America leads race for world's first large-scale carbon capture and storage project

Analysis of projects in different countries suggests that the world’s
first carbon capture and storage unit will start operation in the US in
2013

London, New York and Tokyo, 29 May 2012 – The top four places in the
Bloomberg New Energy Finance Race To First, a semi-annual ranking of the
world’s most advanced large-scale demonstration carbon capture and
storage projects, are held by sites in North America.

Carbon capture and storage, or CCS, covers a group of emerging technologies
that remove and store CO2 gas from the exhaust of coal or gas-fired power
stations or industrial installations – reducing greenhouse gas emissions
into the atmosphere. The study found that US and Canadian projects benefit
from more public funding, lower storage costs and more options for enhanced
oil recovery than those elsewhere.

Eight of the 24 projects qualifying for the H1 2012 edition of Race To
First will enter operation over the coming five years, Bloomberg New Energy
Finance predicts. They will have an aggregate annual injection rate of
16.8m metric tons of carbon dioxide a year (MtCO2/yr). Five will be in
North America and three in Europe.

Pennsylvania-based Air Products & Chemicals is the frontrunner in the H1
2012 Race To First, with its Port Arthur demonstration project in Texas.
The project will capture 1MtCO2/yr from two steam methane reformers at
Texas-based Valero Energy Corporation's Port Arthur refinery. It will sell
this carbon dioxide to Texas-based Denbury Resources for use in enhanced
oil recovery operations. The project has a capital cost of $431m and is on
track for full operation in Q1 2013.

In second place in the Race To First is a project at the Boundary Dam Power
Plant in Saskatchewan, Canada, developed by state-owned utility SaskPower.
This is a government-industry partnership worth $1.25bn and is expected to
complete in early 2014.

The leading European project in the Race To First is German energy company
E.ON’s initiative to capture 1.1MtCO2/yr from 250MW of power capacity at
the Maasvlakte coal-fired plant in Rotterdam, Netherlands, which takes the
fifth spot in the list. Currently the only other European CCS project to
make the top 10 is 2Co Energy’s planned 650MW UK gasification power
plant, in tenth place. All European projects, except E.ON’s, depend for
their success on receiving additional public funding from the European
Union or national governments.
 
A total of 24 demonstration projects worldwide qualified for the H1 2012
Bloomberg New Energy Finance Race To First – up one from the H2 2011
edition. In order to qualify, projects must span the full CCS value chain
– including CO2 capture, transport and underground storage – and must
take at least 1MtCO2/yr from power or industrial facilities. We exclude the
Norwegian pilot at Mongstad because it will only store 100ktCO2/yr and
exclude some US facilities, to focus on the current round of demonstration
projects attempting CCS on power and industry at scale for the first time.

Michael Liebreich, chief executive of Bloomberg New Energy Finance,
commented: “It has been clear for years that if the world’s industrial
and power generation sectors are not to see a large part of their asset
base rendered obsolete, they need carbon capture and storage to work. But
not one large-scale, end-to-end project has yet been built, and the
technologies still have to prove their cost-effectiveness. Our Race To
First report shows that very soon the first projects will go live, and we
will start getting the first real data on performance. The stakes
couldn’t be higher.”

For further information:
Angus McCrone
Bloomberg New Energy Finance
+44 (0) 203 216 4795
amccrone1@bloomberg.net



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