By: Ramy Sameh
Abu Dhabi - Mubasher: Al Reyadah Company, a joint venture between Masdar and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), announced on Saturday opening its new project for carbon capture with investments totalling AED 450 million ($122 million).
The project consists of three procedures, as revealed by the company in a press conference today, in the first one carbon dioxide (CO2) will be captured at Emirates Steel factories at Abu Dhabi.
In the second one the CO2 will be compressed and then finally it will be transported through a pipeline to one of ADNOC’s oil fields where the gas will be injected to enhance oil recovery.
The company also said that the project will capture and sequester up to 800,000 tonnes of CO2 annually, and that it is the first one of its kind in the Middle East to capture, store and use CO2 on a commercial level.
Al Reyadah aims at using carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery instead of re-injecting natural gas into oil fields to trigger oil flow, in order to secure the long-term storage of the heat-trapping gas that contributes to climate change and to preserve cleaner-burning natural gas.
Translated by: Moslem Ali
