Texas CO2 Capture Demonstration Project Hits Three Million Metric Ton Milestone
Allentown, PA-based Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. successfully captured and transported, via pipeline, its 3 millionth metric ton of CO₂ to be used for enhanced oil recovery. This achievement highlights the ongoing success of a CCS project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and managed by the National Energy Technology Laboratory. The project demonstrates how a gas separation technology called vacuum swing adsorption can be implemented into an operating facility. The technology is being used at a hydrogen production facility in Port Arthur, Texas, to capture more than 90 percent of the CO₂ from the product streams of two commercial-scale steam methane reformers.

The Stepwise Project
STEPWISE is a project executed within the European H2020 LCE program. It has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 640769. The project aims at the demonstration of advanced pre-combustion CO₂ removal technology within the framework of the Iron and Steel industry, aiming at lowering the CO₂ footprint of steel production. The Stepwise project represents the essential demonstration step within the research, development and demonstration trajectory of the Sorption Enhanced Water-Gas Shift technology. This project will further reduce the risks associated with scaling up of the technology.

DOE Announces $68.4 Million in Funding to Advance the Safe and Permanent Storage of CO2
DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy, under two funding opportunity announcements (FOA), seeks cost-shared projects that will determine the feasibility of developing onshore and/or offshore geologic storage complexes capable of cumulatively accepting commercial-scale (50+ million metric tons) volumes of CO₂.

GCCSI releases a new report on industrial CCS hubs and clusters
In some instances of CCS, individual industrial facilities can capture millions of tonnes of CO₂ each year. However, many industrial plants operate at much smaller scales, and as a result have lower overall emissions. While the combined level of emissions from a number of such smaller scale facilities can be significant, it may be uneconomic for any individual facility to consider application of the full CCS chain. One solution to this problem is clustering, in which several industrial facilities share CCS infrastructure and knowledge, and thus reduce their costs compared with each facility attempting to individually reduce emissions. This report provides an overview of the idea of clustering as applied to industrial CCS projects, and examines the conditions needed for its more widespread adoption.

Update (28/06/2016) Carbon Capture and Storage knowledge sharing
Knowledge collected from UK CCS projects. The government is committed to sharing the knowledge from UK CCS projects and to learning from other projects around the world. This will help accelerate CCS cost reduction, as well as sharing information from the reports it commissions. This information is beneficial to academia and the CCS industry, as well as raising the public profile of CCS.

Crucial steps to carbon capture and storage: New CCSA report sets out key lessons
The Carbon Capture and Storage Association (CCSA) has released a new report which sets out important steps to take in light of the previously axed CCS competition. The report, entitled ‘Lessons Learned – Lessons and Evidence Derived from UK CCS Programmes 2008-2015,’ outlines 36 key lessons for major industry and policy makers.

Carbon capture scheme launched in Hull
A solution to capture CO2 from some of the UKs biggest industrial plants is being worked up by academics from the University of Hull. Professor Meihong Wang, and his Process and Energy Systems Engineering research team is involved in a series of CCS research projects across the country to find ways to capture industrial CO₂ and reduce the amount in the atmosphere, in line with binding targets agreed by the UK Government. In 2015 a special call was put out by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for proposals to capture CO₂ from industry, with £4m available.

BRAND NEW Shell app “Inside CCS”
App to educate academics and industry experts on the value of CCS, the CCS process and current CCS activity across the globe including shell specific projects.

You can download the app via the following links: 
Android: 
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shell.sitibv.dpp.insideccs&hl=en_GB

Apple: 
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shell.sitibv.dpp.insideccs&hl=en_GB