Shell and Essent to join forces on carbon capture and storage

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Shell and Dutch energy company Essent are joining forces to look into the feasibility of a 1000 MW low-carbon power plant in southwest Netherlands.

The plant, which will combine a high-efficiency gasifier with a power generation plant, would capture and store most of the CO2 produced.

The companies are investigating the option of using depleted oil and gas fields both on- and offshore to store the large volumes of CO2 that would be generated.

Gasification is a potentially cleaner way to use fossil fuels, claim the companies, because it is easier to capture CO2 than from conventional fossil fuel powered plants. In the process, coal and solid biomass is gasified to produce synthetic gas, which is then used to make hydrogen. This in turn is used to drive turbines to generate electricity.

“Our world-leading gasification technology… is a tried and tested process for converting various energy resources, including coal, into electricity in the cleanest possible way,” says Peter de Wit of Shell.