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Exxon Mobil Buys Pipeline Operator, Making Big Bet on Carbon

Exxon Mobil is buying pipeline operator Denbury for almost $5 billion, a big bet by the oil giant on the business of transporting and storing carbon. Exxon Mobil is buying pipeline operator Denbury for almost $5 billion, a big bet by the oil giant on the business of transporting and storing carbon. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified.…

New Land Grab by Oil Giants Is Deep Underground

Companies are shelling out big dollars to get rights to subsurface holes where they hope to store carbon dioxide. Companies are shelling out big dollars to get rights to subsurface holes where they hope to store carbon dioxide. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their…

Carbon Capture Is Hard. This Plant Shows Why.

A Canadian power plant holds lessons as the Environmental Protection Agency proposes new greenhouse gas rules for U.S. utilities. A Canadian power plant holds lessons as the Environmental Protection Agency proposes new greenhouse gas rules for U.S. utilities. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful…

EPA Planning New Rules to Slash Emissions From Power Plants

The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to issue new rules that would slash the amount of planet-warming greenhouse gases produced by U.S. power plants in the coming decades, according to people familiar with the matter.  For the first time, emissions from both new and existing natural-gas plants, as well as existing coal-fired plants, would be regulated, the people said. Electric utilities would have various options for meeting the tougher standards by installing new carbon-capture systems or…

Green Tax Credits Are Likely to Be More Popular—and Expensive—Than Expected

WASHINGTON—Green tax credits from last year’s climate law are likely to be far more popular than anticipated, potentially reducing carbon emissions—but also increasing costs to U.S. taxpayers, according to an emerging consensus of government and private-sector forecasters. Buyers of electric vehicles and clean-energy producers could claim tax credits worth hundreds of billions of dollars more than lawmakers expected when they passed the Inflation Reduction Act, recent estimates from Goldman Sachs…

Occidental Petroleum Plans to Suck Carbon Dioxide From the Air—So It Can Keep Pumping Oil

About fifty miles southwest of Midland, Texas, deep in the oil-saturated Permian Basin, more than 100 workers are busy laying out roads and water lines, preparing to build an elaborate complex of fans, each as large as a tennis court. When they start running in 2024, the fans will suck massive amounts of carbon dioxide out of the air. The carbon will be funneled thousands of feet down deep wells into geological formations, where it should remain for centuries.  The company behind this environmental moonshot…

Small Oil Producer Stands to Win Big From Biden’s Climate Bill

Middling oil producer Denbury Inc. DEN -0.27% emerged from bankruptcy in September 2020 with a collection of aging wells, pipelines to move around carbon dioxide and uncertain prospects.Today, the Dallas-based company is one of the big winners of the Biden administration’s signature climate bill. Denbury took on significant amounts of debt over the past decade acquiring oil properties and building out the pipelines, which ferry CO2 to depleted oil fields and coax out…

Agriculture Companies Push Carbon-Capture Farming; Growers Are Skeptical

Agriculture companies are investing millions of dollars to develop farming programs designed to capture more carbon dioxide in fields, as a possible solution to mitigate climate change.The challenge: convincing farmers that it is worth their time, the costs of new farming practices and potentially losing out on some of their harvest in the process.  Iowa corn farmer Chris Edgington said he has looked at various carbon programs over the past year, calculating the risk of reduced crops as he…

Climate Startup Removes Carbon From Open Air in Industry First

One of the most important technologies to address climate change got a boost Thursday when a startup said it pulled carbon dioxide from the open air and stored it underground. The company has cashed in on the effort, potentially creating a viable business model that could kick-start a new industry.Climeworks AG is a leader in the race to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, using a process known as direct-air capture. Customers, including Microsoft Corp. , paid a significant premium to…

Carbon-Capture Projects Are Taking Off. Here’s How They Stash the Greenhouse Gas.

Sixty-five miles off the coastal Norwegian city of Bergen, a drilling rig is punching through layers of mud and rock below the North Sea. The energy firms behind the rig aren’t prospecting for oil or gas. They are searching for a place to stash vast amounts of the greenhouse gases emitted by industrial facilities across Europe.The Northern Lights project—a $2.6 billion joint venture of Shell PLC, TotalEnergies SE, Equinor ASA and the Norwegian government—is one of almost 200 …