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Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) webchat with John Barry, VP Unconventionals, Enhanced Oil Recovery and CO2
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Imagine you could press a button that would reduce overall CO2 levels in the atmosphere by up to 20 ppm by 2050? (That's like wiping out more than 30 years' worth of global emissions from today's entire stock of planes, trains, buses, boats, lorries and cars.) You'd do it, wouldn't you?
That button would be labelled CCS (for CO2 Capture and Storage). And the amount of CO2 it could divert from the atmosphere is based on a Shell's Energy Scenarios work on greenhouse gases from now until 2050.
How it works is quite simple. Broadly, you take CO2 from processes such as power generation and store it deep underground in areas such as depleted natural gas fields.
It's not the whole solution to climate change. But it looks like it might be part of it.
And as the world is producing more and more CO2, now could be a good time to get the technology working for us.
John Barry, VP Unconventionals, Enhanced Oil Recovery & CO2, Shell International Exploration and Production, discusses the opportunities associated with CCS in much more depth in his video.
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As part of Shell Dialogues series of webchats, John Barry presented the case for Carbon Capture and Storage technology.
Date: 19.06.2008
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