In order to achieve an overall net-zero pathway, it is critical to promote carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a strategic climate technology for decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors in steel; cement; coal-fired power plants; etc. Altera has developed the Stella Maris CCS decarbonization solution allowing a flexible, scalable, open-access CO2 collection, transport and storage infrastructure.
The solution comprised of CO2 terminals for onshore collection and processing to low-temperature, low-pressure liquid CO2 to be offloaded into state-of-the-art designed Liquified Carbon Dioxide (LCO2) large carriers, which will transport the CO2 to an offshore unmanned direct injection unit (DIU) that will inject the supercritical form of CO2 into an existing oil and gas depleted reservoir or deep saline aquifer for permanent storage.
Transporting more CO2 over greater distances and from more production locations by using less fixed infrastructure is where the commercially attractive opportunities for scalability arise in utilizing a large-scale CCS business model. The present CCS value chain model specifically focused on maximizing sized solutions for long distance transport, offshore offloading, storage, and injection where total amount of CO2 injected with these assets can reach up to 10 million tons per year.
Speaker
Ronald Chew
Business Development, Carbon Capture & Storage
Altera Infrastructure
