![]() In most cases though, the separated CO 2 is simply vented.īut without CCS, Gorgon’s 14% CO 2 content would mark one of Australia’s biggest gas fields as a very dirty source of gas. ![]() Indeed, the first CCS project launched in 1972, was at a gas processing plant in Texas. So, gas processing plants are already tasked with separating the CO 2 from the gas. This is a problem, as most of the CO 2 must be removed from the gas to meet market requirements. CO 2-Rich GasĪlthough fossil gas is often touted as the clean fossil fuel, it is increasingly associated with large amounts of CO 2 found in the reservoir along with the gas. Not least because some of Australia’s recent big gas finds, Gorgon being one of them, contain a lot of CO 2. It was not until the late nineties that Australia became a key global advocate of the technology. Although the first Carbon, Capture and Storage (CCS) project had actually gone onstream in 1972, the first international CCS conference had only been held in the Netherlands in 1992. It had taken the oil industry 25 years to arrive at this point. ![]() It would later be joined in the project by Exxon and Shell. oil giant Chevron had started to study how to capture and store the carbon dioxide (CO 2) associated with the fossil gas in a giant Australian gas field called Gorgon. The industry’s decade became defined by ultra-deepwater drilling and fracking. But the company remained focused, as did the rest of the industry, on new ways to extract oil and gas. It created a bright yellow and green Helios logo based on a Greek sun god. One typical response was BP rebranding itself ‘Beyond Petroleum’. Ix) Gorgon’s Failure: A Sign of Things to ComeĪt the turn of the century, Big Oil faced increasing pressure to respond to the climate crisis. By: Andy Rowell and Lorne Stockman i) CO2-Rich Gas
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