Abu Dhabi – Mubasher: Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) announced that it is pushing ahead with expanding the capture, storage and utilisation of carbon dioxide (CO2), produced from either the Habshan-Bab gas processing facilities or the Shah gas plant.
The decision on which plant to capture the CO2 from first will be taken in 2019, according to the company’s statement.
The project will not interrupt the ongoing output from either facility, the state-run oil firm said.
The new capture will reduce the company’s carbon footprint and liberate natural gas, previously used for oil field injection, for other more valuable purposes.
The announcement took place on the sidelines of the International Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) Summit, in Edinburgh.
The state-run company targets meeting growing global demand for oil by boosting recovery from its maturing reservoirs, the statement highlighted.
It is worth noting that the Shah plant is considered one of the world’s largest facilities processing ultra-sour gas, processing around 1.3 billion standard cubic feet per day (scfd) of sour gas and associated condensates, which contain over 20% hydrogen sulfide and 10% CO2.
By 2025, amendments to the facility would enable the gases to be captured as part of the sulfur recovery process and converted into pure CO2 for enhanced oil recovery (EOR).
ADNOC noted that it plans to capture about 5 million tonnes of CO2 per year before 2030.
ADNOC currently has the capacity at Al Reyadah to capture 800,000 tonnes of CO2 per annum from Emirates Steel Industries.
