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"Equinor has retracted a claim that it stores about a million tonnes of carbon
dioxide annually at its flagship carbon capture project after
DeSmog obtained
data showing the real figure was as little as a tenth of that amount.
The Norwegian oil company scrubbed the estimate from its website in November,
when presented with official figures showing that it captured 106,000 tonnes of
carbon dioxide (CO₂) at its Sleipner carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility
in 2023.
Equinor has not captured 1 million tonnes of CO₂ per year at the site since
2001, according to the data, provided by the Norwegian Environment Agency.
The company put the reason for the discrepancy between the official figures and
its public-facing claim to be capturing “about 1 million” tonnes of CO₂ a year
down to a failure to update a “static” webpage.
“We have now removed this error from our website and updated this section with
the correct information,” Equinor spokesman Gisle Ledel Johannessen said via
email.
Equinor has been capturing CO₂ from a gas processing plant at the Sleipner gas
field in the North Sea since 1996. The field has particularly high
concentrations of CO₂, which Equinor filters out during the gas purification
process and then injects below the seabed.
The project has been cited by carbon capture advocates, and Equinor itself, as
evidence that the technology is reliable enough to help meet global climate
goals, despite its long history of cost-overruns and failed targets."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
