patriotsblade
03-06-2008, 03:34 AM
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/business/article2295915.ece
Four groups from North America, Japan and Norway will compete for a contract to build a pioneering carbon-capture system for a gas-fired power plant in Norway, state-owned Gassnova said.
The gas plant at Kårstø.
The four are a partnership of Canadian HTC Purenergy Inc and US engineering group Bechtel, Norwegian Aker and Aker Kvaerner's Aker Clean Carbon, US group Fluor's Fluor Daniel Construction Co and Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Gassnova said.
Gassnova is a subsidiary of the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. It was established to stimulate the development of technology for natural gas power generation with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS).
The four have been invited to provide front-end engineering and design plans for a CCS unit for a gas-fired power plant at the Kårstø gas-processing complex in western Norway, Gassnova said.
CCS is a pioneering technology, and industry has high hopes that it can be commercialized to help tackle problems related to emissions of greenhouse gases blamed by scientists for global warming.
"The suppliers who in the next phase are found to be most capable after an evaluation of the front-end studies will be competing for the contract to build the capture plant for the gas plant at Kårstø," Gassnova said in a statement.
The government has decided that a full-scale CCS unit should be built at Kårstø and the oil and energy ministry assigned the project management in Gassnova at the beginning of 2008.
Norwegian energy officials estimated in 2006 that the CCS unit could be in place by 2011-2012 and that it would cost roughly NOK 3.5bn (USD 676m).
Gassnova will provide further documentation to the government, including updated financial estimates, by autumn 2009, as a basis for a final investment decision, the company said.
:woot
Four groups from North America, Japan and Norway will compete for a contract to build a pioneering carbon-capture system for a gas-fired power plant in Norway, state-owned Gassnova said.
The gas plant at Kårstø.
The four are a partnership of Canadian HTC Purenergy Inc and US engineering group Bechtel, Norwegian Aker and Aker Kvaerner's Aker Clean Carbon, US group Fluor's Fluor Daniel Construction Co and Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Gassnova said.
Gassnova is a subsidiary of the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. It was established to stimulate the development of technology for natural gas power generation with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS).
The four have been invited to provide front-end engineering and design plans for a CCS unit for a gas-fired power plant at the Kårstø gas-processing complex in western Norway, Gassnova said.
CCS is a pioneering technology, and industry has high hopes that it can be commercialized to help tackle problems related to emissions of greenhouse gases blamed by scientists for global warming.
"The suppliers who in the next phase are found to be most capable after an evaluation of the front-end studies will be competing for the contract to build the capture plant for the gas plant at Kårstø," Gassnova said in a statement.
The government has decided that a full-scale CCS unit should be built at Kårstø and the oil and energy ministry assigned the project management in Gassnova at the beginning of 2008.
Norwegian energy officials estimated in 2006 that the CCS unit could be in place by 2011-2012 and that it would cost roughly NOK 3.5bn (USD 676m).
Gassnova will provide further documentation to the government, including updated financial estimates, by autumn 2009, as a basis for a final investment decision, the company said.
:woot