The UK Government has moved decisively to accelerate carbon capture and storage (CCS) and turn the UK into a global leader in this important field. It has today announced support for eight projects to...
UK Geoenergy Observatories (UKGEOS) is organising two public engagement meetings in Scotland over the next couple of months.
Firstly, it is holding a meeting at the University of Edinburgh’s Bayes ...
UK Government invests £20bn to make UK a global leader in CCS
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The UK Government is to invest an unprecedented £20bn in carbon capture and storage (CCS) as part of a drive to make the UK a global player in the sector.
Further details will emerge in Wedne...
Rebecca Bell, SCCS Policy Officer, and Erika Palfi, SCCS Scientific Research Officer, share the key messages they took away from last week’s DeCarbScot conference
Industrial decarbonisation is curr...
Solar-powered carbon capture to produce fossil-fuel-free Ethylene
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Three Edinburgh researchers part of European carbon-neutral DACC project
The University of Edinburgh is delighted to be participating in an innovative new European research project which is pioneer...
CASSEM: CO₂ aquifer storage site evaluation and monitoring (2009-2012)
The CASSEM project brought together the experience and different working practices of utilities, offshore operators, engineering contractors, and academic researchers to build collective understanding and develop expertise. CASSEM produced both new scientific knowledge and detailed insight into the ...
The SCCS CO₂-EOR Joint Industry Project was a collaborative programme of work to develop an understanding of CO₂-Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR), with the aim of creating a commercial use for CO₂ captured from power plants and industry. The project was led by SCCS partners and funding was been provided ...
The SCCS CO2MultiStore Joint Industry Project was an innovative study of rocks beneath the North Sea, which predicted that the secure and permanent storage of CO2 within a single geological storage formation could be optimised by injecting at more than one point simultaneously.
The research, whic...