making two significant investments into the carbon capture industry in order to accelerate the development of direct air capture. The first investment is their agreement to purchase 250,000 metric tons of carbon removal credits from STRATOS over the next 10...
GEA is developing a decarbonising solution for Carbon Intensive industries
The first plant to use GEA’s expertise around carbon capture is the Phoenix Zementwerke plant in Beckum, Germany and they have discovered that they can trap 90% of CO2 emissions in cement through using carbon capture. This plant in Germany has shown success and it has...
North Sea Transition awards 14 companies 21 licenses to store carbon in old oil and gas reservoirs
The North Sea Transition Authority have awarded businesses the ability to store carbon in offshore gas reservoirs with the aim of increasing the carbon storage capacity where these storage sites are. The carbon will be stored in saline aquifers which will cover 12,000...
ORLEN buys part of Polaris CO2 storage project
The ORLEN group has signed a letter of intent with Norway’s Horisont Energi AS, the owner of the Polaris license, and this agreement will enable ORLEN to increase and improve their carbon management services and therefore help industries who emit large amounts of CO2...
Saipem introduces Bluenzyme, a carbon capture process with reduced environmental impact
Bluenzyme is the new sustainable solution for CO2 capture which reduces environmental impact and works by using a non-toxic, non-volatile solvent which is based on the use of the carbonic anhydrase enzyme. Bluenzyme™ 200 is the first industrialised product with a...
ADNOC to invest in the Habshan CCUS project
ADNOC has decided to make the final investment to develop the Habshan CCUS project, in order to triple ADNOC’s carbon capture capacity through creating a unique platform which will connect all the sources of emissions and sequestration sites. Habshan CCUS project is...
Countdown Begins for Carbon Technology Expo Europe – The World’s Largest Carbon Capture Trade Fair
The countdown has begun for the world's largest carbon capture event, the Carbon Capture Expo Europe, set to take place at Messe Bremen, Germany, on September 27th and 28th. The third edition of the annual event is completely sold-out exhibition space and will feature...
Microsoft and Heirloom create deal over carbon capture
On September 7th Microsoft announced that they will pay $20 million to Heirloom in exchange for 315,000 metric tons of CO2 over a decade. Heirloom is a Californian carbon capture startup company, who harness “the natural properties of limestone” to “capture CO2...
Research group enhances the development of catalysts for carbon capture batteries
A collaboration between the University of Surrey, Imperial College London and Peking University has accelerated the development of catalysts for lithium-CO2 (Li-CO2) batteries – providing a platform for carbon capture batteries. The joint project aims to overcome...